An excellent event is coming up and you shouldn’t miss out!

CHISIG Victoria has organised the following panel for you:

Panel: Agile or Fragile? Practicing UCD on Agile development projects

Tuesday 27 May 6 pm (for 6.30 start)

Panel participants are:

• Shane Morris from Microsoft
• Brett Collinson from SEEK
• Kirsten Mann from MYOB
• Janet Brunckhorst from Lonely Planet

The panel will be moderated by Andrew Sweany from Monash University.

Our panel guests will debate the pros and cons of user-centred design on Agile development projects.

We have got an exciting list of questions for the debate.

Don’t miss out!

Venue:
Horse Bazaar
397 Little Lonsdale Street, Melbourne

Web Directions UX - a one day, two track conference focussing on user experience design, and featuring leading practitioners in the design, development and testing of web based user experiences.

http://ux08.webdirections.org/

Web Directions UX is held on Friday May 16th at the Melbourne Town Hall, with an optional day of workshops on Thursday the 15th.
Speakers include Andy Budd from the UK, Robert Hoekman Jr from the US, and a range of Australian experts from the likes of Remember The Milk, News Digital Media, and Campaign Monitor.

Max Design presents: Website user experience and CSS workshop: designing for usability, building for the future
A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.

Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.

Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience
Donna Maurer

On day one you will plan and design a website - focusing on the user experience: designing the navigation, page layout and forms.

You will:

• learn techniques to understand your users, and prepare user scenarios
• understand your content with content analysis methods
• create an effective and usable site structure (information architecture)
• design a range of navigation methods
• create page layouts for content, home, index and special pages
• design simple forms

For each step, Donna will outline the fundamentals and show examples from small and large website projects. But most of the time will be hands-on - you work on your own project, ask questions and discuss with the group.

Day 2: Building beautiful sites using CSS
Russ Weakley

On day two you will build your website from the ground up - starting with structural markup, adding accessible markup and then styling your layout using CSS.

You will learn:

• how to create well structured, accessible markup
• the basics of CSS including rule sets, selectors, shorthand rules, inheritance and the cascade.
• how to structure efficient CSS files
• how to create a full CSS layout from a flat graphic mockup
• how to deal with browser issues including specific browsers such as IE5, IE6 and IE7.
• how to create a resolution dependent layout
• how to create CSS for printing and hand held devices

Who should attend?

Web managers, web designers, web developers and bloggers who:

• are interested in designing user-focused websites
• have a basic understanding of CSS and want to learn more

It is never easy juggling the many tasks involved in maintaining and growing intranets. This workshop introduces a new model for managing intranets: the Intranet Hive.

Dividing intranet tasks into six segments, this model has been developed by Step Two Designs to help intranet teams assess how they are going, and to identify missing activities.

Cairo Walker will facilitate an exploration of this new model, as well providing practical insight into many aspects of intranet management.

Event Details:
Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm
Date: Friday, 9 May 2008
Location: Crowne Plaza, Melbourne

For more information and to register, go to
www.steptwo.com.au/seminars/080509/

About the presenter

Cairo Walker is a senior consultant at Step Two, and has worked with many organisations in both the public and private sector, in a consulting and mentoring roles.

Cairo’s expertise has seen her deliver keynote speeches and workshops across Asia-Pacific and consult to global organizations such as Dyno Nobel (USA, Canada, Australia), Caltex, McKesson (USA, Asia-Pacific), Fonterra (global in over 50 countries) and many others. In addition to these global companies Cairo has an impressive local track record designing successful enterprise-wide initiatives and mentoring companies through implementation within Australia.

Cairo is the author of many articles on information management, collaboration and intranets and runs the Enterprise Content Management post-graduate subject at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Come along and take part in an informal Q&A session with one of the industries leading educators and best-practice advocates.

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She serves as an invited expert to the W3C Consortium (W3C) focusing on HTML, CSS and related topics. Formerly Group Lead of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), Molly consults for major organizations including Microsoft, AOL, eBay and the BBC. Through these roles, Molly promotes standards and best practices to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community.

See Max Design for more information.

VALA2008 is the Australian forum where the use of technology in libraries is discussed. The theme for this conference is “Libraries / changing spaces, virtual places.”

Luke Wroblewski is a keynote speaker, with sessions on library spaces design (virtual and physical), communities and accessibility.

Usability Week 2008 takes you beyond the typical conference experience, offering a 3-day usability camp, a 3-day intensive session on interaction design, and several specialized, day-long tutorials that get both broad and deep on core usability topics. Come for as few or as many days as you want.

Usability Week 2008 Melbourne will be July 21-26. (Other locations: New York, London and San Francisco.)

AGIdeas is the largest annual International Design Festival held in Australia. Comprising of an International Design Conference, Studio Visits, Workshops, Competition, Secondary School Forum, Business Forum and a huge After Party.

AGIdeas 2008 will be 5 days, 8 distinct events, 40 world leaders of design, and over 3000 people.

The Australasian Conference on Interactive Entertainment, IE 2007, will focus on the idea of convergence and cross-platforming and its impact on the past, present and future of gaming and digital industries. This conference will provide professionals, researchers, and developers an opportunity to discuss some of the critical and hypothetical frameworks for emerging modes and models of interactive entertainment.

Delegates in the areas of digital games, media and content in Australia and internationally will be invited to attend. This is a strategic event at which professionals and researchers can present their exciting innovations and latest works. IE 2007 will also act as a forum to facilitate international collaboration in research and development in these fast emerging areas.

The Panels program includes:

• New directions in interactive entertainment
• Exertion in Interactive Entertainment
• Designing, Experiencing and Analysing Games in the Age of Integration
• Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Game Studies