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Digital Web Go to the source

There have been a couple of great presentations either side of lunch here at dConstruct. Joshua Porter — social web expert and occasional Digital Web contributor — revealed the hidden mental tics (or “cognitive biases”) that designers should be aware of when thinking about how best to attract engage with their users; and Daniel Burka (Pownce, Digg) shared his recommendations on how to approach the key pain points when designing for social interaction. Keep an eye out for the dConstruct podcasts of these talks; in the meantime, Daniel’s slides are on SlideShare — when I find Josh’s I’ll post the link here too. … Read the rest here

Digital Web Go to the source

The UK arm of Digital Web (editor Frances Berriman and me) are at Brighton’s annual dConstruct conference today to hear some of the web’s leading thinkers talk about Designing The Social Web. Steven Johnson is up first, drawing parallels between modern information design and cholera epidemics (London’s “social network of dead people”, as he puts it). Also in evidence is Clearleft’s Silverback gorilla , dispensing promotional bananas (yes, really) to the assembled geeks. If you’re at the conference, please come and say hi! … Read the rest here

Adactio Go to the source

It’s D-Day in Brighton. In just a few more hours, dConstruct will commence at the Brighton Dome. Twitter is all a-twitter as the geek invasion reaches critical mass. It’s wonderful having so many friends descend on Brighton in one go. It seems like half of the UK geek scene and a goodly portion of San Francisco are already here. … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

Silverback launched just over a month ago and what a roller coaster month that was. We launched towards the end of July and within the first couple of days the app had been downloaded 7,000 times. Thirty days on and well over 20,000 people have grabbed themselves a copy. Crikey! For the first couple of weeks the whole company was hooked on the Twitter feedback. I had a Summize window permanently open and kept refreshing the search every few minutes. Messages were coming thick and fast and I was pretty bowled over by the feedback… Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

Just a quick note that tickets for dConstruct 2008 went on sale at 11am BST this morning. It’s now 2:30pm and we’ve got around 135 tickets left. We’ve got some great people like Steven Johnson , Daniel Burka and Joshua Porter speaking this year, so it should be a lot of fun. So if you want to come along I recommend popping along now to secure your ticket . … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

To win a free ticket to dConstruct simply grab the code for one of our customisable buttons , add your own image and upload it to your website. Next, take a screen grab of your button and post it to our flicker group . The best button posted added by the evening of the 30th June, as voted by ourselves, will win a complimentary pass to the event. It’s as simple as that. … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

As well as a great line-up of speakers we’ve got some amazing workshops at this year’s dConstruct. We only launched them a couple of days ago, but several of them are already half full, so we expect them to sell out a lot faster than they did last year. I think people have realised that the workshops are one of the best was to guarantee a place at dConstruct, which typically sells out in under 24 hours. However I think it’s mostly down to the fantastic people we’ve got running these workshops. It’s just a shame that I can’t see them all! First up we have Lane Becker , Thor Muller and Leslie Chicoine from Get Satisfaction running a session on building and managing online communities . They will cover everything from the effect design can have on community growth and behaviour, through to community managers and dealing with unhappy campers. … Read the rest here

Andy Budd Go to the source

If you haven’t already heard, we quietly launched the dConstruct 2008 website at the start of the week. So if you’ve not seen the latest incarnation yet, I suggest you pop along to take a look. 2008.dconstruct.org The conference itself will be take place on Friday the 5th of September, back at the Dome in sunny Brighton. And like last year, we’ll be hosting a series of practical workshops in the run-up to the event. … Read the rest here