2010 D4M Planning and Discussion

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Nothing is settled yet for the 2010 edition of Design for Mobile, so you are free to contribute your own ideas, desires and opinions. Just sign up and add to this page if you have any.

When things get a little more solid, this page will disappear, and be replaced with more formal documentation about the event.

[edit] Locations

We've had the conference in a beautiful hotel in quaint downtown Lawrence, Kansas. Lawrence isn't any further from the Kansas City airport than much of Kansas City is; downtown KC is around 25 minutes and the closest interesting area to the airport.

We are going to keep the conference in the midwest; there are plenty of conferences on the coasts.

Is it time to grow? Where should we be?

  • Lawrence - it's a great venue and off the beaten path!
  • Kansas City - maybe the Power & Light district; near Handmark, Uclick, Hallmark, VML, Sprint
  • Chicago - direct flight for most attendees
  • Denver - add your pitch here
  • Austin - it's warm and there's mobile stuff going on there

Specific venue recommendations?

[edit] Dates

Probably in many ways dependent on when the location we select is available; we'll again target April.

[edit] Topics

What do we really want to learn more about?

  • Netbooks as mobile devices, and their OS'es -- perhaps try to get the Jolicloud team [1]? Or maybe the Chrome OS team?
  • Education and mobile technology?
  • The tablets, "smartbooks", and "smartpads" (such as this Notion Ink tablet, and the still mythical Apple Tablet) that will inevitably show up at CES and beyond, designing for them, and their place in the mobile world.
  • Why we can't see the forest for the T-mobiles and mobile's place in the future of "evolution" (maybe something on Augmented Reality?)
  • Continued integration of free-standing devices (e.g. GPS) into mobile phones. Is the mobile going to be the all-in-one device, killing all others, will users carry several devices (iPhone and RAZR) or something else (http://www.slideshare.net/barbaraballard/mobile-design-evolution-trends-in-speciation-specialization-and-fragmentation-presentation)
  • Accessibility. eBooks have pushed the issue. Mobile and small-screen devices are going to have to start providing these same services for everyone.
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