Tuesday, May 22nd, 2012 - 10:35pm

Indulgence

There were three indulgences from UX Lisbon 2012 that I cannot stop thinking about:

1. The pasteis de belem. Oh. My. These tasted like nothing I’d ever tasted before. Heavenly.
2. I saw almost all of the main conference talks. This doesn’t usually happen. I was comfortable with it at this conference because over at Simply Accessible, we hired a fantastic project manager to help us. You might know him – he’s Robert Jolly. Knowing he was keeping things moving back home really helped me not stress about work, so I could actually listen to the other speakers. I loved it and I can’t wait for more conferences where I can do this.
3. Bruno took the leap of faith and allowed me to speak about something other than Accessibility. I talk about accessibility all the time, and generally have the freedom to talk about whatever I want. But there are only a few conferences that have encouraged me to go beyond accessibility if I so desired. Thank you, Bruno, on so many levels.

The speaker lineup for UX Lisbon for yourself. You’ll see why I was so excited to join that crew on stage, to meet them for the first time, or to be reunited with them.

We also managed to get in some site-seeing, with the grand finale being a full day tour with several other speakers and spouses/partners/whatevers, organized by Bruno. I’d be understating it if I said it was a long day on Saturday. By the end we were all exhausted. But I’d also be understating it if I said that Bruno did an amazing job with the conference itself, the social events, and taking care of the speakers. Amazing just doesn’t cut it.

To everyone that I talked to, the attendees, the other speakers and friends, those that tweeted out soundbytes from my talk and workshop, and to our wonderful host, Bruno: thanks for indulging me.

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