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.
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Google 2001
By kuslahne - October 2nd, 2008
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As part of their tenth birthday celebrations, Google has resurrected their 2001 index for a short while. Of course, Digital Web is on there — and via the magic of archive.org’s Wayback Machine, you can browse the site of yesteryear, featuring an introduction to the DOM by PPK.
A few of the other pages are available on archive.org too — were you in our classified listings way back then?
New Issue: Tools for Concept Designing
By kuslahne - October 1st, 2008
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Victor Lombardi
returns to Digital Web this week with a particularly compelling contribution, Concept Design Tools. Fresh off his presentation at Euro Information Architecture Summit, Victor brings practical tools for setting the foundation for forward-thinking concepts and set aside technical or situational constraints. From the Euro IA description of his talk, “Great design concepts have a visceral effect. They force us to think differently. They carry an emotional impact that sways our opinions. They can help us develop better solutions by diverging from conventional solutions and by looking further into the future.”
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - Plenary: Tamara Adlin
By kuslahne - September 29th, 2008
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Day two kicks off with Aaron giving thanks to sponsors. Aaron then asks the audience about the sessions that occurred yesterday and what they found interesting and if there could be sessions today to expand on that. Audience is talking about things they learned from yesterday. Topics include Dutch libraries, Creative Commons, privacy on the web, EULAs, Denim, financial banking, etc.
Rachel comes up to introduce Tamara Adlin. Tamara takes the stage. She starts off by talking about what may happen during the course of this presentation, namely her possibly dropping the f-bomb. She goes into a story about how she dropped the f-bomb in her interview at Amazon.
She went on to explain what we are as user experience professionals, which basically means we are stuck into a world of creating reports and no one is listening and if they are its all dirty laundry to them.
“If we are really user experience professionals, then we got to start thinking about the people who use us.” “When is the last time you thought about your boss as a user of yourself?”
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - Unconference: Using openspace for collaboration
By kuslahne - September 28th, 2008
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Bryce Johnson is giving a talk about unconferences, what they are, how they came to being. He starts off his talk about barcamp and how that spurred the first generation of unconferences. He went on to explain TransitCamp, etc. “Open Space is a technique and unconferences are an interesting way for collaboration.”
Organizing – InfoCamp spent 6 months organizing event. While Bryce believes this because some people like to organize events. He asked me about Refresh Seattle and how much time I put in to it a month… about 2 hours for me personally. This is mostly because its a well-oiled machine and we keep it simple, for example the Refresh Seattle website is basically a single web page.
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - 3D Prototyping
By kuslahne - September 28th, 2008
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Rachel Elkington and Aaron Louie are doing a workshop on 3D Prototyping. The concept is based on product design. essentially we will be tasked to build a 3D Prototype and the interface is basically a version of a portable holodeck (yes, like from Star Trek). Right now the audience is contributing ideas and inspiration to the prototype and Aaron is writing them down. The audience has been broken up into teams of four and will be brainstorming. I am going to jump out of this session to go to the UX/IA & marketing session. I will post photos of the prototypes once they are uploaded.
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - Interviewing and Getting a UX Job
By kuslahne - September 28th, 2008
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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. While I could rehash all that was said here, I am going to focus on the questions that came up. Those questions are:
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - Keynote: Jacob O. Wobbrock
By kuslahne - September 28th, 2008
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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.
Live: InfoCamp 2008 - Opening Remarks
By kuslahne - September 28th, 2008
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Today and tomorrow Digital Web Magazine will be live blogging from InfoCamp 2008. I will also be giving a session on interview and getting a UX jobs later today.
Right now Arron Louie from ZAAZ is on stage giving the opening orientation and opening remarks. A quick survey shows that the audience is mostly made up of information architects, librarians, technical writers, as well as usability and user-centered design professionals.
The list of topics was displayed on the screen, a full screen of text listing them all out. Aaron is pointing out that because it is an un-conference our topics are decided right now, were in other conferences are limited to topics they decided over six months ago which may or may not be relevant today. Very good point there especially with the recent financial crisis being reported by our media.
Lunch is on us at InfoCamp 2008!
By kuslahne - September 26th, 2008
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Digital Web Magazine is happy to be a sponsor of InfoCamp 2008. For those who don’t know what InfoCamp is, here is a little blurb from their website:
InfoCamp is an interdisciplinary un-conference for information architecture, user-centered design, librarianship, and information management. It features an egalitarian, community-driven format in which presentations are designed and delivered by attendees.
InfoCamp is this Saturday and Sunday in Seattle and Digital Web Magazine will be sponsoring free lunch for everyone! Yes, that’s right, we’re having tacos! If you see me or Tiff Fehr at the event please say hello! I hope to see you there, this year looks like it will be a record turnout!
