Design ’18: The Wrap
For a first time event, the engagement, the energy, dare I say it “the vibe” were amazing, the quality of the presentations, from experienced international speakers, through to first time local speakers was as good as it gets.
Tag: AI
Video of the Week: Chris Messina–Lessons from the death of the PC
Long time Web Industry thinker (and doer) Chris Messina opened Web Directions Summit in 2017. Watch as he draws lessons from the death of the PC.
The Bots are Coming
If you run a design agency in Australia, it’s not unlikely you’ve started thinking about how to use chat interfaces, conversational UIs and bots in your approaches to customer service for your clients. Summit 17 could be just what your team needs to understand the issues across the design and engineering disciplines, and how they apply to your work.
On the Inevitability of Revolutions
John Allsopp considers the revolutions he’s seen, how they seem inevitable now (though maybe not at the time), and what’s the next revolution we can expect that will later seem inevitable. Remember Gopher?
New AI Conference Early Bird Closes Friday
We’re very grateful for the positive reaction so far to our new Web Directions AI conference in Sydney on 28 September, both in registrations (almost 50% sold out) and direct feedback.
Clearly, many of you agree it’s the right time to be looking at artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive computing and related areas from a design and development perspective.
Why is Web Directions Holding an Artificial Intelligence Conference?
Well, that’s a fair question. Why are we even hosting this Web Directions AI event in Sydney on 28 September, given that our conferences typically focus on digital design and development, predominantly in a web-based context? Over the last 12 to 18 months, I’ve been become increasingly aware that adding even a little intelligence to our existing products and […]
John’s AI Reading Links
As we get ready to fully launch our newest conference, Web Directions AI, I’ve pulled together some particularly interesting perspectives on AI for your reading pleasure. Watch out for an email today with all the details of the one-day conference in Sydney on 28 September. Cheating at AI Hopefully, it’s clear by now that I […]
Voice UIs: Science Fiction, No Longer
While the rest of the world, from science fiction movies to Bill Gates, has been bullish about voice as a computing interface, I’ve been actively hostile to the idea for many years. Apple, Microsoft, and many others have tried to make speaking – the communication channel we learn the earliest and use the most – […]
The Big 2017 Events Reset
I want to share with you our updated plans for the rest of 2017, and into 2018. Why are we changing the schedule? Well, as you may know, my sister Rosemary (who runs Web Directions with me) and I are dealing with some serious family health problems that require us to rethink how best we can deliver on […]
Chatbots? Seriously?
Some of us remember Clippy, Microsoft’s assistant in Office, now much derided as an interfering pain that never seemed to help. And for years we’ve been seeing chat boxes on home pages of sites we visit, but how often have we ever used them? And how many horror stories have we heard about them going […]
