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Video of the Week: Erin Moore – Convenient Fictions

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• November 4, 2016

When Erin Moore gave her talk at Web Directions in 2014, she was Senior UX Designer at Twitter. She has since moved on, but many of the insights she delivered came from her work with the social media giant. Her … Read more »

One Question, Many Answers: Part III

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• November 3, 2016

Here is the third and final set of extracts from the interviews we conducted with Direction 16 speakers for Scroll Magazine. These are only snippets – to see the full answers, come to Direction 16, where all conference and … Read more »

Video Ristretto: Ben Buchanan – The SemVer Talk 1.0

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• November 2, 2016

Our video ristretto this week comes to us from one of those people who hooked up with us from even before our Web Directions days, and has been a key supporter even as his own career has blossomed. He’s now … Read more »

Direction 16 Partner Event: StripeCon APAC

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• November 1, 2016

One of the benefits of organising events like Code, Respond, Transform and – in just over a week – Direction is the events that other people organise around the conference that add value and depth to their whole experience.

SilverStripe is a major sponsor of Web Directions and has supported our … Read more »

Video of the Week: Cap Watkins – Design Everything

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• October 28, 2016

Our long form Video of the Week this week is of Cap Watkins delivering his Web Directions 15 keynote, “Design Everything”. This is really appropriate in light of our upcoming Direction 16 conference, where these kinds of ideas, philosophies and … Read more »

Video Ristretto: Simon Swain – Rats of the Maze

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• October 26, 2016

This week’s video ristretto come from just a few months ago at our Code conference in Sydney and Melbourne. If you’ve seen any of Simon Swain’s presentations at our events, you’ll know he comes up with some pretty breathtaking … Read more »

One Question, Many Answers: Part II

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• October 25, 2016

Time for the second in our series of extracts from the interviews we conducted with Direction 16 speakers for Scroll Magazine. All conference and workshop attendees get a free print edition (88 bound pages of articles and interviews with full colour photos and illustrations) while it will also be … Read more »

Idea of the Week: Web Directions Alumni

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• October 24, 2016

Those of you who have seen the Scroll Magazine we produced for our Code 16 conference (and if you haven’t, you should) will have noticed that we published a list of all our speakers and their topics at previous Code conferences.

That resulted in a list of 80+ presentations … Read more »

Video of the Week: John Allsopp – What We Talk About When We Talk About The Web

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• October 21, 2016

Since this is in my hands this week while John Allsopp takes a bit of family time, I’m taking the opportunity to “rescreen” a talk of John’s from Web Directions 2012.

Not only is everything he talks about still relevant, it relates directly to what Direction 16 is about. … Read more »

Respond Speaker Insight: The inimitable Ethan Marcotte

• In: Blog
• By: Ricky Onsman
• March 30, 2016

In the leadup to our Responsive Web Design focussed event, Respond, in Sydney and Melbourne in April 2016, and as part of a special new project we’ll be announcing at the conference, we’ve been speaking with some of our speakers, and getting to know them a little better.

This week, … Read more »

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