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Afternoon Sessions
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Morning Sessions
You can choose one morning session...
- Creating Sexy Stylesheets
Jina Bolton - Professional Photoshop Effects
Elliot Jay Stocks - From product to service
Hannah Donovan - Elastic Thinking: adaptable design in a world of uncertainty
Miguel Ripoll
Being a CSS expert is more than just memorizing selectors. It's also working to improve the maintainability and efficiency of your style sheets, planning for the future, and mastering your workflow...
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Learn how to harness the power of Photoshop and create stunning graphics for your website.
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If you're a designer working in the web scene, then you're working in a highly competitive and crowded space. Learn to shift your design consciousness to solve real-world problems and make websites people want to use...
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As web designers we are increasingly loosing control of our layouts. Users can set font sizes and site widths. Clients can add, edit and delete content the length and shape of which are impossible to predict beforehand...
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... and one afternoon session
- Web Design-isms - Trends of the future
Larissa Meek - Charm clients and win pitches
Paul Boag - Guerrilla Usability Testing
Andy Budd - Microformats - Building blocks 'for a beautiful web'
Andy Clarke
Taking a lesson from the defined movements in art history, we can conclude that the web has also seen its own type of movements such as glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds and futuristic interfaces...
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Being a great designer or developer is only half the battle. You also need to be able to promote and sell your services but there is little advice online about how to do this effectively...
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Usability tests are an excellent way of discovering problems with a product or service, but commissioning a dedicated usability lab comes at significant cost. Instead of a single academic evaluation, why not bring your testing in-house...
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Quickly and easily integrate web site content into web-based and desktop applications with little more than finely tuned, meaningful HTML and XHTML mark-up...
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Creating Sexy Stylesheets
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Jina Bolton, Jinabolton.com
Being a CSS expert is more than just memorizing selectors. It's also working to improve the maintainability and efficiency of your style sheets, planning for the future, and mastering your workflow. Join designer and co-author of "The Art and Science of CSS" Jina Bolton for a discussion on pushing the limits of CSS to create stunning interfaces using clean, meaningful markup. We'll address some of the common CSS techniques used today in web interface development, and take a look at ways that these techniques could be improved. We'll also discuss some simple techniques to enhance interface elements and usability. Finally, we'll briefly discuss CSS 3, and what the exciting future of web design could look like when CSS 3 finally becomes mainstream. This workshop assumes a basic understanding of CSS techniques.
What you'll learn
- Learn how some common use of markup can be minimized and cleaner.
- Think outside the box by creating layouts not restricted by the box model
- Address some of the issues that come from some of today's common CSS techniques
- Consider the future when building an interface, to avoid mishaps down the road
- Learn what CSS3 will have to offer, and how it will make our lives easier
Jina Bolton
Jinabolton.comJina Bolton is a designer and artist, working and residing in Silicon Valley. She is excited to be involved with the CSS Eleven, where she is "committed to helping the W3C's CSS Working Group to better deliver the tools that are needed to design tomorrow's web".
Jina has spoken at conferences (including Future of Web Design New York 2007 and An Event Apart San Francisco 2007), and is a co-author of The Art & Science of CSS. In addition to being featured in CSS Professional Style and Web Designing magazine, Jina has also written articles for publications including SitePointand Vitamin (of which she is an advisory board member).
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Professional Photoshop Effects
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Elliot Jay Stocks, Carsonified
Learn how to harness the power of Photoshop and create stunning graphics for your website. Elliot Jay Stocks will take attendees through various stages of Photoshop-focused website production, such as how to effectively prepare images, build beautiful background textures with minimal fuss, and get creative with PNG transparency. This workshop - aimed at beginner to intermediate Photoshop users - will arm attendees with a set of tools for building a more beautiful web.
What you'll learn
- How to create your own custom brushes
- How to choose and manipulate photographs for use as textures
- How to make the most of PNG transparency
- How to prepare imagery with CSS techniques in mind
- And more! Attendees are welcome to ask about other techniques they'd like to learn
Elliot Jay Stocks
CarsonifiedElliot is currently Senior Designer at Carsonified and can also be found writing for industry-leading publications such as .net magazine and speaking at various design-related events.
Elliot gained notoriety for telling everyone to "destroy the Web 2.0 look" at FOWD in New York, and is passionate about fighting design clichés.
