| Sladjana: | No, wait. Talk about how we got there. | |
| Danilo: | There's a newsletter. I got the Smashing newsletter. About the first Smashing Magazine design conference. | |
| Sladjana: | And of course, who wouldn't want to go? But who can afford to go? | |
| Danilo: | So I showed it to Sladjana, and of course she- |
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| Sladjana: | It's a designer's dream conference. So listen. Sasa called me into his office. | |
| Danilo: | Sasa gets the newsletter, too. | |
| Sladjana: | Wait. So I go see to Sasa, and he asks me, without knowing that Danilo and I had already ranted about it, if it was something I might be interested in or want to talk about. | |
| Danilo: | It was just one of those things. | |
| Sladjana: | So I told Sasa, "There's nothing to talk about." | |
| Danilo: | Because of the people there. | |
| Sladjana: | Okay, the people. | |
| Danilo: | People from all over Europe. From everywhere. |
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| Sladjana: | Because there really are no borders. Not in this profession. We're all designers. And the speakers- | |
| Danilo: | From the U.S.. From England, the U.K. | |
| Sladjana: | And Germany. | |
| Danilo: | Right. Freiburg. Where, you know, Smashing's from. | |
| Sladjana: | And the people. | |
| Danilo: | Big names. In the business. Internet celebrities. I love speakers that motivate me. I have breakthroughs. | |
| Sladjana: | They really weren't big shots at all. They were like us. They were celebrities by default. As if somebody put them up there and said speak. | |
| Danilo: | I wish there'd been more time, though, between speakers. | |
| Sladjana: | It was hard to get to know people. Time was really impacted. | |
| Danilo: | There was a party, though. Refreshments, you know. Drinks. | |
| Sladjana: | And we had time out. There were all these little canals that ran through the city. Along the sidewalk. | |
| Danilo: | I saw somebody with a toy boat, but I thought-. | |
| Sladjana: | It was mountain water. | |
| Danilo: | I just don't know why they didn't build canals to go around the city. | |
| Sladjana: | And to me, more than the speakers, were the presentations themselves. Not abstract instructions about A to B, but there's this woman, she says she's going to do something, and she does it, and you're watching how this person thinks. | |
| Danilo: | And every speaker was different, so you walk away with all these unique perspectives. | |
| Sladjana: | But something everyone agreed on- | |
| Danilo: | Right. Issues of…responsiveness. | |
| Sladjana: | Progressive enhancement. | |
| Danilo: | Websites that work on all platforms. | |
| Sladjana: | Progressively for every platform. | |
| Danilo: | Which really relates everyday life to the Web. | |
| Sladjana: | We all want to make something work, and see how people respond. | |
| Danilo: | Exactly. |
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