Web Directions Year round learning for product, design and engineering professionals

As we lead into our Web design focussed event, Respond 16 (still time to grab a ticket at a great price, now coming to both Sydney and Melbourne), let’s take a look at some of the sessions attendees can look forward to.

Currently one of the major newspapers in the country (well, two of them, The Sydney Morning Herald in Sydney and The Age in Melbourne, both published by Fairfax Media) are undergoing complete redevelopments from the ground up, and the top down. We’re fortunate enough to have Dina Gohil and Lucinda Burtt from Fairfax, who’ve been heavily involved in the project to talk about their process, and what they’ve learned.

Meanwhile taking almost entirely the opposite approach, major Australian online electronics retailer, Kogan.com have taken an incremental approach to transition from a more traditional approach of having a mobile and a desktop optimised version of the site, to a single responsive site. Simon Knox, who leads their frontend efforts, will share their learnings in this “Tale of Two Redesigns”.

I’m really looking forward to the lessons each of these two major projects will share, which will be of value regardless of the scale of the sites you build, or the approach–incremental or big bang–you plan on taking.