Re: [IxDA Discuss] PLUG: new book, new webinars

2009-04-09 Thread Petroff, Greg
First ...Props to Louis for making a living creating great books for all of us. Second..I look forward to reading it. -greg -Original Message- From: discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com [mailto:discuss-boun...@lists.interactiondesigners.com] On Behalf Of Louis Rosenfeld Sent: T

[IxDA Discuss] Adobe Air / MS Silverlight... what's next

2009-04-09 Thread Petroff, Greg
If you are working with Air or Silverlight ... where do you think it's going? What is the current state of the tools? There yet? Not? How do we see these changing what we do? Love a discussion on what changes with them? What's the same? Are they harder to build and develop then other alternatives

[IxDA Discuss] Join us in 2 weeks at Interaction'09|vancouver: Registration is still open

2009-01-22 Thread Petroff, Greg
It's getting exciting as we are getting ready for the final countdown to the conference. I look forward to meet many of you in 2 weeks in Vancouver. As we come down the stretch here are some final notes. WE STILL HAVE ROOM for people to sign up for the conference and workshops. Airfare has dropped

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver 16 days away

2009-01-20 Thread Petroff, Greg
We are almost 2 weeks away from the event. We still have room for more people to attend so make your plans now. It is going to be an amazing experience for all who can make it. Sign up now at: http://interaction09.ixda.org/registration.php - Greg

[IxDA Discuss] Updates and News for interaction'09|vancouver

2009-01-15 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Folks, We are 21 days away from the conference and we are getting excited. There is still room in all of the workshops but they are filling up fast. We also are closing in on capacity so don't delaysign up now! A couple of announcements: Genevieve Bell had to withdraw from the schedule fo

[IxDA Discuss] interaction'09|vancouver + UX London 2 for the price of 1

2009-01-13 Thread Petroff, Greg
We are now 3 weeks away from interaction'09|vancouver, Feb 5-8, 2009. We have an amazing offer from the folks at Clearleft. They are offering a free ticket to their UX London event for us to raffle off at the conference. UX London is a unique three-day event in June, combining inspirational

[IxDA Discuss] Workshop Updates for Interaction'09|vancouver

2009-01-12 Thread Petroff, Greg
So here are some workshop updates for everyone for the coming Interaction'09|vancouver conference. We still have at least 10+ openings in each workshop except the Thursday workshop by Bill DeRouchey and Dan Saffer which is sold out. We added an extra session of their workshop Friday Morning. To re

[IxDA Discuss] By Popular Demand: Second workshop by Dan Safer and Bill De Rouchey added to the Interaction'09 Conference

2009-01-08 Thread Petroff, Greg
Because the first workshop has sold out we have added a second offering of Bill DeRouchey and Dan Saffer's workshop on Gestural Interfaces on Friday Morning from 9-1. Check it out here: http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2868 You can register for the conference and/or worksho

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver update

2009-01-07 Thread Petroff, Greg
We are now less than 30 days away from interaction'09|vancouver, the best design conference of 2009. We have a couple of updates: 1. Some of you have asked, (mostly locals in Vancouver), if it would be possible to take a workshop without going to the rest of the conference. We are

[IxDA Discuss] interaction'09|vancouver Conference Update

2008-12-18 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi All, Here is some more information regarding where we are with plans for the coming interaction'09|vancouver conference. We still have slots open to attend the conference. We are pretty flexible with the space we have so we can add numbersbut it makes it harder for us to plan things lik

[IxDA Discuss] Volunteers for interaction09|vancouver

2008-12-16 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Community, The conference team has tried hard to keep the cost of attending Interaction'09|Vancouver as low as possible. We are aware that the cost of the conference is still too high for some members of the community who would like to attend. So we have come up with an idea to help you and als

[IxDA Discuss] The Whole Schedule of Interaction'09|Vancouver

2008-12-11 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, I'm posting the entire schedule for the conference. It is an impressive list of speakers, workshops and events. Links will take you to the crowdvine conference site. Thursday, February 5 9:00 - 1:00PM

[IxDA Discuss] Speaker Update for interaction'09|vancouver Feb 5-8, 2009

2008-12-05 Thread Petroff, Greg
Meat each other Face 2 Face in Vancouver Feb 5-8, 2009! IxDA's second annual conference is now only 2 months away. With the explosive growth of IxDA over the last year come join your peers in discussing all things Interaction Design. The Conference team has a host of great activities, great food,

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver Update!

2008-12-02 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi All, We are 2 months away from Interaction'09|Vancouver. A couple of updates: New this year will be the addition of a "Tangible Interaction Café". The team planning this environment has some surprises for all including a MS Surface Table. It will be a great opportunity for those of us attend

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver: Conference Update!

