The last session of the evening was an excellent presentation with a lot of variety.  The concept is to present 20 slides, at only 20 seconds per slide.  The content could have been anything ranging from what you do outside of design to what is on your mind at the moment.  There were several presenters [...]

This was an extremely interesting discussion between a very accomplished panel and the audience.  George Daniels (HP), Bruce Clayton (Motorola), John Barratt (Teague), and Brett Lovelady (Astro) were the panel members who gave a brief, relevant presentation regarding innovation during their career.  They each gave striking examples of innovating products or processes, some were successful [...]

Following the morning general session, and instructor from UIUC gave a fantastic workshop regarding figures in concept drawings.  His instruction gave some inspiring examples of utilizing figures to illustrate usage and scale in sketches.  The technique he demonstrated was quick, gender identifiable, and just detailed enough.  There was only an hour for the session, but [...]

Thursday morning started off with a great general session.  The room was pretty packed with very few open seats.  Early on there was a significant amount of discussion over gender differences pertaining to design.  It was pretty interesting hearing some talks by Marti Barletta on the different purchasing styles between men and women.  She made [...]