I recently had the opportunity to attend my first IxDA (Interaction Design Association) conference in Amsterdam. As a first-time attendee, I absorbed a lot of the excitement and lessons from talks, and met the legends of Interaction Design, fellow designers and professionals, and the enthusiastic volunteer team of design students. To share the learnings with my team back in Munich, I prepared those slides with some takeaways and highlights from the conference. Photos Credit: IxDA Flickr Steam.

1. Interaction 14 Highlights
Amsterdam . Westergasfabriek . Feb 5-8

2. Top Themes

3. Top Themes
Four days of workshops, presentations and social events at the
Interactions 14 event explored the wide diversity of interaction
design practices and provided inspiration from related disciplines.

4. 1- Team Collaboration
Working across teams and talking to executives.

5. 2- Mild allergy to Agile and Lean
From UX masters and current practitioners.

6. 3- Beyond the Visual
The importance of designing for multiple senses beyond purely
digital — whether sight, feel, sound, taste or vision.

7. 4- Re-intellectualized Design
Academics explaining how the deintellectualisation of design
diminishes the UX professional value, and reduces their capacity to
solve hard design problems.

8. 5- Practical Advice
Hands-on and applicable: Designing without a user, The lost art
of efficiency in IxD, How to lead your UX career.... etc.

9. 6- Motion and Comics
how comics have evolved with changes in digital media, and
how thinking about motion design to aid interaction design in
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the coming years.

10. 7-Design & The Enterprise
Design thinking at Scale. Working in large engineering team.

11. 8- Design Culture
The Body language of IxD, Yoga in teams, Design origins in philosophy.

12. Favorite Talks

13. Stop Fighting, Start Designing
— Dan Brown
Teams Collaboration

14. Sketchnote by @ChrisNoessel

15. UX Awesomeness Through the
Introvert/Extrovert Spectrum
— Angela Craven and SuAnne Hall
Teams Collaboration

16. Pair Design
— Christopher Noessel
Teams Collaboration

17. Sketchnote by @KShimmell

18. Pitching Ideas
— Jeroen van Geel
Teams Collaboration

19. UX Designers as Business Consultants
— Davide Casali
Teams Collaboration

20. Bad Design Advice
— Paolo Malabuyo
Mild allergy to Agile

21. The lost art of efficiency in IxD
— Giles Colborne
Practical Advice

23. Learn to Drive Your UX Career (Workshop)
— Ian Swinson and Dan Donovan
Practical Advice

24. Food = interaction
— Bernard Lahousse
Beyond the visual sense

25. Interaction 15
San Francisco . Feb 9-11