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From Product to Service
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Hannah Donovan, Last.fm
If like me, you design or develop product intending to supply people with a service, then you're working in a highly competitive and crowded space. Within this environment, how do you stay on track and maintain your design principles to solve people's real world problems? Learn how to shift your design consciousness from product to service and make websites people actually want to use.
What you'll learn
- Structuring and maintaining identity and design principles based on service
- dentifying and internalising service design to refocus how you think about design
- Staying on track with the service you provide amidst a competitive environment
Hannah Donovan
Last.fmHannah Donovan has been the Creative Director at Last.fm since 2006. Originally from Canada's icy north, Hannah obtained a Bachelor of Design from the University of Alberta where she cut her teeth on the web instead of going outside. Since then she's worked on everything from chocolate bar wrappers to wireframes. When she's not immersed in design, Hannah draws monsters.
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Elastic Thinking: adaptable design in a world of uncertainty
- Time:
- 09.00 - 12.30
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Miguel Ripoll, Cesser Digital
As web designers we are increasingly loosing control of our layouts. Users can set font sizes and site widths. Clients can add, edit and delete content the length and shape of which are impossible to predict beforehand. Accesses can be via desktop, mobile and even assistive technologies. In the midst of all these uncertainties how can great user-centred design be accomplished without compromising compliance to standards, accessibility and usability?
What you'll learn
In this workshop we will combine innovative XHTML CSS and Javascript coding techniques with some lateral thinking to address problems like:
- Horizontal and vertical flow in complex fluid layouts.
- Accommodating changes in user settings transparently.
- Varying dynamic content implemented by non designers.
- Design as code: best practices for the transformation of raw data into beautiful user interfaces.
- Web typography and beyond: practical ideas for sophisticated layout manipulation.
Miguel Ripoll
Miguel Ripoll is the CEO and Creative Director of Cesser Digital, a Spanish web developing firm with a team of over 350 and 9 offices across the country.
His work is often featured in leading publications such as Communication Arts, Computer Arts, Internet Magazine, PC World, .Net Magazine, etc, and has been exhibited in museums in Madrid, Seville, Berlin, New York, Aleppo, Hannover, and other cities both in Spain and abroad. He has also designed the cover for this year's edition of the book The Web Design Index.
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Web Design-isms - Trends of the future
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Larissa Meek, Larissameek.com
Taking a lesson from the defined movements in art history, we can conclude that the web has also seen its own type of movements such as glossy buttons, ornamental backgrounds and futuristic interfaces. These are design trends, or a “Web Design-isms”, and you’ve seen it all at one time or another. In this workshop we will dissect the most popular design trends and take a look at what design trends might take shape in the future.
What you'll learn
- Lessons from art history and how they can apply to the web
- A breakdown of what makes each design trend a movement
- A prediction of future trends with the adaption of CSS3
- Hands-on examples of how to create selected design trends and where they overlap
Larissa Meek
Larissameek.comLarissa has played a key role in designing a number of award-winning AgencyNet projects including MOJOHD, Howard TV, Own Your C, Warner Brothers, Bacardi, and Oxygen Networks.
Additionally, she regularly blogs at LarissaMeek.com which serves as a platform for her creative ideas and personal ramblings.
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Charm clients and win pitches
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Paul Boag Headscape
Being a great designer or developer is only half the battle. You also need to be able to promote and sell your services but there is little advice online about how to do this effectively. This workshop will examine ways to promote your services, discuss effective approaches when responding to client briefs and improve your presentational skills for that crucial pitch.
What you'll learn
- How to leverage your existing clients to bring in more work
- Ways of getting your name known
- How to write an effective proposal
- Techniques for making your presentation stand out from the crowd
Paul Boag
HeadscapePaul Boag has been working on the web since 1993. He is a user experience consultant for Headscape Ltd (www.headscape.co.uk) a web design agency that he founded back in 2002.
Paul also produces and hosts the longest running and popular web design podcast at boagworld.com. He is regularly speaker at workshops and conferences and writes for various publications.
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Guerrilla Usability Testing
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Andy Budd, Clearleft
Usability tests are an excellent way of discovering problems with a product or service. Commissioning a dedicated usability lab will provide a high degree of scientific rigour but obviously comes at significant cost. Instead of a single academic evaluation,
why not bring your testing in-house and run it alongside your design and development process? Two or three quick-and-dirty usability tests will not only provide better results but will also allow you to iterate your product between tests, ultimately leading to a more refined product.
