Last weekend I attended FOSDEM in Brussels.

Although FOSDEM is "renowned for being highly developer-oriented" as their website states, there were several interesting talks for designers too:

Alexandra Leisse presented the design process she is following with especial emphasis on user research, prototyping, and usability testing. More info and slides.
Felipe Erias emphasized the need for rapid prototyping as a means to quickly exploring the solution space for a design problem. More info and slides.
Quim Gil gave a lightning talk about how to contribute to MediaWiki, which included some design tasks for our community to get involved. More info, slides and video.
Dave Neary gave the talk "Using Personas to Target Users". Unfortunately, the Wikimedia BoF meeting was set at the same time and I could not attend. More info
Many talks at the Mozilla dev room were related to Mobile and web technologies such as Firefox OS (view video), latest CSS improvements (view info), and L10n tools among others. View list of talks from Mozilla dev room.

The FOSDEM organisation is uploading the videos, so if you are interested in any talk, keep checking the information links in the upcoming days since the recordings will be added soon.

Pau

Pau Giner

Interaction Designer

Wikimedia Foundation