Those of you who attended our Direction conference in Sydney last year, will recall a great talk by Jonathan Shariat, Tragic Design: The real cost of bad design & how to fix it. Jonathan’s presentation focused on how bad design can have very real costs outside of just lost revenue, causing physical and emotional harm, […]
Along with our brand new site, we are even more excited to announce two brand new, one day conferences for Canberra and Melbourne in May – in addition of course to Web Directions South, set down for September 23-25 in Sydney again at the Convention Centre. First up, on Friday May 16th, in Melbourne will […]
If you are reading this via RSS, you probably won’t notice that there have been some big changes to the site. Firstly, we’ve got a brand new, very streamlined look, and overhauled information architecture, courtesy of Ben Webster at Conversant. Their philosophy is “sophisticated simplicity” which is precisely what we wanted to achieve, and what […]
Last year was a blast, so this year we are doing it all again, in Vancouver from January 28 to February 2nd. Along with web legends Dave Shea and Derek Featherstone, we’ve put together a programme of workshops and speakers featuring as always some of the leading web experts in design, development, mobile, and much […]
BuilderAU is the Australian edition of C|Net’s builder site, a rich source of developer news, information, training and resources, for the web, and a wide variety of technologies. Builder.au has a strong commitment to local content, industry news, video interviews and more, and we are really proud that they are working with Web Directions to […]
A quick final reminder that to get $200 off the full ticket price of Web Directions, (that makes it only $795 including GST) you’ll have to register by tomorrow night at midnight. You can pay later, but that is the final chance to get the early bird discount. Registrations have been absolutely fantastic so far, […]
Just a quick note for anyone interested in coming to Web Directions for the super discounted price of $200 off, only $795AUD, then you had better move quickly. As has become a tradition, we are extending this discount period for a few more days, until next Wednesday, July 4th – but that really is the […]
Moving to a much bigger venue at Darling Harbour this year was a bit of a risk. Above all, a big venue can feel very empty even with a lot of people in it. But registrations have taken off really well this year, so hopefully the gamble will pay off. In previous years we’ve sold […]
We’ve always been fans here at Web Directions of “Remember the Milk“, an amazingly richly featured “to do” app online. Emily Boyd, one of the founders, came and spoke at an event of ours last year, and she and Omar Kilani, the brains behind the app both came to Web Directions South last year. So, […]
Just a quick note to let you know that this year we’ll again be organising the McFarlane Prize for Excellence in Australian Web Design. Nominations will open soon, for sites built by Australian individuals and teams between August 1st 2006 and July 31st 2007. The quality of entries last year (with over 120) was excellent […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
