One of my favorite presentations were by Brian Fling and Keith Robinson on: Inside the Designers’ Studio: IMDb in which they reworked the popular movie site. The crux of the talk involved the process the two talented designers undertook in the redesign, and I always find it very interesting to see how people actually attack a project.

With a large venue and over 300 people it was interesting to see and talk to the different types of people attending. Being a somewhat shy person, I found the anonymity of being in a large group a little easier to talk to people I don’t know.

Here are some of the presentations that were given (.pdf):

Building a Brand through Design – Lea Alcantara
CSS3 and What Could Be.. – Jina Bolton
Destroying The Web 2.0 Look – Elliot Stocks
Web Application Usability – Ryan Singer
Beautifying the Web with Illustration – Cindy Li
AJAX & Design – Jonathan Snook
Inside The Designer’s Studio: IMDb – Ryan Sims and Keith Robinson
Community-Centered Design – Jeffrey Kalmikoff

Many topics were discussed and since the conference was small (75 people) it allowed everybody to ‘hang out’ afterward and talk to many of the presenters in a relaxing atmosphere. Here are some of the topics and presentations (.pdf) that were given:

Pragmatic Web Design – Paul Boag
How to be a Web Design Superhero – Andy Budd
Creating Accessible DHTML – Nate Koechley
Social Participation – Paul Boag
Improving Front-End Architecture – Garrett Dimon
Implementing Microformats – Jeremy Keith
Next Generation of Mobile Web – Brian Fling
User-Centered, Standards-Driven Web Accessibility – Jared Smith
The Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library – Nate Koechley
Fundamental UI Design Practices – Cameron Moll