Video: “Educating Clients to Say Yes” Presentation
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You may have seen this video floating around Twitter. It’s Paul Boag’s presentation at FOWD on the topic “Educating Clients to Say Yes”. It’s well worth a watch.
California Web Accessibility Conference – Jan 12
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Knowbility’s award-winning programs and services are designed to provide universally-available, barrier-free information technology solutions that help the blind visualize the world around them, help the deaf communicate with the hearing world, and help those with mobility impairments “travel” via the Internet.
Find out more about the conference by visiting their website.
Web-blast 08 – Dec 5 Sydney
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Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community – bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Join a range of Sydney’s web communities and celebrate the end of year in style on Friday 5th December, 2008.
There’s only a few tickets left, so check the website quick!
Designing For All – Dec 3 London
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‘Designing for all’ is a practical one-day Headstar Training course designed to introduce public sector organisations to the importance of designing accessible, easy to read information for a range of different audiences.
Check out the website for more information.
Web 2.0 Expo – March 31-April 3 San Francisco
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Web 2.0 Expo is a global annual gathering of technical, design, marketing, and business professionals who are building the next generation web. Web 2.0 Expo features the most innovative and successful Internet industry figures and companies providing attendees with examples of business models, development paradigms, and design strategies to enable mainstream businesses and new arrivals to the Web 2.0 world to take advantage of this new generation of services and opportunities. Web 2.0 Expo is co-produced by O’Reilly Media and TechWeb.
Although the whole web 2.0 is a little long in the tooth, find out more about the confrence and it’s exibits by visiting the website.
MIX09 – March 18-20 Las Vegas
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The MIX Conference is a gathering of designers and developers who build cutting edge web sites. If you want to discuss the future of the Web, learn about the latest web technologies from Microsoft, or just rub shoulders with industry professionals, MIX is the place to be.
This is a Microsoft sponsored conference. The MIX09 website contains all the details along with the registration.
Webstock 2009 – Feb 16-20 New Zealand
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5 full-on days. 8 hands-on workshops. 23 kick ass speakers. 26 must see presentations. Truckloads of design, development, user experience, web standards, content, community, innovation and inspiration.
Sounds like a wild time :) For more information about the event check out the website and programme.
Interaction|09 – Feb 5-8 Vancouver
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IxDA Announces Interaction|09 with Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, B.C. February 5-8, 2009.
Mark your calendars now for what promises to be another exciting and informative conference centered around the design of interactive systems of all types, from web and desktop applications, to mobile devices, consumer electronics, digitally-enhanced environments, and more. This will be our growing community’s second annual opportunity to gather with several hundred other Interaction Design professionals from around the world.
GEL 2009 – April 30-May 1 New York City
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Short for “Good Experience Live”, Gel is a conference, and community, exploring good experience in all its forms — in business, technology, art, society, and life.
Instead of focusing on just one thing (design, technology, user experience, business, etc.) like many conferences, Gel touches on many things. This challenges attendees to find, and learn from, the patterns that underlie good experience, even in disciplines vastly different from their own.
The GEL website explains more about the conference and the speakers.
WebVisions – Portland OR, May 20-22
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Discover the future of Web design, user experience and business strategy for two days of mind-melding on what’s new in the digital world. Get a glimpse into the future, along with practical information that you can apply to your Web site, company and career.
More information about the event or speakers can be found at the WebVisions website.