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Webstock

Related to the Webstock conference, May 2006.

CraftStock January 25, 2008

In the webstandards email today they announced a combination of two of my favourite events… Craft 2.0 and Webstock blended becomes CraftStock!
It is such a cool idea and normally I would be writing a post that used an excessive amount of exclamation marks to convey my excitement… but this is almost like salt in a [...]

Webstock – conference Day Two May 27, 2006

Wow what an awesome conference!
Russ Weakley delivered a very funny and informative presentation on letting go and allowing the users to control their own experience. He related it back to working with one of the Australian museums which wanted to structure their information by department – but this of course isn’t how people will [...]

Webstock – conference Day One May 25, 2006

I am so exhausted! It was an awesome, full on, day.
Probably the highlight of the day was Joel Spolsky’s talk “Shiny geegaw vs great design”, which was very similar content to Kathy Sierra’s workshop that I went to the day before. Essentially – make an awesome experience for the user.
After lunch was the [...]

Webstock – Kathy Sierra’s workshop May 25, 2006

To kick Webstock off, I went along to Kathy Sierra’s Workshop – Creating Passionate Users. It was SO good that afterwards I ran to the office to tell the others all about it!! It is really exciting for me cause I now I have some really cool ideas of stuff we can [...]