Look its me & Jason Santa Maria!

Hey look! It’s me and Jason Santa Maria!  AND Eric Meyer! AND look it’s Robert Hoekman, Jr! Sadly I didn’t get a picture with Andy Clarke, but he did give me a sweet pin from Stuff and Nonsense at lunch one day as we chatted about politics and other things…:) It’s crazy because I go to these sites all the the time and read about design things and new projects and I guess I never thought I’d actually meet the people behind them.  These are some of the great web standards-designers-css writers-usability experts of their kind!

My friend Cheryl that I met at the conference has been telling me to get these pictures up for like 2 weeks so here they are! Finally!

ALL of the speakers were fantastic and really opened my eyes to a lot of things that I didn’t know and also reaffirmed some things I’d been thinking all along.  It was nice to just get inspired and be in my design element agian.

Sometimes an experience like this is just the thing you need to get back in that zone.  Not that I’ve lost interest in design at all – its just tough to be excited every day when you hardly have time to think, when you are just doing doing doing.  I hope I can use lots of the things I learned at Orbit and also educate my co-workers that were unable to attend.  I took soooo many notes my arm was about to fall off – so I’m covered in terms of information! :)