As I'm leaving for Seattle today and won't be around the Internet for a week, I thought I should post some of my thoughts from my SF trip last week. Mind you, these are all experiential thoughts. Actual information architecture or usability inspirations will be detailed here later -- most likely when I'm getting ready to apply them at work. So here are the more frilly details:
Jeff Veen is very tall. And when he gets excited, which is pretty much any time he's talking about user profiling, pools of saliva form in the corners of his mouth. Being in the front row of his lecture on web design, I feared that some of that liquid might end up on me, as from an excitable St. Bernard. But, never fear, he kept the spit in check. (Should you ever read this post, Jeff, know that I have the highest admiration for you. It's reassuring to know that my heros of the web world have their own peccadillos.)
Even in my tres gauche khakis, which Hannah had warned no one in the Bay Area would ever wear, two SFers thought I was one of their own. One asked where to catch the #5 bus, and another wanted me to volunteer drive for an AIDS benefit.
They guy at the middle eastern take-out hoped I spoke French. His English wasn't very good, and he really wanted a woman to talk to. I said tres desolee, took my falafel, and left.
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