November 1st, 2007
Interaction08 information - a conference for interactive designers
The Interaction08 Conference in Savannah announced it’s full schedule this week and it looks like it’s going to be a great event. Interaction08 is the very first conference being put on by IxDA, the Interaction Design Association. It’s a conference aimed at bringing together interactive designers and showing them what’s coming up and how to apply new technologies to their current work. I’m a huge fan of anything that enhances the interactive design space and I think this conference will go a long way towards that.
There are a number of good speakers from the interactive design world including Jared Spool and Chris Bernard of Microsoft. It also looks like there will be quite a few interesting sessions covering a ton of topics about user interaction, interface design, and user experience.
The sessions seem to be pretty broad interaction design topics, which is great, but I do hope there is a bit more focus on RIAs next year. Microsoft and Laszlo Systems both have a talk, so there is some RIA representation there, but I’d love to see a track or a few sessions dedicated exclusively to the problem of designing interfaces and experiences for RIAs. All that said, I think this is going to turn into a huge event that brings together some of the rising stars of the interaction design community.
I’m planning on going and while Thermo/Adobe doesn’t have a session, I’m sure there will be a lot of questions and I’m hoping I can answer them. They’ve extended the early bird deadline by a few days, so head over and sign up. This is your chance to get in on the ground floor of what should become a very influential and interesting conference.
Ryan Stewart, a Rich Internet Application developer and industry analyst, recently joined Adobe's Platform Team as a Rich Internet Application Evangelist. full profile and disclosure of his industry affiliations.
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