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Video Ristretto: Checkout UX – Vitaly Friedman

Web Directions events are full of surprises, including this bonus talk from Respond 17 international keynote Vitaly Friedman.

In half an hour, the Smashing Magazine head honcho explores his own work with an ecommerce client to improve their checkout user experience.

Two More Summit 17 Speakers Announced

With just four weeks remaining of the best ticket prices anyone will get, now is the time to lock in your place at Web Directions Summit 17. We’ve already told you about six of our keynote speakers for our major end of year event in Sydney on 9-10 November – we’ll recap a bit further down, […]

Four More Speakers Announced for Summit 17

A few weeks ago, we announced the first two of what will be 28 speakers in total for Summit 17, our end of year design and development conference in Sydney on 9-10 November. The response to the announcement of Chris (Mr Hashtag) Messina and returned Australian technologist Genevieve Bell has been genuinely overwhelming, with 20% of […]

Web Directions Summit 17 Call For Presentations: Be a Speaker

Our Call For Proposals to present at Summit is now open. Yes, we curate the conference, but we like to leave room for outstanding, relevant talks from local speakers, experienced or not. Sessions are 20 minutes long, and open to Australian residents. If you’re successful, we’ll fly you to Sydney, put you up, and treat you like […]

First Summit 17 Speakers Announced

With meanings including the highest point of a mountain, a peak of achievement, and a meeting between people on a particular topic, Summit seems a particularly apt new name for our annual Sydney-based summer conference. Web Directions Summit 17 is where we bring together some of the most renowned and advanced thinkers and practitioners in the world around technology, […]

Registrations Now Open for Summit Conference in Sydney, November

We’re opening registrations for Web Directions Summit today. Summit is our new peak annual flagship event at Australian Technology Park in Sydney on 9-10  November, which brings together all the tribes that make up our industry. Based on the format of the original Web Directions conferences, Summit is two days and two tracks of presentations […]

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 […]

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