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Dmitry Baranovskiy - How to be a Web Sorcerer from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.708949
The Web is a purely magical substance that is built by us, web developers. How can it be that the web is totally technical, yet we all know some kids who we can call magicians of the Web. Some peop...
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Mike Kuniavsky - Design [in|for|and] the age of ubiquitous computing from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.703994
Let’s start with the assumption that computing and networking are as cheap to incorporate into product designs as plastic and aluminum. Anything can tweet, everything knows about everything. The cl...
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Scott Bryant&Simon Wright - Designing for change and disruption from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.699403
Change is never a smooth process. How do know when disruption is useful and how do you cope with the feedback on it? Recently news.com.au, a national news website with large numbers of daily visito...
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Greg Rewis - Move it! CSS3 Transitions and Animations from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.694752
Since the early days of the web, the only reliable way to get movement on your site was through Flash, or more recently, Javascript. But now, with WebKit and Mozilla leading the way, transformation...
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Natalie Downe&Simon Willison - Lanyrd: From side project to startup from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.689851
Natalie and Simon launched the first version of Lanyrd.com while on honeymoon in Casablanca. As the site took off, they realised their side project was destined to become something much bigger. Thi...
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Lisa Herrod - Accessibility for web teams: Recategorising WCAG 2 using a role-based approach from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.684240
The application of web accessibility guidelines in a holistic manner across all roles of a web team continues to encounter resistance. This is often due to a lack of resources and knowledge, or no ...
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Michael Honey&Tim Riley - Web or native? Smart choices for smartphone apps from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.679147
Computers are increasingly being held in the hand rather than sitting atop lap or desk. We now have to consider how our products will work underneath a finger instead of a mouse cursor. Increasingl...
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Rob Manson - Web standards based Augmented Reality from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.673174
Augmented Reality lets you peel away the blinkers from your real world eyes to see the rich data and information that exists all around you. But up until now it has relied largely on proprietary to...
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Peter Mika - Making the Web searchable from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.668929
The key idea of the Semantic Web is to make information on the Web easily consumable by machines. As machines start to understand web pages as sources of data that can be easily combined with other...
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Robert O’Callahan - The Open Web Platform in the mobile era from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.664729
Mozilla is dedicated to ensuring that competition and innovation thrive on the Internet. In the last decade we rescued the Web from a near-monopoly and restored competition to the browser market. N...
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Gian Wild - WCAG2 accessibility: the hidden nuggets from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.660161
WCAG2 is a long series of documents. Gian Wild knows this better than most: she spent six years on the W3C WCAG Working Group writing them. It’s a lot to ask that every developer and project manage...
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Adam Bell&David Peterson - Bringing History Alive: Telling stories with Linked Data and open source tools from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.657042
The Australian War Memorial is connecting and enriching online archives and collections toward building a platform for telling history. Through Drupal 7 and Linked Data, the Memorial intends to dev...
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Julio Cesar Ody - CSS3 and Backbone.js for killer mobile apps from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.653592
Learn how to build great looking and high performance mobile web applications leveraging CSS3 animations and Backbone.js, along with some cool use cases for geolocation and localStorage. This sess...
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Christopher Giffard - HTML5 Video, Captioning, and Timed Metadata from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.648279
HTML5 Video has been a hot topic for the last couple of years - but with new additions to the specification, we can now extend it beyond all recognition. In this session we’ll look at basic timed d...
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Tom Hughes-Croucher - Up and Running with Node.js from 2023-12-12T19:31:55.641946
Learn how to build high performance Internet and web applications with Node.js. In is session Tom Hughes-Croucher will demonstrate how to quickly build a high performance chat server using Node.js....
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The Future of Web Interfaces - Cameron Adams from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.374744
We’re at an exciting time in the development of web-based interfaces - along with a maturing front-end toolkit (CSS&JavaScript), there are so many technologies, trends and exciting ideas emerging t...
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Information Visualization as a medium - Eric Rodenbeck from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.371863
Information visualization is becoming more than a set of tools and technologies and techniques to understand large data sets. It is emerging as a medium in its own right, with a wide range of expre...
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AJAX Security - Douglas Crockford from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.363381
Security design is an important, but often neglected, component of system design. In this session, Douglas Crockford, creator of Javascript Object Notation, will outline the security issues that mu...
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Government 2.0: Architecting for Collaboration - Tara Hunt from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.359670
What does Web 2.0 mean and, specifically, what does it mean for the future of governments? Tara Hunt has been speaking all over the world, talking to government audiences on this subject. She belie...
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The Why and How: UI Case Studies - Daniel Burka from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.357331
User interface design is an iterative process - the design of Digg and Pownce have been a study in evolution and adaptation. This talk will inspect the why and how of these iterations by looking at...
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Mobile Web Design&Development - Brian Fling from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.354922
Mobile technology is poised to revolutionize how we gather information. By 2010 half the population of the planet will have access to the internet through a mobile device, making the mobile web an ...
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Designing the experience curve - Andy Budd from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.273307
These days people expect more from a website than a handy set of tools and a pretty interface - they want an experience. From the moment somebody enters your site they’ll be judging you on everythi...
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Getting content right - Donna Spencer from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.261856
We all know that great content is a core part of the website user experience. So why is it so hard to find content that isn’t dull, lifeless and uninteresting - blah, blah, blah? Web content can b...
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Analysing user research data - Steve Baty from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.259325
In our efforts to better understand the end users of the sites&applications we design, we generate a great deal of data. That data is useless to us until it has been analyzing and interpreted. This...
