About the conference
The Design by Fire conference strives to be the breeding ground for the newest ideas on interaction design. The conference provides a stage for inspiring professionals to share their passion for interaction design with peers — mutually refreshing both knowledge and competence to cope with the challenges of modern IxD's professional practice.
The Design by Fire conference — under the auspices of IxDA Nederland and Chi Nederland — is an initiative of Arjan Haring.
The germ of the conference lies in Andrei Herasimchuk's publications on design. In 2004 he dared to present a redesign of Jakob Nielsen's website. Since then he keeps on challenging the HCI community to take interaction design seriously. The conference is named after his weblog designbyfire.com. Andrei was the keynote speaker at the first Design by Fire conference in 2007.
Contact
Program & production — yohan@designbyfire.nl (or call +31 30 298 00 87)
Finance & registration — sanne@designbyfire.nl
Web development & PR — dean@designbyfire.nl
Web design & branding — roy@designbyfire.nl
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The 2009 conference team
The Design by Fire conference is completely set up by volunteers. These guys all share a passion for interaction design.
Yohan Creemers
Yohan studied Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft. He started his UX career at Davilex and XOIP and is now design director at Ylab. Next to that he is one of the driving forces behind the IxD community in Utrecht and the chairman of IxDA Nederland.
Sanne 't Hooft
Like Yohan, Sanne studied Industrial Design Engineering at the TU Delft. After 8 designer years in the field, he now works at the School of Interactive Media (Hogeschool van Amsterdam). Here he teaches HCI related courses and runs the usability lab.
Dean Janssen
Dean pushes pixels at Netherlands Public Broadcasting (NPO) in Hilversum. Here he oversees IxD projects for most all Dutch public television channels, radio networks and shared web-based services. Platforms include mobile and interactive television, as well as good old World Wide Web.
Roy van Balen
After studying Communication Systems, Roy started his first fulltime job as a junior web designer back in 1999. Today, after ten years of Interaction Design, he’s Interactive Director at Headline Interactive. He studies Art Direction in Amsterdam in the evenings.
Additional credits
Original DxF conference logo design by Andrei Michael Herasimchuk.