Jeff Bridgforth :: Webcraftsman

A Week of Web in Boston

November 8, 2007

Design (Web) · Random

I have been attend­ing the UI12 Con­fer­ence in Boston this week. I have been look­ing for­ward to this since last May when I signed up. I had attended the con­fer­ence 2 years ago and it was really good.

I wish I had more time to process all that is being thrown at me. I would like to make a list of action points before I leave tomor­row so that I can begin to inte­grate this expe­ri­ence into my work.

Some of the high­lights of the week:

• Get­ting to hang out with Andy Budd, one of my Web design super­heroes. I met Andy last year at Refresh06. I have had sev­eral oppor­tu­ni­ties to chat with Andy dur­ing the conference.
• Com­mu­ni­cat­ing with Visual Design work­shop taught by Luke Wrob­lewski. I also got a lot out of a sem­i­nar he did on Form Design. I look for­ward to his book on the sub­ject which comes out in March. One of my action points is to read his other book, Site See­ing, which cov­ers the mate­r­ial he went over in the workshop.
• Eat­ing lunch with Cameron Moll. Yes­ter­day, I got to eat lunch with Cameron Moll. I enjoyed get­ting to know him on a per­sonal level. I took his work­shop on Design­ing Ele­gant Inter­faces with CSS. I wished we had cov­ered a lit­tle more on design but he included things in the notes that were inter­est­ing includ­ing the process of his design of his port­fo­lio.

I am look­ing for­ward to hear­ing more from Jared Spool this after­noon. Got to go.