News from August 2009
Memories and articles from back in the day
McFarlane Prize nominations close early Next week
Great nominations continue to come in — but make sure your work doesn’t miss out on its chance to shine.
Nominate today — it’s free and will take 5 minutes or less!
Would you like service design with that?
We’ve just filled the last session in the business track at Web Directions South 09 — Suze Ingram will be speaking on a hot new user experience topic: Would you like service design with that?
Service design is a new discipline which focuses on understanding what customers … Read more »
Wanted: a passionate web geek
Passionate about web design and development? Been tinkering with different web technologies for some time? Keep up to date with the web industry? Enjoy reading and writing? Then a tech editor role at SitePoint might be just what … Read more »
Matt Webb — Web Directions South 09 opening keynote
The final keynote for Web Directions South 2009 has just been announced: be there on the morning of Thursday October 8 to see what we know will be an exciting and inspirational opening keynote from England’s own Matt Webb.
Matt will be joining an already terrific lineup:
- … Read more »
Typedia
With the coming of embedded fonts, Web developers and designers are going to have to become increasingly knowledgeable about type. The just launched Typedia from wonderful designers like Jason Santa Maria, Liz Danzico, Aaron Gustafson and many other looks like a great resource to learn about and explore typefaces.
You … Read more »
Introducing Australian Web Week
Maxine and I are really excited and proud to announce Australian Web Week, October 2 to 9, a showcase of the strength and creativity of the Australian Web industry. It’s a project we’ve been planning for years, and working hard on for months now.
The Design industry has its … Read more »
The reason it’s been quiet at Web Directions…
Well, there are two big big reasons why, but you’ll have to wait until next week to find out. Rest assured, we think you’ll be very excited.
Have a great weekend, and see you Monday with the news.
McFarlane Prize reminder
We’ve got many great nominations for the McFarlane Prize already, putting us a fair way ahead of previous years, with more diversity than we’ve seen before. Thanks to all who’ve entered so far. For the rest of you, it’s quick, easy and costs nothing to enter a site … Read more »
Business track — one session remains
At Web Directions, we like to have most of our sessions all organized before announcing our conferences, but we do usually leave one or two sessions open for breaking developments.
We’ve now got a single session remaining in the business track, and thought we’d do a bit of crowd sourcing. … Read more »
McFarlane Prize: nominations are now open
Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design opened over the weekend, on Saturday August 1. If you’ve been involved in the development of a site over the last 12 months that you think deserves recognition for … Read more »