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Emily Boyd - Creating great user experiences with Ajax

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• March 10th, 2008

Catch this presentation live at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008.

How does the way we build user experiences change when we incorporate Ajaxian techiques? How can we delight our user, make their experience seem magical, diminish the frustration that often comes with sites and applications?

In this presentation, Emily Boyd, from the hugely successful task management web app, Remember the Milk, looks at some of the ways you can use Ajax techniques to make your user experience even better.

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• Tags
• ajax
• coding
• javascript
• user experience
• web apps

Andrew Kesper - ABC’s election site: making the most of dry data

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• March 10th, 2008

Catch this presentation live at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.

While elections can be exciting times, the underlying data - swings, booth counts, and the like is probably only riveting to psephological tragics. Yet the ABC’s election web site managed to take this raw data and make it attractive, compelling and interactive.

In this session, the ABC’s Andrew Kesper takes us through the election site, looking at the design decisions, and uses of technology like Ajax, Flash, and interactive maps - tools which have wide applicability for government sites looking to present data in more user-friendly and attractive ways.

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• Tags
• ajax
• data
• design
• flash
• government
• interaction design
• javascript

Andrew Downie and Grant Focas - Javascript and other coding for good or evil

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

When Version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is finally released, the status of Javascript will be quite different to that assigned to it in Version 1.0 back in 1999. Back then, Javascript was to “degrade gracefully”. Currently AJAX offers increased usability for visual users, but may detract from accessibility. In future, use of JavaScript will be encouraged but, of course, must enhance rather than detract from accessibility. During this presentation, Andrew and Grant will demonstrate how Javascript, when implemented well, offers enhanced accessibility. By way of balance, they will also present examples of scripting that causes problems. Importantly, they will provide corrections to the errant coding.

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• Tags
• accessibility
• ajax
• coding
• javascript
• wds07

Aaron Gustafson - Learning to love forms

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2007.

Forms. We all have to make ‘em, but few of us love ‘em. Aaron Gustafson believes that this is because we don’t understand them. In this session, we will explore forms from top to bottom, examining how they work and how their components can be incorporated with other elements to maximize accessibility, improve semantics, and allow for more flexible styling. You’ll get to see the complete picture with forms, including error, warning and formatting messages, styling and its implications, as well as best practices for manipulation with Javascript and Ajax.

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• Tags
• ajax
• coding
• css
• forms
• html
• javascript
• wds07

Jonathan Boutelle - Ajax or Flash: what’s right for you?

• In: Resources
• By: maxine
• September 29th, 2007

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 27 2007.

The web is finally moving beyond simple html. How can you make rich web-based user experiences that don’t surprise or aggravate your users? When should you use AJAX, when should you use Flash, and when should you mix the two? What are the opportunities and pitfalls when creating richer web interfaces? In this talk, Jonathan will argue that Flash and AJAX are complementary tools in the web developers’ toolbox, and that building effective web experiences often requires a blending of the two technologies.

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• Tags
• ajax
• flash
• interaction design
• interface design
• wds07

Jeremy Keith - Hijax

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• September 30th, 2006

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 29 2006.

Hijax is all about applying progressive enhancement to Ajax. In the Hijax model, JavaScript isn’t used for advanced intensive processing. Instead, the XMLHttpRequest object acts like a dumb waiter, passing information backwards and forwards between the client and the server. By hijacking the regular functionality and replacing it with an enhanced Ajax version, you can be assured that your website will work with or without Ajax.

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• Tags
• ajax
• javascript
• wds06

Jeremy Keith - Explaining Ajax

• In: Resources
• By: Guy Leech
• September 30th, 2006

A presentation given at Web Directions South, Sydney Australia, September 28 2006.

Apart from being the buzzword de jour, what is this Ajax stuff that everyone is talking about? Take a look at some implementations out there and start thinking about how Ajax can add value to your site.

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• Tags
• ajax
• coding
• javascript
• wds06