It has been a great conference start. The keynote by Debora Addler was a class on the essence of Design. It was great even to known that she was able as an individual to patent it. Not that I’m in for patents, but when they are used like this, just to protect a single small inventor they are really doing what they were meant for.

After that, a nice storytelling session with Kevin Brooks from Motorola Labs, and I have the pleasure to meet a colleague from Nokia London, who actually designed the camera Ui. That reduced the felling of not knowing anyone around.

Then I attended an Ebay session, that it was not bad, it just didn’t fit for me. A pity but I was trying to find my guide book with my ticket for the tools session in the other room.

In the lunch time, I sat in the “Mobile and devices” table, to discuss about Symbian, Linux, Windows mobile, community innovation, reliability and more. In the table among other great people I met was Barbara Ballard, from little springs design. One of the few companies focused solely on mobile here in the US. If you want to check out her book : here

After lunch I attended the “how to manage Ux teams” and also one of the best sessions of the day about mental models, which in the begging left me a little bit skeptical about, but after a couple of minutes I could start realizing the potentials of using it.

Also a lot of other adaptive path sessions followed, and a loot of good information was gathered. Of course sometimes you get yourself thinking “This doesn’t fit for me” or “this is kind of too simple or too web related” but in the end the great thing is to realize that some of the things you think a pretty common you just forgot or doesn’t use more (Like Alan from Nokia said to me).

So I’m fully satisfied, the only thing that is killing me is that I got pretty ill in the evening and lost the cocktail night at Union state. Tried to sleep but I still felling bad. d***. Hope I’ll better tomorrow morning.

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