FOWD NYC 2009

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I just got back last night from the Future of Web Design conference in New York City. Those Carsonified people really do have their conferences down to a science — it's impressive to watch such a large scale affair appear to come off so effortlessly, even when you know there's a lot of effort (and maybe even a little panic) going on behind the scenes.

I promised the attendees to my workshop and the talk that I'd put my copious slides up on Slideshare. If you attended and you'd like the full set of slides in Keynote or PDF format, email me and I'll invite you to a Dropbox with the big files. Otherwise, here are the downsized versions of the workshop slides and the slides from the talk.

And, particularly considering I did a presentation on using feedback, I'd love to hear comments and critique from anyone who was at the conference. Let me know what I can do to improve!

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xethorn -

http://silent-strength.com/about

Thanks a lot Daniel, your two presentations (workshop) and the talk are really good.
Thanks for the share!

Paulo Canabarro -

http://www.twitter.com/paul0v2

Hey Daniel,

Your presentation was great, made me realize the importance of feedback and to go out to seek more feedback and understand the bad feedback.

I a team member of <a href="http://www.abduzeedo.com>Abduzeedo</a> a design inspiration blog and we get over 2 million visits a month but if you look at our posts, only a couple of them get over 30 comments which is not a lot knowing that over 30k people seen it.

What could be done to amplify this interaction, and get people to comment (feedback) more.

Thank you,
Paulo

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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