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Flying to the IxDA Interaction 08 Conference

This Friday is starting the IxDA Interaction 08 conference, the first annual conference of the Interaction Design Association. It’s going to last 3 days and I’m going to be there. I you are also attending it in Savannah, Georgia, and want to meet, you can contact me at alexisbrion@designvsart.com

 

Picture of Savannah

 

The conference is going to address the design of interactive systems like web and desktop applications, mobile, consumer electronics and digitally enhanced environments. Yeah!

Stars include Alan Cooper, Bill Buxton, Sigi Moeslinger and Malcolm McCullough.

I will keep on posting during my trip!

Hope to see you there.

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Going.com at the OMD

Another very good presentation at the Online Marketing Dusseldorf 2007 was the one held by Donata Hopfen, Head of Business Development at Going.com, an online community for events that helps you finding fun things to do in your city (currently available in New York, Chicago, Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco).

Going.com Logo

Going has a neat design and is very easy to use, comfortable to find events and meet people with similar taste that want go to the that event. In order to check people’s taste, Going is forced to make you a lot of questions about you during the registration process, that’s not that bad, now a days people are most used to that.

Mrs. Hopfen said that she is planing to make money selling event tickets and through special features like “build your own community” and email newsletters.

OMD Conference

One of the OMD panels

Going is focused on cities right now and is not clear (to me) if they are planing to expand the service to other regions. Mrs. Hopfen also said that for them the most important thing is to offer a site that is easy to use, specially the navigation of articles and events. It seems that Going is taking usability seriously.

Share This Event Feature

Going is also making a good job integrating other services. For example, it gives the possibility to share your event on Facebook and Myspace, and has an import-friend’s-emails feature during the registration.

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