Design | Web Directions - Part 2

Presentations about design

Podcasts, slides, videos and more

Joe Clark — Accessibility in the Design Process

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• January 19, 2008

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

When people talk about incorporating accessibility into the design process, they usually refer to selecting colours that correspond to somebody else’s ‘accessible’ contrast ratio or using a large enough font size. Trivial, really.

But the design process — observation, ideation, evaluation, refinement, and presentation — gives us many opportunities to build accessibility in from the very start. We’ll look at some real-​​world examples of Web-​​based services (like a transit-​​system route planner) and classic accessibility problems (like masses of old PDFs) and use those examples to build in accessibility from the ground up.

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John Allsopp and Dan Cederholm — Microformats: More than Just Promise

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• January 19, 2008

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Microformats are much more than just a promising technology or passing fad — hear these three experts cover the whys and the hows of designing and developing with microformats.

Hear microformats founder and custodian Tantek Çelik paint on the broad canvas, talking about motivations, use cases, examples, and benefits. John Allsopp, author of the forthcoming friends of Ed microformats book will cover a number of practical examples of quickly and cleanly adding microformats to existing code. Renowned designer and developer Dan Cederholm will look at how microformats provide excellent scaffolding for styling with CSS.

This session will really get you up to speed with this exciting, quickly spreading technology.

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Aaron Gustafson & Andy Clarke — Transcendent Design with Javascript and CSS

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• January 19, 2008

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Traditionally, CSS has been the domain of designers while JavaScript was for programmers, but these technologies can and should work together to improve your visitors’ experiences. After all, you can do amazing things with CSS, but when you start to use CSS in concert with DOM Scripting, there’s almost no limit to what you can achieve.

MOD-​​ern web designer Andy Clarke and DOM/​Ajax developer Aaron Gustafson will take your CSS skills and supercharge them with JavaScript magic, exploring how you can make CSS and JavaScript work together to make beautiful (and functional) results.

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Jeremy Keith & Derek Featherstone — Web Apps — Ajax Kung Fu Meets Accessibility Feng Shui

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• January 18, 2008

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Where can you find Ajax enlightenment? At the mystical point where a kick-​​ass application connects perfectly with the Flow of the best user experiences. Let Masters Jeremy and Derek guide you there.

You seek to infuse your work, whether an app or a web site feature, with the power of Ajax. But, taking the wrong path at the beginning of your project will lead to frustration for visitors, rather than a graceful, intuitive experience. True Masters start with the right questions: When is Ajax an enhancement? When is it a hindrance? How can its energy be channeled elegantly? This insightful session will be grounded in real-​​life examples and demonstrations, revealing the impact of the choices we make. Above all, you’ll learn the strategical thinking and higher perspective that will ensure a brilliantly user-​​centered web site.

Where can you find Ajax enlightenment? At the mystical point where a kick-​​ass application connects perfectly with the Flow of the best user experiences. Let Masters Jeremy and Derek guide you there.

You seek to infuse your work, whether an app or a web site feature, with the power of Ajax. But, taking the wrong path at the beginning of your project will lead to frustration for visitors, rather than a graceful, intuitive experience. True Masters start with the right questions: When is Ajax an enhancement? When is it a hindrance? How can its energy be channeled elegantly? This insightful session will be grounded in real-​​life examples and demonstrations, revealing the impact of the choices we make. Above all, you’ll learn the strategical thinking and higher perspective that will ensure a brilliantly user-​​centered web site.

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Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik — Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge

• In: Resources
• By: jessie
• January 18, 2008

A presentation given at at Web Directions North, Vancouver, February 7, 2007.

Hear microformats founder and custodian Tantek Çelik paint on the broad canvas, talking about motivations, use cases, examples, and benefits.

Cameron Moll says the web is a volatile medium that changes endlessly, but one thing remains constant: a demand for designers who are disciplined in graphic design theory, human computing principles, and communication techniques. Oh, and CSS, accessibility, and (soon) mobile devices, too. How does one stay abreast?

Hear one of the web’s most disciplined designers share his advice for mastering fundamental user interface principles, good vs. great design, communication-​​centric approaches, and mobile web development, all with the hope of producing meaningful interfaces that deliver a rewarding user experience.

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Stephen Cox — Building ethnography into the design process

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

Working in usability and user experience can give you some great insights into the product design process. Yet few organisations know how to take advantage of this information silo. As a user experience expert do you sometimes wish you could have more input into product ideas handed down from above? Ever wanted to have the ear of business strategists? Even be best friends with marketers and sales people? Stephen Cox explores some of the exciting things that can happen when the disciplines of usability and user experience are allowed to seep out into the realms of strategic and tactical design innovation. He approaches the field of ethnographic design research in practical terms illustrating how News Digital Media has come to embrace the idea of extensive customer research, and the benefits that this has brought to different levels of the organisation.

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Cameron Adams — The future of web interfaces

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

Ajax brought about a host of new possibilities in online interfaces, but where are we going next? Cameron Adams will look at the evolution of dynamic interfaces; interfaces that truly meet the needs of all their users. Through the careful use of Web Standards, client-​​side scripting, and server-​​side intelligence, it’s possible to create interfaces that shape, adapt to, and predict a user’s needs.

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Andy Clarke — Think like a mountain

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

Once seen as unsophisticated, childish and of low artistic value, comic-​​book art and culture has inspired artists and designers for generations and are now are often untapped resource for web design inspiration. In this session, designer and author of Transcending CSS, Andy Clarke will examine comic book layout, conventions and colour in the context of making inspirational designs for today’s web.

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Scott Berkun — The myths of innovation

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

Much of what we know about innovation is wrong. That’s the bet this entertaining keynote takes as it romps through the history of innovation, dispelling the mythologies we’ve constructed about how we got here. This talk, loosely based on Scott Berkun’s recent O’Reilly book (May 2007), will help you to recognize the myths, understand their popularity (even if you don’t believe in them), and how to use the truth of innovations past to help you in your work today.

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Lisa Herrod — Usability: more than skin deep

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

Web Usability is far more complex than User Testing and Interaction Design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface. We all know the importance of accessibility and web standards, so let’s take that knowledge one step further and into the realm of usability. In this session Lisa Herrod will redefine the common definition of usability by introducing a greater focus on accessibility and web standards. By taking a more holistic approach you will soon see why usability is more than skin deep.

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Justin French — Pushing beyond design

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

You’re a great web designer. You craft beautiful interfaces, you’ve nailed standards based design, and you’re at the top of your game. So now what? Based on real world experiences, this presentation encourages you, the modern web designer, to ignore the title on your business card and to start thinking about your real role in the development process — what you have to offer, what your team really needs, and what you could do to dramatically increase your value on a daily basis.

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George Oates — Human traffic

• In: Resources
• By: Maxine
• September 29, 2007

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

If there’s one thing about Web 2.0, it’s that we’re realising that there are actually people using the internet. It’s no longer about Human to Computer interaction, but rather Human to Human. Discover some of the user experience ideas and strategies behind the design of flickr​.com, one of the richest Human to Human places on the web today.

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Andy Clarke — Creating Inspired Design

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

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

Designers are more than mere pixel pushers. The role of the creative designer working on the web has changed and will continue to change faster than ever before. In this session, Andy Clarke will discuss how designers should now play the pivotal part in the creation of engaging user experiences, binding together the roles of information architects, content authors and technical developers. It’s time to put designers in the hot seat. See the slides and hear the podcast »

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