Web Directions - Part 15

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Data driven design — a debate that isn’t going away?

• By: Maxine
• May 12, 2009

You’ll all remember the mini fracas a month or so back when Doug Bowman pulled up stumps at Google, and moved on to the role of Creative Director at Twitter.

John and I thought there was definitely enough meat … Read more »

WDS09 — off to a great start

• By: John
• May 12, 2009

Thanks to all those who have already registered — WDS09 is off to a great start!

We’re also very happy to announce our first exhibitors for 2009 — long time supporters of Web Directions, Campaign Monitor, and XERO, providers of a very popular web based accountancy system. XERO … Read more »

Announcing Web Directions South 2009

• By: Maxine
• May 11, 2009

After a very frenzied two weeks of finalising speakers and pulling all the content together for the site, Web Directions South 2009 is now open for business. And, we’re just a bit excited about what’s going to be happening on October 6 — 9 this year.

From our humble beginnings … Read more »

WTF is “the cloud” anyways?

• By: John
• April 29, 2009

One can barely move in IT and web circles these days without hearing reference to “the cloud” (in downtown San Francisco late last year I saw billboard and bus ads all over talking about the clouds!). But just what the dickens is it?

There’s a nicely title article at Google’s … Read more »

Opera turns 15

• By: John
• April 29, 2009

A big congratulations to long time Web Directions supporters, browser developers Opera. 15 years old today. (if you youngsters want a taste of the web in early 1994, or we old timers want to relive the glory days of animated gifs and more (sadly no evidence of the blink tag)) … Read more »

Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting book from Rosenfeld Media — Published today

• By: Maxine
• April 28, 2009

Web Directions speaker Donna Spencer has got to the end of that long journey and today had her book, Card Sorting: Designing Usable Categories, published by Rosenfeld Media. Congratulations Donna!

In this book, Donna describes how to plan and run a card sort, … Read more »

Web Directions South 2009 Roadshow — It’s a wrap

• By: Maxine
• April 27, 2009

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 »

Web Directions speaker Dmitry Baranovskiy hits the big time

• By: John
• April 25, 2009

Many in the Australian Web industry (and beyond), particularly Web Directions attendees will know of Dmitry Baranovskiy, and in particular his fantastic Raphaël JavaScript Graphics Library. Via the excellent Ajaxian site, it’s exciting to learn that Blackberry is using Raphaël for a new, highly interactive and … Read more »

Offline web apps and client side storage with HTML5

• By: John
• April 22, 2009

Many web folks are probably keeping one eye on HTML5, but it can be difficult, with a great many parallel developments. We are all likely aware of some of the new elements and semantics like , , and so on, but maybe less so of some more low … Read more »

Fonts on the Web

• By: John
• April 22, 2009

Regular readers will know the issue of embeddable/​linkable fonts for the web is more than a passing interest here at Web Directions.

Today, font designer Tal Leming talks about the issues from the perspective of folks who design typefaces, while Jeffrey Zeldman interviews Type designer David Berlow from … Read more »

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