HTML5 and CSS3 are the newest stars of the web: the cor ner stones of pro gres sive enhance ment, the future of online video, the eas i est way to build web appli ca tions for desk top and mobile devices, and a bril liant foun da tion upon which we can add complex inter ac tion and ani ma tion lay ers with javascript and Canvas; hap pily — thanks to much-improved browser sup port — we can now use them. In this ses sion, Dan Rubin will show you who’s already tak ing advan tage of these lat est addi tions to our tool box, what this means for inter face design ers, and how you can bring the same tech niques to your projects.
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Dan Rubin — Creativity, design and interaction with HTML5 and CSS3
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Suze Ingram – Would you like service design with that?
Service design is a new discipline which focuses on understanding what customers want, then designing services which meet their needs. Sound familiar? Web designers have focused on user-centred design for years to create websites and applications that are user friendly.
Service design is well established in Europe and North America and there’s already a handful of Australian businesses offering service design. What is it? Does experience in designing for screen interaction translate to designing services too? Will service design be the next big thing? Suze offers insight by drawing on her years of experience as a UX designer and researcher. She shows how service design might fit into your business in the future, who you might pitch it to, and what sort of skills you might need to deliver service design.
http://www.webdirections.org/resources/suze-ingram-would-you-like-service-design-with-that/
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Donna Spencer – Information seeking behaviours
Web Directions South 2009, Sydney Convention Centre, October 8 2.40pm.
When people use websites and intranets they are doing more than just ‘finding’ information. They may be looking for something they know about or exploring something brand new; filtering through large volumes then comparing results; getting an overview of a topic or diving deep. They may even think they want to find one thing, but actually need something entirely different.
Each of these information behaviours needs very different approaches to information architecture, information design and page layout. During this presentation, Donna will talk about each information behaviour, its key attributes, key design needs, and show good and bad examples of each.
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Robert Hoekman Jr — The essential elements of great web applications
A presentation given at at Web Directions User Experience, Melbourne Town Hall, May 16 2008, and Web Direction Government, Old Parliament House, Canberra, May 19 2008.
Most great web applications have a few key things in common. But can you name them? Better yet — can you achieve them consistently in your own projects?
In this closing keynote, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of the Amazon bestseller Designing the Obvious (New Riders) describes the seven qualities of great web-based software and how to achieve each and every one of them by learning to communicate through design. See why it’s important to build only what’s absolutely essential, apply instructive design, create error-proof interactions, surface commonly-used features, and more in this informative session that will change the way you work and enable your users to walk away from your software feeling productive, respected, and smart
From: http://www.webdirections.org/resources/robert-hoekman-jr/
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Matt Webb - Opening keynote: Escalante
The long run to the turn of the millennium got us preoccupied with conclusions. The Internet is finally taken for granted. The iPhone is finally ubiquitous computing come true. Let’s think not of ends, but dawns: it’s not that we’re on the home straight of ubicomp, but the beginning of a century of smart matter. It’s not about fixing the Web, but making a springboard for new economies, new ways of creating, and new cultures.
The 21st century is a participatory culture, not a consumerist one. What does it mean when small teams can be responsible for world-size effects, on the same playing field as major corporations and government? We can look at the Web - breaking down publishing and consuming from day zero - for where we might be heading in a world bigger than we can really see, and we can look at design - playful and rational all at once - to help us figure out what to do when we get there.
http://www.webdirections.org/resources/matt-webb-opening-keynote-escalante/