We now have the famous Webstock card game and webstock bingo in full force, the second day starts a little later, just as well considering the night before.
After an amazing reception that seemed to go on forever, and a relaxing dinner with friends it was time to pick it all up again the hustle back to the Town Hall for WebStock part II.
So far the conference had been all it was promised to be. To say it had been anything short of entertaining and informative would be a lie. In fact it was shaping up to be much more than that.
There is this gem of a conference that happens every year in Wellington, New Zealand at the end of February it’s – Webstock. Now I have been hearing about it time and time again and how amazing it is.
However I hear that about a lot of conference, to often they don’t live up to the hype. You attend and they just let you down with the corporatisation.
Webstock for me is just at the wrong end of the year, being post Christmas, you have to make the decision to go in the quiet period of January when money can be tight. Hence I usually miss Webstock.
I’m sitting here in a hotel, in Wellington, the day before some of the workshops start for Webstock. Which is a conference I have been iching to get to for some time.
Now conferences can be a fantastic events, they can be very stimulating mentallly and socially. You can gain a great deal of insight, new ideas and even an increased depth of professional understanding.
They can also be a complete waste of time. Which one they are is totally up to you. The organisers, can make the conference the best in the world, but the value aspect all comes down to the individual – you.
Photo: Richard Giles
Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Edge of the Web conference in Perth on UX Architecture for the Small Guy. I will do a brief write up on the conference shortly, so standby on that one, but for now on with the talk.
Why this Topic
Too often I have been to various conferences and I have heard from some very experienced UX people discussing numerous case studies of projects. All of them have one thing in common – large budgets or large teams. Frankly these are not the projects that happen from day to day in Perth. But they appear to be the mainstay of the UX designer, one gets the impression they are the general bread and butter in some parts of the world.
