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Aussie Barcamps galore in April
By now, I suspect all of our readers will be familiar with the idea of a barcamp - "unconferences" which have no agenda, no invited speakers, little or no cost, and which encourage everyone who turns up to participate.Australia has seen a number of these events in ... Read more »
Shall we click bracelets?
OK, off the cuff I'm troubled by all the references to girls and fairies in this interview with Chris Heatherly, Disney's VP of Technology and Innovation, but there is mention of an innovative solution to a real problem. That problem being risks to personal security of children brought ... Read more »
Andy Budd — first time downunder
It's a fair bet that Andy Budd, author, web designer and developer, renowned blogger, and organiser of the d.construct conferences among many other things will be known to most people in the web industry. We are really excited to have him as our opening keynote speaker, as ... Read more »
Two new one day Web Directions Conferences in May — Melbourne and Canberra
Along with our brand new site, we are even more excited to announce two brand new, one day conferences for Canberra and Melbourne in May - in addition of course to Web Directions South, set down for September 23-25 in Sydney again at the Convention Centre.First up, ... Read more »
A new web site for Web Directions (well three actually)
If you are reading this via RSS, you probably won't notice that there have been some big changes to the site. Firstly, we've got a brand new, very streamlined look, and overhauled information architecture, courtesy of Ben Webster at Conversant. Their philosophy is "sophisticated simplicity" which is precisely what ... Read more »
Scott Gledhill — Real world web standards
A presentation given at at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. Those initial stages of converting your company to web standards are much like trying to score that first kiss with the princess. You seduce them with the business ... Read more »
Robert Hoekman Jr — The essential elements of great web applications
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008, and Web Direction Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.Most great web applications have a few key things in common. But can you name them? ... Read more »
Ralph Douglas — GovDex: Collaborating online in a secure environment
A presentation given at at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. This session will look at the government collaborative tool Govdex, how it is currently used by agencies, what it provides, and how you can use it for ... Read more »
Patrick Lee — One paper clip, a box of matches, and some JavaScript
A presentation given at at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. Whoever you are, if you're writing JavaScript, there's some aspect of your development that you would love to change if you had the chance. But the reality is ... Read more »
Oliver Weidlich — The mobile web user experience — we’re starting to get it right!
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. Historically the mobile web has been a terrible experience, but things are starting to change. Really! We are now at the point that the mobile web is becoming ... Read more »
Matthew Hodgson — Social computing for knowledge management
A presentation given at Web Directions User Experience, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. The world is abuzz with social computing: Facebook, My Space, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, blogs, wikis and other spaces powered by Web 2.0 technology. It’s a social revolution, empowering ... Read more »
Mathew Patterson — Delivering user experience to the inbox: designing for email
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. So you've designed a fantastic website for your client, tested in all the major browsers and everything looks great. Now they want to send an email newsletter to ... Read more »
Lisa Herrod — User testing for the rest of us
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. Everyone knows they should be doing it, but like software testing, it's one of those things we often don't get round to. In this presentation, Lisa Herrod looks ... Read more »
José Manuel Alonso — Improving Government through better use of the Web
A presentation given at Web Directions User Experience, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. It's no secret that just as the web has revolutionised business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionising how governments and ... Read more »
Jenny Telford — Opening up government data
A presentation given at Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. Mapping and other mashups have taken the web world by storm - driving innovation in business and government alike. While much of the focus has been on the actual ... Read more »
Jason Ryan — Govt 2.0: the public management challenge
A presentation given at Web Directions User Experience, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008. Technology changes present complex challenges and rich opportunities for senior public sector managers. Finding the balance between innovation and risk management is not easy in an environment where ... Read more »
Jackie Moyes — Converting research findings into business speak
A presentation given at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. Getting your company to adopt a user-centred design approach can be an uphill struggle. The first stage typically is to get them to agree to incorporate usability testing in ... Read more »
Donna Spencer — Getting content right
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. We all know that great content is a core part of the website user experience. So why is it so hard to find content that isn't dull, lifeless ... Read more »
Andy Budd — Designing the experience curve
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. These days people expect more from a website than a handy set of tools and a pretty interface — they want an experience. From the moment somebody enters ... Read more »
Andrew Kesper — ABC’s election site: making the most of dry data
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008, and Web Directions Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.While elections can be exciting times, the underlying data - swings, booth counts, and the like is ... Read more »
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Steve Baty — Analysing user research data
A presentation given at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Australia, May 16 2008. In our efforts to better understand the end users of the sites & applications we design, we generate a great deal of data. That data is useless to us until ... Read more »
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The people and thoughts behind Web DirectionsFounded in Australia in 2004, by long time web industry figures Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp, Web Directions conferences bring together the web industry's leading experts from around the world to educate and inspire our attendees.Our major conferences, Web Directions South ... Read more »
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Tokyo: Web Directions East Nov. 13–15 London: Web Directions @media May 26–27 Sydney: Web Directions South Oct. 11–14
“How to listen to 21 Million Voices”
Earlier this month, the recently elected Australian government announced the 2020 Summit - a chance for the "best and brightest brains" to map out a strategy for Australia's long-term future in areas ranging from the economy and the environment to the arts and health.Which is of course a marvellous ... Read more »
Jeremy Yuille — Web visualisation: do you see what I see?
