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Aral Balkan — The Art of Emotional Design

Most apps suck. Making an app that doesn’t suck is hard work and requires uncompromising focus. We call apps that don’t suck “usable”. However, in the Age of User Experience, making apps that are merely usable is no longer good enough.

Sitepoint are looking for a web app developer

Want to work with some of the best developers in Australia? Looking to develop world-class websites using the latest web technologies? Keen to be part of an organisation that is a great supporter of the Aussie web industry?SitePoint are in need of a talented PHP developer - ... Read more »

Tech23 — for Australian Technology Innovators

Tech23, in its second year now, is a great event in Sydney focussing on commercial technology innovation. Featuring a combination of insights from leaders in the tech industry, and a shootout for some serious prizes by 23 early stage technology companies, and all wrapping up with a great awards ... Read more »

Jeremy Keith — Hot Topics

Continuing a popular @media tradition, the final session for day one, hosted by Jeremy Keith, will feature a handful of speakers discussing questions posed by conference attendees. Wear your flak jacket: there will be controversy!

Doug Schepers — SVG Today and Tomorrow

Thought SVG was dead? Think again. Once relegated to plug-in status, Scalable Vector Graphics is now spreading rapidly, in browsers, mobiles, and even televisions, with broad native support and graphical script libraries. It’s used on major websites like Wikipedia, Google Docs, ... Read more »

Rachel Andrew — Core CSS3

This session will be a solid introduction to CSS3 by way of practical examples that can get you started using CSS3 on your projects today.

More Web Directions @media podcasts and slides come online

Thanks to a lot of hard work from Guy Leech, a whole bunch of the podcasts and slides from Web Directions @media are now online. It's always great to give back by making these available, and we'd like to particularly thank our speakers for their generosity.Help us make it all ... Read more »

Tom Hughes-​​Croucher — An introduction to server-​​side JavaScript

Server-side JavaScript has really started to take off, with a number of great projects providing different pieces of the puzzle. This talk will introduce server-side JavaScript and provide an overview of the existing projects as well as some ideas about where ... Read more »

Mark Boulton — Designing grid systems

Grid systems have been used in print design, architecture and interior design for generations. Now, on the web, the same rules of grid system composition and usage no longer apply. Content is viewed in many ways; from RSS feeds to email. ... Read more »

John Resig — Testing mobile JavaScript

This talk will be a comprehensive look at what you need to know to properly test your web applications on mobile devices. We’ll look at the different mobile phones that exist, what browsers they run, and what you can do to ... Read more »

Simon Willison — Building crowdsourcing applications

Crowdsourcing applications take indigestible tasks and break them down into digestible pieces, enabling a group to help plough through large scale projects in much shorter periods of time.

Christian Crumlish — Designing for play

Taking ideas from game design, musical instrument design, and play-acting techniques including improv and bodystorming, Christian will address the role of play in digital experiences and how we can design to foster and encourage play rather than squeeze all the joy ... Read more »

Patrick Lauke — Brave New World of HTML5

HTML5 was originally called Web Applications 1.0, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for scripters – there’s plenty for markup monkeys as well as JavaScript junkies.

Sandi Wassmer — Inclusive design is for everyone

Inclusive Design is currently the domain of people who design physical things, like product designers and architects, but Sandi Wassmer is firm in her belief that Inclusive Design applied in the online environment just makes sense.

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 »

Three must-​​see presentations which came out of Web Directions @media

After any conference we always do our best to share the love by creating a podcast and resource page for each presentation from the event. Apologies that it has taken a bit of time to get these out there this time - we've had the small matter of ... Read more »

Hannah Donovan — Telling stories through design

Hannah Donovan will talk about the designer as a storyteller—especially in terms of the importance of this role within a team. Improve your output as a designer by taking a closer look at influencing the input. As a visual narrator we ... 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 »

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 »

Web Directions South 2010

We're really excited to take the wraps off Web Directions South for 2010. This has been a big year for Web Directions, with our first ever @media just wrapping up in London, and the recently announced Web Directions US in Atlanta.But our home will always be Sydney, ... Read more »

SVG Contest closes Friday

Just a quick update on our "No Bit, Sherlock" competition, where you can win some great prizes like XBoxes, Mindstorms and a SONY Vaio just for building an SVG button, or progress control.There's plenty of great examples you can learn from (remember, "view source" is not a sin, it's ... 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 »

@media approaches — along with many web related events

We're gearing up for our first @media filling the huge shoes left by founder Patrick Griffiths, and things are shaping up really well.But @media's not the only thing on next week. The excellent folks at London Web Standards are holding HTML5 and Flash, where are they now?, ... Read more »

