“User Interfaces and Visible Languages: Culture, Signs, and Devices.” User interfaces present facts, concepts, and emotions to people around the world across all devices, content, and contexts. What are the visible language design issues? How does culture affect visible language display? Can there be a universal visible language? (marcus aaron at atypi)

no, i don't know what to think about them yet. i haven't learned as much as i wanted. less surprised me: maybe, that louis rossetto took so much time to talk why and how he missed the ipo and as a result wired went downhill. that process started as early as 1996. digital values breakdown. maybe, that some suffer from nervous laughing attacks when they speak or think they have to be really, really, really sure that you understand: ¡it"s a joke! what makes the effort ridiculous. maybe, that it must be really nice backstage, because you hardly find or see a speaker wandering in public.
and that i had to go to a bar near home to talk more about typo as at the actual event. strange world. maybe, that constructivism means something else for me than for them: "he cleaned the font from its constructivist dead freight."