@media - Part one
Monday, 29. June 2009, 11:34:13
So, I've been away for a few days. Where where I? I had the great fortune to be able to attend @media in London. Together with Espen, Truls and we meet up with the Open the web team!
The first day we got to London, found our hotel near Tower Hill and started to explore the city. My initial plan was to buy a pair of sunglasses since I never got around to it last year and I felt it was about time I got some real glasses not the 50NOK glasses I usually buy. So having found a awesome pair of Ray bans I was super psyched. Then after a quick stop by the hotel to meet up with Truls and Mikkey we got in a cab to BBQ at Henny's (Who lives in London). Getting out of the car I lost my first pair of glasses (about 4 hours after buying them). However it's hard to get bummed out when there is so many great people to hang out with. I'm glad I had this opportunity to get to know Chris, Bruce, Henny and Molly better since it's not that often they are in Oslo. We called it a night early so that we would be good to go the day after as the conference started at 08:00.
Seeing how this was my first time at @media I did not know what technical level the presentations would hold, so when Andy Clarke started talking about the current state of Web design in light of the financial crisis, but then moved on to show off some super cool tips for a better design process. Arguing that designing inside the browser with code from the get go is more efficient than going through Photoshop/Illustrator/Gimp whatever. I really learned a lot from this presentation and got super inspired already at the first presentation.
Simon Collison followed up with a super cool presentation on different tools to use while designing. Check out his post on his @media experience.
Jon Hicks The lead designer for Opera was up next and had aa awesome presentation (I'm tempted to call it a lecture) about using icons in interaction design. His presentation will surely be a huge inspiration for the upcoming redesign of my blog.
Well, that's enough coverage for today, I'll put out a stiplett tomorrow covering Dan Rubin and one of my all time web design heroes Jason Santa Maria! Happy browsing, and sorry for forgetting my camera, I'll see if I can get some of the pictures we took for the next post!
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Anonymous # 30. June 2009, 01:51
Sounds like you had a great trip! :)
ellinidata # 4. July 2009, 22:26