Afterthoughts, Codemotion Rome 2014

This past weekend, I was in Rome attending as a speaker the Codemotion 2014 event [ rome.codemotionworld.com/2014/ ].

How good was that?

It was surprisingly a very big conference and honestly I didn’t expect that: 2 days packed with workshops plus 2 days full of talks with a line up of more than 100 speakers, divided into 6 tracks and a huge room devoted to the Makers movement.

The number of people scattered around the building was simply amazing.

The quality of the talks spanned from “truly impressive” to “some kinda of meh”, but with a so wide range of attendees (students, professional, startups and even investors) I really believe that anybody could have found for sure something suitable for their taste.

The conference was held in the faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, and this really brought me back to my student time, when I was studying at the University of Bologna… There were a lot of students eager to learn something new and, nowadays, this is definitely a good thing.

I had a good time

The overall event organization was good, even though some hiccups now and then were totally preventable: meal times were a mess and the choice to serve water in plastic glasses at the desk instead of giving the canonical half liter bottles was absolutely a disaster.

In the end, the people of the staff are efficient and kind.. actually I don’t recall how many of them I saw, but there was a plenty of ‘em.

It was a big great conference and I enjoyed it very much, especially because it was the perfect alibi to get along with old friends and to meet incredible professionals with incredible stories and you all know how much I love stories.

I found myself zipping up and down like a child in a toystore.

About my Talk

It was nothing special or new, I just collected some stuff about ergonomics that I really loved when I was attending the master class, things that I totally banked up with my competences and use everyday in my work.

I presented some cool models and theories about the categorization of the Human Error, something that help us understand why we err and why we keep taking the wrong decision even though the reality in front of our eyes suggests otherwise.

My talk was scheduled in the last Friday’s slot of the UX track, last but not least I should say!

Nevertheless, it was great and people had a lot of fun!

Unfortunately not all the talks were being filmed, and obviously mine wasn’t 🙂

Ohh well, maybe next time!

Here’s the slide of my talk

[slideshare id=33438686&doc=huynh-youwrongyoudie-140412032743-phpapp01]

Hoang Huynh

Experience Strategist at PRSD

I'm an ill fated romantic technonerd with a passion for anything that makes lights and sounds, I live in the future and I have a very clear point of view on the definition of “experience” , “design” and “innovation”, but I use to talk about it only during coffee breaks.
I often lose myself into infinite activities where I can live, work, teach, learn on how people interact with the future.