Conferences for web and digital professionals
Today CERN is marking the 30th anniversary of the World Wide Web. It’s not the 30th anniversary of the public announcement of the Web, or the first browser, or indeed anything public about the Web. Rather, it’s the 3oth anniversary of this This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments […]
Typography has been one of the great challenges in digital design, particularly on the Web. The arrival of font embedding, and services like Typekit a few years ago extended the range of fonts available to designers significantly, but came with performance costs. And while designers developed ‘responsive’ techniques for layout, responsive typography, that adapts to […]
As we head toward our first major conference of the year, Design, in Melbourne April 11 and 12, we’re focussing on some of the sessions, topic and themes there. AI and Machine Learn have been on our agenda for quite some time now–we’ve had conferences dedicated to the intersection of technology, design and business with […]
The past few years have been filled with chatbot experiments—some brilliant, many not—but the future has yet to be experienced. As artificial intelligence capabilities advance, conversation will become the next major interaction model, not just a messenger experience. In this talk from Web Directions Summit 2018 Joe Toscano explained why conversation will play such a […]
In the leadup to our Design ’19 conference, we’re focussing on some of the sessions we think will really have an impact. Eva PenzeyMoog is a Lead Designer at 8th Light, who works to ensure that digital products cannot be be used as tools of abuse, with the goal of reducing harm in the world […]
You may be scratching your head and wondering what this post is all about. Web Directions runs conferences right. So what’s all this about insurance? Read on for more of why we have worked with Intuitive Insurance, an Australian Insurance Broker which specialises in insurance for the creative and technology industries, to put together a […]
One of the things we all noted as we worked on the original WorldWideWeb browser project at CERN recently was that the Web from its inception was designed to not only be a medium where you consumed information, but also one where you created it. The original Web browser was also an editor for Web […]
As we head toward our product design conference, Design ’19, we’re focussing on some of the sessions you’ll get the chance to see there. We’re really excited to have Jeff Veen back in Australia to speak for a very long time. Jeff is a genuine legend of the design world, going back to his days […]
In honour of our just released program for Design ’19, with a strong focus on Design Systems, this week we’re featuring Design ’19 speaker Jina Anne’s Web Directions Summit 2017 presentation, Design Systems are for People. Design systems have been around for ages; you can see a little bit into the history of them as […]
Web Directions has always had a strong focus on design; and yet it was only with the launch of our product design conference, Design last year, that we had a dedicated, stand alone event for all things digital product and service design. The response to last year’s Design was overwhelmingly positive, we’ve worked even harder on […]
We’ve seen all major social media platforms (and much more) abused and weaponised. Used to subvert democracies, foment ethnic hatred and violence.But the misuse of digital products and services isn’t just on the world stage. They open other vectors for intimate abuse, stalking, surveillance.The naive days of expecting the best of the good intentions with […]
We’re really excited to announce the program for Design Leaders ’19, our second Design Leaders conference, taking place in Melbourne on April 10. And early bird registrations are now open! Design Leaders was created to help those leading and managing design teams, as well as those aspiring to transition into these roles, address the unique […]
last week we focussed on one of they themes for Design ’19, our product design conference, scaling design–design systems and designops. This week as we reveal our Design ’19 program, we’ll focus on another key theme–privacy and safety, and how design can help curb abuse, and provide safe environments for your users. A note of […]
For much of the history of the Web, conversations and other digital analogues of real world social interaction have been a key part of user engagement. From Usenet, IRC to AOL Chatrooms and now Github, Reddit, and Twitter, design patterns like threaded commenting, liking and favoriting, up (and down voting) lie at the heart of […]
As we countdown to announcing the full Design ’19 program, we’ll focus some of the important themes for the event. At our conferences, curation of timely, important and valuable sessions is always a key concern. One of the challenges that keeps coming up in my conversations and reading is how to scale design. So, at […]
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