Oz-IA/2008 Pre-Conference Workshops (Sydney, Australia)
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 by Casey Glass| September 18, 2008 | to | September 19, 2008 |
Oz-IA have seven pre-conference workshops scheduled for the Thursday 18th and Friday 19th preceding the Oz-IA/2008 conference proper, and are competitively priced: the half day workshops are $300 each (inc GST), or $240 to conference attendees, and the full day workshop is $550 (inc GST), or $440 to conference attendees. (UXnet.org readers are eligible for a discount on conference tickets)
- Designing the Search Experience
- Rebecca Rodgers
- Half Day Workshop
- Thursday 18th September, 8.30am-12.30pm
- Poor search is one of the greatest sources of user frustration with websites and intranets. Worse yet, the inadequacies of search may be consigning these sites as a whole to failure. If users can’t find information when they need it, will they even come to the site?
- Research methods for Information Architecture
- Patrick Kennedy
- Half Day Workshop
- Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm
- Learn the fundamentals of “design research” from the perspective of IA, including hands-on activities based around key techniques for understanding users and their needs.
- Accessible forms with WCAG 2.0
- Roger Hudson
- Half Day Workshop
- Thursday 18th September, 8.30am-12.30pm
- When it comes to forms, WCAG 2.0 offers considerable accessibility benefits. This workshop will outline how to make WCAG 2.0 compliant forms that are more accessible and usable for everyone.
- Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS
- Russ Weakley
- Half Day Workshop
- Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm
- Forms are possibly the hardest aspect of page layouts to style. This workshop will outline how to take WCAG 2.0 compliant forms and lay them out them using CSS.
- Eye Tracking: Actionable lessons for improved website design
- James Breeze
- Half Day Workshop
- Thursday 18th September, 1.30pm-5.30pm
- A hands-on and highly practical workshop examining how Eye Tracking provides insights and learnings which can improve your website designs.
- IA: Theory & practice
- Donna Spencer
- Full Day Workshop
- Friday 19th September, 8.30am-5.30pm
- This full day workshop will provide you with a thorough overview and understanding of information architecture theory & practice.
- Interaction Design Studio
- Shane Morris
- Half Day Workshop
- Friday 19th September, 8.30am-12.30pm
- Half your skills as an interaction designer come from books, the other half from practice. In established design disciplines, the ‘studio’ is where designers hone their skills, rationale and intuition. Most people working in Interaction Design haven’t had the benefit of being able to explore design outside of ‘real’ work projects – hence this mini ”Interaction Design Studio”.
