Tomorrow, the User Interface 11 Conference kicks off. I have already checked in and strolled through Boston, where I enjoyed my lunch in the one and only Cheers pub.

During the next days, I’ll do my best to share my experiences from the conference. I had already put together my personal conference program and I’m still planning to stick to it.

Continued:

• UI11 day 1: A dive into Rich Internet Applications (9 October)
• UI11 day 2: Featured talks (10 October)
• UI11 day 3: Advanced Methods for Usability Testing (11 October)
• UI11 day 4 - part 1: Why Less Is More (12 October)
• UI11 day 4 - part 2: Social Design (12 October)

Next October, I will be attending the User Interface 11 Conference (UI11) in Cambridge MA. Yesterday I received the request to sign up for the sessions I plan to attend.

So this will be my personal conference program: (more…)

Today, my colleagues Annelies, Gert, Pascal and I attended the annual conference of SIGCHI.nl, who seized the opportunity to announce its new name: Chi Nederland.

The conference was held in the beautiful Tuschinski theater in Amsterdam. This year’s theme: “The Web and Beyond” (or in short: Web 2.0*). An impressive 650 (roughly) people were present, a record for this conference. (more…)

I know, it’s been very quiet on this blog lately. Last time I wrote I had just missed a fine cocktail hour with the local IA’s in Amsterdam (and special guest Jesse James Garrett). In the meantime, I’ve had some intensive months with lots of designing, usability testing and writing. Unfortunately that meant less time (actually none) for blogging and reading Peter Morvilles latest book. I did however manage to fit in the 34′th IA cocktail hour last December (thanks Peter Boersma and Info.nl for organizing). (more…)

Continued from The first European IA Summit (day 1).

As of this month, Europe has the EuroIA Summit. Yesterday, I posted my personal highlights of the first summit day, today my highlights of the second and last day of this year’s summit. (more…)

The Information Architecture (IA) Summit is the premier event for information architects around the world. This year’s edition in Montreal was my first one and is without doubt the best conference I attended. And as of this month, Europe has its own edition: the EuroIA Summit.

The theme of this first European edition was “Building our community”. The share of Europeans on the American summits was not all that large, so gathering European IA’s was a logical first priority. Personally, I was delighted to see many Dutch attendees, some of whom I saw two days earlier on the SIGCHI.nl conference.

As regards content, these are my personal highlights of the first day of the first EuroIA. It took me a while, but better late than never. (more…)

Yesterday, the 2005 conference of SIGCHI.nl was held in Den Haag. I have not been a frequent visitor of SIGCHI events, but I must say yesterday was worthwile. Here are the highlights. (more…)