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September 21, 2007
AC@MAX: Chalk and Talk around the Whiteboard
There's a new session format at MAX this year - "chalk and talk" sessions. The idea is "between 10 and 20 minutes, no demos, no slides". It's just one or two people leading a discussion of a topic at a whiteboard, and you are free to just wander up, listen or participate.
This is one of the things I love about working with talented teams of designers and developers; when you walk into a project office, see someone at a whiteboard with a pen in their hand and a bunch of people standing with hands on their heads, or arms folded, or slumped in deep thought in a chair, you know that some innovation is about to happen. You know that a best-practice is about to be born. You know that some hitherto fundamental truth is being challenged, and the outcome will be an advance in the state of the art, or the currently accepted doctrine.
When I walk into an office, and there's a team of Adobe Consultants standing around a whiteboard, it's just great to stand at the back and listen for 5 minutes (though they'll probably drop a few comments in the blog saying that I don't stand at the back for very long, and tend to grab the pen).
So -- this format of discussion is coming to MAX, and Adobe Consulting are going to be standing around 5 different whiteboards. A number of our consultants are going to lead whiteboard discussions on topics that have come up on their various projects, and we hope that some of you will join us, stand around, challenge, participate, and who knows, maybe the outcome will be some more doctrine challenged, some more best-practice emerging, or some more dark corners illuminated.
We'll be covering Flex, LiveCycle Data Services, buidling Flex apps on top of LiveCycle ES service-oriented architectures, some PDF Form Design architectural patterns, and some User Experience Design discussions. I can't wait to see these sessions!
I'll follow up with details of each of the chalk and talks; see you round the whiteboards.
Posted by swebster at September 21, 2007 11:36 AM