Part of my effort to keep myself abreast of whats going on in the technology world is regularly attending conferences. Thus I find myself here at ConvergeSC. From their website:
ConvergeSC is a web conference where designers, developers, business and marketing professionals can gain insight into all aspects of our industry from some of the best and brightest the Carolinas have to offer.
Geno Church gave a nice presentation on branding. He emphasized keeping the connection as a human interaction, not just a corporation to person interaction. His prime example of was Fiskars, a craft tools company. Instead of helping the company ‘sell scissors’, he helped create a movement. A movement to make scissors sexy. Who knew.
Update 1:
Jason Beaird gave a very nice talk about web designing. He covered many of the basics, ranging from:
- Golden ratio
- 960 Grid design
- Color Picking
- Fonts
- Symmetry
- And much more
He also provided some very nice examples for what was discussed. For a very nice webpage design: Blue Acorn
From post presentation twittering:
Update 2
Jason Dew gave his presentation on Ruby on Rails. This presentation differed from the normal shpiel for Ruby. This presentation managed to be introductory, yet really scrape the surface of what Ruby can do.
Some snippets from the presentation:
- Git
- From twitter: Ruby on Rails scaling to 1 Billion…
- Memchached : For scaling sites…
