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Jeanne Spellman, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative |
User-Generated Content: Supporting Accessibility and Standards
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How do you keep your website meeting web standards and accessibility guidelines when all sorts of people are adding content - from users to administrative assistants? We'll look at challenges and solutions, along with new standards for "authoring tools" ranging from HTML editors to blogging software to photo-sharing sites.
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Paul Annett, Clearleft |
Oooh, That's Clever! (Unnatural Experiments in Web Design)
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Find inspiration in the ridiculous. See technological quirks as opportunities. Try something previously unheard of with your site design. Laugh in the face of convention. Use and abuse CSS in ways never before imagined. Get away with it. And if it doesn't work, try something else instead.
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Ryan Lane, Wunderman |
Prototyping Fidelity: Getting the Best Return with the Least Work
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You need to communicate key details of a design. You need to get client buyoff. You need to prove that something’s even possible to do. You need people, (maybe even yourself,) to GET IT. And you need it fast.
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Peter-Paul Koch, QuirksMode.org |
State of the Browsers
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Based on the results of his extensive test suites at QuirksMode.org, Peter-Paul Koch will discuss the current state of the four major browsers' DOM support and give tips and tricks for working around the most serious problems. He will also give vendors advice for future versions of their browsers.
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Sean McBride, Google |
Breaking Layouts for Better CSS
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Got your CSS layout tweaked to perfection? Great, now break it! We'll explore four methods of testing your layout for a broad audience and discuss fixes for common issues. Users worldwide are breaking your site in new and interesting ways. Break it yourself and find problems before they do!
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Scott Fegette, Adobe Systems Inc. |
Diversification: the Path to Web Design Riches
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Many web designers struggle with how to grow their businesses without working 24/7. By expanding offerings to include other revenue streams—such as print design, email marketing, content management solutions, new media, web analytics/hosting, or consulting services—web designers can leverage existing business relationships to increase profits.
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Gretchen Anderson, LUNAR |
Let’s Get Physical
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The world is full of gear whores, and more are born every day. Interaction designers need to know how to please these gadget lovers when working on physical products. This panel talks about designing and prototyping physical controls and collaborating with industrial designers and mechanical engineers.
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Matthew Pollock, Sapient |
Design is the New Technology for Brand-Building
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Technology was what gave brands the competitive edge in the marketplace in the past 5-10 years. It trumped the need for great design. The bank that had online banking was able to attract customers because of that technology. Today, you’re not a bank with out online banking. That’s the price of entry. Technology is mainstream and table stakes in being a player in today’s market. Today it is the design and the experience that differentiates the brand.
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Dan Ogles, Conduit Labs |
The Present and Future of 3D in Flash
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You'll get a heady round-up of the different approaches to rendering 3D in Flash, along with a little healthy debate about which is the best. From the opensource Papervision to the server-side crazy math of Loudcrowd, an overview of which tools work best for what project.
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Leah Buley, Adaptive Path |
Being a UX Team of One
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What’s the best way to evolve design ideas quickly? Get together with other designers and brainstorm. The second best way? Adapt the methods of larger UX groups to a team of one. Learn how in this presentation, which shares lightweight techniques for quick and effective brainstorming on your own.
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John-Mark Josling, eBay Inc. |
Playing On! Interface Lessons from Games
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Games live or die by their interface. A modern video game is a complex, layered world of information, social interactions, rules and controls - yet, even young kids can master them.
So what interface lessons can the web-world learn from games? We will give you 10.
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Susannah Gardner, Hop Studios |
Newspaper Websites Don’t Have to Be Awful
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Dig into the toolbox used by web designers who specialize in newspapers, magazines, and news blogs. See how they handle online publishing needs: dynamic and archived content, community building, advertising, editorial flow, deadlines, and breaking news. A nitty-gritty breakdown of the many technical tools available for today’s news publishers.
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Shawn Lawton Henry, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Mobile and Accessible: Two Birds with One Stone
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Top-notch developers make websites work well on mobile devices, and work well for people with disabilities. Luckily, the overlap between the two means you can accomplish both together with less work. This panel demonstrates those overlaps and introduces new resources to help you address accessibility and mobile usability more effectively.
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Richard Ziade, Arc90, Inc. |
Users! What Are They Good For?
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Interaction design today centers around the user and their needs, wants and patterns. But what of revolutionary and new experiences that reset expectations? How do we reconcile innovation with great user experience?
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Anitra Pavka, anitrapavka.com |
Tap "Old" Money - eCommerce Usability for Baby Boomers
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Older generations, like Baby Boomers, are bringing their wallets online. However, a Web 2.0 site that appeals to a 20 or 30-something can scare off the Boomers. Actual usability findings will reveal the technologies and design techniques to help you tap this demographic while avoiding common mistakes.
