Starting your own web design agency and becoming the Blue Flavor or the Happy Cog of Australia is the dream of so many who come to Web Directions every year I’m sure. Such a big step though, and not a decision to be taken lightly. Knowledge is the thing that will help you take the […]
We appreciate that there are many people for whom the price of admission to Web Directions South 08 must seem extravagent. At the same time we are confident that we make the ticket price as reasonable as we possibly can for such an event. The addition of the Expo and more extentensive sponsorship last year […]
Looks like using images as link anchors is patented. This madness has got to end sometime soon no?
Some years ago I had the privilege to see Sir Tim Berners-lee speak at WWW2005 in Japan. One of the things which stayed with me was his strong emphasis on the word “user” in the term “user agent”. In particular he made mention of pop up ads, and how these violated the intrinsic contract of […]
After a few twitter induced hiccups, we’ve both launched Web Directions South, and managed to reboot the server which didn’t seem to like a rather large spike in traffic after word got out about the launch on Twitter this am. There’s a lot we could say about the lineup – the return of some crowd […]
When anaesthetists from Blakehurst start doing things like this … be afraid.
ACMA, the Australian Communications and Media Authority, has published a detail report entitled “Top Six Trends in Communications and Media Technologies, Applications and Services—Possible Implications“. Section 5, “Web-based services and the emerging ‘social web’” focusses on where these technologies might be headed. What’s interesting is that their predictions for the next 5 years roughly approximate […]
Melbourne Keynote speaker Andy Budd did an in-depth interview with Matt Magain at SitePoint while down south, and it’s now published. Quite an epic it is too, and well worth a read.
Thanks to all who helped make both Web Directions UX and Web Directions Government fantastic successes. The turnouts were wonderful, presentations world class, and the vibe at both conferences enthusiastic and excited. Based on the success of both these events, I’m sure we’ll be seeing them return. You’ll find slideshows from a number of the […]
Wondering if anyone out there might be interested in about a day’s work, some time in the next week, to help us produce the podcasts from Web Directions User Experience and Government. We’re all set up to manage the podcasting itself ourselves, but we need someone who can record a simple intro and outro for […]
I took this photo late last year. I can’t recall exactly which CD it was, or whether it was software or music. I have a feeling it might have been a game for the Wii? You can tell pretty clearly that the design doesn’t work. So, how do they respond? By blaming the user for […]
Today I’ve had need not once but twice to use complex form based interfaces from two enormous multinational companies. Each was a spectacularly frustrating experience, and goes to show just how far we are from designing decent web experiences much of the time. In order to salvage at least some value from these experiences, and […]
Cameron Adams, known worldwide as “the man in blue“, has done it again. His latest masterpiece is cubescape, a javascript tour de force, showing just how rich and interactive javascript based applications can be. It’s also fun to play with. So go and marvel at what you can do in your browser today with standards […]
Just a reminder of the free event this Thursday in Melbourne, brought to you by Web directions,the Web Standards Group and the W3C Australia Office – featuring Jose Alonso (lead of the W3C’s eGovernment initiative) and Richard Ishida, the W3C’s internationalization guru – and it’s free. Not only that, but there’s even finger food, courtesy […]
Web Directions User Experience, and Government are now fast approaching – UX kicking off Thursday with workshops by Cameron Adams, and Andy Budd, followed by the conference Friday, and then Government Monday, and workshops Tuesday – so a busy week coming up. Some places still available for the conferences, and workshops, though Andy Budd’s workshop […]
Three days of talks, two of them in the engineering room. Web Directions you have broken my brain.
Cheryl Gledhill Product Manager, BlueChilli
