What a day. This is all I can say. Inspired, invigorated & thoroughly enjoyed are some of the words that come to mind.
I will fill you in…
The Conference Started with a bight and I must say breezy talk from Tim Van Damme, (No not Claude, Tim) on Passion. It was nice too see someone as equally as passionate about design as me, although if im honest he has every right, some quality work from the man. I unfortunately didn’t get to take many notes as I was trying to be uber designer cool and use the wireless, which as per usual at these things it fell over and decided not too work #waterfrontwirelessfail
Although it improved throughout the day, so it wasn’t all bad.
Andy Budd was next and an Inspiring talk was delivered on the Art of Seduction or should I say Seductive Design. Yea I know I was struggling to see where he was going with it at the beginning, but it turned out too be an epic talk with some great Metaphors. Approach, being a particular favourite as he said… ‘What is Beautiful is good’.
Next up was Mark Boulton from Mark Boulton Design, see what he did there. Nice. This guy LOVES the Typography Shizzle Majjizle. I particularly enjoyed the font-face talk on how we will potentially be able to use any typeface on designs in the future in CSS, but the problems we will face and how it will hopefully evolve.
Ryan Sims from Virb was next. He is a chilled out dude. But a man of great lines. ‘Talent is the desire to practice.’ Get back to the Basics and take a look at how we can become good, better or even great.
My favourite was next, Wilson Miner from Every Block. This dude had Beautiful slides. Maybe one to many though, ha joking Mr Miner ;) I get asked all the time what do you do and my analogy is ‘Imagine if you are a builder, you do all the dirty work, and I come in and do the interior designing’.
The thing is I am wrong.
Designers and Developers work so closely now that they are a hybrid, code is design just as design is code. The two together are mashed so that in turn you can see a project from origin to completion so that its finished just as you intended. Its all about Design AND Build.
Eric Meyer took the stage at the last to speak on a more tangled web, it was a privledge to hear him as I had read some of his CSS Books in the past… Hes also hilariously funny. He talked about how things are moving faster on the web like online operating systems and how we will adapt as designers to keep up… Unfortunately I had to leave early so I missed the end, if anyone wants to fill me in leave a Comment!
Congratulations to @goodonpaper for a fantastic job, and all other involved it was so good to see the web design community in NI together for such a fantastic event right on our doorstep… :) Here’s too Build 2010! And I reckon we may have given someone with a ‘Gimmick Hat’ something to think about ;)
Tim Van Damme, tweeted a great line… ‘Conferences should make you feel really small, but leave you inspired to grow. Build is doing that.’
And let me tell you it did.
Well written mate, seems like you had a good day and you got alot from it. Hope it helped inspire you and got you thinking a bit more outside the box. which is always a good thing :-)