Well I’m glad I dragged myself away from the sunny beach and in to the Brighton Corn Exchange for a great day at d.Construct 2006.

A ‘cozy’ conference with 350 attendees and a great set of speakers. Opening with Jeff Barr, doing his usual good job of promoting Amazon Web Services, and closing with Jeffrey Veen talking passionately about designing for the user experience; the day was filled with people with interesting things to say stood up in front of an audience interested in what they were hearing. The idea recipe for a successful conference. Congratulations to the team that organized it.

Something new for the conference was the supporting d.construct06 backnetwork site, provided by conference sponsors Madgex.

This excellent site, with which the vast majority of attendees registered, provides that linking up with those you meet facility that is often missing at these sorts of conferences. With feeds from attendee’s blogs and flikr pictures tagged with dconstruct06, the site provides an extra aid to the social networking side of a conference that others could learn from.

The after conference event, in which free booze and food supplies are rumored, calls…….

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