Well webstock is over now and I bet there's few web folks that have gone back with some pretty cool ideas, I know I have!
Jill Whelan's workshop was OK, there wasn't a lot of new material which was reinsuring as it confirmed I'm up with the latest and greatest in the world of SEO.
My favorite speaker was Micheal Lopp from Apple. He was speaking on software deveopment on the first day and Managing design on the second day. His experiences were born from the thrust and parry of the Apple stables where machines and man are tested to the limit and products were forged on the anvil of innovation.
What came from all this thrusting and parrying was the importance of working with talented and enthusiastic people. How giving channels for them to express themselves in constructive and creative ways can speed up the processes of design.
He also talked about Ponies (it was nice to have something else other than kittens and puppies), a pony is when someone starts to request things that are from a companies vision or culture and according to some people have to be in the product or concepts. They are called Ponies because generally they are of the same nature as when one of the kids sees a pony or has ridden a pony and from then on simply must own one. Micheals advice in a nutshell was to ride with it (no pun intended) and to let the design processes work them out and prove that by putting a pony in the design it will only be pony and not a product.
Next article will be about Morlocks and Eloy from Damian Conways presentation.