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Converting research findings into business speak - Jackie Moyes from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.257067
Getting your company to adopt a user-centred design approach can be an uphill struggle. The first stage typically is to get them to agree to incorporate usability testing in to the development proc...
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Delivering user experience to the inbox: designing for email - Mathew Patterson from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.254437
So you’ve designed a fantastic website for your client, tested in all the major browsers and everything looks great. Now they want to send an email newsletter to all their customers, using the new ...
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The mobile web user experience - we’re starting to get it right! - Oliver Weidlich from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.251651
Historically the mobile web has been a terrible experience, but things are starting to change. Really! We are now at the point that the mobile web is becoming easier to access, both on-deck&off-dec...
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Web visualisation: do you see what I see? - Jeremy Yuille from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.249192
The web is packed with information and knowledge, but too often our efforts to understand what’s important or relevant are stymied by antiquated methods of presentation. At the same time, more and ...
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The essential elements of great web applications - Robert Hoekman Jr from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.239190
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...
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Jeffrey Veen - Designing our way through data from 2022-03-07T00:30:24.159436
The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take ...
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Kevin Yank - CSS frameworks from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.962040
With the proliferation and widespread adoption of JavaScript frameworks, smart developers have wondered if a similar approach to smoothing over the rough spots of CSS might work. Thus, CSS framewor...
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Rob Manson - Pervasive computing from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.889973
At Xerox PARC in the early 90’s Mark Weiser predicted a fundamental shift would move the user’s experience of computing away from the desktop and out into the"real"world. During the late 90’s the w...
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Deborah Schultz - It's the people, stupid! from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.887190
The most interesting problems on the web are social, not technical. Once the open, social stack moves into wide use, the real work is going to be on us to create ongoing experiences that inspire, i...
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Tania Lang - Using AJAX to enhance UX from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.882081
AJAX is changing the way that users interact with websites - it has the potential to provide richer and more interactive online user experiences but also introduces its own set of usability and acc...
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Tatham Oddie - Practicing Web Standards in the Large from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.682317
Web standards might be second nature to all of us here, but they don't always fly so easily in the enterprise. Obscure browsers and CIOs watching their bottom line can often leave a passionate deve...
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Juliette Melton - Running effective remote studies from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.677184
Remote research can raise the quality and lower the costs of your user research efforts; using a combination of surveys, video, screensharing, and phone, you can connect with a much broader range o...
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Michael(tm) Smith - HTML5 Report Card from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.667262
Remember how fun it was to do hands-on classroom projects together in kindergarten? Well, this interactive session is going to be like that, but just with bigger people. In the first part of the s...
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Dan Rubin - Creativity, design and interaction with HTML5 and CSS3 from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.664919
HTML5 and CSS3 are the newest stars of the web: the cornerstones of progressive enhancement, the future of online video, the easiest way to build web applications for desktop and mobile devices, an...
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Daniel Davis - Widgets: Why should I care? from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.662254
When I was a young lad, I had the use of a computer for the Christmas holidays so I typed out my thank you letters and felt super cool. Unfortunately there was no printer. I wrote out by hand what ...
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Silvia Pfeeiffer - HTML5 Audio and Video from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.659702
With three different audio and video codec formats each supported by the diverse HTML5 capable Web browsers, plus the need to deal with fallback for older browsers, HTML5 media is not the simple so...
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Dmitry Baranovskiy - Raphaël: native web vector graphics library from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.657400
As SVG and Canvas come of age, every developer who loves standards is wanting to use them in production to make eye-popping effects. But then they come up against the inevitable lack of support in ...
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Paula Bray - Connected digital initiatives and strategies from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.654531
The Powerhouse Museum has been working towards making its digital initiatives widely accessible and to a broader audience, online and onsite, to enable a connected digital future. With a blossomin...
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Scott Thomas - Designing Obama from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.637355
Join Scott Thomas, a lead web designer on President Obama’s electoral campaign, as he explains how to design online communities that resonate and motivate. All too often, discussions of analytics, ...
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Sebastian Deterding - Closing keynote: Don’t play games with me with me from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.373726
In 1960, Milton Bradley published"The Game of Life": a capitalist wet dream of a board game, won by the lucky one who retired richest. Today,"gamification"vendors still take Milton Bradley seriousl...
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Hannah Donovan - Designing without the browser from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.371128
Innovation is intensifying off the browser - the things we use everyday are increasingly controlled by touch, gesture and voice. And we, as interaction designers, are faced with a challenge that’s ...
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Bruce Lawson - Native multimedia with HTML5 from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.365489
A much-??????hyped feature of HTML5 is native multimedia. In this session we’ll look at embedding. We’ll look at the pros and the cons of HTML5 multimedia and see how to write simple controls with ...
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Michael Mahemoff - HTML5 offline for fun and performance from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.362894
With HTML5, we can now cache our applications and the data that goes with them. This means our favourite programming platform can now be used to build apps that work offline, survive intermittent d...
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Jonathan Stark - The mobile frameworks landscape from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.360655
There’s little hotter in the world of web development right now than creating optimized web experiences and applications for mobile web enabled devices like iPhone, Android, iPad and webOS. Luckily...
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Brian Suda - Visualising Data from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.358083
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is estimated to produce 15 petabytes of data per year. This is difficult to store let alone understand! With connected devices quickly out numbering connected peopl...
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Lea Verou - Mastering CSS3 gradients from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.355548
With most browsers adding increasing support, and the simplicity of providing fallbacks for those that don’t, CSS3 gradients are something we can start to use right now. They benefit our users with...
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Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis - CSS3 - the Web’s Swiss Army Knife from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.352404
Throughout the years, the Swiss Army Knife has been the trusted companion of scouts and explorers alike, and for front-??end developers, CSS has been a trusty, if sometimes frustrating, companion. ...
