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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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47:36

Juliette Melton - Mobile User Experience Research

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

Most user experience research takes place sitting behind a computer. And yet these days, most networked experiences are happening on mobile devices. Some common user experience research methods work well in a mobile environment - others don’t. In this talk, Juliette Melton will guide you through how to use some great existing research methods in a mobile context, how to incorporate some new (and fun!) methods into your arsenal, and propose next generation tools and services to make mobile user

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50:19

Dan Saffer - Top Ten Things To Tackle Touchscreens

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

The average size of an adult human’s finger pad is 10-14mm. The average size of a cursor or stylus tip is 1-2mm. That fact alone means that designing native touchscreen apps is an entirely different thing than designing web, desktop, or even traditional mobile apps. This talk outlines the most important concepts, guidelines, and practices to keep in mind when designing with fingers and hands in mind. We’ll cover interaction zones (where it’s easiest for fingers to reach), touch targets (size and

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56:22

Daniel Davis - Widgets in Theory and Practice

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

In the absence of a "Widgets for Dummies" book being available at your local bookstore, this presentation will try to bring you up-to-speed with what you need to know to start developing widgets. Split into two parts, we’ll cover the theory behind widgets: * seriously, yet another platform to code for?! - vendor and manufacturer support for widgets & compatible development frameworks * what widgets are good for - save your users (and yourself) time, money and frustration * what widgets are

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1:03:04

Daniels Lee (TM) - Designing for the 10 foot UI

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

The web platform has already taken a center role in our desktop and mobile computing lives. The next space for the web platform to take over is the biggest screen in your house - the TV in your living room. However, designing for television has its own set of demands, different than designing for desktop and mobile implementations. This talk outlines the most important best practices to keep in mind when designing web applications for TV. We’ll cover issues like directional pad navigation, user

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52:38

Aaron Parecki - Geolocation

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

While location-based mobile apps are becoming increasingly popular, they are still relatively new. Special considerations need to be made for battery life and handling large data sets of geolocated data. The good news is there are many services and technologies you can use to assist you in building mobile location-based apps. In this session, Aaron Parecki, co-founder of Geoloqi.com, shows you services you can leverage to do things like nearby business lookups, location-based triggers,

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49:31

Divya Manian - Creative CSS3

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

Being a front-end designer used to mean pixel hacking and endless rounds of pain while trying to make sites and applications "look the same in each browser". Thankfully, we now live in more interesting times. But as we strive to make our web apps a pleasure to use, the vast array of tools and techniques available to us present their own set of challenges. In this session you will learn to ask the right questions to guide your choice of tools and the design. Find out how to creatively use new

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55:57

Dave Balmer - HTML5 Graphics: Canvas Deep Dive

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

The Canvas tag has been around for a while, and HTML5 has given it more visibility. It’s now finding its way into most mobile browsers, and even a majority of desktop browsers. This talk will give a solid overview of what the canvas tag is, what it can do, and how it compares with other technologies like SVG and Flash. Several practical code examples will show how you can use it along with CSS3 and other HTML5 goodies to make your web apps more featured, efficient and downright cool. As a Senior

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42:59

Rachel Hinman - Mobile Prototyping Essentials

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

We’ve heard it all before: prototype, prototype, prototype. It’s a standard step in almost any design process - but often the first step skipped in time and budget constrained projects. While prototyping is considered a standard step in any UX design process, it is an *essential* part of the mobile UX process. This talk will outline why prototyping is essential to part of the mobile UX process and how prolific prototyping is a necessary step for designers keen to grow the ruthless editing skills

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57:23

Nicholas Zakas - Mobile web speed bumps

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

As browsers explode with new capabilities and migrate onto devices users can be left wondering, "what’s taking so long?" Learn how HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the web itself conspire against a fast-running application and simple tips to create a snappy interface that delight users instead of frustrating them. Nicholas C. Zakas is principal front-end engineer for the Yahoo! homepage, a contributor to YUI, and an author. Nicholas has written Professional JavaScript for Web Developers,

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53:25

Aaron Weyenberg - Realistic UI design

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

A new generation of touch devices have proven to be exciting playgrounds for app designers. And with every new product we create, we have the opportunity to offer the most clear and efficient experience for our users. Recent UI trends often lean to realistic, faithful representations of analog controls and features. These designs can offer advantages, but also come with their own set of hazards. In this session Aaron will lead you on a tour of current trends and practices, examining the strengths

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46:22

Jason Grigsby - Keynote: Native is easy. Mobile web...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2011/05/29

