A few years back, Scott Berkun gave one of the most highly regarded presentations we have ever had at a Web Directions event. It was called the Myths of Innovation, and people still buttonhole me to say how great it was, or to bemoan the fact that their lifetime regret will be that they slept […]
Yesterday I launched our “Tell Us What You Want” survey for Web Directions South 2010. In essence this is a call for papers really, it’s just that we don’t like using that term as we think it makes us sound like some sort of antediluvian academic symposium, which, I’ll hope you agree, we are not […]
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Guy in preparing all the pages and producing all the podcasts, we now have a whole raft of the presentations from WDS09 now available online, so, if you’re looking to catch something you missed because you you went to another track, or you couldn’t make it to Web Directions […]
It looks like all the Google Wave invites for WDS09 attendees, courtesy of Stephanie and Cameron (thanks again guys!) went out over the weekend. If you’re scratching your head as to what to do next though, and you’re in Sydney, why don’t you come along on Tuesday the 20th to the Google offices, for an […]
You wouldn’t believe how many things there are to do in the week after an event – I actually feel like I have been busier this week than I was in the week leading up to the conference. But one of the big things we have been treating as an absolute priority is making the […]
A couple of months back we announced that we were going to be giving away a ticket to Web Directions East to one lucky attendee of Web Directions South. Well, that lucky attendee turned out to be Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald, who has already let us know that he is very excited to take us up on […]
I’ve got a few enquiries here about the music we played during the conference, so I thought I should really give credit where it is due and write up something comprehensive. Between sessions in the rooms we played XX by The XX – which came recommended by Luke Stevens who alongside being a data driven […]
99designs, the sister company of our media partners, SitePoint, are looking to hire a full-time designer from their Melbourne office. In their words, they’re after a “front-end ninja” with talents in graphic/interface design, usability, accessibility and creating standards-based HTML/CSS. If this sounds like you and you’re in Melbourne (or prepared to move there) then you […]
Check out these cool little sketch pads from Melbourne based Inventive Labs and Jacky Winter Group. They’ve called them Notepods and they’re perfectly designed for mocking up iPhone Apps. Get yourself a pack of three today!
This year for Web Directions South we’ve produced a superb conference t shirt with augmented reality superpowers designed by Fail Whale creator Yiying Lu. But if you’re going to dress in magical style with this shirt at the conference, you need to get in there fast because all orders need to be placed by Friday […]
We’ve just filled the last session in the business track at Web Directions South 09 – Suze Ingram will be speaking on a hot new user experience topic: Would you like service design with that? Service design is a new discipline which focuses on understanding what customers want, then designing services which meet their needs. […]
Passionate about web design and development? Been tinkering with different web technologies for some time? Keep up to date with the web industry? Enjoy reading and writing? Then a tech editor role at SitePoint might be just what you’re looking for. SitePoint are absolute stalwarts of the Australian web industry, and I can absolutely vouch […]
The final keynote for Web Directions South 2009 has just been announced: be there on the morning of Thursday October 8 to see what we know will be an exciting and inspirational opening keynote from England’s own Matt Webb. Matt will be joining an already terrific lineup: local hero Cameron Adams talking about Google Wave […]
Nominations for the McFarlane Prize for excellence in Australian web design opened over the weekend, on Saturday August 1. If you’ve been involved in the development of a site over the last 12 months that you think deserves recognition for its adherence to web standards and accessibility, as well as its great usability and visual […]
We were really excited to announce that Cameron Adams will be speaking at Web Directions South this year on his experiences working as part of the Google Wave team. For an extensive preview of Cameron’s presentation, check out this interview that’s just been published at SitePoint. Speaking about who the team had in mind in […]
Web Directions South is the must-attend event of the year for anyone serious about web development
Phil Whitehouse General Manager, DT Sydney