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Addy Osmani - Tools for jQuery Application Architecture from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.293761
Modern JavaScript development often has to address a number of different concerns ranging from the use of architectural patterns such as MVC to improve code organisation, through to JavaScript temp...
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Douglas Crockford - Server Side JavaScript from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.290619
We first got server side JavaScript in 1996. This time, we’re going to get it right. Douglas Crockford is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur, best known for his ongoing involvement...
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Tom Coates - Opening keynote: A New Network from 2022-03-07T00:30:23.287741
The work we’re collectively doing-opening up gradually all of human information and media, making it recombinable, helping people create and share their work-is a huge unspoken, sexy, world-????red...
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Damon Oehlman - HTML5 API Soup from 2011-10-23T11:17:28
Most jaw-dropping apps use multiple HTML5 APIs in creative ways, rather than a single API in isolation. In this session we will explore ways you can implement and combine HTML APIs such as websocke...
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Addy Osmani - Scalable JavaScript Design Patterns from 2011-10-23T10:24:12
Would you like to learn how to organize your JavaScript applications so they can scale? Be able to write apps that support switching out Dojo or jQuery without rewriting a line of code? Application...
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Andrew Fisher - How the web is going physical from 2011-10-23T10:03:03
In 2020 there will be nearly 10 times as many Internet connected devices as there are human beings on this planet. The majority of these will not have web browsers. When it comes to the"Internet of...
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Jeremy Ashkenas - A Cup of CoffeeScript from 2011-10-23T09:45:14
After a lost decade in the wilderness, JavaScript is starting to change and evolve. We’ll look at CoffeeScript, a little language that compiles into JavaScript, providing concise ways to to write m...
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Stephen P Anderson - Keynote: Sustaining Passionate Users from 2011-06-26T12:02:44
That user who just signed up is about to bail. And a thousand other people just stopped in but didn’t even bother to register. Your product is great, but your users don’t stay long enough to find t...
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Ross Boucher - Quality Control: Testing and debugging your apps from 2011-06-12T15:45:51
Developers have long been able to use an array of debugging, profiling and other testing tools to ensure application quality and performance. More recently, web developers have started to rely on i...
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Dave Balmer - Rockstar graphics with HTML5 from 2011-06-12T15:35:23
In this session Dave will cover high-????performance presentation and animation using HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3 and Canvas. Examples will include mobile-????friendly techniques you can use today for ...
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Dave Orchard - Offline Web Apps with HTML5 from 2011-06-12T15:32:24
There’s an old expression, that there are only 2 hard problems in computing: naming, cache invalidation and off-??by-??one errors. Building offline web apps is all about those hard problems. There ...
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Relly Annett-??Baker - Content Strategy for Apps from 2011-06-12T15:30:01
Dear app makers, I love the stuff you have been putting out recently. Supercool maps, guides, syncing and such make my day. There’s just one little thing. As a content strategist and writer, I’ve ...
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Chris Wilson - Keynote: The Convergence of All Things from 2011-06-12T15:27:15
This keynote will focus on the unique potential offered to web developers - the ability to use the web platform to build compelling applications that reach across different devices, scenarios and e...
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Robby Ingebretsen - Get your game on: HTML5 for game building from 2011-06-12T15:22:49
You’ve seen a lot of demos, but is HTML5 really ready for primetime? We made an HTML5-??based pool game with the explicit goal of creating an experience that defies your expectations for what a bro...
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Juliette Melton - Mobile User Experience Research from 2011-05-29T15:18:39
Most user experience research takes place sitting behind a computer. And yet these days, most networked experiences are happening on mobile devices. Some common user experience research methods wor...
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Dan Saffer - Top Ten Things To Tackle Touchscreens from 2011-05-29T14:27:48
The average size of an adult human’s finger pad is 10-??14mm. The average size of a cursor or stylus tip is 1-??2mm. That fact alone means that designing native touchscreen apps is an entirely diff...
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Daniel Davis - Widgets in Theory and Practice from 2011-05-29T14:12:56
In the absence of a"Widgets for Dummies"book being available at your local bookstore, this presentation will try to bring you up-??to-??speed with what you need to know to start developing widgets....
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Daniels Lee (TM) - Designing for the 10 foot UI from 2011-05-29T13:33:18
The web platform has already taken a center role in our desktop and mobile computing lives. The next space for the web platform to take over is the biggest screen in your house - the TV in your liv...
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Aaron Parecki - Geolocation from 2011-05-29T13:27:45
While location-??based mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular, they are still relatively new. Special considerations need to be made for battery life and handling large data sets of geolocat...
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Divya Manian - Creative CSS3 from 2011-05-29T12:11:44
Being a front-??end designer used to mean pixel hacking and endless rounds of pain while trying to make sites and applications"look the same in each browser". Thankfully, we now live in more intere...
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Dave Balmer - HTML5 Graphics: Canvas Deep Dive from 2011-05-29T11:49:38
The Canvas tag has been around for a while, and HTML5 has given it more visibility. It’s now finding its way into most mobile browsers, and even a majority of desktop browsers. This talk will give ...
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Rachel Hinman - Mobile Prototyping Essentials from 2011-05-29T11:22:52
We’ve heard it all before: prototype, prototype, prototype. It’s a standard step in almost any design process - but often the first step skipped in time and budget constrained projects. While proto...
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Nicholas Zakas - Mobile web speed bumps from 2011-05-29T11:06:35
As browsers explode with new capabilities and migrate onto devices users can be left wondering,"what’s taking so long?"Learn how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the web itself conspire against a fast-??...
