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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.

Presentation slides

Session description

The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:

  • What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today?
  • How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against?
  • How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience?

About Jeffrey Veen

Jeffrey Veen PortraitJeffrey Veen is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. As a consultant, Jeffrey has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and more. Jeff also led the creation of Measure Map, the well-received blog analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006.

After five years with Adaptive Path, where he was a founding partner, Jeff moved to Google, where he where he lead the redesign of their Analytics product and managed their web apps UX team. He left Google in May, 2008, to work on personal projects. Previously, Jeffrey served as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc., where he managed the look and feel of HotWired, the HotBot search engine, Lycos.com and others.

In addition to lecturing and writing on web design and development, Jeffrey has been active with the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Editorial Review Board as an invited expert on electronic publishing. He is also the author of the acclaimed books The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites.

In 1998, Jeffrey was named by CNET as one of the “First Annual Web Innovators” and has won the Communication Arts Interactive Annual award for his work on Wired News. Other clients include Technorati, Creative Commons, Macromedia, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and National Public Radio.

Jeffrey specializes in the integration of content, graphic design, and technology from a user-centered perspective.

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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.

Jeffrey Veen PortraitThe hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:

  • What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today?
  • How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against?
  • How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience?
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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 11.45am.

Presentation slides

Session description

With so many social networks blooming, all with different participants and methods of interaction, it can be hard to determine where to invest your energy, time and $$.The session will provide ideas and a “background briefing” to help you answer the question:
  • why is social media important to my organisation?
  • what is the ROI for social media?
  • how can I evaluate which approaches are right for me/my organisation?
  • what sort of activities can/should I undertake in these spaces?
This is not a technical session and although we will briefly touch on some popular sites, the focus will be on how you and your organisation can effectively and authentically engage participants in the social media world.

About Grant Young

Grant Young PortraitGrant has worked for over a decade in web and media roles, more recently focusing on social media and networking opportunities for non-profits. Grant recently founded Zumio, a consulting business with an emphasis on online strategy development. Since starting Zumio earlier this year Grant has advised a number of organisations including WWF-Australia (Earth Hour 2008) and Amnesty International on social media and campaign development.

Previously Grant held the role of Online Communications Manager at WWF-Australia, and worked as Senior Producer at award-winning design agency Digital Eskimo. In these roles he advised on and produced projects incorporating a variety of social networking tools and approaches, including weblogs, wikis, Flickr, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook.

Grant has also developed web applications for the business sector in the areas of financial and carbon accounting. He presented on the topic of social media in the financial services sector at the Investor Weekly Branding conference in March 2008.

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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 11.45am.

Grant Young PortraitWith so many social networks blooming, all with different participants and methods of interaction, it can be hard to determine where to invest your energy, time and $$.
The session will provide ideas and a “background briefing” to help you answer the question:

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You’d be forgiven for not recognizing the term "testability", despite its central importance to the W3C’s new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0). There’s little mention of testability in WCAG 2.0 documents—and given the verbosity of the guidelines, the absence of information about testability seems almost purposeful. Indeed, testability is one of WCAG 2.0’s big secrets: while most of the public complaints about WCAG 2.0 have been about technology neutrality, jargon, and the lack of attention to people with cognitive disabilities, the underlying cause behind these issues—testability—has taken a back seat.
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And then a time when the web was an interesting technology. And then Mosaic, the browser which by virtue of (many people would argue) incorporating inline images in web pages kickstarted the web.I think that in the wake of today's announcements from Apple, the iPhone will be the equivalent of Mosaic for the mobile web.Many web developers have been waiting a long time for the fabled mobile web to arrive. From WAP 1.0, we've been anticipating the web we can take everywhere, on mobile phones and similar devices.Yes, mobiles, PSPs, specialized devices like SONY's Mylo can all kinda do the web. But we've been waiting for a critical mass, a solid user base, and above all unified platform to make the promise a good business proposition.A lot of people have been waiting the iPhone with extraordinary enthusiasm. Today Apple made two announcements which I think will have enormous impact on the future of the mobile web.1. Webapps are the way for developers to write apps for the iPhone. But why that's important is that they will run in Safari, the heart of which, Webkit, is an open source, highly standards compliant rendering engine, used not only in Safari, but in browsers like Nokia's open source S60 platform.2. Safari is now available on Windows (XP and Vista), so whether your primary platform for development is Mac or Windows (with Linux you aren't quite out of luck, as KHTML shares a lot of common functionality at its core with Safari), you have a standards compliant browser that will also allow you to target the iPhone.Now, with over a billion mobile phones, a sizeable percentage of which do have some kind of web support, why will a few million iPhones, perhaps a percent or two of all such possible devices, make any kind of difference?One of the biggest drawbacks to mobile web adoption has been data cost. Pricing for data on a handset has typically been ridiculously expensive, metred by the byte, and very opaquely priced. As a consequence, people simply don't think about using data based or web services. The other drawback is that the hand held web interface is an utterly different paradigm from the web most people are familiar with - on their computer. When you don't know what its going to cost you, are you going to experiment, play, learn? I think it's unlikely.The iPhone addresses both these.The iPhone has wifi enabled, and so when you have access to a wifi network, you can use the real web, for free, on a device designed for that purpose, rather than having to use your mobile network. If you know how the mobile market works in the US, where features like bluetooth are routinely disabled in devices due to the carriers, you'll perhaps see why Apple is so important here - few others would have the clout to achieve this.So, while the iPhone will account for a tiny percentage of phone users, I'd argue that very quickly, it will account for a significant percentage of all mobile web users. 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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.