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Peter-Paul Koch, QuirksMode.org |
JavaScript Events
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In this session we'll treat several important JavaScript events and their compatibility.
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Joshua Porter, Bokardo Design |
Designing for Sign-Up
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Sign-up processes are everywhere, yet few are easy or enjoyable. Some are downright deadly, acting as a wall to participation.
In this presentation Joshua Porter will demonstrate multiple ways to handle sign-up elegantly, from writing clear, effective copy to adding motivational cues to even getting rid of sign-up altogether.
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M. Jackson Wilkinson, Viget Labs |
Fitting Design and UX into an Agile Process
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Agile processes are for developers, right? It often feels that way, but shifting it into an umbrella process for your whole project, including design, UX, development, and validation can help make your product -- not to mention your job -- that much better.
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Kent Brewster, Yahoo! |
Maslow's Hierarchy of Web 2.0
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Mapping Maslow's hierarchy of needs onto the available layers of Web enhancement reveals an almost spooky level of correlation. Join us on a whirlwind tour from basic needs to self-actualization and learn why you absolutely must not break the Back button or throw drag-and-drop at inexperienced users, and might even get away with ignoring the SxSW crowd entirely. (Cheat sheet will be provided for those of you who didn't pay attention in Psych One.)
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Joe Flood, Joe Flood |
Government Web Sites Try Not to Suck
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You’ve changed. After experiencing Google and Amazon, most government web sites seem outdated and clunky. Yet, we depend on these sites for weather, health information and much more – how can we make them better? Discover the best government sites and the challenges they face.
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Sarah Davies, ACLU of Washington |
Start to Finish Drupal Redesign
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This presentation will go through the technical details of a start to finish Drupal redesign, including theming, plugins, coding, testing, and cost. A basic knowledge of php and css is highly recommended for this panel to make sense to you.
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Michael Cooper, W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) |
Making Web Widgets Accessible: Tools and Techniques
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Browser vendors, code library developers, and Ajax gurus demo best practices for making widgets and dynamic web content accessible. You’ll also see how they're implementing W3C's new Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite, WAI-ARIA (nearing completion or done by SXSW 2009!). Get tips and tricks for next generation web accessibility.
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Katrina Alcorn, Hot Studio |
Inspiring Logic and Creativity in Multi-Disciplinary Web Design Teams
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Web design teams are made up of people who represent both left and right brain,
those in-between, and the clash and sum of their diverse interactions. How to manage
a multidisciplinary team to make one brain that works together to create and implement
successful designs and results.
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Mason Dixon, Motion Graphics Festial |
User Interface in Motion
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New interface technologies like Flash, Ajax and Silverlight enable a new breed of rich-applications that merge animation with interactivity. This panel considers from two angles: technically, what can be done with this new software, and how should we re-think traditional UI and HCI design theories because of them.
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Ron Goldin, LUNAR |
Design + Film: A Picture Worth 1k Words
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Pulling from cartooning, photography, film-making, infographics and more, you’ll learn creative ways of selling a complex idea by aiming for the heart. We’ll demo DIY visualizisation techniques and storytelling methods from software and industrial design practice, leveraging tools you already know in innovative ways and introducing new tools for experimentation.
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Tess Snider, Trion World Network |
Pave that Trail -- Building to Usage Patterns
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This talk uses metaphors from the real world to discuss some of the ways user interface designers unwittingly show contempt for their users, and what we, as software developers, can do to improve their quality of life. In particular, it will focus on how we can make ourselves more sensitive to usage patterns, and learn how to use that knowledge to improve our software.
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Peyton Crump, Viget Labs |
Design School for Dummies
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The oddity of web professionals is that we come from every possible discipline and background. This panel will show those of us who got here without a design school degree what we missed. Get the some of the benefits of D-school training without the price tag.
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Craig Moser, Lombardi Software |
Designing for the Ritalin® Generation
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A new generation of tech-savvy users - weened on XBox, broadband and 800 channels of Hi-Def crap on the TV - presents interesting challenges and opportunities for application designers & developers. This session takes a look at the needs and technologies available to create compelling Web-based experiences that were previously only possible in desktop applications.
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Christopher Schmitt, Heat Vision |
Designing Our Way Through Web Forms
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Although forms make the Web go around, they are often ugly due the generic way in which browsers display them, not to mention irritating to our site’s visitors when they don’t work as expected. In this session, panelists will provide specific details on ways to successfully create compelling forms for your users.
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Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe Systems |
Accessible Flash and Flex Applications
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Developers are increasingly interested in delivering accessible applications that use Flash-based technologies but are uncertain as to what is possible and how to develop and test their applications. This panel will look at best practices and examples, and share information on what's new in Flash accessibility.
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