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Relly Annett-​​Baker — Telling tales

In this talk, Relly will show you how narrative runs as deep through websites as it does through your favourite TV dramas, video games, comic books or musicals, and explain how you can write decent help for your users, define personality ... Read more »

Jason Cranford Teague — 2010: The Year of Web Typography

Web typography expert Jason Cranford Teague shows you how to apply the principles of fluid typography, to choose, find and use Webfonts and create your unique typographic voice. Come and find out why 2010 is going to be the year ... Read more »

What we did on our Holidays — Web Directions and Amped US and Australian wraps

The last 2 months have been incredibly hectic for us here at Web Directions. In the space of a bit over 3 weeks, we ran our first Web Directions USA in Atlanta, the first ever Amped, in Atlanta, then backed up 2 weeks later in Sydney for Web Directions South, ... Read more »

Paula Bray — Connected digital initiatives and strategies

The Powerhouse Museum has been working towards making its digital initiatives widely accessible and to a broader audience, online and onsite, to enable a connected digital future. With a blossoming of blogging, significant Flickr and Facebook presences the Museum has ... Read more »

Dan Rubin — Creativity, design and interaction with HTML5 and CSS3

HTML5 and CSS3 are the newest stars of the web: the cornerstones of progressive enhancement, the future of online video, the easiest way to build web applications for desktop and mobile devices, and a brilliant foundation upon which we can add ... Read more »

Michael™ Smith — HTML5 Report Card

Remember how fun it was to do hands-on classroom projects together in kindergarten? Well, this interactive session is going to be like that, but just with bigger people.

Patrick Lee — JavaScript Sprachraum

In this session Patrick will be looking at JavaScript outside of the browser, focusing on how to use it for web server applications. Starting with the old in Helma and progressing through various usages to the most new and exciting with ... Read more »

Help stop the spread of NIBS (Native is Better Syndrome)

John Gruber, well known and highly successful opinionista, is perhaps the highest profile carrier of the "native" apps are intrinsically better than web apps meme (let's call it Native is better Syndrome, or NIBS). I think it's time for some vaccination.Let's take a look at the most recent outbreak ... Read more »

Amped #1 coming together

Next week sees Web Directions USA head to Atlanta for the first time. We're really looking forward to what is shaping up as a great event in a town I've really grown to like (not least because of the fantastic web folks here).We're also really proud to be ... Read more »

Remy Sharp — Browsers with wings: HTML5 APIs

HTML5 is all the rage with the cool kids, and although there’s a lot of focus on the new language, there’s plenty for web app developers with new JavaScript APIs both in the HTML5 spec and separated out as their own ... Read more »

Relly Annett-​​Baker — All the small things

Microcopy is the ninja of online content. Fast, furious and deadly, it has the power to make or break your online business, to kill or stay your foes. It’s a sentence, a confirmation, a few words. One word, even. It isn’t ... Read more »

@media is a wrap, and a huge hit

We've just wrapped up the first @media event run by Web Directions here in London, and if we say so ourselves, it's been a huge hit.An incredible array of speakers, covering a wide range of breaking topics including CSS3, HTML5, mobile web app development, geolocation, but much ... Read more »

SVG — the Cinderella of web standards goes to the ball

To date, SVG has been rather the Cinderella of web standards (people forget that Cinderella was the beautiful, but overlooked sibling before the whole glass slipper business). But since the handsome Prince (Internet Explorer 9) showed interest in her, things have been looking up. OK, so I've pushed ... Read more »

Announcing Web Directions USA!

Our traditional early year timeframe for Web Directions North has come and gone, so you might have been wondering what's been happening with Web Directions in North America.We're really excited to be able to say behind the scenes a lot has been going on, and we're excited to be able ... Read more »

The Wrap

About the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browsers Markup CSS and Presentation JavaScript and the DOM Rich Media Server technologies The Cloud Conclusions and predictionsIn last year's report we concludedOpen Source solutions dominate, or play a very significant role in most areas other than client operating systems. Respondents saw ... Read more »

CSS and Presentation

About the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browsers Markup CSS and Presentation JavaScript and the DOM Rich Media Server technologies The Cloud Conclusions and predictionsConsistency across browsers Development strategies for multiple browsers CSS Specifics Other browser based graphics Devices other than PCsThe challenge of convincing web designers ... Read more »

