This month I had the opportunity and good fortune to attend the IxDA (Interaction Design Association) conference in Amsterdam. I prepared these slides to share some of these inspiring moments with my colleagues and friends back in San Francisco. Photo Credits: IxDA Flickr Video Credits: IxDA Vimeo

1. Interaction 14 Highlights

2. A Field Trip to
Delft, Netherlands

3. TU Delft

4. A Brainstorming Room !
at TU Delft

5. Interaction Research Lab

6. Sensors

7. Graduate Thesis on Police Car Interfaces

8. Co-Research Methodology

9. Institute of Positive Design

10. Designing for Granularity !
in Positive Emotions

11. “Living Walls”

12. An example !
of slow design

13. An Artifact of Slow Design!
A cup to focus and enjoy

14. Fabrique design agency

15. Teams work in houses within the factory

16. The agency practices scrum

17. Delft, a city of industry, craft, and world exports.

18. Exact software company

19. Defining their process, challenges, principles and definition of done

20. Some of my
Favorite Talks

21. Bernard Larousse gave a keynote !
on “Food as Interaction

22. Dan Brown talked about!
effective collaboration
Sketch notes !
by @ChrisNoessel

23. “Body Languages of Interaction Design”!
Irene Au

24. Giles Colborne spoke!
about how designers own timing
Sketch notes !
by @Zhenshuofang

25. Christina Wodtke !
talked about the importance of execution

26. Christopher Noessel!
described the Cooper method for Pair Design
Sketch notes !
by @priscillamok

27. "Our medium is not [pixels etc] but the
knowledge and expectations of our users.”
!
-Scott McCloud

28. The Interaction Awards!
recognized leaders in our industry

29. Interaction 15 !
will be held in San Francisco