Matthew Milan helps his audience understand how to generate, identify, frame and use insight effectively is a poorly understood practice.

Kate Rutter describes this fascinating life form holds intriguing lessons for today’s knowledge worker…from sensing and responding to environments that become hostile to using the power of signals to create alignment and collective action.

Stephen P. Anderson has been gathering and analyzing specific examples of sites who’ve designed serendipity, arousal, rewards and other seductive elements into their applications. Understanding basic psych principles we can raise the bar on our projects!

The panel will discuss what it is like to create ones own work environment – the motivation for taking this entrepreneurial path, what it has been like, what we’ve learned, the ups and downs of such a work life.

Principal of IA and UX for Comcast Interactive Media, Livia Labate, along with author and Independent Consultant, Austin Govella share measures of success that qualify and quantify user experience efforts are scarce and not widely adopted.

During this session, Founder of Usable Interface, Kyle Soucy, and Senior User Experience Architect at FactSet Research Systems Inc, Nasir Barday share how to keep the momentum of a group going strong.

John Pettengill believes mobile websites should address the needs of users who are “out and about”, and any site that doesn’t… shouldn’t be considered part of the mobile web.

Whitney Hess helps timid and unassertive practitioners come out of their shells and become leaders in the user experience community. Her advice is based on her own experience taking control of her career and developing an authentic and positive reputation.

Attendees of the Summit lined up to take the microphone for up to 5 minutes each to share ideas and reflections from their experience at the 10th Annual event.

The concept of “interaction” as currently understood is based on a host of assumptions, many of which run so deep that we no longer see them as assumptions.