It’s been a while, but you crazy folks in the Canberra have been hammering on for a Port80 of your own, so in conjunction with the UX Australia conference the Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA) is going to be holding one of its famous Port80′s with Free Pizza and maybe Free Beer on Tuesday 25 August.
That’s right go mark it on the calendar right now.
You would expect with the economy in the toilet and the outlook in some quarters looking a little bleak, that there wouldn’t be a lot of education events like conferences going on around the country. Usually one of the first things to go on the old corporate (and freelancers) budget is those expensive junkets *cough* conferences. With people falling back on the more traditional media such as books and free online resources for their professional education requirements.
I love getting parcels in the post, you know they rock up with the postal courier, often weeks to months after you have ordered them, sometimes after they have slipped your mind. So it’s a bit of a nice surprise when they do arrive.
Well the other day a free book, Dan Saffer’s Designing Gestural Interfaces arrived from the Web Directions crew, John and Maxine. Seems they are giving away books for a limited time until March 13th. All you have to do is go register for the Web Directions Roadshow. Easy, eh.
photo: Ben Buchanan
In a few weeks there is going to be the biggest web event of the Western Australian calendar year. Not just the Edge of the Web conference, there is also Webjam, four workshops and the WA Web Awards all in one roller coaster week.
One of the keynote speakers and workshop presenter at the Edge of the Web conference is Derek Featherstone. Derek is particularly renown for his straight forward and often enlightening approach to accessibility.
The other day I took the opportunity to discuss with Derek his motivation, the future of accessibility and his forthcoming workshop.
Gary Barber
I’m an independent User Experience Consultant.
I design interfaces, build information architectures, HTML prototypes, run workshops on UX design, do user research and conduct usability & accessibility testing and audits.
I can work within your existing team or as an external consultant on a contract or adhoc basis.
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