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Jeffrey Veen — Designing our way through data
Web Directions South 2008, Sydney Convention Centre, September 26 9.10am.
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?
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.
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:
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 »