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Discount pricing about to end

We’re now just on a month away from Web Directions ’06, and discount pricing of just $AUD850 ends this Monday the 4th of September at midnight AEST, so now is the time to get in if you’ve been trying to make up your mind: register now. Last year’s conference well and truly sold out, and […]

Calling all usability mavens

World Usability Day promotes the value of usability, user-centred design, and everyone’s desire for things that work better. This year, it will take place on Tuesday 14 November. Over the course of 36 hours, events will be held around the globe. Last year, Sydney was among 70 cities in 30 countries which played host to […]

McFarlane Prize nominations close August 31

With all the other things going on round here in the lead up to Web Directions and more, the closing date for nominations for the McFarlane Prize has almost come by unnoticed. Nominations close this Thursday, August 31. If you missed the announcement, the Prize is for Excellence in Australian web design, and is open […]

Dan Saffer – Designing for Interaction

Dan Saffer, who will be coming to Sydney for the Oz-IA Conference and Retreat will also be presenting the latest Adaptive Path workshop, Designing for Interaction, for Web Directions on September 26. This exciting new workshop is based on Dan’s recently released book of the same title. Explore the new design discipline that is behind […]

So just what are these microformat thingies?

Web Directions organizer, John Allsopp, who’ll also be speaking on microformats at the conference, has just published a detailed introductory article at Think Vitamin. He’s also just started a blog focussed on microformats, microformatique, for news, events, ideas, articles, interviews and more from the world of microformats. John’s presentation is “Microformats: an evolutionary revolution” (nod […]

The Future of Web Apps – Sep 13-14, San Francisco

How cool would this be? Would love to be able to do something like this here in Australia, but unfortunately the tyranny of distance still works against us. If you’ve got an interest in web apps (and who hasn’t in 2006?), and you feel like a trip to San Francisco this September, think about the […]

Want to speak on a panel at SXSWi next March?

SXSWi is a celebration of all things web, interactive and digital held in Austin Texas each year in March. Sure, it’s a long way to go from Australia, but you can always tie it in to a couple of weeks in the US, and anyone who has been will vouch for what a great opportunity […]

Web Directions Free Event – August 31

Interface design, and the use of ethnographic research in designing for the web: announcing our second free Sydney event for 2006. On August 31 we’ve got a diverse evening, with Emily Boyd of Remember the Milk speaking about the development of this very successful Australian web app, along with Stephen Cox of Intuity, who’ll be […]

OZ-IA/2006 Conference and Retreat – Registration now open

Information architects will be very keen to hear that registration is now open for OZ-IA/2006 Conference and Retreat, to be held in Sydney 30 September and 1st October, the weekend directly after Web Directions. With the line up at this very reasonably priced two day event including Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems Thomas Vander Wal […]

Thomas Vander Wal – an IAs perspective

In the areas that interest you about the web, what has changed the most in the last couple of years, and what do you see changing most in the next couple? The biggest change I have been noticing on the web is a change of its usage. The web has been shifting from a destination […]

Jeremy Keith: browser optimist

In the areas that interest you about the web, what has changed the most in the last couple of years, and what do you see changing most in the next couple? There’s a lot that’s changed over the past few years: more people have broadband, more people are using the mobile web, and more people […]

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