Web Directions

Web Directions South (Sydney, Australia)

Saturday, August 2nd, 2008 by Conference Editor
September 23, 2008toSeptember 26, 2008

Covering the technologies, techniques and strategies you need to build the best possible web sites and applications. Sample user experience sessions:

  • Designing Interaction in the Age of Ajax, full-day seminar by Donna Spencer
  • Designing our way through data, keynote by Jeffrey Veen
  • Interaction design case studies by Daniel Burka
  • From disordered to managed usability in an Agile environment by Teale Shapcott
  • Informing experience architecture with quantitative insights by Hurol Inan

See south08.webdirections.org for more information.

Web Directions Government (Canberra, Australia)

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 by Casey Glass
May 19, 2008

Web Directions Government, on May 19th at the Old Parliament House. Web Directions Government examines challenges and solutions to delivering government services via the web - whether at a local, state or federal level. Speakers include the W3C’s eGovernment lead, Jose Manuel Alonso, as well as speakers from the ABC, ABS, News Digital Media, and other leading practitioners in Government and Industry.

http://gov08.webdirections.org/

Web Directions UX (Melbourne, Australia)

Sunday, May 11th, 2008 by Casey Glass
May 15, 2008toMay 16, 2008

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.

Web Directions North (Vancouver, Canada)

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007 by Conference Editor
January 28, 2008toFebruary 2, 2008

Web Directions focuses on the challenges of building the web: practical and inspiring concepts, technologies and techniques for web designers, developers, product managers, and others whose day to day responsibility is making and managing web sites and applications.

Web Directions North 2008 includes a two day conference with an optional two days of workshops, and two more days of skiing and snowboarding at Whistler Blackcomb.

Topics include:

  • Web Site Design
  • Web application and user interface Design
  • User testing
  • Rich Internet Application technologies, tools, platforms and techniques
  • Accessibility
  • Online communities, social media and social applications
  • Innovative data visualizations
  • Designing for the mobile web, and other new web enabled devices
  • Marketing in the age of social media