The WebVisions conference was held May 20-22 in Portland, Oregon. Three days of “mind-melding on what’s new in the digital world.”
Speaker: Molly E. Holzschlag.
Molly is a Web Standards, Accessiblity, and CSS guru. She’s worked for Microsoft’s IE division and now works for Opera.com and has written a ton of great books on standards, CSS, etc.. (more…)
Speaker: Jared Spool
From the program:
“In this presentation, Jared will share these “fast-food budget” techniques, showing you cost and time effective methods for extracting the core benefits of any user experience design process. You’ll learn simple ways to gather information about your users, the tasks they are doing with your designs, and how well the designs meet their needs. In turn, you can use this information as you continue to make changes, thereby making each new release that much more delightful.”
Jared was a great speaker. He was funny, insightful and definitely lived up to the buzz surrounding his keynote. The presentation wasn’t so much about exact techniques or technology, but about how the best teams create great design. (more…)
WebVisions started off Wednesday with an exciting hands-on learning experience. The idea to take note of is the fact that hands-on in this case doesn’t refer to a room full of tech nerds working away at their laptops. In fact, there really were no computers involved. (more…)
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