Tomorrow kicks off the two day conference event here in Dallas. This will be the second  year of the Big D Design Conference. A host of speakers and tracks are available covering several tracks on social media, social strategy, user experience design, and coding and development.  This year also brings back the workshop track which is my personal favorite. The small crowd size allows for some really nice interaction with the entire group. I will also have several of my friends there so it looks to be a great time.

Last year the team did a great job of organizing the conference and brought in some interesting speakers. This year a few on the docket include: Russ Unger, Keith Anderson, Jared Spool, Stephen Anderson, Burin Asavesna, Chris Bernard , Dr. Susan Weinschenk and many more.

Last year I did a review of the book “Neuro Web Design: What Makes them Click.” It’s a fantastic book still on my resource shelf today.

Stay tuned to this thread as I cover topics, highlights, and some pictures from the event Friday and Saturday.  My twitter account will be a buzz.

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Congratulations to the organizers. This year was great. Many of the panels were awesome.  There were some minor hic-ups but the greatest thing about the Big D Design Conference is simply the fact that it is still small enough to become fully immersed in the people. That is a great thing!  Sadly, not a lot of people headed out to the @cohabitat party tonight, but it was a great place to talk and meet people, and speakers.

My Personal Highlights

• Design Lenses – A lot of great information on how we can use design lenses
• Design Anatomy – A great talk on design processes / methods and the way these processes are meant to work.
• Being able to get up close and talk with some of the speakers
• Being able to work on my visual note taking
• Exposure to lots of great ideas & people

The next conference I plan on attending is Open camp. This is a lot more on the WordPress development side, but contains ideas from all different fields.