2008-11-04 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Community, We are 25% sold out for the conference and 25%-40% sold out for most workshops. Sign up now. Workshops will go up in price on Jan 1 if there is still space available. The conference team is really excited about the planning. We are going to have several new ways for people to contri

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver workshops

2008-10-10 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, Wanted to let everyone know about the 12 cool workshops we have planned for the conference. Links will take you to the crowdvine site for the conference. Well, we did all this research … now what? With Steve Portigal http://interaction09.crowdvine.com/talks/show/2565 Design Studio

[IxDA Discuss] interaction'09|vancouver: Program and Opening of Registration Announcement!

2008-10-07 Thread Petroff, Greg
Greetings IxDA to the community, I am pleased to announce that the program for interaction'09|vancouver is now complete and registration is open. The conference website can be found at: http://www.interaction09.ixda.org/index.php Last year sold out fast so make your plans to attend: Our line-up

[IxDA Discuss] Update on interaction'09|vancouver

2008-10-01 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, Program and registration for interaction'09|vancouver will go live on Monday October 6th: On the 6th: * The conference team will announce an exciting list of speakers, workshops and program content * You will be able to register for the conference, sign up for workshops

[IxDA Discuss] Last Call for Lightning Round Speakers

2008-08-25 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, Just a friendly reminder that the deadline for submitting a proposal to be a lightning round speaker for the interaction09'|vancouver conference is this coming Sunday, August 31st. Lightning Round talks were one of the best parts of the 08 conference. If you have something you have al

[IxDA Discuss] Good Mobile Trends Info

2008-08-13 Thread Petroff, Greg
Ok, Post iPhone conversation... Any recent reading material on trends in mobile / smart phones I am looking for blogs, whitepapers, conferences, places for where people are talking about both the IxD and the scenarios of use that are current. --Greg ___

[IxDA Discuss] IxDA iPhone users straw poll

2008-08-13 Thread Petroff, Greg
Quick straw poll question for list members who have iPhones. What are the top 3 things you find yourself doing now with your iPhone that you did not do before and why? --Greg Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)!

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver Update

2008-08-12 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Everyone, Here is an Update on the Conference Planning for '09. We have the Crowdvine social network space up and running on the interaction'09|vancouver website. Crowdvine was a very popular part of the '08 conference experience. See it at: http://www.interaction09.crowdvine.com/ We have an in

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction'09|vancouver

2008-07-30 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi IxDA Community, We are hard at work planning efforts for our next conference in Vancouver February 5-8, 2009. A couple of things to note: Conference website is up at: http://interaction09.ixda.org We have an interaction09 twitter account: @interaction09, join to stay in touch We will be lau

[IxDA Discuss] Call for Submissions: IxDA Interaction|09

2008-06-20 Thread Petroff, Greg
Call for Submissions: IxDA Interaction|09 The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is now accepting speaker submissions for its second annual conference to be held in Vancouver, British Columbia on February 5-8, 2009. Speaker submissions are for Lightning Round slots, each of which is 25 minutes i

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Shared whiteboard: Summary

2008-04-02 Thread Petroff, Greg
Jonas, Does not fit your criteria but there is a really nice system from polyvision called "Thunder". http://www.polyvision.com/products/thunder.asp It has the nice function of maintaining "information persistence" and can be booked through outlook to remember where you were at when you left of

[IxDA Discuss] Interaction|08

2008-02-08 Thread Petroff, Greg
So IxDA's first conference is off and running. You can follow the action at the crowdvine site or through Twitter. Crowdvine: http://interaction08.crowdvine.com/ Twitter: @interaction08 Flickr: interaction08 --gp *Come to IxDA Int

Re: [IxDA Discuss] The Designers Accord

2008-01-22 Thread Petroff, Greg
Hi Valerie, Welcome to the list. There are 2 interesting threads going on right now within IxDA that look like they need spaces for further discussion for those who want to dive deeper. One on the "Defining UCD" thread and another on the ideas within "Designer's Accord" I am interested in both. R

[IxDA Discuss] The Designers Accord

2008-01-15 Thread Petroff, Greg
http://www.designersaccord.org/ >From our brothers and sisters in the IDSA there seems to be more movement in and around sustainability and understanding issues of environmental impact then I have seen discussed within our community. I think the outlines of this accord are quite good. How do you th

[IxDA Discuss] Post Mortems

2008-01-08 Thread Petroff, Greg
Wondering if anyone has a good framework for managing project post mortems. I am looking for ways to evaluate team performance, how well we met project goals, how good the "product" of efforts met user needs, capturing what we did well and what we need to improve on, stakeholder feedback etc. Any

[IxDA Discuss] Board Positions

2007-12-13 Thread Petroff, Greg
As a current board member and our treasurer I want to encourage everyone to consider joining the board, especially colleagues from outside the US. Board membership is a great experience. With the help of this growing community we are trying to build a home for the development of the discipline a

Re: [IxDA Discuss] what are your fundamental tenets of design?

2007-11-12 Thread Petroff, Greg
LISTEN TO MAKE / MAKE TO THINK *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ Welcome