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Web Directions South 2009: Early bird pricing extended to July 9
Guess what: you’ve got just two weeks left to take advantage of early bird pricing for Web Directions South 2009.
Getting those training approvals through really is hard. We know this because every year we hear a familiar chorus from people who need just a bit more … Read more »
Sydney UPA Chapter’s 2nd Birthday Celebration - We’re sponsoring!
On Wednesday July 1 at 6.00 there’s three very good reasons to come along to the Sydney Usability Professionals Association’s 2nd birthday party. Firstly, you’ll get to see a great … Read more »
WDS09 Day 1 closing keynote: Cameron Adams
I actually got a little teary just then when I posted this at the site (not something I normally do while cruising around my Wordpress admin): the day 1 closing keynote at Web Directions South 2009 will be my good friend, Cameron Adams, talking … Read more »
July 24 Web Standards Group Canberra meeting
Web Directions will be sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting, to be held on July 24, 2.30 to 4.30 at the NLA Theatre. Come along for the chance to win a ticket to Web Directions South 2009, and to hear a couple of excellent presentations.
- Simon Pascal Klein - … Read more »
Loyalty discount extended by 1 week - ends June midnight 19
If you’ve been to one of our conferences or workshops in the past you should have received emails over the last month about the extra special loyalty discount we have for you for Web Directions South this year. Just $750 - an absolute bargain for what … Read more »
Web Directions South 2009 - Register now, pay later
With the cut off date for early bird pricing for Web Directions South this year fast approaching, as always, I get a lot of emails about when payment for tickets can be made. The answer is, we’re pretty flexible on this, and, for a start, it’s … Read more »
Web Directions speakers on Twitter
As you might expect, just about everyone speaking at Web Directions South this year can be found on Twitter - no surprises there. If you’re planning on coming along to the conference in October, be sure to say hi to the people below, maybe give them … Read more »
Usability - the word on everyone’s lips this week
Lisa Herrod has been breathing a bit of life into the local scene by turning the Social Usability Professionals Association meetups into a regular event at The Arthouse in Pitt St. If you haven’t been before, these are a great opportunity to mix with other local usability and UX people … Read more »
Port80 May 2009 Roadtrip Meetups
It’s really great to see industry meetups taking off again. The latest I have heard is that the Australian Web Industry Association are hitting the road - bringing Port80 Drinks to Sydney and Melbourne this May.
Founded … Read more »
Data driven design - a debate that isn’t going away?
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 »
Announcing Web Directions South 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 »
Donna Spencer’s Card Sorting book from Rosenfeld Media - Published today
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
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 »
Know anyone who might be interested in presenting on cloud computing at Web Directions South this year?
John and I are keen to do a “briefing” on cloud computing in the Business track at Web Directions this year - see below for a description of the way we’d see this session going. We’d like to find someone who could present this session without necessarily emphasizing any of … Read more »
The perfect is the enemy of the good
The perfect is the enemy of the good
Nice quote from Mark Pesce, who has an op ed piece in this morning’s Sydney Morning Herald about the world full of surprises which will open up with the government’s very hi-speed broadband network.
Update: I … Read more »
Ignite Web - a great Melburnian night
Thanks to everyone who came along to Ignite Web last night at The Apartment in Melbourne, with particular thanks to the presenters for putting so much work into entertaining us all, Steve and Glo and the guys from … Read more »
Wanted: Someone to help us with podcasts
We’ve got a whole bunch of amazing audio content that came out of Web Directions North - all the presentations were recorded - that we’re really keen to turn into podcasts and get out there. Would anyone be able to spare us a couple of days to help us out … Read more »
Does (web) design matter?
