Congrats on the nice profile in the NY Times!

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/bus...

They got the photo captions mixed up in the online version, but you can figure it out.

I'm going to see Too Much Light this Saturday night in Chicago!
It was so great to talk with you at MX East
I'd love to invite you and anyone else you'd like to bring to see the show this weekend.
Free tickets, 11:30pm start time, Andersonville.
Email if you can make it and we'll work out the details
-Sharon Greene

Joshua, the presentation about Best Cellars was really inspiring. I'm sure you're glad that you were the first to think of and implement this great design idea. When you were presenting, my thought was "Why didn't anyone think of this before?" Isn't that the true measure of innovation?

Looking forward to the new book, keep cranking! Seriously, thank you for Cooper's commitment to sharing know-how.

Hey Anthony, it was great to meet you. I'm sorry we didn't get to talk more. I'd love to see the alumni and development work you're doing at University of Chicago. - Best, David

Kudos to you and your Adaptive Path coworkers for putting together interesting and thought-provoking speakers!

I'd love to talk to you more about the book report idea for expanding designers (and other UX practitioners) ability to practice sharing thoughts and ideas in a safe place. I'd love to explore this approach at our shop.
Email: roma_sawchyn@vanguard.com

Great presentation, I'm really interested in applying these kinds of ideas to non-commercial experiences and services. Do you (or anybody else) know of any good case studies for this kind of thing (aside from SPARC/Mayo)?

Great to meet you, would love to learn more about the work your organization does and your process.

I was really impressed with the level of concurrent flexibility, ownership, and accountability in your process. Also if you get that pizza thing figured out, let me know.

Good to meet you, I really appreciated hearing about your process for managing a team and would definitely like to talk more about how you use participatory design in your organization.

Good to meet you and discuss the unique challenges of designing for the University environment.

It was really great to meet you. Your presentation was truly energizing and motivating. It would be great to have you speak to our broader UX team as well as our Business partners and development folks.

I think the similarities between the working processes of Pixar and the NeoFuturists are really interesting. Often people assume that creativity and the creative process are, by nature, unstructured, chaotic, muse-driven. But in reality, most great creative processes are highly structured and rigorous, with spaces for freedom and exploration interspliced.

In design brainstorming, this means having a strong agenda, process for drawing out ideas, and a way to converge. I think great, structured meeting facilitation is one of the most powerful roles design and experience practitioners can bring to the table. So glad to see diverse examples of this at MX.

Great presentation...and AMEN on the book reports. I started requesting them from my group two years ago, and it's been a big hit...even after I changed jobs people still sent there reports to me! Love that level of dedication.

Ditto re: the toilet paper. My room here had an elaborate 270 degree fan the first day. The next day I only had a triangle. I was a little disappointed.

Thanks for the great presentation! My department and company are going through a *lot* of the growing pains you talked about -- it's great to know it's not just us, and that we're on the right track. Would it be possible to get a copy of your presentation? I would love to share it with my coworkers.

Wonderful, engaging presentation. I'll never look at a roll of toilet paper the same way again.

Such a pleasure speaking with you during lunch. Scott McCloud and Understanding Comics, next on the reading list!

I am interested to hear how this theme of "being the best is not strategy" emerge over the next few days. This is also something that I am grappling with at Whirlpool. We are trying to change the conversation from strictly "winning" in the market to having a concrete vision of what a brand stands for (and, more importantly, what it does not stand for.

Excellent presentation, Mags. Thorough, informative, and sincere.

Todd, glad you like the idea that "'being the best' is not a strategy" ...I'll be revisit it a bit during my presentation on Tuesday.

Power Recruitment workshops are held all over:

http://tinyurl.com/2rrwwp

Hi Roma,

Hmmm... being new to Monster I'm not sure I can offer any great talent recruiting tips in this tight market, especially since I've not yet had the chance to recruit any new talent myself. I do know Monster offers training to recruiters focusing on resumer search... I'll get you the link. :-)

That's a great article on strategy that you linked to Brandon. Very timely for me, thanks for the pointer. "Being the best is not strategy" was particularly key. Companies, managers and people can only excel if they pick and choose about what to focus on - and what not to.

hi Todd - yeah most of my cat herding has been client-side, but I've got in-house cats too.

Alright David, Tony says we need to trade cat herding stories. Look forward to meeting you!

Nice picture Roma!

Nice picture Lea ;-)

Hi, Rick. Tony mentioned you may have some insight for me about recruiting for UX talent in a tight market. I'd love to chat with you about this.