bigskinnyboy / Aaron Witherow
A {insert web related job title here} by day. From Northern Ireland but now reside in the sunny destination that is Melbourne. Occasionally pick up a camera and the odd worldly beer.
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Build Podcast #004
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Build Podcast #003
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Build Podcast #002
@keithbelfast talks to @goodonpaper and @standardistas’ Chris about inspired interfaces, lovely typefaces, x-factor and beer maps amongst other things.
Tagged with build conference 2010
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Build Podcast #001
Here’s the first of the Build “Podcast” - a preview of the week to come, featuring @goodonpaper, @keithbelfast, @nikf, some curry, a weather watch and a few beers. As the conference progresses we’ll be providing a short (hopefully!) recap of what’s gone down, and previewing what’s coming up.
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Simon Pascal Klein — Setting standards-friendly web type
Web typog ra phy has in the past two years seen a resur gence in inter est and many would agree only rightly so, with most of the con tent on the web still tex tual. However the range of tech ni cal options avail able for set ting type on the web is quite broad—not to men tion the range of styl is tic choices available—and often con fus ing. This ses sion aims to demys tify the cur rent tech niques avail able to set type on the web by com paring and con trast ing the var i ous options at hand while offer ing a set of good defaults and safe advice for not only mak ing it acces si ble but also plea sur able to read.
Tagged with wdx web directions wdx2010 simon pascal klein conference design typography standards
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Dan Rubin — Creativity, design and interaction with HTML5 and CSS3
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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Shane Morris — Interaction design school 101
When I first picked up Matthew Frederick’s book: “101 Things I Learned in Architecture School” I was struck by the num ber of prin ci ples of archi tec ture that can be directly applied to inter ac tion design, but also dis il lu sioned by the fact that Interaction Designers gen er ally do not have a sim i lar body of knowl edge to draw on. Sure we have lots of “process”, but rel a tively lit tle “wis dom” of the sort found in this book.
The field of Interaction Design isn’t very old — If we’re talk ing purely soft ware interface design, then let’s say about 25 years old. No sur prise, then, that we bor row heavily (and unashamedly) from a range of other, more estab lished, dis ci plines. We try to com pen sate for our rel a tive lack of a his tory, tra di tion or body of knowl edge by leverag ing oth ers’. That’s entirely appro pri ate — but how far does it get us? Interaction Design is an essen tial com po nent of the deliv ery of vir tu ally any prod uct or ser vice today. Many of us may already be at the point where we inter act with more dig i tal prod ucts in a day than we do phys i cal prod ucts, and many of the most impor tant trans ac tions in our lives are entirely vir tual. Maybe Interaction Design needs to be taken a bit more seriously?
In this talk I’d like to reflect on my almost 20 years as an inter ac tion designer — the things I’ve learned along the way, and the things I wish I would have learned at Interaction Design School, if such a thing had existed back then. Along the way we’ll review some of the 101 things we all should have learned in Interaction Design School, sourced from ixd101.com (the blog I share with Matt Morphett), and beyond.
Tagged with wdx web directions wdx2010 shane morris conference interaction design design
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Jeremy Keith — Explaining Ajax
Apart from being the buzz word de jour, what is this Ajax stuff that every one is talk ing about? Take a look at some imple men ta tions out there and start think ing about how Ajax can add value to your site.
Tagged with wdx2006 ajax javascript conference
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Jeremy Keith — Hijax
Hijax is all about apply ing pro gres sive enhance ment to Ajax. In the Hijax model, JavaScript isn’t used for advanced inten sive pro cess ing. Instead, the XMLHttpRequest object acts like a dumb waiter, pass ing infor ma tion back wards and for wards between the client and the server. By hijack ing the reg u lar func tion al ity and replac ing it with an enhanced Ajax ver sion, you can be assured that your web site will work with or without Ajax.
Tagged with ajax javascript hijax wdx
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