I will be participating in the Interaction Design (IxD) Symposium at this year's IA Summit in Vancouver. The Symposium is a 1-day, pre-conference workshop. Other speakers include Dave Heller, Luke Wroblewski, and Kim Goodwin. Topics include:

• Where IxD and IA meet
• Moving from personas to a design
• The visual side of behavior
• Interacting with information in non-web contexts
• Interacting with socially mediated and participatory information systems

My talk will focus on the last bullet with an emphasis on the "openness" of web 2.0. The workshop does cost extra, however. Interested? Register here.

Additionally, the network diagram poster that I designed for Yahoo! with Andrew Lynch, Sarah Rice, and these guys, will be on display during the reception on Saturday. More on that later. Unfortunately, I can't make it to the reception. But let me know what you think of it!

posted by Frank

Ramirez Design, LLC was officially formed in February 2004 without something that seemed required for a web company: a website.

From week 1, we (fortunately) have been focused on client work (Yahoo!, eBay, Network Appliance, and a few interesting start-ups). We even started a product of our own (more about that soon...), opened a physical office, welcomed a new baby, and helped start a new Interaction Design Association. Just about anything we could do to avoid our own site it seemed :-) Excuses, excuses!

At last, we have a website to display our work, process, and ideas. We'll add case studies, articles, and presentations as they're developed. Everything will be announced on the home page (powered by Movable Type). Please Let us know what you think!

posted by Frank