Do you speak CSS? CSS was developed with designers in mind, and natural language terms are used wherever possible to make it easy to understand and remember. Speaking in styles teaches designers the "language" that will be used to take their vision from the static visual comp to the live Internet.
Jason Cranford Teague, Bright Eye Media
Just as early filmmakers struggled to break free from the conventions of live theater, after 10+ years Web designers are still trapped in the structures of the past. Forget pages, linear text and other archaic vestiges of design’s print ancestry; the separation of content from presentation has already changed everything.
Dan Willis, Sapient
Tired of making web sites that work absolutely perfectly but just don’t look nice? If so, then The Principles of Beautiful Web Design is for you. A simple, easy-to-follow guide, illustrated with plenty of full-color examples, this book will lead you through the process of creating great designs from start to finish. Good design principles are not rocket science, and using the information contained in this book will help you create stunning web sites.
Jason Beaird, Cyberwoven
Career Renegade is 288 pages of kick-ass, real-world, seriously actionable strategies, resources and case-studies that walk you through the process of building your career around the activities, settings and people that make you come alive. Steering clear of new-age, self-help fluff, this veritable renegade roadmap dives squarely into how to turn nearly any passion into real money (often online), build a powerhouse personal brand, rally the cynics to your cause and leverage your passion, knowledge and platform to make a great living doing what you love, even in this economy.
Jonathan Fields, Career Renegade / Awake @ The Wheel
While many assert that "privacy is dead," the complex ways in which people try to control access and visibility suggest that it’s just very confused. Rather than throwing the baby out with the bath water, let’s discuss people’s understanding and experiences of privacy and find ways to 2.0-ify it.
danah boyd, Microsoft Research
Judith Donath, MIT Media Laboratory
Siva Vaidhyanathan, University of Virginia
Alice Marwick, New York University
Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow, the Firebug extension. Now working at Google, Steve discusses the next set of best practices he’s developed, including advanced techniques for loading JavaScript, where not to place inline scripts, and the importance of using multiple domains to improve web performance.
Steve Souders, Google
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Believe it or not both Amazon and Flickr have failed miserably at Web Services. In this talk we’ll take a look at their failures, show how they could be fixed, and show how to properly use REST principles to create Web Services that don’t fail.
Gregg Pollack, Rails Envy
Jonathan Zittrain warns how the migration to closed systems will end innovation on the Internet and facilitate unsettling new kinds of control and offers solutions for avoiding this web lockdown.
Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School / Berkman Center for Internet & Society
With all the stuff we weed through online, good filters are crucial. Who’s best-suited to determine what’s best, curators or the crowd? People have their religion about one or the other, however this panel will focus on the overlap, the grey areas and how curating and crowd-sourcing enrich each other.
Jen Bekman, Jen Bekman Projects / 20x200
Paddy Johnson, Art Fag City
Nion McEvoy, Chronicle Books
Dustin Hostetler, skinnyCorp
Gina Trapani, Lifehacker.com
The Web is not just about information, it’s about people. In this presentation, Facebook’s Dave Morin will discuss the industry’s efforts to move toward a more social Web, and how openness can create a better experience for users sharing and connecting across the Web.
Dave Morin, Facebook Inc.
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