d.Construct 2007
Last Friday I was in Brighton for d.Construct a one dag conference about webdesign, development and project structures. Needles to say I was a great day to be (many thanks to MediaTemple and Yahoo/BBC for the free drinks on Thursday/Friday evening)
Since many people blogged this event already, I’ll just stick to points worth mentioning.
- Jared Spool warned once again for feature creep, in many occasions less features is more
- You can’t make a checklist for experience design, It needs to be learned by try and error
- Organise failure parties, this way people shouldn’t be afraid to fail, and feel more motivated to experiment with new ways of doing things
- Johnatan Woo mentioned that products are people too, they are threatened with emotion, and should thereby be build with emotion too
- The most desing ideas of Google Calendar came by interviewing only eight people
- Create stars to sail your ship by (check the stars of flickr)
- Experience is the product, and cool is what is should be
- Cameron Moll mentioned the practile test if a site has been designed ok: make a print screen, grey scale it, blur it, check it; do you still understand how it works?
- Flickr stats: 11 million users, 1 billion photo’s and 2000 photos uploaded every minute
- Tom Coates had a talk as clean and clear as his blog, lucky for us he wrote down many insightful points of his talk
Have a 5 year vision of the future, that way you’ll be able to check each move if its the right way or not