Reading about Doug Bowman’s departure from Google, and some of the responses and coverage that has ensued (Kevin Fox, who was a UX designer at Google; … Read more »
Web Directions South 2009 - Submit your program ideas
For just on a month we’ve been running a forum asking for ideas for how we can make Web Directions South this year even better than it has been in previous years. Lost of good things have come from this, including ideas and … Read more »
Llumo - Feed reader for image and photo based feeds
Here’s something new and neat for people who collect a lot of image based feeds, from local developer Anson Parker. Llumo is a feed reader which makes the experience of … Read more »
ABC mobile web site fails accessibility test
As reported over at Crikey today, this is pretty embarrassing for the ABC.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation launched “ABC Mobile” yesterday. Unfortunately, the home page does not appear to have been designed in accordance with … Read more »
Ignite Web - Presentation Slots All Full
Just a quick update to John’s previous post…
Lots of interest in the very first Ignite Web, which we’ll be hosting in Melbourne on April 1. Stephen, the person who’s actually doing all the hard work and organising the event, has just been in touch to say that … Read more »
Andy Clarke’s Visual Web Design Masterclass - a big big day
We thought it was great when Andy Clarke said he’d be keen to head back down to Australia and be a part of our roadshow workshop series in April, but we’re even more thrilled about it now that he has given us all a sneak peak … Read more »
Web Directions Forum - Got some comments on some session ideas?
Lots of activity over at the Web Directions forum.
There’s a few discussions going on that it would be nice to get a bit more detailed input on - comments are where the real gems of information come out! What we’d really like some … Read more »
Announcing Trampoline - Exciting Melbourne Event
Got ideas? Love hanging out with other people who have ideas? Got nothing to do on Saturday March 28? Then get yourself along to Trampoline - a brand new event in Melbourne, which is being organised by Pat Allen, Steve Hopkins and … Read more »
Lovely Facebook data visualisation
Just found this via Seb Chan at Fresh + New(er). Nexus is a little app that takes all your Facebook connections and their connections with each other, and creates a visualisation of this.
Here are my constellations.
That large galaxy, as … Read more »
Canberra Web Standards Group Meeting - More free books
Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy of
- Indi Young - Mental Models
- Andy Clarke - Transcending CSS
- Luke Wroblewski … Read more »
The great roadshow book give away
If you’ve been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from … Read more »
Web Directions Forum - The First 24 Hours
We’re really happy - if a little overwhelmed! - with the number of suggestions, comments and votes our new Web Directions Forum has already generated in its first 24 hrs.
As I said yesterday, … Read more »
Announcing the Web Directions South Forum
As of today, we’re officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum.
And the best part is, every month we’re going to be giving … Read more »
Scroll Number 2 - Free copy for roadshow attendees
Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series.
If you’re thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here’s another reason to … Read more »
5 difference between iPhone native and mobile-web apps
Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian’s workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with … Read more »
Dan Saffer - Tap is the New Click
Way back in 2006, when he’d just published what was to go on to become his very successful book, Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer came out to Sydney for Web Directions South 06 and presented a much loved workshop of the same name. Since then Dan … Read more »
Accessible Twitter
Via AniktoBlog:
Accessible Twitter works just like Twitter with a few interface tweaks. Upon visiting the site, the first thing one notices is the large … Read more »
Experimenting with social media
This interview with the staff of COSI - a Science Museum in Columbus Ohio - has some solid insights into the institutional realities of experimenting in social media. The project seems … Read more »
Web Directions 2009 Roadshow
This April Web Directions is going to be throwing all the gear in the back of the ute and hitting the road for a whistlestop tour of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney with a workshop lineup of the best thinkers and educators in the game: the Web … Read more »
Going to SXSW? Make sure you get yourself connected
John and I went to SXSW 3 years in a row between 2005 and 2007. The first year was pretty good, suffused as it was with that thrill of meeting people we’d known via email etc for years. But the second year was probably the best for a whole host … Read more »
Campaign Monitor - giving back
Here at Web Directions we love Campaign Monitor. And what’s not to love? These guys have the best email marketing software for designers in the game, a slick new look and feel for all their sites and … Read more »
And now we play the waiting game
Interesting article over at Web Worker Daily talking about the impact of the recession, at least from the US point of view.
Got me thinking about how we might get a handle on what is happening here. … Read more »
Scroll Number 1 - full articles now online
How quickly a quarter of a year rolls by. When we launched Scroll during Web Directions South 08 we promised that all the articles would be published in full online 3 months after the print magazine was published, so, here they are.