Usability testing needn't cost the Earth. In fact, there's no need for all that expensive equipment, a dedicated lab and or even expert evaluators. It's entirely possible to run a test at your own office, a cafe or even your subject's home.
What you'll learn
- Learn all the tricks of guerilla usability testing
- Learn how to plan a test, recruit users and set up your testing environment
- Learn how to moderate tests effectively and evaluate the results
Andy Budd
ClearleftAndy Budd is an interaction designer and web standards developer from Brighton, England. As the user experience lead at Clearleft, Andy spends his time helping clients improve their customers online experience.
Andy is a regular speaker at events such as SXSW, and helped organise d.Construct, the first "web apps" conference in the UK. Andy wrote the best selling book, CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions and blogs at andybudd.com.
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Microformats - Building blocks 'for a beautiful web'
- Time:
- 13.30 - 17.00
- Location:
- Kensington Close Hotel
- Speaker:
- Andy Clarke, Stuff and Nonsense
Quickly and easily integrate web site content into web-based and desktop applications with little more than finely tuned, meaningful HTML and XHTML mark-up. This half-day course covers several current Microformats, how to embed them into your web content, plus will teach you the skills needed to write, and the advantages of 'content-out' mark-up.
Microformats are fast becoming an essential tool for designers, developers, content authors and business people who work on the web. They enable you to easily and quickly integrate a web site’s content into web-based and desktop applications with little more than finely tuned, standardised and meaningfulHTML or XHTML mark-up. They help web designers and developers work more closely together, increasing the efficiency of the design and development workflow; saving time and money and adding value to web-based content.
What you'll learn
- How to write meaningful mark-up from the 'content-out'
- Contact Information Microformat – hCard
- Event Microformat – hCalendar
- The syntax of Microformats, how to embed them into your web content and how publishers such as Yahoo are using Microformats today.
Andy Clarke
Stuff and NonsenseAndy Clarke is a visual web designer based in the UK. He started his one-man design firm Stuff and Nonsense in 1998. His clients include national and international businesses, charities, and government bodies.
Andy is an invited expert to the W3C’s CSS Working Group and regularly speaks at workshops and conference events worldwide, educating web designers on how to create beautiful, accessible websites. He is the author of Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design (New Riders Press).
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£580
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"I loved the real-life practical examples and insight into the rules behind web standards." - Andy Brockie, Guardian Unlimited
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"It was great meeting other quality developers." - Ryan King, Technorati
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"The workshop was extremely useful and well organised." - Duncan Ponting, BBC
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"It was invaluable to get confirmation that other big players are using the same approaches as us." - Erki Esken, Skype
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Free Survival Kit!
Code and resources from the best of the best
Every workshop attendee gets a FREE copy of the accompanying Survival Kit DVD
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"I gained tons of practical advice. All valuable hands-on stuff." - Henrik Pettersen, MTV
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The workshop was great for comparing experiences - Jeff Veen, Adaptive Path
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"Being able to ask questions and participate freely was great." - Marcia Palmer, Cabinet Office
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"The question and answer section was excellent." - Mark Francis, Yahoo!
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"Comparing example architecture to our own gave us some really great ideas." - Richard Keen, Multimap
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£580
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"I loved the real-life practical examples and insight into the rules behind web standards." - Andy Brockie, Guardian Unlimited
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"It was great meeting other quality developers." - Ryan King, Technorati
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"The workshop was extremely useful and well organised." - Duncan Ponting, BBC
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"It was invaluable to get confirmation that other big players are using the same approaches as us." - Erki Esken, Skype
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Free Survival Kit!
Code and resources from the best of the best
Every workshop attendee gets to take home a FREE copy of the accompanying Survival Kit DVD
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"I gained tons of practical advice. All valuable hands-on stuff." - Henrik Pettersen, MTV
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The workshop was great for comparing experiences - Jeff Veen, Adaptive Path
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"Being able to ask questions and participate freely was great." - Marcia Palmer, Cabinet Office
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"The question and answer section was excellent." - Mark Francis, Yahoo!
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"Comparing example architecture to our own gave us some really great ideas." - Richard Keen, Multimap