I attended UW Technical Communications "New Perspectives" last night. It was a great set of presentations about how we find ideas and what to do with them.

Emma Rose talked about their search for problems in the former soviet union and finding mobile phone based solutions with her talk "Design Ethnography:
The Art of 'Deep Hanging Out'". Lee Lefever talked about a web application through the metaphor of throwing a party. His talk was titled "Your Online Community Is a Party
Waiting to Happen". Paul Ingram gave the low-down on "Inventrepreneurship". Jason Carmel also entertaining was a talk about website optimization entitled "Effective Use of Kittens: Site
Optimization and User Experience".