If you didn’t manage to get your hands on … Read more »
Ten user experience myths debunked
Whitney Hess has gathered together insights from a whole bunch of influential user experience practitioners and writers to debunk a few myths about what the profession of user experience actually is. She came up with The 10 Most Common Misconceptions About … Read more »
Bokeh Type Toy
Another little distraction from the Man in Blue - the bokeh type experiment. Real real pretty.
Oh, and in case you didn’t know already, bokeh is that effect you get in a photograph when you have a narrow depth of field, and some bright points of light and … Read more »
Ignite Sydney, January 22 - Register now
The second Sydney Ignite will be held at the Shelbourne Hotel on January 22. If you haven’t registered to attend already, get in now - it’s free! There are still a few places left, but these will go quickly.
The idea of Ignite is simple - presenters stick to … Read more »
UX Book Club
This is a great idea - and indeed one that other disciplines in the web industry could think about. UX Book Club is a get-together in which people interested in the area of user experience come to discuss a book relevant to the discipline. Take a look at the … Read more »
JS-909 - Cameron Adams’ Drum Machine in JavaScript
If you went to Craig Sharkie’s JavaScript Libraries Panel at Web Directions South this year, you will no doubt be familiar with this latest work of that obsessive genius, Cameron Adams. Craig charged Cameron with … Read more »
Print’s not dead
Its purpose has just changed.
This blog post from Khoi Vinh got me thinking.
Interesting that Khoi chose to publish the photo in black and white. Maybe he always does this to fit in with the style of his blog, but, for me it emphasises a broader point as well. A … Read more »
WDS08 speakers - SitePoint interviews
One of our media partners, SitePoint, did a whole bunch of interviews while they were covering the event this year, all of which are now online. So, if you enjoyed what you heard from the people below while you were at the conference, be sure to check out the following … Read more »
Lessons learned while developing an iPhone site
Got a client who wants you to build an iPhone site? There’s a growing body of resources out there that will help you learn from the hard won experience of those who have gone before you. Check out this one from the Flickr team. And closer to home, here’s … Read more »
All Web Directions South 2008 slides and podcasts now online
Thanks to a huge effort by Guy, we now have all the slides and podcasts from WDS08 available at the site, which means it is officially “a wrap”.
Please spread the word about these resources: we make them available like this because we believe too much great content comes out of … Read more »
Photos from Web Directions South 2008
I’ve just uploaded almost 500 photos taken by our photographer this year, Wade Millican, who might I say did a thoroughly excellent job - thanks Wade!
Check them out for yourself. Even better, if you have time and inclination to tag … Read more »
WDS08 got you hankering for a change?
Monday morning after a week like the last one can be heavy going no? If things seem just a little pedestrian as you look around the office this morning, and contemplate what you have to do this week, you do have options you know. Take a break round 11 and … Read more »
Very nice molt:n t shirts - get yours!
Scott and Cheryl of molt:n digital came up with a great design for the t shirts they’ll be giving away at the conference this year.
Make sure you get yourself one by blogging or flickring something about Web Directions and tagging … Read more »
Win an ipod touch - thanks to our closing night party sponsors 99designs and Gruden
99designs and Gruden have just come on board as our closing night party sponsors, which is great news in itself. But even better is the fact that … Read more »
Social Events during Web Directions
Plenty to do after hours during Web Directions South this year - rest assured, you will not be going back to your hotel room after things wrap up at the conference and workshops each day.
Please let me know if you’re organising something you’d like me … Read more »
Internet Explorer 8 - are you ready for a CSS renaissance?
Because browsers evolve so rapidly, there really is no time to sit back and feel that you already know it all if you are a front end developer. New browsers give you a lot to be excited about with new levels of support for CSS, but at the same time … Read more »
Web Directions South 2008 - We have Webjam!
