Anthony Hempell, my manager at BlastRadius, decided that we should try and submit something for the IA Summit 07 in Las Vegas. So we submitted a presentation that talks about the changes in documentation style while communicating rich interaction. This is where the page does not refresh but many interaction states can exist. Depending on the problem a variety of solutions are available from storyboarding, frame by frame interaction, sequential walkthroughs, prototypes, and much more.

Well, we got word last week our submission had been accepted so now comes the hard part of sifting through all the examples and creating a compelling presentation. We hope to touch on a range of documentation that people are currently using and hopefully show some concrete examples of successes and failures through case studies.

The current abstract for our presentation (scroll down to the “IA for Rich Interaction: Tools and Techniques from the Trenches”)

Hope to see you there!

An interesting exercise started by the Toronto UX shop Teehan+Lax. They have created a UX Fund with an initial investment of $50,000. The fund includes many industry leaders who are often quoted as having great user experiences:

• Apple
• EA
• Google
• JetBlue
• Netflix
• Nike
• Progressive
• RIM
• Target
• Yahoo

Of course anyone would tell you not to invest solely based on one criterion so it’ll be interesting to see if user experience has a common upswing in this situation.