Jamming session to start the week. :-)
Wrap up! Conference is over. Some of the speakers get together to talk about the experience.
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
I certainly hope to join the group again next year! =)
Steve Krug and USABILITY! - It’s Not Rocket Surgery
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
During his presentation at #VTM_WD, Steve reviewed attendees’ websites and provided his thoughts and tips.
His presentation was delightful. Funny dude! =)
Scott Jehl gives an interesting presentation on Optimizing for Mobile Web
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
He provided tips on how to create good mobile sites.
He talked about Progressive Enhancement for mobile web.
Stoyan Stefanov talked about “Building High Performance Websites”
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
I totally forgot to take his photo because I was busy taking notes! (Sorry, Stoyan!) =(
smush.it
phpied.com
@stoyanstefanov
He talked about different techniques for:
- compression .JS, .CSS, images.
- Flush()
- And tools we can use
Coming up from Yahoo!:
YUICompressor Desktop tool that allows you to drag and drop files and will compress them, zip them, etc.
Jason CranfordTeague talks about 2010: The Year of Web Typography
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
Jason said: “Web Typography … is where the sexy is going to be in web design this year!” … Enough said. ;-)
Robert Hoekman, Jr. starts his presentation on Experiencism: How to be a Strategist in a World of Design Thinkers
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
Think about:
- What does your organization do?
- Why does your organization do that?
- What does it want to put out in the world? Why does it want to achieve?
- Those who know the concept have miscommunications with the people who don’t know the concepts.
Zappos, MINIS, Apple - success:
- The reason that they are succeeding is because of STRATEGY!
- Strategy is the motivation behind innovation.
- Without strategy innovation is just a word - it has no meaning.
- All the design thinking in the world will not turn your org into Zappos, MINI, Apple.
WHAT follows WHY!
Strategy:
- Communicate strategy of your org to everyone in your org.
- Strategy is just a plan. TARGET.
- You can’t create a plan w/o having an end result.
- Strategy enables decision making.
- Strategy helps:
- To define what your goal is
- Measurement
- Unifies the team (we are all after the same thing)
There are FIVE phases to developing a user strategy:
- Perform an audit
- Discover phase
- Define
- Evaluate and plan
- Act, React, Repeat
Website: www.rhjr.net
Paul Adams from Google talks about Designing for the Real LIfe Social Network
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 2
- People are now the center of the web.
- Designing for different types of relationships.
- Designing for strong ties is important - big influence.
- Think how people are connected around your business.
Emily Lewis explaining Practical Microformats
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 1
- Sets of HTML attributes and values that are applied to common web content - people, events, blog posts, reviews, tags - to provide more meaning
- Makes content much more powerful (be searched, etc)
- Community driven initiative
- Designed for humans first and machines second
- Building blogs to share content on the web
- Smart content
- Markup with more meaning
Progressive Enhancement
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 1
Todd Parker talks about Designing with Progressive Enhancement: Building the Web That Works for Everyone
Goal: To make it work for everyone in every device.
What is Progressive Enhancement (PE)?
- It’s about being inclusive - works for everyone
- Always start with what works everywhere.
Tool: EnhanceJS
http://code.google.com/p/enhancejs/
More info:
