I went to An Event Apart last week here in San Francisco with my fellow Six Aparters Chris Basey and Byrne Reese. Overall, the conference was excellent. The two obvious highlights for me were Jason Santa Maria's "Design Your Way Out of a Paper Bag" and Doug Bowman's "Design for Scale", both of which were informative and inspirational. These guys are two of my biggest web design heroes and it was great to not only see them speak, but also to talk to them for a few minutes at the conference. Jason Santa Maria was very complimentary on the new movabletype.com design.
Erin Kissane's "Content Strategy to the Rescue!" and Jeffrey Zeldman's "Writing the User Interface" were also really interesting and gave us some great ideas.
For shear entertainment value, Jared Spool was hands-down the winner. His presentation, "Why Good Content Must Suck" was really funny, as well as thought-provoking.
This was the first web design conference I've been to and I was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the presentations and the friendliness of the other attendees.
