dConstruct 2015

We had a great time at dConstruct in Brighton last Friday. Ubuntu was the premier sponsor of the event, so 15 of us headed down from London in the small hours of the morning to set up our stand and enjoy a day out.

Origami competition

Our stand became a landscape of wolves and unicorns as attendees of the conference took up our challenge to fold one of these animals (with instructions) to win themselves a brand new BQ Aquaris E5 Ubuntu Phone.

The talks

The theme of the talks was ‘Designing the Future’ so we had robots, The Jetsons, various superheroes and The Terminator all making an appearance during the day.

Josh Clark demonstrated real magic on stage. Matt Novak revealed the secret behind robot vacuum cleaners of the 1950s (they were radio-controlled). Nick Foster brought us all back down to earth with a great talk on designing for the mundane and finally Dan Hill encouraged us to look more closely at the planning regulation notices pinned to lampposts.

If you want to hear all the talks from the day you can find them here.

A well deserved lunch!

After a morning of mental sustenance we needed some real food in our stomachs and we all set off for a tasty lunch at the Chilli Pickle, just around the corner from the venue. Feeling energised from the spicy food, it was back for round two of talks…

Positive feedback

From the moment the doors opened we had people coming up to the stand to speak to us about Ubuntu. We had a really positive response from attendees to the stand, where we were showing off demos of both Ubuntu Phones. People were really happy to see us, which was nice! From our end, it was invaluable meeting you all and hearing all the interesting questions you had for us. We hope we managed to answer them all!

A sunny day out

A beautiful sunny day, without a drop of rain, made it for a nice day out of the office: that alone is usually enough to fill anyone with energy and inspiration.

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