This week Digital Web features an interview (by our own Frances Berriman ) with Aral Balkan , the organizer of the upcoming <head> Conference . Aral talks about the goals of <head>, social interactions and the challenges of virtual communication. … Read the rest here
So I wasn’t able to live blog my own session, so I am blogging it after the fact. I did a talk about simply what it takes to get a job in UX. I decided to start out and talk about my experiences and how I got to where I am today, specifically my experiences of working in-house in a tech/web company, working in-house in a non-tech company, working as a freelancer, working as a contractor, and working at an agency. I asked for questions during the session but no one really had any until about 1/2 way thru. … Read the rest here
Rachel Elkington is giving the introduction for Jacob Wobbrock . Jacob is going to be talking on Flipping the Burden: Marking computer accessible with everyday input devices. Jacob takes the stage, after quickly plugging in his laptop we’re rolling. He hopes to do justice to InfoCamp’s “power to the people” theme. He is involved with DUB : Design, Use, Build which is a mix of people from various departments and schools at UW. He starts off by talking about AIM : Accessibility Interaction and Mobility group. … Read the rest here
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
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
Our friends over at AbilityNet have been busy testing the official Beijing Olympics website to see how accessible it is for disabled web users — and though things have improved, they found there were still a number of issues. AbilityNet’s Judith Garman said: “In this special report we asked disabled users to try out the Beijing Olympics website in our interaction lab. Poor information architecture and a lack of adherence to web standards result in an uneven playing field for disabled sports fans across the world. The Beijing website has clearly been developed with some accessibility principles in mind, however these have been poorly implemented — showing how a purely technical approach to accessibility won
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Time to dive back in to the Bright Creative redesign I wrote about last week , and focus on some of the good stuff that came out of it. Most people got it; but for anyone who misinterpreted my laundry list of rants from last time, that was just some healthy critiquing of my own work. It’s a good idea to step back every now and then and judge what you do with a critical eye. The truth is I’m very pleased with the way this redesign came off. Here’s why. jQuery I’d like to thank the star of our show, John Resig ’s fabulous jQuery library. … Read the rest here
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