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Tickets for the UK ’s premier user experience conference are now on sale . The great thing about putting together a conference like UX London is that, as a user experience consultancy ourselves, Clearleft gets to set up exactly the conference that we would want to go to. And yet again I’m massively excited about who we’ve lined-up for 2010: Bill Moggridge, Scott McCloud, Peter Morville, Liz Danzico, Josh Porter, Kristina Halvorson, Whitney Hess and Jesse James Garrett to name but a few. Details of the workshops are still being finalised, but you can expect to learn more about running Agile UX teams, using comics as design tools, understanding patterns for discovery, designing to influence behaviour, using metrics effectively, applying psychology to interaction design and loads more. UX London is designed to be the conference we at Clearleft want to go to, and that’s probably why it was so successful last year… Read the rest here

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This year’s ATypI conference in Mexico was big on webfonts. FontShop celebrated this by putting together Webfonts Week , a series of interviews with leading type designers. There seems to be universal support for webfonts now, even from those who were dead set against it a year ago. This is obviously great news for web designers and font services such as Fontdeck (coming to a browser near you very soon). Erik Spiekermann It’s the difference between using software and owning it. What webfonts are doing is providing an engine to send fonts to a website, which is like sending ink to a printer… Read the rest here

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While at the Fronteers conference watching Thomas Fuchs go through his slides, a keen member of the audience noticed his use of bitwise negation and asked what it was for. Understandable, as there is so rarely a time where bitwise operators seem necessary. It did, however, remind me of a project that I worked on where I ended up using bitwise operators quite heavily in one particular chunk of code. It’s a solution that I’m quite particular fond of. … Read the rest here

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I just signed and returned the paperwork. As of November 16, I’ll be an employee of Yahoo!. This might seem like a bit of a surprise for those aware that I started at Squarespace just seven months ago. Unfortunately, six months into it, the requirements of employment changed and I was no longer able to stay on. … Read the rest here

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Written more than 6 years ago, my SitePoint article, ” Good Designers Copy, Great Designers Steal “, is still referenced from time to time as I chat with other designers by email, at conferences, and the like. It struck a chord with people — whether positive, negative, or both — and today that chord still hums. I suppose it’s because the topic isn’t new, nor did I invent it. After all, I was quoting Pablo Picasso as the supposed source of the quote, and he died more than 35 years ago. Others, such as drummer Tony Williams, have said the same . Here again I present another quote on the topic… Read the rest here

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This week I had the great pleasure of speaking at the 3rd Web Developer Conference in Bristol, along with Elliot Jay Stocks , Sarah Parmenter and Dan Donald . It was only a one-day conference, but I had a whale of time, meeting new folks like Elliot Kember (who shone on the 2 panels he attended), Oliver Ker and the legendary Jon Tan , with whom I’ve had emails and chat but never met in person. I also got to catch up with Ben Hostler, the creative director of Bristol-based agency Beef , who I haven’t seen since I was at Middle School with him… 24 years ago! The talk I gave was an update of one I gave at @media 2007, ‘How to be a Creative Sponge’. Back then, Flickr was really the only option for sharing design collections online, but a lot has changed since then. … Read the rest here

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So, it’s been four days since rejoining the ranks of the self-employed . The transition from full-time employment to self-employment has been nearly seamless. This is probably because I’ve been through this all before, but also because the timing was right. I was ready to leap and therefore hit the ground running. I have no shortage of work right now. In fact, I’ve probably not been this busy for quite some time. … Read the rest here

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Usually when I write about an upcoming event, it’s because I’ll be speaking at it. But there’s an event coming up in eight weeks that I’m pretty excited about, where I’ll be an attendee rather than a speaker. The cheekily-named Full Frontal will be taking place in the Duke of York’s cinema in Brighton on November 20th . It’s going to be all JavaScript, all the time. … Read the rest here

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During the short time that I was at dConstruct , I nipped out with Paul and Marcus to record a quick interview about HTML5. That interview has now been published in the latest episode of Boagworld , complete with transcript. Just to show how fast HTML5 can move, on the very day that we were chatting about the content model of the footer element , the spec was duly updated. Boagworld 184: html5 on Huffduffer Speaking of podcasting and dConstruct… Thanks to always excellent Drew , the audio recordings from the day are starting to roll in. You can keep an eye on the podcast page or simply subscribe to the podcast to get all the aural goodness. … Read the rest here

