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I’m now back home after OZ-IA 2008. Somehow, Eric Sheid (Long Black, but was drinking lattes this week) manages to pack 22 sessions into a two day conference. I missed one of the sessions, but I tried to ask the speakers how they have their coffee.

Here’s what I found out.

Day One

Where is Square 1? - James Hunter (flat white + 1 sugar)
Psych your mind – IA and Social Computing Strategy - Matthew Hodgson (Cappuccino, no sugar)
Homer Simpson & UCD in large goverment change programmes - Caronne Carruthers-Taylor (double shot latte)
The value of an interaction - Joel Flom (flat white)
Ambient Personalisation & Rich Interaction Mechanisms - Christopher Khalil (strong latte, but only one per day)
iPhone: rethinking the mobile IA - Oliver Weidlich (didn’t get to ask him about coffee)
Automated tree testing - faster, better, smarter? - Sam Ng (flat white + 1 sugar)
UX Strategy: defining and executing strategies for your projects and teams - Steve Baty (flat white in the morning, double espresso at night)
Are users really ready for faceted search? - Elizabeth Pek (didn’t get to talk to her)
Search and sensibility: Four tales of search - Louisa Cameron (??), Angus Fraser (??), Scott Bryant(skim flat white), Chris Khalil (strong latte, only one per day)

Day Two

Website to Webapp – designing for workflow - Shane Morris (flat white + 1 sugar)
IA in the Cayman Islands - Sam Ng (flat white + 1 sugar)
Context is everything - Iain Barker (flat white)
Let’s talk about forms - Jessica Enders (doesn’t drink coffee)
Taxonomy, Social Networks and Pace-Layering - Roger Hudson (latte with 2 sugars)
How many seconds does it take to order a burrito? - Zafer Bilda (Long Black / Skim Cappuccino)
How about them apples? UCD benchmarking as an ROI technique - Andrew Boyd (flat white + 1)
Contextual Enquiries – the who, how, why, and when - Lisa Herrod (skim flat white)
From research fluff to useful tools - Stephen Cox (doesn’t drink coffee)
Taken out of context: old tricks, new dog - Margaret L Ruwoldt (plunger coffee, no milk, or macchiatos, except for Vittoria and Genovese, which she’ll drink without milk)
The Pleasure and Pain of UX freestylin’ - Donna Spencer (flat white with one), Gary Barber (latte)

A few summary stats:
75% - no sugar
42% - Flat White or Latte
25% - add sugar
21% - un-interviewed
17% - Latte
8% - non-coffee drinkers
4% - Cappuccino
4% - Long Black
4% - Plunger