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The Myths of Innovation — Remixed and Remastered

A few years back, Scott Berkun gave one of the most highly regarded pre­sen­ta­tions we have ever had at a Web Direc­tions event. It was called the Myths of Inno­va­tion, and peo­ple still but­ton­hole me to say how great it was, or to bemoan the fact that their life­time regret … Read more »

Reflections on the first 24 hours of the Web Direction South 2010 “Tell us what you want” survey

Yes­ter­day I launched our “Tell Us What You Want” sur­vey for Web Direc­tions South 2010. In essence this is a call for papers really, it’s just that we don’t like using that term as we think it makes us sound like some sort of ante­dilu­vian aca­d­e­mic sym­po­sium, which, I’ll … Read more »

Web Directions South 09 Resources — many more now online

Thanks to the tire­less efforts of Guy in prepar­ing all the pages and pro­duc­ing all the pod­casts, we now have a whole raft of the pre­sen­ta­tions from WDS09 now avail­able online, so, if you’re look­ing to catch some­thing you missed because you you went to another track, or you couldn’t … Read more »

Got your Google Wave invite? Scratching your head?

It looks like all the Google Wave invites for WDS09 atten­dees, cour­tesy of Stephanie and Cameron (thanks again guys!) went out over the weekend.

If you’re scratch­ing your head as to what to do next though, and you’re in Syd­ney, why don’t you come along on Tues­day the 20th to the … Read more »

First batch of WDS09 resources now available

You wouldn’t believe how many things there are to do in the week after an event — I actu­ally feel like I have been busier this week than I was in the week lead­ing up to the con­fer­ence. But one of the big things we have been treat­ing as an … Read more »

Trip to Japan for Web Directions East — winner announced!

A cou­ple of months back we announced that we were going to be giv­ing away a ticket to Web Direc­tions East to one lucky attendee of Web Direc­tions South.

Well, that lucky attendee turned out to be Dylan Fogarty-​​MacDonald, who has already let us know that he is very excited to … Read more »

Web Directions — The Soundtrack

I’ve got a few enquiries here about the music we played dur­ing the con­fer­ence, so I thought I should really give credit where it is due and write up some­thing comprehensive.

Between ses­sions in the rooms we played XX by The XX — which came rec­om­mended by Luke … Read more »

99designs Are Hiring A Front-​​end Ninja!

99designs, the sis­ter com­pany of our media part­ners, Site­Point, are look­ing to hire a full-​​time designer from their Mel­bourne office. In their words, they’re after a “front-​​end ninja” with tal­ents in graphic/​interface design, usabil­ity, acces­si­bil­ity and cre­at­ing standards-​​based HTML/​CSS.

If this sounds like you and you’re in Mel­bourne (or pre­pared to … Read more »

Designing for iPhone? Get yourself some Notepods

Check out these cool lit­tle sketch pads from Mel­bourne based Inven­tive Labs and Jacky Win­ter Group. They’ve called them Notepods and they’re per­fectly designed for mock­ing up iPhone Apps.

Get your­self a pack of … Read more »

Web Directions South 09 T Shirt — With Augmented Reality Superpowers

This year for Web Direc­tions South we’ve pro­duced a superb con­fer­ence t shirt with aug­mented real­ity super­pow­ers designed by Fail Whale cre­ator Yiy­ing Lu. But if you’re going to dress in mag­i­cal style with this shirt at the con­fer­ence, you need to get in there fast … Read more »

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: