[IxDA Discuss] What Makes a Good Design Conference (was: DUX 2007?)

[Richard I. Anderson]

You appear to have missed the point of my post.

OK -- we all know you were dissatisfied with DUX 2005.  So was I, as 
were others.  But so what?

As Dan proposed, let's "raise this discussion up a notch."

Richard


At 4:34 PM -0400 9/17/07, Todd Zaki Warfel wrote:
>Aren't these for the DUX 2005 conference? The date is Jan 9, 2006.
>
>To be fair and accurate, only 40% of people filled out conference 
>review forms. Where does that leave the inputs of the other 60%? The 
>review on UXMatters was from someone who did not attend the first 
>DUX. While that review might be representative of her experience, 
>she didn't have the previous one to compare to.
>
>While I didn't speak to all of the attendees, I did personally speak 
>to a few dozen - all of whom were extremely unsatisfied and 
>disappointed with the conference. And these are people who are 
>stables in the Design community, who are regular conference 
>attendees, who attend a variety of different conferences. 
>Additionally, I spoke with a number of people who had spoken to 
>dozens of other individuals who attended - those people shared the 
>same sentiment - unfavorable.
>
>The only people who I can recall who did comment favorable about the 
>conference were those who were from the CHI audience - primarily CHI 
>goes, those whose conference experiences were limited to CHI. Not 
>that CHI is bad, but we don't need another CHI - we already have one 
>of those. Just like we don't need another IA Summit - we already 
>have one of those.
>
>DUX should be more well rounded, it is Designing for User Experience 
>after all. And an experience is broader.
>
>
>On Sep 17, 2007, at 4:19 PM, Richard I. Anderson wrote:
>
>>P.S. I should note that there were a lot of folks who attended DUX 
>>
>>2005 who were very happy with the conference (see, for example, 
>>
>><http://blog.acm.org/archives/dux2005/2006/01/conference_scor.html>http://blog.acm.org/archives/dux2005/2006/01/conference_scor.html 
>>and 
>>
>><http://uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000032.php>http://uxmatters.com/MT/archives/000032.php).
>>
>
>
>Cheers!
>
>Todd Zaki Warfel
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