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Web Directions Podcast

Sessions from the Web Directions conference series. Sessions are © Web Directions and the respective speakers. See individual sessions for license details.

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45:37

Kay Smoljak - Starting & Running a Web Development...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/10/22

Working for yourself is a dream that many web designers and developers have. You can pick and choose your clients, work in your pajamas, and sleep in until 10am every day if you want to. But there’s a more serious side to starting a business, and lots of factors to consider if you decide to head out on your own. Kay will share the story of Clever Starfish’s journey from a seed of an idea to a thriving small business, with lots of handy hints for both things to do, and things not to do, along the

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57:16

Pete Ottery and Tim Lucas - Developing for iPhone

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/10/20

The release of Apple’s iPhone brings new opportunities for web sites and web apps on handheld devices, though not without its share of challenges and best practices. Tim and Pete will look at the best examples out in the wild and share their experience creating iphone.news.com.au - one of Australia’s largest news sites, news.com.au, tailored to the iPhone. Pete has been designing web sites for about 9 years. Having previously worked as the Head of Design at Fairfax Digital and Creative Director

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58:11

Grant Young - Strategies for social media

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/10/16

With so many social networks blooming, all with different participants and methods of interaction, it can be hard to determine where to invest your energy, time and $$. The session will provide ideas and a "background briefing" to help you answer the question: - why is social media important to my organisation? - what is the ROI for social media? - how can I evaluate which approaches are right for me/my organisation? - what sort of activities can/should I undertake in these spaces? This is not a

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53:53

Jeffrey Veen - Designing our way through data

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/10/01

The hype around Web 2.0 continues to increase to the point of absurdity. We hear all about a rich web of data, but what can we learn from these trends to actually apply to our designs? You’ll take a tour through the past, present, and future of the web to answer these questions and more: - What can we learn from the rich history of data visualization to inform our designs today? - How can we do amazing work while battle the constant constraints we find ourselves up against? - How do we really

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53:31

Social computing for knowledge management - Matthew...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

The world is abuzz with social computing: Facebook, My Space, YouTube, Flickr, Wikipedia, blogs, wikis and other spaces powered by Web 2.0 technology. It’s a social revolution, empowering individuals to communicate, share what they know online, and help others locate information that is important to them in both their private and working lives. Some see all this as a big waste of corporate time, but is it? Is there value in handing over control of collaboration and sharing knowledge to individuals,

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49:52

Web mapping - exploiting location based information...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

Government has huge amounts of information but how can this be effectively managed and delivered through the web? This session will ‘lift the lid’ on web mapping technology and identify some of the key issues that must be addressed to achieve a successful outcome. The NSW government SIX Viewer web mapping portal will be used as a case study to demonstrate how terabytes of data can be integrated and delivered via the Internet. David is the national lead for spatial (location based) solutions for

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49:40

Usability: more than skin deep - Lisa Herrod

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

Web Usability is far more complex than user testing and interaction design alone. And while interface design is an important consideration, there’s more to a usable site than what’s on the surface. We all know the importance of accessibility and web standards, so let’s take that knowledge one step further and into the realm of usability. In this session Lisa Herrod will redefine the common definition of usability by introducing a greater focus on accessibility and web standards. By taking a more

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53:08

One paper clip, a box of matches, and some JavaScript...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

Whoever you are, if you’re writing JavaScript, there’s some aspect of your development that you would love to change if you had the chance. But the reality is you’ll never find yourself working in this ideal environment: dealing with legacy browsers, platforms and content management systems will be your constant as a developer. Patrick Lee is going to show you some tools and techniques that will help you make your peace with this fact. This session will explore how you can find ways to do the cool

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38:35

GovDex - Collaborating online in a secure environment...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

This session will look at the government collaborative tool Govdex, how it is currently used by agencies, what it provides, and how you can use it for your projects. GovDex is managed by the Australian Government Information Management Office (AGIMO) in the Department of Finance & Deregulation. AGIMO is working with agencies to measure how GovDex can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their information technology investments, and to thereby generate a savings dividend to the Australian

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49:48

Opening up government data - Jenny Telford

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

Mapping and other mashups have taken the web world by storm - driving innovation in business and government alike. While much of the focus has been on the actual mashup applications, without the data to mashup, we have no mashups. Government, from local to Federal level, collect and manage a significant amount of data, across a very broad range of areas. But giving access to this data to web application developers has technical, policy and legal challenges. In this presentation, Jenny Telford of the

