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Aarron Walter — Learning to Love Humans: Emotional Interface Design

In this talk, Aarron Walter will introduce you to the emotional usability principle – a design axiom that identifies a strong connection between human emotion and perceived usability. Through real-world examples, you’ll learn practical interface design techniques that will make your ... Read more »

Closing keynote: Hilary Mason — Machine Learning for Web Data

Many of us create and work with data that lives on the web. This kind of data has similar characteristics that makes it possible to learn successful techniques and avoid ‘reinventing the wheel’ for analysis.

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 »

Esther Derby — Agile meets UI

Esther will share strategies for evolving UI design as the software grows, keeping UI designers in the loop and helping everyone on the team be a better designer (cause they think already are).

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater — Effective and efficient design with CSS3

CSS3 is changing how we design and develop web sites, allowing us to quickly and easily create and maintain highly efficient and adaptable sites that are a pleasure to use. You’ll learn practical yet progressive examples of the most beneficial ... 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 »

Nicholas Zakas — High Performance JavaScript

In this talk, you’ll learn what’s going on inside the browser that can slow JavaScript down and how that can end up creating a “slow page”. You’ll also learn how to overcome the conspiracy against your code by eliminating performance bottlenecks.

Ryan Freitas — Balancing data-​​driven & “genius” design

What is the appropriate role of quantitative and quantitative data when designing for interaction? What are the most effective ways to gather and interpret data that effectively improves the quality of the consumer experience?

Juliette Melton — Remote research: Running effective remote studies

In this workshop-style talk, Juliette Melton will cover recruiting sources, technology tools, and caveats you might not have thought of, including managing time zones and participant distraction. We will also address pros and cons of increasingly popular non-scripted research services.

David Gravina — Design thinking and doing

From the perspective of the digital domain this session will take a look at what Design Thinking is and it’s potential to amplify creativity so that we may embrace and apply our skills to the messy problems that business, government and ... Read more »

Lisa Herrod — The Age of Awareness

Social innovation, service design and even augmented reality are now presenting real and interesting opportunities for us as traditional web practitioners. Combined with inclusive design practices, this opens up a fantastic world of change for both us and the people for ... Read more »

Gordon Grace — More than raw: government data online

Learn about the path to the first release of data​.gov​.au; a draft roadmap to future releases; the barriers to linked data and open public sector information (PSI); and the real-​​world questions this technology aims to solve.

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 »

Dmitry Baranovskiy — Raphaël: native web vector graphics library

In this session Dmitry Baranovskiy, Raphaël's creator will walk you through its possibilities and will open up new horizons for web graphics that will work in all almost every browser.

Silvia Pfeiffer — HTML5 Audio and Video

With three different audio and video codec formats each supported by the diverse HTML5 capable Web browsers, plus the need to deal with fallback for older browsers, HTML5 media is not the simple solution we have all been hoping for.W3C invited ... Read more »

Audio & slides from Web Directions South now available

We're always proud to make our conference sessions available to the widest possible audience, and so here they are. Whether it's a session you missed or if you're 10,000 miles from Australia, enjoy learning from the experts we brought together for Web Directions South.We're also pleased to announce that Andy ... Read more »

Daniel Davis — Widgets: Why should I care?

When I was a young lad, I had the use of a computer for the Christmas holidays so I typed out my thank you letters and felt super cool. Unfortunately there was no printer. I wrote out by hand what was ... 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.

Juliette Melton — Running effective remote studies

Remote research can raise the quality and lower the costs of your user research efforts; using a combination of surveys, video, screensharing, and phone, you can connect with a much broader range of users than you could using traditional lab-based usability ... Read more »

Shane Morris — Interaction design school 101

In this talk I'd like to reflect on my almost 20 years as an interaction designer - the things I've learned along the way, and the things I wish I would have learned at Interaction Design School, if such a thing ... Read more »

Tatham Oddie — Practicing Web Standards in the Large

Web standards might be second nature to all of us here, but they don't always fly so easily in the enterprise. Obscure browsers and CIOs watching their bottom line can often leave a passionate development team feeling stifled. In this session ... Read more »

Paul Hagon — Enriching large data sets

Libraries contain masses of beautifully structured data collected over many years. But these records may have their flaws and might now want to be used in ways, such as location based services, that weren't imagined 30 years ago. How can we ... Read more »

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Josh Williams — Keynote: Where are we going?

During this brisk discussion we'll separate fads from the future, debate native apps versus the mobile web, take an honest look at the hype behind geo-location, then take a step back to ask ourselves where the web—and we ourselves—are going. Hold ... Read more »

Knud Möller — RDFa everywhere

In this talk, an overview will be given of the RDFa technology in general, followed by an outline of its latest developments, such as the RDFa API and the definition of RDFa Core.

