A few photo galleries are already up on Flickr. This one from Daria Kempka (organizer of the original DrawCamp, Milwaukee.) We were incredibly lucky she was able to join us in San Francisco for SketchCamp:

(If the slideshow doesn’t come through, here’s a direct link to Daria’s photos)

Here’s another slideshow from one of our volunteers, Kathryn Storm:

(If her slideshow doesn’t come through, here’s a direct link to Kathryn’s photos)

Greg Nudelman, Principal/CEO of DesignCaffeine, just finished his new book, “Designing Search: UX Strategies for eCommerce Success” now available on Kindle and for pre-order from Wiley and Amazon.

To get 40% off the cover price, pre-order it on Wiley.com and use the code UXDS1:

http://www.designcaffeine.com/designingsearch/

Hot wouldn’t be Hot without you, and they are currently on the lookout for talented, seasoned professionals to join their team:

• HR / Office Manager ny
• Visual Designer sf
• Visual Design Intern sf
• User Experience Architect sf
• Senior Visual Designer sf / ny
• Director, Business Management sf
• Design Director sf
• Sr. User Experience Architect sf / ny
• Associate Visual Designer sf

See all Hot jobs: http://www.hotstudio.com/jobs

Tickets to the UIE Web App Masters Tour in is on sale now:

• Seattle May 23-24
• Minneapolis June 27-28

Take a deep dive into:

• Mobile strategy
• Information visualization
• Design process
• Engagement, patterns and more

with Josh Clark, Luke Wroblewski, Noah Iliinsky, Kate Brigham, Stephen Anderson, Bill Scott, Julie Zhuo, Aviva Rosenstein, Steve Portigal, Mike Lee, and of course the incomparable Jared Spool.

Sign up now, tickets are going fast! UIE Web App Masters Tour >

Singly is co-founded by Jeremie Miller (the creator of Jabber/XMPP) and is building a new open source initiative called the Locker Project. The Locker Project is a way for you to aggregate all of your personal data from all of the services you use into a singly place that you own and control (a “locker”), and to re-share that data to cool new applications built on top of your unified data.  Singly is providing a developer platform along with hosting/storage solutions to help foster this new ecosystem.

Singly is looking for awesome people — specifically in the following areas:

- UX Designer and Implementor
- Cloud Systems Manager
- Hacker Extraordinaire
- Security Design Expert

If you want to find out more about Singly and/or are interested in one of the available positions (or just want to say hi!) please write to them at hi@singly.com. You can follow them on Twitter: @singlyinc and @lockerproject.

• UX Designers
• Illustrators
• Flash
• Front End Developers
• Strategists
• Infographic Designers
• Project Managers
• Interns
• Account Managers

Read more at http://jess3.com/careers/ — Pop in and say hello!

• Storytelling for User Experience by Whitney Quesenbery & Kevin Brooks (Now available)
• See What I Mean by Kevin Cheng (Coming soon – pre-order now)
• Playful Design by John Ferrara (Coming soon – pre-order now)

…and many more! Check them out at http://rosenfeldmedia.com/

We have some great sponsors this year. We are excited to have DesignCaffeine, Boxes and Arrows and the San Francisco Chapter of IxDA as sponsors. They are all great organizations and well-respected in the UX and design community. We are honored by their support.