My work were kind enough to send me to this year’s dConstruct, held at the Brighton Dome on the 2nd September. As usual, I sketchnoted and you can see the results in this blog post. Generally, I found the quality of the talks to be better than I expected. There was a couple I wasn’t a big fan of and a couple that I really loved - Don Norman, Frank Chimero. 

In terms of sketchnoting, I found the length of the talks a little short for my sketchbook. The 45 minute talks were about right for a full page, the 30 minute talks were a little short. For a change, these were mostly Tombow‘d post talk. I miss the time that is normally used for questions! 

Don Norman - Emotional Design for the World of Objects

Kelly Goto - Beyond Usability: Mapping Emotion to Experience

Bryan & Stephanie Rieger - Letting Go

Craig Mod - What is the Shape of The Future Book
Frank Chimero - Oh God, It’s Full of Stars 

Dan Hon - The Full Stack of Entertainment: Storytelling, Play & Code
Kars Alfrink - The Transformers 

Matthew Sheret - Pocket Scale

Kevin Slavin - Reality is Plenty

Here are the sketchnotes that I did today at UX London 2011, at the Cumberland Hotel… Apologies if you’ve seen them on Twitter, Flickr or elsewhere! 

Alan Cooper - It’s All Us.

Louis Rosenfeld - The Redesign Must Die

Kim Goodwin - Making Personas Work Without Breaking the Bank

Oliver King - Difference between User Experience and Service Design

Kate Rutter - Strategy Patois, Language and Tools to Connect Design and Business Language

Robert Fabricant - Behaviour Chain

Matt Jones - The Lifecycle of Software Objects

Phew, it was a busy day of sketch-noting and absorbing the talks plus I got to see some old friends and meet some new faces too. Another early start tomorrow, so I’m off to bed to get some shut eye!