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Aaron Weyenberg - Realistic UI design from 2011-05-29T10:32:38
A new generation of touch devices have proven to be exciting playgrounds for app designers. And with every new product we create, we have the opportunity to offer the most clear and efficient exper...
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Jason Grigsby - Keynote: Native is easy. Mobile web is freaking hard! from 2011-05-29T10:18:48
No one who advocates for the mobile web wants to admit it, but it is true. Native is easier. It’s easier to sell to stakeholders. Easier to monetize. And most importantly, easier to implement.Argu...
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David Gravina - Design Thinking (and Doing) from 2010-11-17T14:57:49
Many web professionals practice creative, collaborative and inclusive approaches to our work. As UX designers, information architects, strategists, or programmers - we are all designers, and we are...
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Lisa Herrod - The Age of Awareness from 2010-11-17T14:06:57
Inclusive design. It might sound like a rebranding exercise from the Web Accessibility Marketing Team, but it isn’t. For years inclusive design and research practices have been applied to a wide va...
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Gordon Grace - More than raw: government data online from 2010-11-17T13:48:49
The USA and UK governments have made significant progress with linked, open data in recent months. Several fundamental datasets from the Australian Government are on the cusp of being exposed as me...
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Shane Morris - Interaction design school 101 from 2010-10-30T11:47:33
When I first picked up Matthew Frederick's book:"101 Things I Learned in Architecture School"I was struck by the number of principles of architecture that can be directly applied to interaction des...
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Paul Hagon - Enriching large data sets from 2010-10-30T10:14:52
Libraries contain masses of beautifully structured data collected over many years. But these records may have their flaws and might now want to be used in ways, such as location based services, tha...
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Josh Williams - Keynote: Where are we going? from 2010-10-23T15:08:42
Today's web is being defined more than ever by buzzwords, catchphrases, fads and trends. Startups are being created for startups sake, standards are being hijacked by so-called"social media gurus,"...
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Knud Möller - RDFa everywhere from 2010-10-23T14:26:35
RDFa is a W3C standard for embedding semantic metadata directly into HTML web pages. While early work on RDFa dates back to 2004, it recently gathered a lot of uptake and traction through the adopt...
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Donna Spencer - Keeping your content alive from cradle to grave from 2010-10-23T14:13:41
By now we all know that the web is not a publication - that it's a living, evolving thing. But a lot of content I see still appears to be'published'once and then left alone. This talkis about what...
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Mark Nottingham - Browser Caching and You (A Love Story) from 2010-10-23T13:56:21
Over time, Web developers have feared, hated and loved Web caching, at times trying to kill it, at others professing undying love. Mark Nottingham (chair of the IETF HTTPbis Working Group and autho...
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Divya Manian - Active Web Development from 2010-10-23T13:42:54
Web technologies are evolving at such a frenetic pace that it becomes almost mandatory to learn on your own. A lot of us still depend on other people to do this learning for us, and we tend to use ...
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Patrick Lee - JavaScript Sprachraum from 2010-10-23T12:44:12
Despite being an option on web servers as early as 1995 with Netscape's LiveWire, JavaScript has long been regarded as a language only of the browser. Approaching sweet sixteen JavaScript has evol...
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Myles Eftos - Building mobile web apps from 2010-10-23T12:24:21
There is no denying that the Apple App Store is huge, but who wants to have to deal with Objective-C? Thankfully, technologies like PhoneGap and Sencha allow web developers to work in languages the...
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Michael Mahemoff - HTML5: Online and Offline from 2010-10-23T11:29:30
HTML5 introduces several so-called"offline"technologies: application caching, local storage, and file access, to name a few. But these technologies are not just for purely offline apps; they boost ...
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Andy Clarke - Hardboiled web design from 2010-10-23T10:52:20
Andy Clarke’s Hardboiled Web Design is an uncompromising look at how to make the most from modern design tools and browsers, up-to-date techniques and processes. In this practical, design focussed ...
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Ben Schwarz - Building a better web with HTML5 from 2010-10-22T20:48:05
Devices have caught up; That is, our technology dreams from the mid 90's have finally been realised. However since this time, HTML has lay dormant. We've been through a decade of tech wasteland. It...
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Grant Young - Creating platforms for social innovation from 2010-10-22T20:32:56
People are redefining the relationship they have with the organisations they interact with, empowered by social technologies. They are seeking: - Human-ness: as organisations have grown in size a...
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Max Wheeler - Location, location, geolocation from 2010-10-22T20:18:54
Phones with GPS are now widely available and the growing support for the JavaScript geolocation API means location based services aren't restricted to the realm of native applications. Now is the t...
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Simon Pascal Klein - Setting standards-friendly web type from 2010-10-22T18:43:06
Web typography has in the past two years seen a resurgence in interest and many would agree only rightly so, with most of the content on the web still textual. However the range of technical option...
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Matt Balara - Flogging design: best practices in online shop design from 2010-10-22T18:30:37
Considering how many businesses depend upon the web for their income, it’s shocking how poorly designed most shops are. Not only aesthetically, but also as far as ease of use, retail psychology and...
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James Bridle - Wrangling Time: The Form and Future of the Book from 2010-10-22T18:22:51
The internet has been around long enough now that it has a proper history, and it has started to produce media and artefacts that live in and comment on that history. James will be talking about hi...
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Craig Mod - How digital affects books and publishing from 2010-10-22T17:08:29
We need to decouple the idea of'book'from the mental image we carry around of'book.'The innovation and benefit that digital brings to books and publishing lies less in how digital affects final art...
