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Web Directions

Our first time in Atlanta, Web Directions USA was a great success - paving the way for future events in that city. The turnout was fantastic, and the energy amazing. We're already planning for 2011 - stay tuned.

Web Directions USA 2010 at a glance

where: Atlanta, GA, USA when: September 13 and 14 2010 participants: 220+ from afar afield as Brasil, Australia, Europe, Hawaii, Alaska, Canada and many states of the continental US speakers: Esther Derby, Hilary Mason, Scott Thomas, Leslie Jensen-Inman, Aarron Walter, Relly Annett-Baker, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer, Doug Schepers, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis, Jason Cranford Teague, Nicole Sullivan, Dan Rubin, Naveed Anwar, Tom Hughes-Croucher, Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, Ryan Freitas, Nicholas Zakas, John Allsopp, Jonathan Stark, Juliette Melton, Brian Fling, Michael Mahemoff, Glenda Sims Topics: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, SVG, interaction design, user experience, user research, web content and more Partners: Adobe, Paypal, Mailchimp, Opera Software, Microsoft, Media Temple, Clustrix, Stackable, Extensis, Creative Circus, UGA

What the organizers said

John Allsopp, co-founder of Web Directions says

Despite the economy, and this being our first time in Atlanta, Web Directions was an amazing success. The number of attendees was excellent, support from partners fantastic, the enthusiasm from the Atlanta web design and development community humbling, and the energy and response from the audience as good as anywhere we've seen.

We're already planning Web Directions USA for Atlanta in 2011, and can't wait to be back.

Tweets and blog posts

• Video presentation by the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga design program students who worked with us on the event design, and attended, on their experiences
• A fantastic edited and rearranged version of the tweet stream from Adelle Franks.
• A detailed overview of the program from Plank Design
• Atlanta Web Week was pretty awesome (and exhausting)

Photos

View hundreds of photos from participants at Flickr

Video

Students from the Univeristy of Tennessee at Chattanooga talk about their experiences at Web Directions, including working with us on design aspects of the conference.

Atlanta Web Week

With Atlanta Web Design Group, AIGA Atlanta, and a number of other Atlanta based web industry and community groups, we put together the first ever Atlanta Web Week. And, we're planning a bigger and better web week for 2011. A huge thanks to J Cornelius for his pivotal role in putting the week together.