Browsers and Operating Systems

About the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browsers Markup CSS and Presentation JavaScript and the DOM Rich Media Server technologies The Cloud Conclusions and predictionsWhat operating systems do they use in their day to day work? What browsers do they use? What browsers do they test with?... Read more »

The State of Web Development 2010

Welcome to this detailed report from our second "State of Web Development" survey of professional web designers and developers. It includes details and analysis of all the responses to over 50 questions covering technologies, techniques, philosophies and practices that today's web professionals employ.You can download the complete ... Read more »

Boagworld Big Breakfast at @media

Web Directions is very proud to be hosting a really special and fun event on the Friday morning of @media: the Boagworld Big Breakfast. Boagworld is the longest running web design podcast with a passionate and dedicated community from all backgrounds. The show offers something for everyone from ... Read more »

Donna Spencer — Information seeking behaviours

Each information seeking behaviour needs very different approaches to information architecture, information design and page layout. During this presentation, Donna will talk about each information behaviour, its key attributes, key design needs, and show good and bad examples of each.

Suze Ingram — Would you like service design with that?

Service design is well established in Europe and North America and there’s already a handful of Australian businesses offering service design. What is it? Does experience in designing for screen interaction translate to designing services too? Will service design be the ... Read more »

Deborah Schultz — It’s the people, stupid

The most interesting problems on the web are social, not technical. Once the open, social stack moves into wide use, the real work is going to be on us to create ongoing experiences that inspire, inform, evolve. Avoid this talk if ... Read more »

Fergus Pitt & David Peterson — The mashed up playlist

The ABC launched three new socially networked digital radio websites: ABC Dig Music, ABC Jazz and ABC Country in July 2009. They are the first of several ABC projects ... Read more »

Elliot Jay Stocks — Progressive enhancement

In the summer of ‘07 in a flood-soaked Oxford, England, Elliot appeared on stage for the very first time. His presentation, ‘Progressive Enhancement & Intentional Degradation’, looked at how to reward modern browsers with the latest CSS tricks and punish ... Read more »

Lachlan Hardy — The open web

The Open Web is an evolving term that encompasses technologies from web standards stalwarts like HTML, to almost-mainstream buzzwords such as OpenID, and on to emerging specifications like PortableContacts, but it’s more than that. It is a philosophy.

Pete Ottery — Designing for suits

Designing websites in amongst the “suits” and their business models, targets, projections and synergies (ha!) can be death by dot point. Or fun. What are manager types actually thinking when they brief (or don’t) you. How do you translate their KPI’s ... Read more »

Win a ticket to Web Directions South from Opera Software

If you've not been able to get along to the conference next week, our excellent friends over at Opera Software are giving away a place to Web Directions South 09.All you have to do is submit an abstract detailing what you would do to showcase the new breed of web ... Read more »

Would you like service design with that?

We've just filled the last session in the business track at Web Directions South 09 - Suze Ingram will be speaking on a hot new user experience topic: Would you like service design with that?Service design is a new discipline which focuses on understanding what customers ... Read more »

Introducing Australian Web Week

Maxine and I are really excited and proud to announce Australian Web Week, October 2 to 9, a showcase of the strength and creativity of the Australian Web industry. It's a project we've been planning for years, and working hard on for months now.The Design industry has its ... Read more »

Web Week Opening Night Party and Launch of Yiying Lu Exhibition

When: 7pm-late, Friday 2nd October Where: Pyrmont Bridge Hotel (Upstairs), 96 Union St, Pyrmont (Map) BOOKED OUT: Our opening night party and exhibition launch is now fully booked out. But please come along to the exhibition any time from Saturday 3rd to Tuesday 6th October.Be there at the ... Read more »

Win an iPod Shuffle

With early bird pricing only just over, conference registrations have been coming in thick and fast, putting us on track to go way beyond previous years in fact - it's exciting!This next fortnight we're doing a bit of a push then on that great series of ... Read more »

CSS3 Reloaded — John Allsopp at Melbourne WSG meetup — July 20

If you're in Melbourne this July 20 there's a whole bunch of really good reasons to go along to the WSG meeting at Loop Bar at 6.30pm.Firstly, along with SitePoint, Web Directions is sponsoring, so, drinks and food are on us.Secondly, ... Read more »

