I apparently am evil enough to need this session. There is an intersection between what is ethical to do and what makes good business sense. Let’s find out! Free speech, civil liberties, and privacy online. There is a mismatch between intellectual property law and terms of online use. Presenters Danny O’Brien – EFF Eva Galperin …
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Forms suck. Creating a style guide for form design is difficult. Presenters Christopher Schmitt – Heat Vision Eric Ellis – Bank of America Kimberly Blessing – Comcast Interactive Media Date Sunday, March 15 Sites web form elements research jquery validation moz monkey
What are the most important qualities of a programming language when you are starting from scratch? how easy to get a prototype out? will it scale? or do i need to scale right now? what existing code libraries are out there and do they support my industry? what kind of talent is out there? do …
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Let the W3C be with you. Woo! Cross-browser compatibility problems should end. Presenters Molly Holzschlag – Opera Software David Baron – Mozilla Hakon Wium Lie – Opera Software Sylvain Galineau – Microsoft Date Sunday, March 15 Sites david baron molly holzschalg Jonathan Snook
jared spool Originally uploaded by seagreenme If you were there, you understand. If you weren’t there, feel free to add your own captions to this photo of jared spool and me. Jared is the founding principal of User Interface Engineering (UIE), and gives a damn good presentation. lessig, eat your heart out.
jared spool is my cruise director. It’s time to retire the dogma of user-centered design. Instead, we should focus on informed design and build a reward system based on informed measurements: vision, feedback, and culture (three core UX attributes). Presenter Jared freakin’ Spool, UIE Date Sunday, March 15 Sites UIE brain sparks putting a ring …
Version control can save your life and make you happy. Presenters Matt Mullenweg – Automattic/WordPress Karen Nguyen – Yahoo! Zach Nies – Rally Software Development Joe Pezzillo – joepezzillo.com, @metafy Derek Scruggs – SurveyGizmo Date Sunday, March 15 Sites phpadvent article trac cornerstone versions Beanstalk mecurial
If you use large sites like Google, Yahoo!, or Microsoft, you’re using microformats. If you use twitter or WordPress, you’re using microformats. So there is a lot of life to the use of microformats. Even past the death of a site that uses microformats: the use of microformats helps that information be archived elsewhere. Presenters …
Does this matter? If this product/site went away, would you care? Would your users care? Keep yourself interesting by experimenting without boundaries while planning your commitment. Presenters Brian Oberkirch, small good thing DL Byron, textura design Amit Gupta, photojojo Kristina Halvorson, Brain Traffic Lane Becker, Get Satisfaction / Adaptive Path Date Friday, March 13 Site …
Sharing secrets: hiding things in plain sight generates a special connection between the site and its audience generates delight and generates a desire to share the secret. Presenter Paul Annett, clearleft @nicepaul Date Friday, March 13 Sites podcast clearleft
