SEED
October 29, 2007
Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL
Initial Impressions
If you aren't quite sure where to go, you usually you just follow the balding middle aged (for the industry which means 32) men. That wouldn't have worked at SEED.
Breakfast is as one would expect: awkward. Coders don't mix well with anyone, designers are too busy figuring out if their glasses are the hippest in the room, and sales people make everyone uncomfortable. The sales types are the easiest to spot in their "laid back" suit with no tie.
Another thing that struck me is there was more "product" in the guy's hair than the women's hair. These conferences are probably the few places where that happens. It's really an untapped sponsorship opportunity.
Links
Quotes
Communication that doesn't take a chance doesn't stand a chance.
- Carlos Segura
One piece \[of design\] won't fix your twenty-five years of bad habits
- Carlos Segura
Interruption is not collaboration
-Jason Fried
Documents are illusions of agreement
- Jason Fried
It's easier to out-cool than out-think
- Jim Coudal
We're \[Coudal Partners\] totally unfocused
- Jim Coudal
This could be a slight paraphrase, but I'm sure he would agree with the sentiment.
What I learned at SEED
I had to give a presentation all "what I learned this summer" style. I've included the flash here. Without me talking it may not make much sense, but for what it's worth here it is.