Brian and I went to EuroIA in Copenhagen to talk about how to engage users in design with little money and little time.

And now we are back, refreshed by Danish beer and good conversation. Our photographs from the conference are on Flickr, and our presentation is on Slideshare

My favorite sessions prompted new resolutions.

Resolution 1: Mind my gaps

Scott Thomas’ keynote encouraged me to fill my professional gaps. So, I will be practising my coding, reading more about web traffic analysis, and learning about visual design over the next few months.

Resolution 2: Preach vision

Jason Hobbs reminded me of how important it is for companies to have a vision to guide their design efforts.

Resolution 3: Create more concepts

Jonathan Arnowitz made me realise how easy is to fall into the trap of creating just one design concept. I will follow his 5:3:1 strategy in my next project: 5 concepts, refined to 3 directions before arriving to 1 design solution.

Resolution 4: Speak slower

Despite the wonderful feedback from the attendees to our session, all of them had one gripe– I spoke way too fast. So I’ll try to slow it down.

And now, back to prototyping until the next conference.

The photographs in resolutions 3 and 4 came from _Xin’s photostream