Our mission is to provide inspiration, motivation and insight into how you design the web. Draft Episode 04: Daniel Burka on Empathy
http://unmatchedstyle.com/news/draft-episode-04-daniel-burka-on-empathy.php
Our mission is to provide inspiration, motivation and insight into how you design the web. Draft Episode 04: Daniel Burka on Empathy
http://unmatchedstyle.com/news/draft-episode-04-daniel-burka-on-empathy.php
This week on the show we were joined by web and graphic designer Jason Santa Maria. We got a chance to talk to Jason about his work at Happy Cog, his personal work, projects like the Wordpress admin, the differences in designing for print and web, and we got to ask him some listener questions.
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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
From http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/videos_and_podcasts/more?page=11
Tagged with sxsw 2009 web design
Find inspiration in the ridiculous. See technological quirks as opportunities. Try something previously unheard of with your site design. Laugh in the face of convention. Use and abuse CSS in ways never before imagined. Get away with it. And if it doesn’t work, try something else instead.
Paul Annett, Clearleft Ltd
From http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/videos_and_podcasts/more?page=10
Tagged with sxsw 2009 web design css
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
From http://sxsw.com/interactive/news/videos_and_podcasts/more?page=9
Tagged with sxsw 2009 web design performance optimisation yslow
You know you need to do user research, but how? Should you write surveys, do focus groups, or develop personas? And how do you act on what you’ve learned? We’ve been in the trenches and have concrete suggestions on what you can, and should do NOW to conduct effective user research.
Mark Trammell Digg; Juliette Melton User Experience Mgr, Lumos Labs; Nate Bolt Bolt|Peters; Carla Borsoi VP Research & Analytics, Ask.com; Andy Budd Clearleft Ltd
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A panel at SXSW Interactive 2009 featuring Roger Black (founder of agencies huge and small), Kristina Halvorson (freelancer turned agency head), and Whitney Hess (agency pro turned freelance), and moderated by Jeffrey Zeldman. From http://www.zeldman.com/2009/03/30/freelance-to-agency-podcast/
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