Tag Archives: web design

UX Architecture for the Small Guy

Nov
13
2009

Me (Gary Barber) delivering at EotWPhoto: Richard Giles

Last week I had the pleasure of speaking at the Edge of the Web conference in Perth on UX Architecture for the Small Guy.   I will do a brief write up on the conference shortly, so standby on that one, but for now on with the talk.

Why this Topic

Too often I have been to various conferences and I have heard from some very experienced UX people discussing numerous case studies of projects.   All of them have one thing in common – large budgets or large teams.   Frankly these are not the projects that happen from day to day in Perth.  But they appear to be the mainstay of the UX designer, one gets the impression they are the general bread and butter in some parts of the world.

5 x 5 on the Edge with Ash Donaldson

Sep
30
2009

Ash Donaldson at UX BookClubphoto:Steve Baty

It’s time for part two of the 5 x 5 interview series, covering a range of speakers from the upcoming Perth web conference the Edge of the Web. Next I caught up with Ash Donaldson.

Ash Donaldson is one of those old school User Experience Designers that are the main stay of our industry. He’s the type of person that just extrudes knowledge and a passion for his craft . It’s well worth having a chat over a beer or two with Ash, you’ll come away with your head spinning, and not from the beer.

5 x 5 on the Edge with Matt Balara

Sep
28
2009

UX Australia

Last year the Perth Web community celebrated with the highly successful inaugural Edge of the Web conference. Well that conference is on again, with workshops and ending in the massive geek black tie party that is the Australia Web Awards Dinner. You wanted it over two days – you got it, you wanted more locals – you got it, you wanted more workshops – you got it.

To help celebrate this year, I’m putting together this five part interview series with speakers from the Edge of the Web conference, this is part one.

A Review – Sexy Web Design

Apr
7
2009

Sexy Web Design

Rating:
4

If you have read as many web design books as I have you find that they fall into basically two categories:

  1. The ones in which the author waxes on about how wonderful they are at design, show off page after page of their own portfolio. The entire book becomes a publicity fest.
  2. Then there is the type of book that is presented in a level headed manner, it is a great reference of the step by step process that web designers go through to product a web site.