A quick summary of my notes from this year's Interactions conference

1. Interactions 2011 FIxD
A Feast of Interaction Design
Jason Mesut - Head of User Experience

2. Interactions 2011
A gathering of the brightest and the best
interaction designers from around the world

3. Caveats of this document
This has been pulled together on the ight back to London (so go easy on me)
Sketchnotes were done live in sessions and were photographed on the ight
Any evil thoughts are the thoughts of Jason Mesut, and not of RMA Consulting

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6. How the trip broke down

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8. Day 0 Workshops

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10. Self ethnography
with Sarah Summers
Re ecting on your own personal practice and
learning to play

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20. Better ideas faster
with David Sherwin
An incredibly high energy creative workout
session with some invaluable learnings

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27. Day 1 Conference

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29. Bill Verplank’s Opening keynote
An exquisite revisit to the fundamentals of
interaction design from the uncle himself. Bill
sketched and talked through much of the
presentation. I could have listened to him all
day.

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34. Lightening talks
A series of 20 minute talks

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40. Lisa Straus eld
A humble stumble through some of the most
incredible information art over the past 20
years

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42. Lightening talks
A series of 20 minute talks

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47. Day 2 Conference

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49. Richard Buchanon keynote
Dick took us through a beautiful and
inspirational natural narrative about design’s
place in the world

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52. “Designers are
here to support
human dignity in
people”
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53. Lightening talks
A series of 20 minute talks

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59. Day 2 Studio tour

60. Studio tour
An afternoon visiting the design studios of
Disney, Wall Street On Demand, and Crispin
Porter + Bogusky

61. Disney
We were given a presentation of the work at
Disney (formerly Kapoof )

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64. Crispin Porter + Bogusky
We were taken to the city in a warehouse that is
Crispin Porter + Bogusky. An amazing space
and fun vibe. Big thanks to Matt Walsh and the
CPB guys for sorting out the coach to Vail.
N.B. The images that follow do not do their space justice as
we couldn’t photograph all areas

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67. Wall Street On Demand
The highlight of the tour for me was seeing the
work of these guys. Excellent work delivering
rich data visualisation and complex apps across
nancial and healthcare sectors.

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70. Day 3 Conference

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72. Lightening talks
A series of 20 minute talks

73. The Neuroscience of usability

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80. Brenda Laurel keynote
The queen of interactive gaming gave us a tour
of the key ‘hinges’ in interactive media that
have shaped our world.
A truly mesmerising trip through cyberspace.

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82. “ Games design is still
on the cutting edge
of interaction design
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83. Lightening talks
A series of 20 minute talks

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86. Bruce Sterling wraps up
An incisive end to the conference. Bruce
summarised the discussions and poked at our
delusions of grandeur.
“If you say something and people don’t get
upset, you’ve said nothing.”

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88. “ Design’s not
good at morality ”
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