I've been telling people how much I dig Adobe's free Ideas app and Autodesk Sketchbook Pro for sketching on the iPad. Craighton Berman's Fueled by Coffee sketchblog will give you an idea of what sketches can look like using these tools. Ideas is super simple and smoothens your lines so things look naturally drawn.
I'm really loving it. The adjustment is taking time, and it's not as quick as pen and paper, but it's slightly more natural using a Pogo Sketch Stylus.
Didn't get to the IA Summit this year? Or went to IAS10, but didn't get to see everything in all the tracks? Of course you didn't unless you had Hermione's Time Turner with you.
The good news is that Jeff Parks did an amazing job of capturing the sessions and producing audio podcasts, which are now available via Boxes and Arrows or by subscribing to the podcast via iTunes. Currently the keynotes and all of the sessions from Day 1 are available.
I love the idea of Design Swap, even if it reminds me of Wife Swap, key parties, the swinging '70s and that movie Ice Storm. It's better, because it's an exhibitionist, one-to-one CSS Zen Garden style swap of designs between two designer's sites. And we get to be the voyeurs. Salacious.
It's a shame that they didn't pick up on the wife swap theme like I did, and go with a '70s disco, swinging aesthetic. Those round portraits could have people with fros and big butterfly collars. Opportunity missed.