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Steve Souders - Even Faster Web Sites from 2010-10-22T16:41:59
Web 2.0 is adding more and more content to our pages, especially features that are implemented in Ajax. But our web applications are evolving faster than the browsers that they run in. We don't hav...
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Aral Balkan - The Art of Emotional Design from 2010-08-14T10:07:31
Most apps suck. Making an app that doesn’t suck is hard work and requires uncompromising focus. We call apps that don’t suck"usable". However, in the Age of User Experience, making apps that are me...
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Jeremy Keith - Hot Topics from 2010-07-26T13:27:11
Continuing a popular @media tradition, the final session for day one, hosted by Jeremy Keith, will feature a handful of speakers discussing questions posed by conference attendees. Wear your flak j...
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Doug Schepers - SVG Today and Tomorrow from 2010-07-24T11:18:25
Thought SVG was dead? Think again. Once relegated to plug-in status, Scalable Vector Graphics is now spreading rapidly, in browsers, mobiles, and even televisions, with broad native support and gra...
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Rachel Andrew - Core CSS3 from 2010-07-24T10:59:40
This session will be a solid introduction to CSS3 by way of practical examples that can get you started using CSS3 on your projects today. Rachel Andrew will take you through some of the core feat...
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Tom Hughes-Croucher - An introductions to server-side JavaScript from 2010-07-19T17:14:06
Server-side JavaScript has really started to take off, with a number of great projects providing different pieces of the puzzle. This talk will introduce server-side JavaScript and provide an overv...
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Mark Boulton - Designing grid systems from 2010-07-19T16:32:02
Grid systems have been used in print design, architecture and interior design for generations. Now, on the web, the same rules of grid system composition and usage no longer apply. Content is viewe...
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John Resig - Mobile JavaScript testing from 2010-07-19T15:49
This talk will be a comprehensive look at what you need to know to properly test your web applications on mobile devices. We’ll look at the different mobile phones that exist, what browsers they ru...
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Simon Willison - Building crowdsourcing applications from 2010-07-19T15:01:14
Crowdsourcing applications take indigestible tasks and break them down into digestible pieces, enabling a group to help plough through large scale projects in much shorter periods of time. Designi...
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Christian Crumlish - Designing for play from 2010-07-19T12:21:12
Taking ideas from game design, musical instrument design, and play-acting techniques including improv and bodystorming, Christian will address the role of play in digital experiences and how we can...
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Patrick Lauke - Brave New World of HTML5 from 2010-07-19T11:05:06
HTML5 was originally called Web Applications 1.0, but that doesn’t mean it’s only for scripters - there’s plenty for markup monkeys as well as JavaScript junkies. We’ll look at new structural elem...
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Sandi Wassmer - Inclusive design is for everyone from 2010-07-19T10:07:36
Inclusive Design is currently the domain of people who design physical things, like product designers and architects, but Sandi Wassmer is firm in her belief that Inclusive Design applied in the on...
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Remy Sharp - Browsers with wings: HTML5 APIs from 2010-07-19T09:15:57
HTML5 is all the rage with the cool kids, and although there’s a lot of focus on the new language, there’s plenty for web app developers with new JavaScript APIs both in the HTML5 spec and separate...
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Ryan Seddon - Remote debugging landscape from 2010-07-17T17:08:47
More and more as front-end developers we are presented with new challenges, with the explosion of the mobile web it has created a whole new territory. How do we test the vast array of devices out t...
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Hannah Donovan - Telling stories through design from 2010-07-11T09:51:08
Hannah Donovan will talk about the designer as a storyteller - especially in terms of the importance of this role within a team. Improve your output as a designer by taking a closer look at influen...
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Relly Annett-Baker - All the small things from 2010-07-10T11:45:39
Microcopy is the ninja of online content. Fast, furious and deadly, it has the power to make or break your online business, to kill or stay your foes. It’s a sentence, a confirmation, a few words. ...
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Damien McCormack - Accessibility means business from 2009-11-23T11:25:04
Over 4 million people in Australia have a disability. As a result they may use the web in a different way to you: a keyboard instead of a mouse; a screen reader instead of a screen. Accessibility i...
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Gian Wild - WCAG2 from 2009-11-20T09:08:51
So WCAG2 - version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines as set out by the W3C’s Web Accessibility Initiative - has been released as a Candidate Recommendation. What does that mean for Aust...
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Dmitry Baranovskiy - Canvas from 2009-10-23T12:28:38
Since the earliest days of the web, perhaps the single biggest missing piece of functionality has been a standards based, browser native way for developers to do 2D (and 3D) rendering. Now, the Can...
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Matt Webb - Opening keynote: Escalante from 2009-10-20T13:30:19
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 e...
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Mark Stanton - Best practices for speeding up your site from 2009-10-19T13:37:35
As we pack our pages with AJAX and RIA goodness we often lose sight of the fact that the key to exceptional user experience is the responsiveness of your site. Inspired by the excellent work by Yah...
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Grant Robinson - Visualising the user experience from 2009-10-19T11:59:23
Designing for dynamic web applications and mobile devices poses a new set of challenges. Web designers are increasingly being asked to apply their skills to where the page model no longer applies. ...
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Elliot Jay Stocks - Progressive Enhancement from 2009-10-19T09:18:55
In the summer of ‘07 in a flood-soaked Oxford, England, Elliot appeared on stage for the very first time. His presentation, ‘Progressive Enhancement&Intentional Degradation’, looked at how to rewar...
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Rob Mitchell&Mike Williams - Test your JavaScript from 2009-10-17T19:00:59
Increasingly, web-application behaviour is split between logic running on the server, and JavaScript logic running in the browser. Automated testing of the server-side component is fairly common, b...