SitePoint interviews @media speakers Jonathan Stark and Tom Hughes-​​Croucher

Our fine friends, and long time supporters SitePoint have been doing a number of interviews with @media speakers in the lead up to the event next week. Craig Buckler speaks with Jonathan Stark, on building native mobile apps using web technologies, and Tom Hughes-Croucher on Server Side JavaScript ... 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 »

State of Web Development 2010

We're late to our own party here, but earlier this week we released the results of our second State of Web Development survey (last year it was the state of the web survey, but we changed the name to more closely match the aim of the report).You can ... Read more »

State of Web Development 2010 Results

Looking for just the results to each of the questions in this year's State of Web Development survey You've come to the right place. Or, if you're looking for the full details, head over to our in-depth report.Table of ContentsAbout the Survey The Audience Operating Systems and Browser... 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 »

Server-​​side Technologies

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 predictionsServer Hardware and Software Databases Back end Programming languages and FrameworksWhile web development has traditionally focussed primarily on the "front end" or client ... Read more »

The Cloud

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 predictionsWhile services like Amazon's S3 and EC2 have been around for some time, the rise of both the nebulous (sorry) term "cloud computing", and ... Read more »

Rich Media

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 predictionsWith both Microsoft and Adobe putting considerable energy into their respective multimedia formats, Silverlight and Flash, and the rise of web based video, driven ... Read more »

JavaScript, Ajax and the DOM

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 predictionsDo they use JavaScript? Libraries and Frameworks JavaScript coding practicesIn the introduction to this section of our report last year, we made the ... 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 »

Markup

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 versions of HTML/XHTML do respondents use? How often do respondents validate their markup What doctypes do respondents declare? Do you use ... 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 »

Audience

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 this first section of the survey, we asked respondents a series of questions to get a sense of where they come from, the ... 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 »

A dao of web design turns 10

A decade ago, I wrote an article "A Dao of Web Design" that the then youngish A List Apart published apparently exactly 10 years ago today.At the time, I practiced a lot of Tai Chi (which is closely associated with the philosophy of Daoism) (sadly, I do so much ... Read more »

iPad, Work Discipline and Post Industrial Capitalism

When Apple finally revealed the world's second worst kept secret (Ricky Martin today revealed the other one - good for you Ricky), I publicly and privately expressed, along with many others, my initial, if not disappointment, at least state of being underwhelmed. Whatever it was, it wasn't revolutionary (and ... Read more »

McFarlane Prize 2009 — The Book

At Web Directions South last year we announced that we would be commemorating the 2009 McFarlane Prize by producing a beautiful high quality hard cover book containing all 48 of the shortlisted entires. Thanks to a lot of hard work ... Read more »

Introducing #wdx

There have been words out and about regarding the name of our London event for this year, Web Directions @media. To explain a little where that name has come from, the conference this time around is a hybrid as we take over the reins of the highly ... Read more »

SVG and IE9

Today at MIX, Microsoft announced the first developer preview version of IE9, a far from finished, but usable look at where IE is headed. Microsoft will update this preview very couple of months or so.There's a great deal new, and much for us in the web design and development ... Read more »

The Myths of Innovation — Remixed and Remastered

A few years back, Scott Berkun gave one of the most highly regarded presentations we have ever had at a Web Directions event. It was called the Myths of Innovation, and people still buttonhole me to say how great it was, or to bemoan the fact that their lifetime regret ... Read more »

Bob Harris’s closing Keynote at Web Directions North 09

Jeopardy champion, fantastic comedian, author, inventor, television writer (credits include CSI and Bones) and much more, Bob Harris came into my life in a way unimaginable only a handful of years ago. My wife was well over due with our first child, and far from contented. She ... Read more »

State of the web survey — closes today

A quick note for those web designers and developers out there who've not yet taken this year's "State of the Web" survey - it closes today, so if you have a few minutes, please head along and take it.The survey, follows up on last years and aims to ... Read more »

@media early bird registration extended to March 7th

A quick note for those thinking about attending @media - we've (as has become something of a tradition) extended the super early bird discount of £100 off until March 7th. So, if you'd thought you'd missed out, you've got a few more days to register at this pretty amazing ... 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 »

John Resig speaking at @media

That's right, someone we've been trying for literally years to get to come and speak at one of our events, John Resig, father of JQuery, is speaking on JavaScript testing at @media in London in June.As web applications mature, the need to test systematically and thoroughly is becoming ... Read more »

AIIA 2010 iAwards

The Australian Information Industry Association, a long time industry Partner of Web Directions, has recently launched the 2010 edition of the iAwards, now in it's 16th year, and Australia’s premier technology innovation awards program.With 18 categories, including startups, tools, tourism, student projects, education and government, whatever solutions you ... Read more »

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