IxDA-SF event a huge success! Want more? Send us your ideas …
by KimWe knew you were all out there. Yep, we knew that the IxD community in SF was sizable and full of interesting, talented individuals and last night you proved us right!
Last night IxDA-SF and C|net hosted Intersection: Where Interaction Design and Industrial Design Meet with 4 speakers from Cooper, frog, Motorola (now at frog), and IDEO. No doubt you came to hear our amazing line up of speakers: Dave Cronin, Director of Interaction Design at Cooper; Jennifer Kilian, Creative Director at frog design; Gabriel White, former Interaction Design Lead for the Motorola Motofone, now Principal Designer at frog design; and Danny Stillion, Design Director at IDEO.
You arrived promptly at 6:30, mingling with our peers and enjoying the lavish spread of food and drink provided by C|net. Thank you for coming and for sticking around in an overly crowded room, sitting on the floor, standing in the back and spilling out the door. We only expected about 100 of you, and yet 150+ came! And most of you stuck around until the last slide was shown at a few minutes past 9pm. We knew a monthly IxD event is something you’re interested in. Thank you for coming!
A big thanks to our speakers for enticing you to come and to C|net for showing us how much they love the IxD community too!
The IxDA-SF local organizing committee is just a few folks including myself. We’d love to hear what types of events you’re interested in. What topics, who do you want to hear and what other interesting events would keep you coming out? We’re lining up the 2008 calendar at the moment and are very interested in hearing from you! We know you’re out there now, so please comment here or send us an email sf-local at ixda.org .
Our next event is November 14th (a week early with the holiday). So mark your calendars and look for the announcement on upcoming and gamma.ixda.org discussion board. See you next month!
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October 19th, 2007 at 9:09 am
One thing I took away is that all us pixel jockeys really want to make “real” things…so a continued connection to the product/industrial design community would be great.