Thanks, Dan. I should be clear: didn't intend my note as a criticism of the conference program. It could hardly have been better. I appreciated the way it took a huge set of possible topics and brought focus to things we all care about. 'Twas yummy.
I was reacting more to the flow of conversations both at the conference and here on the board. It struck me that most of the conversations had to do with information, interface, and organizational issues, and it had been a while since I had encountered a conversation of the form, "Hey, my people are trying to do X," or "Hey, my people are dealing with this slice of life, let's talk about how best to help them." And yes, we've already kicked around a couple of ideas for talks that might bring this sort of thing forward. Cheers, Marc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Saffer Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 3:59 PM To: IXDA list Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Interaction08 - missing piece of the conversation [stuff omitted] Does that mean we ignored users? I don't think so. Carl DiSalvo's talk was all about community empowerment. Gabe White's was on the effect our work has on users. Doug Bolin's about making help more effective for users. Could we have done more to focus on users and figure out ways to involve them in our work? Sure, and I hope people will submit talks next year that do just that. Dan ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