Firefox 3.5 released

Mozilla has released Firefox 3.5, after the recently releases of Safari 4, and Internet Explorer 8, the third major browser release this year. With Opera 10 in beta, we should almost certainly see all four major browsers significantly upgraded in 2009.For developers, like Safari 4, Firefox 3.5 is a ... Read more »

The leading edge of Web Design

In the leadup to the release of Firefox 3.5, hacks.mozilla.org are publishing dozens of articles show[ing] what’s possible at the edges of web technology.Firefox 3.5 implements all kinds of HTML5 and CSS3 features, many also implemented in Opera and Safari, so much of what they'll cover is far ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 Roadshow — It’s a wrap

Thanks very much to all those who came along last week in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney and made our first Web Directions Roadshow such a success. It was great to see such a good crowd come along to see the six excellent workshops.All the presenters said ... Read more »

Christian Heilmann at Yahoo! in Sydney

Christian Heilmann, JavaScript and web dev guru who we are bringing out for the roadshow next week in Melbourne and Sydney, is also speaking at Yahoo's offices in Sydney next Wednesday. So if you are keen to hear him, simply RSVP.

On the Road again

This year's Web Directions Roadshow, featuring fantastic full day workshops from local and international expertsAndy Clarke (Web Design) Brian Fling (Mobile web design and development) Grant Young (Social Media Strategy) Indi Young (Information Architecture) Christian Heilmann (JavaScript and Ajax) Lisa Herrod (User Testing)in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. If you've not yet booked, we've ... Read more »

Ask the browser makers — PEte LePage from the Internet Explorer team

In the first of what we hope will be a new, occasional series at Web Directions, we speak with PEte LePage Product Manager, Internet Explorer, Developer Division about their goals with IE8, compatibility mode, with IE7 emulation in IE8 is identical to IE7 and more about the browser. Thanks ... Read more »

Sub Cutaneous Human Interaction Technology at WDS09

Web Directions continues to push the envelop of technology use at our conferences. From our own social networking applications like web connections, to unique visualizations of twitter and flickr traffic, bluetooth video messages from speakers and attendees and much more, we are at the forefront of innovation.So, Web Directions South ... Read more »

Andy Clarke’s Visual Web Design Masterclass — a big big day

We thought it was great when Andy Clarke said he'd be keen to head back down to Australia and be a part of our roadshow workshop series in April, but we're even more thrilled about it now that he has given us all a sneak peak ... Read more »

Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting — More free books

Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy ofIndi Young - Mental Models Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS Luke Wroblewski ... Read more »

The great roadshow book give away

If you've been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from ... Read more »

Announcing the Web Directions South Forum

As of today, we're officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum.And the best part is, every month we're going to be giving ... Read more »

Scroll Number 2 — Free copy for roadshow attendees

Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series.If you're thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here's another reason to ... Read more »

5 difference between iPhone native and mobile-​​web apps

Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian's workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with ... Read more »

Dan Saffer — Tap is the New Click

Way back in 2006, when he'd just published what was to go on to become his very successful book, Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer came out to Sydney for Web Directions South 06 and presented a much loved workshop of the same name. Since then Dan ... Read more »

Experimenting with social media

This interview with the staff of COSI - a Science Museum in Columbus Ohio - has some solid insights into the institutional realities of experimenting in social media. The project seems ... Read more »

Web Directions 2009 Roadshow

This April Web Directions is going to be throwing all the gear in the back of the ute and hitting the road for a whistlestop tour of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney with a workshop lineup of the best thinkers and educators in the game: the Web ... Read more »

A case for optimism?

It's clear from developments over the last few months, and even the last couple of days, that the current economic climate is one few of us, even those old enough to experienced the dot com bust of a few years ago have any great experience of.There's certainly plenty of cause ... Read more »

Surface article in Desktop Magazine

Matt Magain, from our media partners SitePoint, has an article in this month's Desktop Magazine (another Media Partner) about Microsoft Surface, along with an interview with Web Directions keynote speaker and chief Surface guy August de los Reyes (and a lovely person to boot).The full article ... Read more »

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