Just found this via Seb Chan at Fresh + New(er). Nexus is a little app that takes all your Facebook connections and their connections with each other, and creates a visualisation of this. Here are my constellations. That large galaxy, as you would expect, are people I know through work, then there are a couple […]
Web Directions Roadshow is sponsoring the next Canberra Web Standards Group meeting, on March 18. Get along to the meeting for your chance to win a copy of Indi Young – Mental Models Andy Clarke – Transcending CSS Luke Wroblewski – Web Form Design Dan Saffer – Designing for Interaction Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag […]
If you’ve been thinking about coming to one of the workshops at the Web Directions Roadshow in April, now is the time to seize the day and get your registration in: John brought back a whole bunch of excellent web design and development books from Web Directions North, so we’re going to be giving them […]
We’re really happy – if a little overwhelmed! – with the number of suggestions, comments and votes our new Web Directions Forum has already generated in its first 24 hrs. As I said yesterday, the thing we really wanted to make happen with this was a bit of help with problem solving and brain storming, […]
As of today, we’re officially open to your suggestions about any aspect of the conference this year: please come in and take a look around at the brand new Web Directions forum. And the best part is, every month we’re going to be giving away a full ticket to the conference to the person who […]
Plans are well and truly afoot for the next issue of our magazine, Scroll, which we plan to release in time for the Web Directions Roadshow workshop series. If you’re thinking of coming along to one of the workshops, here’s another reason to do so: we’ll be giving out a copy of Scroll Number 2 […]
Brian Fling is going to be presenting his Creating Mobile 2.0 Web Apps workshop as part of the Web Directions Roadshow. Andrea Hill attended Brian’s workshop when he gave it in Denver last week, and came away with these 5 salient points you need to consider when deciding between an iPhone native application and a […]
Way back in 2006, when he’d just published what was to go on to become his very successful book, Designing for Interaction, Dan Saffer came out to Sydney for Web Directions South 06 and presented a much loved workshop of the same name. Since then Dan has moved more and more into touch screens and […]
Via AniktoBlog: Accessible Twitter works just like Twitter with a few interface tweaks. Upon visiting the site, the first thing one notices is the large default text size and the high color contrast. The layout is simplified and consistent, with keyboard-accessible links and clean markup. I tested the application with JAWS and a screen-reader emulator, […]
This interview with the staff of COSI – a Science Museum in Columbus Ohio – has some solid insights into the institutional realities of experimenting in social media. The project seems to be another example of a theme I have seen a bit of recently: we’ve spent about a decade seeing the web as a […]
This April Web Directions is going to be throwing all the gear in the back of the ute and hitting the road for a whistlestop tour of Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney with a workshop lineup of the best thinkers and educators in the game: the Web Directions 2009 Roadshow. Andy Clarke – Visual Web Design […]
John and I went to SXSW 3 years in a row between 2005 and 2007. The first year was pretty good, suffused as it was with that thrill of meeting people we’d known via email etc for years. But the second year was probably the best for a whole host of reasons, not least of […]
Here at Web Directions we love Campaign Monitor. And what’s not to love? These guys have the best email marketing software for designers in the game, a slick new look and feel for all their sites and products, great free resources for anyone interested in email marketing campaigns, plus excellent and worthy enterprises such as […]
Interesting article over at Web Worker Daily talking about the impact of the recession, at least from the US point of view. Got me thinking about how we might get a handle on what is happening here. I drag myself out of bed every morning to the depressing news from Radio National, to a world […]
How quickly a quarter of a year rolls by. When we launched Scroll during Web Directions South 08 we promised that all the articles would be published in full online 3 months after the print magazine was published, so, here they are. If you didn’t manage to get your hands on a copy of our […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
