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22 Dec 2010

The Art of Emotional Design: a story of pleasure, joy, and delight.
Watch the video of my talk on user experience from the opening keynote of the Frontend 2010 conference in Oslo, Norway.

See the other talks from the conference on the Frontend 2010 videos page and contact me if you'd like to book me to present at your mobile, web, design, or development conference or if you'd like me to present on user experience at your company.

The Art of Emotional Design: a story of pleasure, joy, and delight.

This is a recording of my talk on user experience and emotional design from my opening keynote at the Frontend2010 conference in Norway.

19 May 2010

Aral Balkan speaking at FOWD 2010

I'm floored by your awesome feedback for my talk on Emotional Design at Future of Web Design. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Feeling the FOWD love: thank you so much!

Thank you guys and gals for all your lovely feedback; I really appreciate it!

12 May 2010

Aral Balkan speaking at Multi-Mania 2010

I had great fun presenting my new talk, The Art of Emotional Design: a story of pleasure, joy, and delight, yesterday at Multi-Mania 2010 and I'm overwhelmed by all the lovely feedback I'm getting. Here's a smorgasbord of feedback from Twitter - thank you all for your kind words; I'm so happy to hear that you found the session inspiring!

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The Art of Emotional Design at Multi-Mania

My new talk on Emotional Design got some rave reviews at Multi-Mania – thank you all for attending and for your kind words!

25 Nov 2007

Big ups to Seb, Peter and the other volunteers from FlashBrighton who organized FlashBrighton's Big Day Out yesterday: it was a resounding success (and I hope the first of many more). Thanks also to Adobe, Influxis, and the other sponsors.

My favorite bit (apart from surprising Seb with my count-down timer -- more on that later) was the 30 minute snowstorm hackathon by Dom (who got 15 minutes to draw a shivering man) and Seb (who got 15 minutes to make a particle-based 3D snow storm in AS3 -- while writing all his own import statements in the Flash IDE!)

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FlashBrighton’s Big Day Out rocked!