Sunday Night
I like my bed at the hotel I’m staying for the Voices That Matter Web Design conference in S.F. :)
Monday Morning
Up early enjoying the New York Times and a cup of coffee. Mmm! :)
Jesse James Garrett speaks about “The Elements of User Experience”
Simple Planes diagram: http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/…simpleplanes.pdf
The Elements of User Experience (original diagram): http://www.jjg.net/elements/pdf/elements.pdf
Tantek Celik talks about HTML5
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 1
Excellent presentation! Wish it had been longer!
HTML5 consists of four areas:
- Practical upgrade to HTML4/XHTML
- New forms capabilities
- Native multimedia (vector graphics, SVG, etc)
- Core of the open web app platform
Denise Jacobs talks about It’s Business Time: Giving User Experience Love With CS33
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 1
She replaces Dan Cederholm
The slide shown in the photo is for “Let’s Get It On with CSS3” in case you are wondering. :)
She talked about amongst other things:
- Progressive Enhancement
- Graceful Degradation
CSS3 Resources:
http://delicious.com/denisejacobs/css3resources
Ordering Disorder by Khoi Vinh
Voices That Matter Web Design Conference 2010 - Day 1
Khoi Vinh gets ready to talk about Ordering Disorder at Voices That Matter Web Design conference in San Francisco.
Very interesting presentation about bringing design knowledge for print to online with grids.
“The grids suggest that we have the fidelity of print, but of course we can’t.”
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:
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
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.
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