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008. In this session Jeremy Yuille from ACID looks at information visualisation from a user experience perspective, overviewing new and old examples and how they can help (or hinder) ... Read more »
Web Directions Speakers in the press — Adrian Holovaty
One of my favourite ever speakers at Web Directions, and favourite web folks ever, is the incredibly talented diversely interested (one of the first google maps mashups (pre api), Django founder, his Firefox extensions were the inspiration for Greasemonkey, and he is a very talented jazz guitarist) Adrian Holovaty. Recently ... Read more »
Anil Dash — Serious business: Putting social media to work
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.You know what blogs and wikis are, and you know your YouTube from your Facebook. But do you know how to make a compelling business case for these technologies? Social media ... Read more »
Kimberly Elam — Five Essential Composition Tools for Web Typography
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. Have you ever seen a web site so clear, logical, and exquisitely composed it made you stop in your tracks? Have you wondered how the designer achieved such a stunning and ... Read more »
Josh Williams — Bedroom to Boardroom
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. What happens when a designer decides to quit his day job, hang his shingle, and wakes up seven years later nowhere remotely close to where he imagined he would be? This ... Read more »
Gina Trapani — Better Gmail: How Google Opened Gmail’s Web Interface to Any Developer Who Cares (And Why You Should)
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. Last year, Google released an experimental Greasemonkey API for Gmail: coding hooks that let anyone add CSS and Javascript to Gmail that enhances how it looks and behaves. Why would ... Read more »
Matt Webb — Movement (Web Directions North Closing Keynote)
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008. We've always had metaphors to understand and design for the Web. The original conception of the Web was as a library of documents. Our building blocks were derived from spatial ideas: "breadcrumbs," ... Read more »
Eric Rodenbeck — Information visualization as a medium
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data sets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with ... Read more »
Tara Hunt — Government 2.0: Architecting for collaboration
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008.What does Web 2.0 mean and, specifically, what does it mean for the future of governments? Tara Hunt has been speaking all over the world, talking to government audiences on this ... Read more »
Brian Fling — Mobile web design and development
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.Mobile technology is poised to revolutionize how we gather information. By 2010 half the population of the planet will have access to the internet through a mobile device, making the mobile ... Read more »
Douglas Crockford — Ajax security
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008. Security design is an important, but often neglected, component of system design. In this session, Douglas Crockford, creator of Javascript Object Notation, will outline the security issues that must be considered in the architecture of Ajax applications. The design of ... Read more »
Daniel Burka — The why and how: UI case studies
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008. User interface design is an iterative process - the design of Digg and Pownce have been a study in evolution and adaptation. This talk will inspect the why and how of ... Read more »
Cameron Adams — The future of web interfaces
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 31 2008.We’re at an exciting time in the development of web-based interfaces — along with a maturing front-end toolkit (CSS & JavaScript), there are so many technologies, trends and exciting ideas emerging ... Read more »
Brian Oberkirch – “Plays Well With Others”: Simple Things to Make the Social Parts of your Service More Social
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. Not only are most Web applications going to have (or utilize) social components — they’re also going to have start sharing social information like profiles, contact lists and such with ... Read more »
Jared Spool – What Makes a Design Seem Intuitive?
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. Everyone wants an “intuitive” interface: the users, the designers, and the content publishers. But building them is hard. User Interface Engineering’s recent research has given insight into why it’s hard ... Read more »
Jeffrey Zeldman – Return of the King of Web Standards
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. Dubbed “the King of Web Standards” by Business Week, Jeffrey Zeldman co-founded the group and movement that brought standards to our browsers. Through A List Apart Magazine, his books, and ... Read more »
Jonathan Snook – Working with Ajax Frameworks
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. It seems like there’s a new Ajax library or JavaScript framework coming out every week, and there probably is! Which is the best one to pick? Will you be up ... Read more »
Derek Featherstone – Real World Accessibility For Real World People
A presentation given at Web Directions North, Vancouver Canada, January 30 2008. When we follow the principles of web standards, we write valid HTML and CSS, unobtrusive JavaScript and follow WCAG and other accessibility guidelines. This simple act goes a long way ... Read more »
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