Dev in Sampa 2011 - UX for Developers

Following the tradition, this year’s Dev in Sampa, event promoted by @tinogomes, @nuxlli and @lfcipriani, brought us high quality geeky presentations, ranging from @lucashungaro‘s practical SOLID approach, to @chesterbr‘s mind blowing “Atari 2600 Development” presentation. And in between, great food, great conversations, and the chance to meet new people and old friends.

My presentation was, like last year, far away from the other presentations themes. While everyone talked about programming and hacking — like @qmx about VM Design, @renatoelias about event-driven programming, @wcolen and @wseidel about language processing, or even @klauswuestefeld about Sovereign Computing — I decided to step away from the code, and talk about… the user. My whole presentation may be defined in one single quote:

The user is NOT stupid. YOU are the one who’s too cocky. #thereIsaidIt

If you are interested in watching the whole presentation (and you know pt-BR or are willing to translate the whole content =]), here is the video:

And here are the slides:

And I recommend watching every other Dev in Sampa presentation, specially Chester’s Atari 2600 one: you’ll never complain about today’s languages again. =]

You can see more photos of the event here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/devinsampa

Update: You may find the reference links here https://gist.github.com/1341694