Design & User Experience, Track 1
Monday, October 13
Rich Interface Design: How AJAX Changes Everything
Steve Mulder - Senior Consultant, Molecular
If technologies such as AJAX and Flash are powerful flames heating up the Web, then we designers are the glassblowers. It's up to us to create intuitive, engaging interfaces on top of the new possibilities that AJAX and Flash bring. But old skills aren't enough in this age of animated transitions, asynchronous interactivity, and application-like behavior.
What does every designer need to know in order to move from static HTML sites to dynamic rich interfaces? Come find out. We'll talk about effective ways to incorporate user feedback into a dynamic interface, and how timing can be the difference between an interface that works and one that doesn't. We'll also discuss how traditional usability ideals such as discoverability and simplicity take on new meaning when we design rich interfaces. The session will include many examples of successful and failed rich interfaces. Come add your experiences into the mix so we can learn from each other.
Let the People Speak: How Users Are Changing the Web
Steve Mulder - Senior Consultant, Molecular
The Web has always been about people, but in a Web 2.0 world, this is taking on new meaning. Giving your users more control and influence over your site unveils a whole new set of opportunities — and a whole new set of challenges. How are user ratings and reviews, tagging, editorial control, user-generated content, and social networking changing the way you should be thinking about your site? How are sites dealing with negative user contributions? What does all of this mean for how you design and build your site? Come take an entertaining tour through the social wonderland of Web 2.0 and learn what it means for you.
Pixel Perfect: Essential Image Enhancement for Web and Flash Designers
Michael Ninness - Senior Product Manager, InDesign, Adobe
Think you know everything there is to know about Photoshop and Web graphics? Come to this tip-packed session and get insights on all manner of graphics-related topics. You'll learn quick and easy techniques for correcting color and tone and recovering image detail; how to enhance JPEGs using Camera Raw; how to perform selective, channel-based optimization; secrets for preserving crisp text edges when saving to JPEG; and how to control Flash's optimization settings for embedded bitmaps; and more.
Documentation 2.0: Designing the Rich Internet Experience
John Yesko - User Experience Lead, Roundarch
As websites are moving farther away from the “page” metaphor and toward richer, more interactive experiences, designers are faced with moving beyond the site map and static wireframe. We need to be able to communicate more fluid interfaces and interactions. Sometimes this means documenting very detailed functionality and almost infinite "states," or representing motion in a static medium. But it can also mean stepping back to paint a broader picture—establishing and communicating the fundamental approach for a site's interactions - to build consensus before the detailed work begins. This presentation will cover several highly-visual documentation techniques, which attempt to communicate the exact right amount of information—to the right stakeholders—at the right points in the project. From presenting a high-level concept map or user experience brief to an executive, to producing a usable functional spec for visual designers and developers, we will cover a wide range of deliverables. Supporting each example will be tips on when and why to use a particular documentation method, best practices for design, limitations and challenges, and special considerations for rich Internet applications. Each attendee will be granted access to download electronic samples of each document type.
Accessibility in a Web 2.0 World
Shawn Henry - Web Accessibility Initiative, W3C
Web 2.0, Ajax, rich Web applications, blogs, wikis — the Web continues to develop. What are the accessibility issues in this next-generation Web? Scripting, once a no-no for accessibility, is a key aspect. Join us to get the latest on how the W3C's new Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0), Authoring Tools Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG), and Accessible Rich Internet Applications Suite (WAI-ARIA) address these Web developments. Learn how to take advantage of current and developing strategies to make dynamic Web content and applications accessible.
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