Session leader Jeremy Harrington has posted his overview of his 'Design on a Dime' session. Here's the intro:

The plan is to discuss blog and social media design, in particular helping people understand design expense and finding some cool resources to spruce up their projects when time, budgets or size don’t allow for outside design assistance.

So what expenses am I talking about. Simply put - Money, Effort, Time and Quality. We all have to evaluate and weigh each of these with any product and determine where we have a resource deficit and where we may have an abundance. The reality is that many projects, particularly direct-revenue generating sites should involve professional designers at some level. These projects usually require an investment to offset all four of the long-term expenses mentioned above. However lots of other projects may not need this kind of attention. Those are the projects I’d like to concentrate on in my talk.