Conferences.

• Presented at ERIC.
• Presented bettie at eComm.
• Hosted and Organised IxDA Session at iHCI.

After hours activity.

• Organised and ran an Arudino Workshop.
• Organised DEFUSE: Design for Use. IxDA Dublin event with over 200 people.
• Winning Team of 24hr Design Challenge.
• 3rd in UCD Campus Company Development Program.

Skills Acquired.

• A better understanding of grounded theory, and learnt a lot from our ethnography partners.
• Expanded use of video as data gathering and communication tool.
• More advanced hardware and software prototyping.
• AS3 knowledge has expanded 500%. Even writing classes, and visuals in code.
• Better understanding and visualization of users usage of systems.

New Tools in 2010.

• Arduino.
• Twitter. Follow me for more news.
• Business Development as part of CCDP.

Best Books of 2010.

• Designing for the digital age.
• Programming Interactivity.
• AS3 Cookbook
• Thoughts on Interaction Design.

Published in.

• Design Revolution: 100 Products That Are Changing People’s Lives
• Glimmer
• Designing Gestural Interfaces: Touchscreens and Interactive Devices

Best Talks & Presentations.

• Defuse
• Paola Antonelli at Science Gallery.
• Innovation Interface.

benarent.co.uk Visitor, are slowly growing.. as I slowly blog.
2008 – 2009 – 42,000 unique visitors.
2007 – 2008 – 27,000 unique visitors.
2006 – 2007 – 12,000 unique visitors.

Its been a busy year, with over 31,000 visitors to benarent.co.uk.  I have had some great experiences this year with three exhibitions and a job at TRIL.

The most visited page was my portfolio, and the top 5 pieces of  blog content were.

1. Design Sketching
2. How to print your own Christmas Wrapping Paper. 
3. How to laser cut your own decorations. 
4. How to turn sketches into line drawings. 
5. How to make a magnetic user interface. 

Its seems like there is a lot of love for the how tos so expect to see more in 2009!

Design and Art thrive in Hard times