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Andrew Fisher - Cloud computing from 2009-10-16T14:17:51
Infrastructure and service costs are always a priority for any business, whether client-side or agency-side, especially now when we’re all trying to be particularly spend-efficient. A cloud technol...
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Luke Stevens - Data driven design from 2009-10-16T12:40:17
Far from being the enemy, data can be a designer’s best friend. So much so that it just might be the backbone of the next evolution of web design. Data doesn’t mean less creativity and experimentat...
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Lachlan Hardy - The open web from 2009-10-16T10:28:57
The Open Web is an evolving term that encompasses technologies from web standards stalwarts like HTML, to almost-mainstream buzzwords such as OpenID, and on to emerging specifications like Portable...
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Pete Ottery - Designing for suits from 2009-10-16T09:55:27
Designing websites in amongst the"suits"and their business models, targets, projections and synergies (ha!) can be death by dot point. Or fun. What are manager types actually thinking when they bri...
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Suze Ingram - Would you like service design with that? from 2009-10-15T13:43:14
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 des...
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Cheryl Gledhill&Scott Gledhill - Beyond SEO from 2009-10-15T11:55:14
Search engine optimisation (SEO) is a unique mix of marketing, usability and technology which can often cause confusion on how it is implemented across different organisations. An important part of...
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Jeremy Yuille - The social life of visulization from 2009-10-15T11:46:09
When visualization is coupled with collective intelligence it becomes a very powerful tool for making sense of the data that is now an increasing part of our personal and organizational experience....
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Donna Spencer - Information seeking behaviours from 2009-10-15T09:09:38
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 lar...
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Christian Crumlish - Designing social interactions from 2009-10-14T15:11:11
Designing for social interaction is hard. People are unpredictable, consistency is a mixed blessing, and co-creation with your users requires a dizzying flirtation with loss of control. Christian w...
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Kelly Goto - Keynote: WorldFLOW from 2009-10-14T12:21:45
Shift your thinking, alter your process, and create a dynamic of doing rather than spinning. Workflow veteran Kelly Goto leads you through a fast-paced session designed to help transcend obstacles ...
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Cameron Adams - Keynote: Making Waves from 2009-10-14T11:57:53
If you work on the web, it was hard to miss the announcement of Google Wave in May. It was especially exciting because this project, designed to leapfrog current modes of online communication, was ...
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Ben Galbraith - The state of developer tools from 2009-10-14T10:56:41
For many years, developing for the web left quite a bit to be desired when it came to the tools at developers disposal, particularly in comparison with the sorts of development environments availab...
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Myles Byrne - Internationalization - a guide to dealing with the web’s favorite 20-letter word from 2008-10-31T13:37:25
So, you’ve decided to tap into a whole new world of business oppportunities by stepping outside the anglocentric world. That’s great! But the process of internationalisaton can be a genuine minefie...
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Dmitry Baranovskiy - Start using web vector graphics today from 2008-10-30T12:30:48
With the growth of interactivity in web applications we are pushing Javascript to its limits, not to mention the limits of HTML and CSS. And so we spend our days resorting to Flash, waiting for tha...
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Mark Pesce - Closing keynote: This, that, and the other thing from 2008-10-30T10:59:51
This is what it feels like to be hyperconnected: a new kind of community - pervasive, continuous, yet strangely tense and tenuous, like a balloon inflated to the point of bursting. The limits of th...
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Jina Bolton - Creating sexy stylesheets from 2008-10-29T14:13:51
Being a CSS expert is about more than just memorizing selectors. It’s also about working to improve the maintainability and efficiency of your style sheets, planning for the future, and mastering y...
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August de los Reyes - Predicting the past from 2008-10-29T12:25:18
A new inflection point in human-computer interaction is upon us. Along with other technologies, Microsoft Surface marks a departure from graphical user interface or GUI into the world of Natural Us...
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Michael (tm) Smith - A jungle cruise through the wild regions of HTML5 and surrounding territories from 2008-10-28T16:46:07
You’re invited to join a narrated exploration into the exotic regions of HTML5 and surrounding territories. Your journey will begin with a preparatory briefing about what to expect from HTML5 - wha...
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Ruth Ellison - Integrating accessibility into design from 2008-10-28T15:02:25
When developing websites or web applications, we often follow the principles of web standards, Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and other accessibility guidelines. But is this enough? In this s...
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Douglas Crockford - Ajax security from 2008-10-28T13:45:01
Security design is an important, but often neglected, component of system design. In this session, Douglas Crockford, creator of Javascript Object Notation, will outline the security issues that mu...
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Myles Eftos - Web APIs, Oauth and OpenID: A developer’s guide from 2008-10-28T13:20:34
Online web applications are big business, with many people relying on the cloud for data storage and workflow. These days, an API is an essential part of any online system, but this presents authen...
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Laurel Papworth - The business of being social from 2008-10-28T11:33:17
It’s not true that there are no proven monetisation models for online communities; in fact, there are distinct revenue streams that have been successful over many years. This session looks at the s...
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Daniel Burka - Changing successfully: Adapting your interface over time from 2008-10-28T10:37:57
User interface design is an iterative process - the design of Digg and Pownce have been a study in evolution and adaptation. This talk will inspect the why and how of these iterations by looking at...
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Lynne d Johnson - Opening keynote: New media - new business from 2008-10-27T11:47:52
Lynne will set the tone of the conference this year with insights into the future of media drawn from her wealth of experience in business, media and online communities as Senior Editor at Fast Com...
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Jeff Croft - Elegant web typography from 2008-10-24T16:43
Even in our day of web videos and podcasts, text is still the king of content on the web. Great typographic sensitivity is one of the hallmarks of sites that exude a professional confidence. From t...
