Invite Jonathan Snook - Turning ideas into reality

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I think that Jon Snook would be a great speaker on a number of different topics including design, Javascript, php, Adobe Air. Not only has jon created a bunch of web apps and mashups himself, I think he could also provide a great insight into his ideas process, and how to flesh out the ideas into final products.

As I mentioned in one of the other topics, I think that many of us, if not most of us, now have a strong grasp of HTML/CSS/Javascript/server-side skills but could use guidance and inspiration on how to take these skills, build something that matters and get it out there, and I think Jon has experience in this area that he could share.

(Rather than make a new idea topic, I'd also like to suggest Shaun Inman and Dan Cederholm for the same reasons.)

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Might as well add Eric Meyer to that list too

Anyone who can talk about the 'inspiration to launch' process for a working project will get my attention.

Daniel Burka's presentation last year was an excellent example of this type of talk
http://www.webdirections.org/resources/daniel-burka-interaction-design-case-studies/

More like that!

Snooka - no issue, get him on the plane. :)

But can Eric really contribute to the discussion these days. I was under the impression he was just a Microsoft mouth piece now. (sorry Eric)

Gary,

is there any evidence for that assertion? It's never remotely occurred to me to characterize Eric as such.

There's certainly a lot of folks sitting down and working with MS - I personally do it in a number of ways (on an essentially 'volunteer' basis, quite separate from any other relationship we might have with them).

Why? MS has definitely shown the desire to return to the fold in the last couple of years (and I'm really not concerned why, but I know a good many folks particularly on the implementation side who are and have always been important advocate for the open web).

Folks like Eric, Aaron Gustafson, and many others, have definitely worked hard to try and ensure that the steps MS make with for example IE8 are the best possible outcomes for all stake holders.

We had Eric keynote in Japan last year. There's still few folks with as broad and deep understanding of the web's technologies, and processes around than Eric, and scarce few who can articulate this nearly as well.

I'm not able to have of hand conversations with Eric, but he has of late be defending MS a little to closely on his blog posts around the track. Posts that in my mind where almost PR spin. It may not be Erics intent. Sadly all I have to go on is the posts. It's nto intended as a Negative comment on Eric, he is doing good things, I just don't see them as being a benefit to me personally in extending my skill set / career etc. And reality that is what it is all about.

I know MS have to play a dangerous middle game to keep every one happy. Not going to discuss on that here, I'll be here all day - we can save that for a few beers.

What would really be looking for is a designer that is going to knock my socks off. I have not found one in last 6 years, yeap I'm a hard man to please.

Gary,

maybe there's no one who would do the trick for you ;-)

We'll definitely have a well known designer, who we believe is both a fantastic designer and great educator and presenter - let's see if we can deliver this year.

@john

You know I have been considering that... maybe what I'm searching for can't be found.

In a way I guess from a design view I'm searching for something that become hard and harder to find. Or maybe its right under may nose... Mind you sometimes a refreshing change comes from left of field. It will be interesting to see what you have for this year.

Very deep.... maybe too deep.;)

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