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52:27

Real world web standards - Scott Gledhill

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/23

Those initial stages of converting your company to web standards are much like trying to score that first kiss with the princess. You seduce them with the business benefits of web-standards development, and the rest of the arguments we have all read, written, and preached to anyone who will listen. But getting corporate web standards in place is just a sign that the real relationship is about to begin. The honeymoon is over, and now it’s time to figure out what has gone wrong and why the prince and

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1:00:17

Improving Government through better use of the Web -...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/22

It’s no secret that just as the web has revolutionised business, the media, and many other parts of our lives, it is also revolutionising how governments and citizens interact, and how government provide services. But how to do it well is still something of a black art. In this keynote presentation, the lead of the W3C’s eGovernment initiative, José Manuel Alonso, looks at the opportunities the web provides governments, the challenges, old and new, the web poses, and the role of the W3C in helping

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1:01:29

The essential elements of great web applications -...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

Most great web applications have a few key things in common. But can you name them? Better yet - can you achieve them consistently in your own projects? In this closing keynote, Robert Hoekman, Jr., author of the Amazon bestseller Designing the Obvious (New Riders) describes the seven qualities of great web-based software and how to achieve each and every one of them by learning to communicate through design. See why it’s important to build only what’s absolutely essential, apply instructive

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52:11

Web visualisation: do you see what I see? - Jeremy...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

The web is packed with information and knowledge, but too often our efforts to understand what’s important or relevant are stymied by antiquated methods of presentation. At the same time, more and more libraries, widgets and services are being released to help us present information visually. Problem solved? Not really. In this session Jeremy Yuille from ACID looks at information visualisation from a user experience perspective, overviewing new and old examples and how they can help (or hinder) the

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54:25

The mobile web user experience - we’re starting to...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

Historically the mobile web has been a terrible experience, but things are starting to change. Really! We are now at the point that the mobile web is becoming easier to access, both on-deck & off-deck, there’s useful & tailored services out there, and killing some time on the train home doesn’t cost more than your weekly train ticket. We’ll check out the latest and greatest in the world of mobile web and what makes them different from the others. We will also cover the important things to keep in

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52:56

Delivering user experience to the inbox: designing...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

So you’ve designed a fantastic website for your client, tested in all the major browsers and everything looks great. Now they want to send an email newsletter to all their customers, using the new design. No problem right? Just need to test in Outlook 07, and 06. Yahoo and Hotmail too, of course. Oh, and Gmail, Lotus Notes, AOL... Of course, the design may not work that well for an email anyway, and isn’t there some kind of anti-spam laws? Like it or not, HTML email is here to stay and the

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47:22

Converting research findings into business speak -...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

Getting your company to adopt a user-centred design approach can be an uphill struggle. The first stage typically is to get them to agree to incorporate usability testing in to the development process, at a stage early enough to actually implement any design recommendations. The second stage is to convince them to do more ethnographic style research to understand the larger context of the task that the site is trying to support. The biggest challenge comes last - how to help the business owners make

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1:01:22

Analysing user research data - Steve Baty

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/04

In our efforts to better understand the end users of the sites & applications we design, we generate a great deal of data. That data is useless to us until it has been analyzing and interpreted. This presentation looks at some of the methods & techniques we can use to make sense of user research data in a meaningful & rigorous way. The presentation will look at some of the common types of quantitative data collected during user research, and the statistical analysis methods we can employ to make

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52:39

Getting content right - Donna Spencer

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/02

We all know that great content is a core part of the website user experience. So why is it so hard to find content that isn’t dull, lifeless and uninteresting - blah, blah, blah? Web content can be vibrant, interesting and fun. It can draw you in, fill your head and make you learn without having to think. And it’s not really hard to write. Three simple tricks can turn poor content into a great experience - remember that readers care more about themselves than you; write in real words with authentic

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1:06:08

Designing the experience curve - Andy Budd

Web Directions Podcast ·

2008/06/02

These days people expect more from a website than a handy set of tools and a pretty interface - they want an experience. From the moment somebody enters your site they’ll be judging you on everything from the way the site looks to the tone of your error messages. And they won’t just be judging you against other sites. They will be judging you on every customer experience they have ever had, from the rude man at the train station to the lovely hotel clerk that checked them in on holiday. So in order

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