Some very exciting news for everyone who’s going to be in town for Web Directions South 2008. Those four days in September just got even better with the Webjam team announcing that the all new Webjam 8 will happen at … Read more »
Wifi at Web Directions South this year - latest news
Following on from all the comments we got on the the two blog posts we put out there last week on this topic, John and I decided to do a bit further investigation into extending wifi into the conference theatres this year at Web Directions South. It hasn’t quite … Read more »
Web Directions South 2008 t shirt remixes
There’s some cute remixes of the Web Directions T shirt over at Redbubble already. Very droll, all of you :)
You can order “Cloud vs Bird” at Redbubble today … Read more »
Great backchannel stories of our time
John wrote here yesterday about Wifi availability at the conference venue this year. The good news is, if all goes according to plan, we should be swimming in the network, which is great.
There’s been … Read more »
Local Government on the Open Web - Presentation by Lachlan Hardy
A couple of weeks back I had the pleasure of attending the closing keynote at the Local Government Web Network Conference. It was an excellent presentation by Lachlan Hardy on the possibilities created by the ideas behind … Read more »
Sydney Workshop with Indi Young in November
I’m sure I’ve spoken about Indi’s excellent presentation from Web Directions North earlier this year before. It was such a clear headed explanation of her Mental Models methodology for aligning your design strategy with how people actually work. … Read more »
What does it all mean?
I laughed out loud the moment I saw the very first iteration of Carla’s idea for the Web Directions T Shirt. It always appeals to my sense of humour to reflect on those painful moments of misunderstanding you have to go through if you are going to participate in that … Read more »
Web Directions South 2008 t shirts by Carla Hackett
Update
Our first remix, by Gary Barber….the whale puts in his inevitable appearance.
And here’s a cute one from Susan MacGillivray - Cloud vs Tweet
This year we wanted … Read more »
A smarter, simpler phone - can this Australian team invent one?
Interesting story in today’s SMH technology section. Queensland based company Orange Dot are on a mission to design a mobile phone for adults with intellectual disabilities, many of whom find modern phones too complex and difficult to use.
That was the experience of a 34-year-old man with Down’s Syndrome, who having … Read more »
Our very own Baby Name Explorer
No doubt you’ve all whiled away the odd hour putting your name, and that of all your friends into the famous Baby Name Explorer. But it was always a bit artificial from an Aussie point of view I felt, because the data was from the US. What, no … Read more »
ScreenBurn at SXSW Game Design Competition
Got a great idea for a video game? I know I do. You get these two sticks which you can move vertically up and down the screen to hit a square ball back and forth. As the ball hits the stick, it makes a really cool, lifelike beeping sound…..(if you’re … Read more »
What are the local internet gurus excited about?
If you happened upon a copy of yesterday’s Icon in the Sydney Morning Herald you may have noticed “Dopple Your Fun” - where five local internet gurus - Cheryl Lead, Virginia Murdoch, John Allsopp, Lachlan Hardy and Tim Lucas were asked by the Herald’s Nick Galvan … Read more »
Interview with Mark Pesce at The Alcove
Local web visionary Mark Pesce has become a fixture as our closing keynote at Web Directions South. He spoke a couple of months back at the Personal Democracy Forum in New York, where he was also interviewed on The Alcove. Here’s the interview in full. Mark speaks at … Read more »
Get a free t shirt from our supporter molt:n
Words? Code? Design? Which are you? And do you want a free t-shirt so you can let the world know? It’s easy to get your hands on one - all you need to do is blog or Flickr something about Web Directions and tag it ‘moltnWD’.
Wear your passion at … Read more »
Web Directions South 2008 Schedule Published
Let the decision making begin: Developing for iPhone or Strategies for Social Media Engagement, Creating Sexy Style Sheets or Choosing the Right Web App Framework. Because the official schedule for Web Directions South 2008 has now been set in stone and handed down.
I’ve laboured over … Read more »
Deafness - our next big accessibility challenge?
Further to John’s post on Lisa’s article on A List Apart - Deafness and the User Experience - I just wanted to point out a little initiative we have started over the last couple of weeks here at Web Directions.
We’ve been publishing podcasts after our events for some years … Read more »
Aussies at SXSWi 2009
With our country yet again in the grip of that four yearly frenzy of jingoistic nationalism that is The Olympics, even I can’t help but come over all patriotic. In that spirit I encourage you all to head on over to the SXSW panel picker and give your vote … Read more »
Thinking about going to SXSW 2009?