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Gabriel White - Sensing context in mobile design from 2008-10-24T15:36:21
Mainstream mobile devices are being loaded with sensors. These devices can be used to create experiences that are tailored, adaptive and responsive to the way people live and work. Location-awarene...
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Nick Bolton - The evolution and commercialisation of online video from 2008-10-24T12:08:31
Internet video has come a long way from the postage stamp generic media player to the commercial success it is today. This session looks at this journey, and examines the multitude of online video...
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Hurol Inan - Informing experience architecture with quantitative insights from 2008-10-23T16:40:16
Quantitative insights gathered through online analytics can contribute greatly to the design and optimisation of online experience architectures. Analytical techniques can be used to understand- W...
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David Peterson - Semantic web for distributed social networks from 2008-10-23T14:28:58
Hear how Drupal, Semantic MediaWiki and other bleeding edge tech were enlisted along with pixie dust, FOAF, RDF, OWL, SPARQL, Linked Data (basically all the Semantic Web stuff) to build a distribut...
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Diana Mounter - Custom V CMS - don’t take sides from 2008-10-23T13:43:15
When I was introduced into the role of managing web projects, I naively believed a Content Management System would solve all my problems. Growing my little empire of content authors I had little id...
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Kay Smoljak - Starting&Running a Web Development Business from 2008-10-22T16:17:11
Working for yourself is a dream that many web designers and developers have. You can pick and choose your clients, work in your pajamas, and sleep in until 10am every day if you want to. But there’...
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Pete Ottery and Tim Lucas - Developing for iPhone from 2008-10-20T14:05:34
The release of Apple’s iPhone brings new opportunities for web sites and web apps on handheld devices, though not without its share of challenges and best practices. Tim and Pete will look at the ...
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Grant Young - Strategies for social media from 2008-10-16T12:07:54
With so many social networks blooming, all with different participants and methods of interaction, it can be hard to determine where to invest your energy, time and $$. The session will provide id...
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Social computing for knowledge management - Matthew Hodgson from 2008-06-23T15:20:43
The world is abuzz with social computing: Facebook, My Space, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, blogs, wikis and other spaces powered by Web 2.0 technology. It’s a social revolution, empowering individua...
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Web mapping - exploiting location based information through eGovernment - David Hayward from 2008-06-23T15:01:24
Government has huge amounts of information but how can this be effectively managed and delivered through the web? This session will ‘lift the lid’ on web mapping technology and identify some of the...
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Usability: more than skin deep - Lisa Herrod from 2008-06-23T13:48:47
Web Usability is far more complex than user testing and interaction design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface....
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One paper clip, a box of matches, and some JavaScript - Patrick Lee from 2008-06-23T13:03:17
Whoever you are, if you’re writing JavaScript, there’s some aspect of your development that you would love to change if you had the chance. But the reality is you’ll never find yourself working in ...
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GovDex - Collaborating online in a secure environment - Ralph Douglas from 2008-06-23T12:57:39
This session will look at the government collaborative tool Govdex, how it is currently used by agencies, what it provides, and how you can use it for your projects. GovDex is managed by the Austra...
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Opening up government data - Jenny Telford from 2008-06-23T11:57:53
Mapping and other mashups have taken the web world by storm - driving innovation in business and government alike. While much of the focus has been on the actual mashup applications, without the da...
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Real world web standards - Scott Gledhill from 2008-06-23T11:44:39
Those initial stages of converting your company to web standards are much like trying to score that first kiss with the princess. You seduce them with the business benefits of web-standards develop...
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Improving Government through better use of the Web - José Manuel Alonso from 2008-06-23T09:35:27
It’s no secret that just as the web has revolutionised business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionising how governments and citizens interact, and how government p...
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Movement (Closing Keynote) - Matt Webb from 2008-04-15T13:42:36
We’ve always had metaphors to understand and design for the Web.The original conception of the Web was as a library of documents. Our building blocks were derived from spatial ideas:"breadcrumbs","...
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Better Gmail: How Google Opened Gmail’s Web Interface to Any Developer Who Cares (And Why You Should) - Gina Trapani from 2008-04-15T13:39:45
Last year, Google released an experimental Greasemonkey API for Gmail: coding hooks that let anyone add CSS and Javascript to Gmail that enhances how it looks and behaves. Why would you want to do ...
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Five Essential Composition Tools for Web Typography - Kimberly Elam from 2008-04-15T13:35:37
Have you ever seen a web site so clear, logical, and exquisitely composed it made you stop in your tracks? Have you wondered how the designer achieved such a stunning and cohesive design?In this pr...
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Bedroom to Boardroom - Josh Williams from 2008-04-15T13:30:47
What happens when a designer decides to quit his day job, hang his shingle, and wakes up seven years later nowhere remotely close to where he imagined he would be? This frank, semi-informal discuss...
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Working with Ajax Frameworks - Jonathan Snook from 2008-04-11T14:57:17
It seems like there’s a new Ajax library or JavaScript framework coming out every week, and there probably is! Which is the best one to pick? Will you be up the creek without a paddle if you choose...
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Real World Accessibility for Real People - Derek Featherstone from 2008-04-11T14:05:10
When we follow the principles of web standards, we write valid HTML and CSS, unobtrusive JavaScript and follow WCAG and other accessibility guidelines. This simple act goes a long way to creating a...
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Developing with Adobe AIR and Microsoft Silverlight - Andre Charland and Walter Smith from 2008-04-11T14:00:24
Crash Course in Adobe AIR There comes a time when web developers need to reach beyond the browser to allow users to go offline, use local files or get rid of the hideous browser chrome. The Adobe ...
