In May, I was really fortunate to attend the Future of Web Design conference by Carsonified in London.  It was great to see the current state of the industry from Europe, and take a look into the future of web design via my peers.  It was also really nice to get some validation from speakers who are successful agency owners, and who have a healthy life-balance to boot.

The best part though, was coming home inspired and fired up for web design.  I came home with a new bag of tricks to try immediately, and I also gained some new contacts for my LinkedIn network– a few very talented developers who were all eager to help us get our sites up and running.

Here are a few of the sessions that really inspired me:

“How to Run a Successful Web Design Business” workshop by Paul Boag from Headscape

This fun workshop was a full-day affair, with lots of attendee-participation. Boag is hilarious so the day went by pretty fast, and his workshop was packed full of really good advice.  He answered a lot of the questions that I had as a designer/CD/partner/owner, and raised other issues that really hadn’t come to mind before.  Read more »