No one who advocates for the mobile web wants to admit it, but it is true. Native is easier. It’s easier to sell to stakeholders. Easier to monetize. And most importantly, easier to implement. Argue about programming languages, memory management and reach all you want. There is one undeniable disadvantage that the mobile web faces that native apps don’t - over a decade of legacy code, cruft and entrenched organizational politics. But the web is essential. Even companies whose businesses are

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56:23

Scott Thomas - Designing Obama

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/30

Join Scott Thomas, a lead web designer on President Obama’s electoral campaign, as he explains how to design online communities that resonate and motivate. All too often, discussions of analytics, clickthrough rates, and search engine optimization cloud the important truth that online campaigns and communities are for human beings. Come discover how to use superior design, authentic messaging, and valuable content to deliver resonant messages that connect with your audience through the noise of the

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24:34

David Gravina - Design Thinking (and Doing)

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/17

Many web professionals practice creative, collaborative and inclusive approaches to our work. As UX designers, information architects, strategists, or programmers - we are all designers, and we are ready equipped with a way of problem solving that can be applied to challenges that are not traditionally those of web practitioners. From the perspective of the digital domain this session will take a look at what Design Thinking is and it’s potential to amplify creativity so that we may embrace and

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54:40

Lisa Herrod - The Age of Awareness

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/17

Inclusive design. It might sound like a rebranding exercise from the Web Accessibility Marketing Team, but it isn’t. For years inclusive design and research practices have been applied to a wide variety of disciplines from industrial design to the arts, the built environment and more. What can we learn from this? And how can we apply it to the digital environment in which we work? Social innovation, service design and even augmented reality are now presenting real and interesting opportunities for

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47:20

Gordon Grace - More than raw: government data online

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/17

The USA and UK governments have made significant progress with linked, open data in recent months. Several fundamental datasets from the Australian Government are on the cusp of being exposed as meaningful, reusable, machine-readable assets, further driving the adoption of linked data within and around government. Making better use of online data offerings using a combination of top-down policy and guidance, together with bottom-up development efforts from agency web teams, would seem

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53:20

Paula Bray - Connected digital initiatives and...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/01

The Powerhouse Museum has been working towards making its digital initiatives widely accessible and to a broader audience, online and onsite, to enable a connected digital future. With a blossoming of blogging, significant Flickr and Facebook presences the Museum has been developing great connections with a new audience that has led the institution to rethink access with an emphasis on the importance of community connections and participation. This thinking has had an impact on the Museum's

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55:56

Dmitry Baranovskiy - Raphaël: native web vector...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/01

As SVG and Canvas come of age, every developer who loves standards is wanting to use them in production to make eye-popping effects. But then they come up against the inevitable lack of support in IE6 to 8, and promptly give up the ghost. Fear not! Raphaël provides a developer friendly API to create graphics that work in Firefox 3.0+, Safari 3.0+, Opera 9.5+ and Internet Explorer 6.0+. Yes, you read that correctly, IE6. In this session Dmitry Baranovskiy, Raphaël's creator will walk you through

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54:57

Silvia Pfeeiffer - HTML5 Audio and Video

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/01

With three different audio and video codec formats each supported by the diverse HTML5 capable Web browsers, plus the need to deal with fallback for older browsers, HTML5 media is not the simple solution we have all been hoping for. But on the other hand, HTML5 media will make your life easier, since it offers some features that are hard to get with traditional Adobe Flash, such as a standardised JavaScript API, integrated CSS support, and built-in support for accessibility and internationalisation

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54:04

Daniel Davis - Widgets: Why should I care?

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/11/01

When I was a young lad, I had the use of a computer for the Christmas holidays so I typed out my thank you letters and felt super cool. Unfortunately there was no printer. I wrote out by hand what was on the screen and got laughed at by my dad. Despite this, I felt I was ahead of the crowd and at the start of something new and exciting. Thirty years later, I feel we're at the same stage with widgets - at the start of something new and exciting. Daniel is the Web Evangelist for Opera's Japan

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55:16

Dan Rubin - Creativity, design and interaction with...

Web Directions Podcast ·

2010/10/31

HTML5 and CSS3 are the newest stars of the web: the cornerstones of progressive enhancement, the future of online video, the easiest way to build web applications for desktop and mobile devices, and a brilliant foundation upon which we can add complex interaction and animation layers with javascript and Canvas; happily - thanks to much-improved browser support - we can now use them. In this session, Dan Rubin will show you who’s already taking advantage of these latest additions to our toolbox, what

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