Jan 15 2007
Easy 7 CHI conference
On Jan 5, I attended Easy 7, the 7th ACM SIGCHI South India’s conference on ‘Advanced User Interface Practices’ at the Leela. With a spiffier yet more top down approach, the organizers made this year’s conference one of the most interesting in the last few years (and i say this despite having been a speaker in the last 3 conferences :))
Jeremy Ashley, VP of Oracle’s Applications User Experience (my boss’s boss) gave a hard nosed talk basically on how ideas are cheap and plenty but design execution is the key to design success, I thoroughly enjoyed Bill Scott and Surya Vanka’s talks as well. Bill spoke about AJAX driven interactions and how to design for AJAX. Surya have a talk on Design driven innovation and how to design teams that are able to drive innovation as a process.
It was also great to catch up with all the speakers at the evening party organized by David and Nishant from DesignforUse. (Thanks David and Nishant!). It was also good to bump into Param, Muthu, and meet Suresh, Sunandini, Madhvi, and other folks and chat about design, travels, life and such at the lovely open space at the Royal Orchid Hotel in Manipal Center (also the hotel that owns the much-hyped-great-view-average-food- Conde-Nast-#82-restaurant Paparazzi).
