Don’t you sometimes wish you could create your own CSS properties? Not just some syntactic sugar to make life easier like Sass and other pre-processors, but honest-to-goodness properties, like new display options, painting your own images from JavaScript as backgrounds, borders and elsewhere images can be used, and so on. And all in ways that […]
One of our most popular presentations at any event ever was Dan Hon’s “An Internet for Humans Too” at Web Directions 2014. A deep and rich meditation on many things, Dan argues that designing an internet of things that’s for humans means understanding what the empathy gap is. It’s the gap in understanding between an […]
tldr; we’ve relaunched Scroll Magazine, featuring profiles and interviews, indepth articles, and more. Read on for more details, or get yourself a digital copy of our first edition now. I came to the Web in its early days somewhat by accident. I was developing a hypertext system, Palimpsest (yes, ironically, a competitor of the Web, […]
At Respond (next week in Sydney, and the following week in Melbourne), we’ve got a great in-depth session on the element, and the current state of play with responsive images. But to set the scene, here’s where we stood a year ago, when Simon Elvery navigated the map of responsive imagery in early 2015. Interested […]
I first met Patrick Hamann when we both spoke at Smashing Conference Whistler. I discovered two things about him that sort of made me want to hate him (in the nicest possible way) he knows more about front end performance than you might imagine anyone can he lived a year in the French Alps and […]
Regular readers will know that here in Australia, and around the World, the way in which Government services are delivered is undergoing a revolutionary change. “Digital by default“, user-centred not technology-driven (in the words of Leisa Reichelt, Head of Service Design at the Digital Transformation Office (DTO), “GOV.AU is not a technology project“), Governments are […]
As we ramp up for Respond, our Web Design focussed conference, taking place in Sydney and Melbourne next month (we’ve still got some tickets, and really significant savings for freelancers and those who work at Not for Profit organisations) we’ll be giving you a little insight into some of our speakers. First up, Sara Soueidan […]
As we lead into our Web design focussed event, Respond 16 (still time to grab a ticket at a great price, now coming to both Sydney and Melbourne), let’s take a look at some of the sessions attendees can look forward to. Currently one of the major newspapers in the country (well, two of them, […]
Earlier this week we announced the complete lineup for our Web design focussed conference Respond, featuring a truly stellar lineup you’d be hard pressed to find anywhere in the World, fresh from such events as An Event Apart, and Smashing Conference, as well as wonderful locals, some who’ve spoken all over the world, others we’ve only recently unearthed. […]
At Web Directions, we’ve long been excited about animation on the Web, particularly animated user interfaces and experiences. We’ve featured a significant number of presentations on the topic, including two stellar ones in 2015, at Web Directions Code and at Web Directions itself. Today we feature one of those, by the awesome Rachel Nabors, ‘The […]
tl;dr If you work in or with Governments of all levels on service delivery, our new conference, Transform, in Canberra on May 19th, is designed to help you more deeply understand delivering user centred Government digital services. Why Transform? When we started what became Web Directions back in 2004, many of the attendees of our […]
Tom Loosemore, the closing Keynote speaker at Web Directions 2015 (so officially the last ever speaker at an event called Web Directions–no, we’re not going away, we’ve just refreshed and rebooted things), thoroughly engaged and inspired our audience, with his presentation on how a nation bold enough to invest in new, natively digital foundations can […]
At Web Directions 2015 we had the rare privilege of hearing from Daniel Burka, talking about the Design Sprint process and methodology that they have development at GV (formerly Google Ventures), where Daniel is now a Design Partner (GV is Google’s venture investment arm, and like other Venture Capital funds, if even more so, they […]
If we look back to the early days of Responsive Web Design, we’d probably be amazed at just how far we’ve come in a little over 5 years. We’ve discovered new patterns and approaches, and even the underlying technologies like HTML and CSS have adapted to fit the needs of an ever increasing array of […]
This week’s feature video comes from our Respond conference last year (Respond 2016 is a couple of months off yet, with early bird pricing still available), a fantastic presentation from Yesenia Perez-Cruz (who since then has been turning up speaking all over the world!) on how the decisions designers (“just one more weight of this […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