Donna Spencer — Keeping your content alive from cradle to grave

By now we all know that the web is not a publication - that it's a living, evolving thing. But a lot of content I see still appears to be 'published' once and then left alone. This talk is about what ... Read more »

Mark Nottingham — Browser Caching and You (A Love Story)

Over time, Web developers have feared, hated and loved Web caching, at times trying to kill it, at others professing undying love. Mark Nottingham (chair of the IETF HTTPbis Working Group and author of its revised Web Caching specification) will examine ... Read more »

Divya Manian — Active web development

Web technologies are evolving at such a frenetic pace that it becomes almost mandatory to learn on your own. A lot of us still depend on other people to do this learning for us, and we tend to use their answers ... Read more »

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 »

Myles Eftos — Building mobile web apps

This session will look at the mobile web development lifecycle from building a prototype in the browser, integration with the phone, app submission and some basic marketing tricks.

Michael Mahemoff — HTML5: Online and Offline

HTML5 introduces several so-called “offline” technologies: application caching, local storage, and file access, to name a few. But these technologies are not just for purely offline apps; they boost startup performance, overcome network outages, and partition content away from the server. ... Read more »

Andy Clarke — Keynote: Hardboiled Web Design

Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled Web Design is an uncompromising look at how to make the most from modern design tools and browsers, up-to-date techniques and processes. In this practical, design focussed talk, Andy will discuss the ‘how’ as well as the ... Read more »

Ben Schwarz — Building a better web with HTML5

During my session we'll look at where the future of HTML lies, including new structural elements. You'll also grasp an introduction to associated technologies that have come into popularity with the steam of HTML5: SVG, Web Sockets, Web Workers, Geo-location and ... Read more »

Grant Young — Creating platforms for social innovation

In this presentation Grant Young will examine how innovative organisations are using social technologies and design methods to create multi-dimensional value — both for the organisational and community — and will explore the themes that underpin the examples with a view ... Read more »

Max Wheeler — Location, location, geolocation

This session will take you through building a location-based mobile app using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Including cross-platform techniques for figuring out where your users are, and providing graceful fallbacks options for devices that don't have geolocation support (or users that ... Read more »

Simon Pascal Klein — Setting standards-​​friendly web type

Web typography has in the past two years seen a resurgence in interest and many would agree only rightly so, with most of the content on the web still textual. However the range of technical options available for setting type ... Read more »

Matt Balara — Flogging design: best practices in online shop design

Considering how many businesses depend upon the web for their income, it’s shocking how poorly designed most shops are. Not only aesthetically, but also as far as ease of use, retail psychology and user experience are concerned. How can we design ... Read more »

James Bridle — Wrangling Time: The Form and Future of the Book

The internet has been around long enough now that it has a proper history, and it has started to produce media and artefacts that live in and comment on that history. James will be talking about his work with writing, books ... Read more »

Craig Mod — How digital affects books and publishing

We need to decouple the idea of 'book' from the mental image we carry around of 'book.' The innovation and benefit that digital brings to books and publishing lies less in how digital affects final artifacts, and more in how digital ... Read more »

Steve Souders — Even Faster Web Sites

Web 2.0 is adding more and more content to our pages, especially features that are implemented in Ajax. But our web applications are evolving faster than the browsers that they run in. We don't have to rely on or wait for ... 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 »

McFarlane Prize 2010 Shortlist Announced

In 2006, we instituted the McFarlane Prize, in memory of Nigel McFarlane, to promote excellence in Australian web design and development, and highlight the Australian Web industry. We're proud to announce this year's shortlist, with the winner to be announced on Thursday at Web Directions.A huge thanks to ... Read more »

Web Directions South 2010 — nearly here!

It's a little over a week to go until Web Directions South for this year, and if you're not quite sure whether you can make it or not, our most recent speaker announcements might just tip you over.In addition to our already stellar lineup of ... 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 »

Seb Chan on Web Directions

One of our favourite Australian digital/web folks, Seb Chan, has this to say about Web Directions todayWeb Directions South is an event we always try to send team members along to to expand their technical and conceptual knowledge of where the web is heading. Paula’s going ... Read more »

The McFarlane Prize for Australian web design — nominations now open

Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design have just opened. So, if you're responsible for a web site launched or significantly updated since September 20 2009 which you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web ... Read more »

Introducing Amped, the hackday, reloaded coming to Atlanta and Sydney

When you hear about the latest web technologies and techniques do you ever think "damn, I wish I could play with these right now"?Enter Amped - the Hackday, reloaded.We've taken the traditional hack day, pulled it apart, thought long and hard about what's great, what's ... Read more »

Learn CSS3 with John Allsopp

Hot on the heels of my recent HTML5 course with SitePoint, is our new CSS3 Live course, starting today, August 16. It features screencasts, exercises, articles, and live streamed FAQs, and runs for 3 weeks.We cover selectors, properties, media queries, and more in real depth - so if ... Read more »

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