Presentation slides

Session description

The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:

  • What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today?
  • How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against?
  • How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience?

About Jeffrey Veen

Jeffrey Veen PortraitJeffrey Veen is an internationally sought-after speaker, author, and user experience consultant. As a consultant, Jeffrey has been involved in designing the leading blog and social media applications on the web, including Blogger, TypePad, Flickr, and more. Jeff also led the creation of Measure Map, the well-received blog analytics tool acquired by Google in 2006.

After five years with Adaptive Path, where he was a founding partner, Jeff moved to Google, where he where he lead the redesign of their Analytics product and managed their web apps UX team. He left Google in May, 2008, to work on personal projects. Previously, Jeffrey served as the Executive Director of Interface Design for Wired Digital and Lycos Inc., where he managed the look and feel of HotWired, the HotBot search engine, Lycos.com and others.

In addition to lecturing and writing on web design and development, Jeffrey has been active with the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS Editorial Review Board as an invited expert on electronic publishing. He is also the author of the acclaimed books The Art & Science of Web Design and HotWired Style: Principles for Building Smart Web Sites.

In 1998, Jeffrey was named by CNET as one of the “First Annual Web Innovators” and has won the Communication Arts Interactive Annual award for his work on Wired News. Other clients include Technorati, Creative Commons, Macromedia, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and National Public Radio.

Jeffrey specializes in the integration of content, graphic design, and technology from a user-centered perspective.

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Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.

Jeffrey Veen PortraitThe hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:

  • What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today?
  • How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against?
  • How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience?
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Jeffrey Veen — Designing our way through data

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.

Jeffrey Veen PortraitThe hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more:

  • What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today?
  • How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against?
  • How do we really incorporate users into our practice of user experience?

See the slides and hear the podcast »

Grant Young — Strategies for social media engagement

Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 25 11.45am.

Grant Young PortraitWith so many social networks blooming, all with different participants and methods of interaction, it can be hard to determine where to invest your energy, time and $$.
The session will provide ideas and a “background briefing” to help you answer the question:

See the slides and hear the podcast »

Should your organisation have a “web department”?

One of the web’s elder statesmen, and all round delightful person, Jeffrey Zeldman (he did a video keynote for our first ever conference, which you can watch here — it’s about 9 minutes, and a lot of fun) asks today “who should be responsible for an organisation’s web … Read more »

Web Directions speakers in the news — Gian Sampson-​​Wild

While she might not e speaking this year, last year’s speaker Gian Sampson-​​Wild has an important role to play in conjunction with Web Directions South this year, which we’ll be announcing next week. For now, she’s been in the news a fair bit, and has just published an article on … Read more »

iPhone/​Safari is the Mosaic of the Mobile Web

Really old folks like me remember a time before the web. And then a time when the web was an interesting technology. And then Mosaic, the browser which by virtue of (many people would argue) incorporating inline images in web pages kickstarted the web.

I think that in the wake … Read more »

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