I just got back to my hotel after two days at the WHARTON UICONF 2010 conference in Philadelphia (http://web.wharton.upenn.edu/uiconf2010/).  This was by far the best conference I have ever been too.  The speakers were absolutely amazing.  The conference opened with a keynote by Don Norman.  Dr. Norman is basically one of the main reasons why I went into design and development instead of medicine.  In 1997, when I was a biology/premed major at the Old Dominion University, I took an intro to engineering class that had Don Norman`s Design of Everyday Things as one of the textbooks.   It just made so much sense and also changed how I looked at the things around me.  Dr. Norman`s speech covered the topic of living with complexity, which is incidentally the title of his new book that`s coming out in September.

I also finally got to meet Dustin Curtis, whose website and blog I`ve been following for the past year or so. Dustin is an amazing UI and UX designer and, as it turns out, a pretty good public speaker.