Attending SXSW interactive at least once in your life is a must for any web professional, no matter how far you have to travel to get there. You’ll get to see what some of the most interesting people in the industry have been working on for the last 12 … Read more »
Edge of the Web - Perth is the place to be
Time’s running out to take advantage of early bird pricing for Perth’s long awaited web industry event: Edge of the Web, brought to you by the Australian Web Industry Association.
On the 6th of November there will be a full day two track conference featuring
- Derek Featherstone, who’ll be delivering … Read more »
Javascript Libraries session
This year at Web Directions South we’re trying something new. Craig Sharkie will be using a panel type approach to explore the pros and cons, ins and outs of Javascript libraries in what will be both an entertaining and edifying session. I say “panel type approach” because I definitely … Read more »
OpenAustralia - Interview with Matthew Landauer
A while back I blogged about the launch of OpenAustralia.org, which essentially remixes Hansard to allow you to more easily track all the debates in the House of Representatives, and keep an eye on your local representative.
There’s nothing at OpenAustralia that isn’t available elsewhere, however, it’s the way the … Read more »
Joomla developer? Keen to participate in a panel at WDS08?
We’re looking for a Joomla expert to help us out with one of the panels in the development track at Web Directions South this year. This session, to be run by Lucas Chan, is going to showcase the strengths and weaknesses of a number of backend frameworks in a … Read more »
Web on the Piste: got a hankering for a bit of snowboarding?
Yesterday I caught up with Todd Trevillion and Mark Stanton of Gruden - those of you who came to the very first Web Essentials way back when will recall that Mark gave a presentation on semantic markup - it all seems so quaint now! Sadly pre podcasting, so we … Read more »
Seb Chan reflects on first 3 months of Powerhouse Museum Flickr Commons Program
Seb Chan has written a very comprehensive and intellectually generous overview of The Powerhouse Museum’s experiences in the first three months of having the images from the Tyrell Photographic Collection available in the Commons on Flickr.
An interesting observation that maybe a lot of us could think about … Read more »
Lovely data
Via Joi Ito. The new single from Radiohead’s In Rainbows has a trés cool music video. No cameras or lighting were used in the creation of this work, but it’s not just another yawn-worthy CGI affair or animation. Two (admittedly somewhat expensive sounding) technologies - Geometric Informatics and … Read more »
Excellent Australian eGovernment Blog
Craig Thomler seems to be gaining some traction with his eGov AU blog, but if you work in government and you haven’t heard of it yet, then check it out and subscribe. Excellent daily postings on news, projects and so on related to eGovernment with an Australian focus. This … Read more »
New session: Developing for iPhone
We couldn’t let this year go by without doing a session on the perils and joys of developing for the iPhone, but we wanted to wait and see what secret projects might crop up in the aftermath of the release of the 3G phone in Australia.
Plenty of people have been … Read more »
Win a ticket to Web Directions South 2008
One competition ends, another begins.
Echoing the “Design a Snowboard” competition we have run for the last couple of years for Web Directions North, this year our partners at Digital Web are hosting Desgn a Surfboard and win a ticket to Web Directions South. There’s also some cool … Read more »
iPhone 3G - and the winner is…
Yesterday, I got to make someone’s Monday: and that person was Matthew Patton, who came to Web Directions last year and liked it so much he made sure he got his registration in pretty quick smart this year. Congratulations Matthew!
Now I get to play Santa and go out there and … Read more »
McFarlane Prize for 2008 launches
Nominations are now open for the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design for 2008.
Now in its third year, the prize recognizes and encourages excellence in web design by Australian web professionals. We’re really proud of having created and nurtured the prize - it’s been extremely rewarding over … Read more »
Interview: online advocacy
Regular Web Directions attendee Priscilla Brice-Weller is the Online Campaigner for advocacy organisation, ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation). Priscilla also blogs about technology and activism at Solidariti.