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Where’s Your Web At? Designing for the Web Beyond the Desktop - John Allsopp and Dave Shea from 2008-04-11T13:53:09
Since the advent of personal computing, we’ve been tied to one place - typically sitting at a desk, with a keyboard and mouse, and in isolation. Even the advent of the web and the wifi-enabled lapt...
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The 3 Stages of Dynamic Systems - Boris Mann from 2008-04-11T13:48:03
Content management systems have all but replaced the former art of publishing static HTML pages. From letting clients edit and add content, to content like calendars and forums that defy the"page"c...
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Serious Business: Putting Social Media to Work - Anil Dash from 2008-04-11T13:43:45
You know what blogs and wikis are, and you know your YouTube from your Facebook. But do you know how to make a compelling business case for these technologies? Social media and social networking to...
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Think like a mountain - Andy Clark from 2007-11-12T11:59:11
Once seen as unsophisticated, childish and of low artistic value, comic-book art and culture has inspired artists and designers for generations and are now are often untapped resource for web desig...
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A new life for old standards - revisions to HTML, CSS and others - Bert Bos. from 2007-10-31T19:16:07
CSS level 2 became a standard in 1998. The last revision of HTML4 dates from 1999. That’s long time ago in Web years, but they aren’t forgotten: after several years of work, CSS is close to a revis...
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E is for everywhere: mobile content, services and commerce strategies in Australia - Alex Young and Rob Manson. from 2007-10-26T19:32:28
In 1998 the American Dialect Society voted"e-"(as in electronic) as the"word of the year". This signified how important the internet had become in our world. Almost 10 years later we’re undergoing ...
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Is SEO evil? - Scott Gledhill. from 2007-10-23T18:43:58
There can be a feeling in the web development community that"SEO is evil"- Scott Gledhill cuts through the hype to focus on how developing accessible, standards compliant websites is the first step...
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Mashups, web apps and APIs - Raul Vera. from 2007-10-23T18:40:32
Hear all about the exciting possibilities created by these technologies from Google Australia. Raul has been involved in digital-media technology (video animation, graphics, image processing, p...
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Learning to love forms - Aaron Gustafson. from 2007-10-23T18:33:48
Forms. We all have to make ‘em, but few of us love ‘em. Aaron Gustafson believes that this is because we don’t understand them. In this session, we will explore forms from top to bottom, examining ...
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Trends and predictions in web technology - John Allsopp. from 2007-10-18T11:38:43
Web designers and developers are a very practical bunch, often too busy with today’s challenges and workloads to find time to keep up with developments over the horizon. In this session John Allsop...
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Mob rules - Mark Pesce. from 2007-10-17T23:37:54
Sometime shortly after Web Directions South concludes, somebody (probably a somebody in the"developing"world) will become the three billionth mobile phone subscriber. Good for the providers, of cou...
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Pushing beyond design - Justin French. from 2007-10-16T20:20:18
You’re a great web designer. You craft beautiful interfaces, you’ve nailed standards based design, and you’re at the top of your game. So now what? Based on real world experiences, this presentatio...
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Human Traffic - George Oates. from 2007-10-16T20:16:43
If there’s one thing about Web 2.0, it’s that we’re realising that there are actually people using the internet. It’s no longer about Human to Computer interaction, but rather Human to Human. Disco...
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Making useful things no one knew they needed: building ethnography into the designprocess. - Stephen Cox. from 2007-10-16T19:19:04
Working in usability and user experience can give you some great insights into the product design process. Yet few organisations know how to take advantage of this information silo. As a user exper...
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The future of web based interfaces - Cameron Adams. from 2007-10-16T19:11:22
Ajax brought about a host of new possibilities in online interfaces, but where are we going next? Cameron Adams will look at the evolution of dynamic interfaces; interfaces that truly meet the need...
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Managing agile projects within large organisations - Ben Winter Giles. from 2007-10-16T18:16:07
So you work at enterprise level. Lots of stake holders, lots of competition for time, need to deliver to multiple demands that ...POP up. All projects incur change over time, that’s the way of the ...
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Wikis and community collaboration - Angela Beesley. from 2007-10-16T18:10:29
Wikipedia has brought the concept of a wiki to many people’s attention and now Wikia is aiming to broaden that concept. If you think of Wikipedia as the encyclopedia, then Wikia is the rest of the ...
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RedBubble: Building a site for people with big imaginations - Mark Mansour. from 2007-10-11T00:07:12
RedBubble is a social networking platform and marketplace, not to mention a successful homegrown web app. In this session RedBubble’s software architect Mark Mansour will present the challenges the...
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Social networks and mobiles - Laurel Papworth. from 2007-10-10T23:55:09
It’s not just about email and Twitter: industry analysts agree, virtually every online social network application will develop a mobile feature in the next year or two. From Flickr pre-installed on...
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Social media and Government 2.0 - Sebastian Chan. from 2007-10-10T12:30:52
More than ever before there is an enormous amount of publicly held data about our community, our culture, and citizens. How can government respond to the opportunities of Web 2.0? How can governmen...
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AJAX or Flash: what's right for you? - Jonathan Boutelle. from 2007-10-10T12:30:51
The web is finally moving beyond simple html. How can you make rich web-based user experiences that don’t surprise or aggravate your users? When should you use AJAX, when should you use Flash, and ...
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The perils of popularity - Rashmi Sinha. from 2007-10-10T12:30:46
Can web-based social systems with their wide reach, user-generated and user-filtered content harness the wisdom of crowds? Duncan Watts’ recent experiments reveal how popularity based web social sy...
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