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During the short time that I was at dConstruct , I nipped out with Paul and Marcus to record a quick interview about HTML5. That interview has now been published in the latest episode of Boagworld , complete with transcript. Just to show how fast HTML5 can move, on the very day that we were chatting about the content model of the footer element , the spec was duly updated. Boagworld 184: html5 on Huffduffer Speaking of podcasting and dConstruct… Thanks to always excellent Drew , the audio recordings from the day are starting to roll in. You can keep an eye on the podcast page or simply subscribe to the podcast to get all the aural goodness. … Read the rest here

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When the original iPhone came out, it was pretty impressive. Every subsequent iteration has featured improvements of varying levels of impressiveness. The latest version, though, has bowled me over. I’m not talking about faster speeds, bigger storage, or any new fangled gizmos or geegaws. I’m talking about VoiceOver in the iPhone . Watch the video to get the low-down. … Read the rest here

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You have just two more days to enter the dConstruct Time Capsule competition which could win you a VIP ticket to the conference, including dinner with the speakers at a swish restaurant and two nights at a fancy-pants hotel in Brighton. Tickets to the conference are very, very near to selling out so winning might be your only chance to get to dConstruct this year. How do you enter? Well, the theme of this year’s dConstruct is Designing for Tomorrow so that got us thinking about what we would preserve for the future in a time capsule. So take a look around you. … Read the rest here

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You have just two more days to enter the dConstruct Time Capsule competition which could win you a VIP ticket to the conference, including dinner with the speakers at a swish restaurant and two nights at a fancy-pants hotel in Brighton. Tickets to the conference are very, very near to selling out so winning might be your only chance to get to dConstruct this year. How do you enter? Well, the theme of this year’s dConstruct is Designing for Tomorrow so that got us thinking about what we would preserve for the future in a time capsule. So take a look around you… Read the rest here

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Last week I had the pleasure of attending @media 2009 in London, where it has to be said, I had the best conference experience I’ve had for a long time. I prefer the more cosy nature of the event – a single track, not too large and overwhelming quantity of people, and simply great talks. I can’t pick one favourite presentation, as I came away feeling really inspired and energised by everything. It was also the last @media curated by Patrick Griffiths, who is moving on to follow other passions (from next year the conference will be in the able hands of the Web Directions Team ). I want to take this opportunity to thank Patrick for encouraging me to talk, and giving the best possible environment to do it in. … Read the rest here

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It’s been a great month for conferences; UX London , An Event Apart in Boston , and wrapping it all up, @media 2009 . The two day event was filled with great talks. The first day was filled with design-led topics and the second had more of a developer-based approach. You can check out Colly’s slides and Malarkey has published the slides and words from his talk called Walls Come Tumbling Down . The conference finished with the traditional hot topics panel, moderated by yours truly. … Read the rest here

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The second day of An Event Apart in Boston kept up the excellent standard of the first day . Alas, I couldn’t keep the liveblogging up for two straight days …I blame the Media Temple opening party. Other attendees were far more motivated than I. There’s the Django app A Feed Apart that collates Twitter and Flickr posts from the conference. … Read the rest here

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The first day of An Event Apart is wrapping up here in Boston. Dan is delivering his talk Implementing Design: Bulletproof A-Z which I’ve already liveblogged from a previous event so I can give my fingers a bit of rest now. The liveblogging was kind of fun. By keeping myself busy, I was able to stop myself from getting too nervous about my own talk. I’m so glad it’s over and done with now. … Read the rest here

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The wonderful Whitney Hess is speaking about DIY UX at An Event Apart in Boston . We are all user experience designers. Our users are suffering. Let’s help them. Whitney says we can be bumbling DIY hobbyists or we can be professionals. Meet the founders of Iridesco , based in New York. … Read the rest here

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Josh is at An Event Apart in Boston to talk about Designing with Psychology in Mind . He begin’s with Kurt Lewin ’s equation: Behaviour is a function of a person and their environment. That’s quite a modern view that clashed with the prevailing wisdom of the time. Lewin’s equation is applicable to design because although we can’t change the person we can influence behaviour by altering the environment on the web. We create the environment. We create a universe for our users… Read the rest here

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Jason Santa Maria , AKA Stan , is the man. Here’s here at An Event Apart in Boston to talk about Thinking Small . He’s my warm-up man. He begin in the 1980s; Christmas day in the Santa Maria household—Jason gets Castle Greyskull. One Christmas, his parents played a cruel joke on him. Instead of getting him toys, they got him books. … Read the rest here