It being NAIDOC week, I thought this might be a good occasion to hear about the work Priscilla does … Read more »
Win an iPhone - just four more days to get yourself a ticket
Despite all the (justified) doom and gloom about data plans and pricing, one lucky person is still going to win an iPhone courtesy of Web Directions this Friday morning, even at the ridiculous gouge it will almost certainly be to get one without a plan from either Optus, … Read more »
New session at WDS08 - HTML 5 with Michael(tm) Smith
We’ve just added another session to the dev track at the conference this year. Additional to sessions on Ajax Security, Javascript Libraries, Web App Frameworks, Oauth and OpenID and Web Vector Graphics, we now have Mike Smith of the W3C HTML Working Group, who will … Read more »
Job: Front end specialist
Aussie Web 2.0 startup 99designs.com is looking for a front end specialist - this is a great opportunity for someone who really knows their stuff to work in a fast paced, fun environment with a highly motivated, switched on team.
99designs.com is the latest project from the SitePoint guys … Read more »
The One Machine
According to this Kevin Kelly article the number of hyperlinks on the web is fast approaching the number of synapses in a human brain. Lots of implications of this, but it’s comforting that he also points out
Just as the One Machine’s hardware is assembled from our myriad devices, its … Read more »
Selling social media to your organisation or client
This is the hard part right? All of us have got the social media bug and can think of dozens of great projects we could implement this afternoon, if only our boss, or client, would go for it. This really clear headed article over at Digital Web, Integrating Social … Read more »
For JavaScripters: two interesting articles on speed, responsiveness and performance
First of all, check out Australia’s own Patrick Lee who very deftly writes about a few things that a UI developer working in JavaScript and interacting with the DOM can and should do to maintain UI responsiveness, all couched in terms of the three basic thresholds from Robert Miller’s … Read more »
The Website is Down
I know I shouldn’t distract all you hard working souls out there with such things, but, I just cried with laughter, and I know you wouldn’t want me to cry alone.
June 30 approaches
Yes, it’s that time of the year again. Time to take stock of your finances and ‘fess it all up to the good people at the ATO. Time to wipe the slate clean and start afresh.
And time to get that Web Directions South 08 registration into the 2007/08 budget … Read more »
Scripting Enabled - A Genuinely Great Initiative
Christian Heilman has just announced this truly cool event. Scripting Enabled will be a two day conference and workshop held in London with the aim of making the web a more accessible place. Sound like the same-old-same-old? It’s not. The two days will be all about
making those in the … Read more »
Video from Adaptive Path’s recent MX San Francisco
Adaptive Path have very generously made available some extensive video coverage of presentations at MX San Francisco in April.
Check out
- Matt Jones of Dopplr - recent trends in social software, object-centered sociality, the beginnings of social infrastructure (opensocial, xfn, hcard, openID), personal informatics, and approaches for baking social ettiquette … Read more »
New speaker: Hurol Inan on web analytics
We’re very pleased to announce the addition of local web analytics expert Hurol Inan to the line up for Web Directions South 2008. Web analytics have been used for valuable feedback about marketing campaigns as well as to see which products within your site are holding visitors’ attention best. … Read more »
Web Directions Government resources now online
Most of the slides and podcasts we gathered together after Web Directions Government back in May are now available at our site. Check them out below and pass them on to others who weren’t able to make it there on the day.
- José Manuel Alonso - Improving Government through better … Read more »
Workshop: W3C SIG Day
This year as part of our workshop series run on the days before the conference, for the second year running, we will be hosting a W3C SIG day organised by the Australian office of the W3C.
If you want to hear all about new and emerging standards, as well as … Read more »
Resources from Web Directions User Experience now online
All the podcasts and slides available to us from our recent Melbourne event, Web Directions User Experience, are now available online.
- Andy Budd - Designing the experience curve
- Robert Hoekman Jr - The essential elements of great web applications
- Oliver Weidlich - The mobile web user experience
- Mathew Patterson - … Read more »
- José Manuel Alonso - Improving Government through better … Read more »
- Matt Jones of Dopplr - recent trends in social software, object-centered sociality, the beginnings of social infrastructure (opensocial, xfn, hcard, openID), personal informatics, and approaches for baking social ettiquette … Read more »
- Derek Featherstone, who’ll be delivering … Read more »