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This is a one-way list for WSG Announcements
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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
- WSG and Industry events
- Industry related jobs
If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from
any country), please let me know - r...@maxdesign.com.au
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LINKS FOR LIGHT READING
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This weeks "links for light reading" are also available here (for
those who click on the links below and find that they are broken):
<http://www.maxdesign.com.au/2009/10/20/some-links-251/>
iPhone Accessibility: High contrast "White on Black"
<http://everyonedeletestom.com/index.php/2009/10/14/iphone-accessibility-high-contrast-white-on-black/
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Do I have to answer this question? Mandatory versus optional fields
<http://formulate.com.au/articles/mandatory-versus-optional-fields/>
Comment Form Styling: Examples and Best Practices
<http://www.noupe.com/how-tos/comment-form-styling.html>
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Distributing Content Through Social
Networks and RSS
<http://www.useit.com/alertbox/streams-feeds.html>
HTML, CSS, and Web Development Practices: Past, Present, and Future
<http://meiert.com/en/blog/20091015/html-css-and-web-development-practices/
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UX Exchange - QA site for user experience professionals
<http://uxexchange.com/>
The essence of qualitative research
<http://copernicusconsulting.net/2009/10/15/the-essence-of-qualitative-research-verstehen/
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Chrome Experiments
<http://www.chromeexperiments.com/>
Becoming a Font Embedding Master
<http://snook.ca/archives/html_and_css/becoming-a-font-embedding-master>
Call to Action Buttons: Examples and Best Practices
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/10/13/call-to-action-buttons-examples-and-best-practices/
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Top 5 Twitter Trends to Watch Right Now
<http://mashable.com/2009/10/17/crowdsourced-twitter-trends/>
5 Ways Social Media is Changing Our Daily Lives
<http://mashable.com/2009/10/16/social-media-changing-lives/>
User testing: You don't know everything; lessons from civil engineering
<http://www.purecaffeine.com/2009/10/user-testing-you-dont-know-everything/
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What is the lifespan of the Web?
<http://rebuildingtheweb.com/en/lifespan-of-the-web/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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FullFrontal 2009
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Date: 20-Oct-09
City: Brighton (UK)
Full Frontal is a one day JavaScript conference that includes speakers
such as: Jake Archibald, Christian Heilmann, Todd Kloots, Peter-Paul
Koch, Stuart Langridge, Robert Nyman, Simon Willison
<http://2009.full-frontal.org/>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date: 21-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Human characteristics and theoretical principles for usable web
applications, intranet and internet sites - one day course. Ever
wonder why users don't behave how you expect? Ever done usability
testing or found usability issues but didn't know how to fix them?
This course will provide an insight into human characteristics and
online behaviour based on latest research and hundreds of usability
tests with users, including video footage of usability test sessions.
We will also cover the theory and principles of interaction design.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/interaction-design.html>
Mashup Australia Hack Nights
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Date: 28-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
To support local developers working on entries for the MashupAustralia
contest, we're holding a hacking session in the Google office. We'll
start with a brief introduction to mashups and tips for making them,
do some brainstorming and idea sharing, and then get to hardcore
hacking. We'll also have dinner and drinks to give us energy.
<http://sites.google.com/site/gdevelopereventsyd/mashup-australia-hacknight
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GovHack
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Dates: 30-Oct-09 to 31-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
GovHack is a free, intensive day and a half exploring ways of creating
mashups and applications with government data and services, and most
importantly building some applications before the event is over.
<http://govhack.org/>
Drupal Day Sydney 2009
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Dates: 31-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Working with Drupal and want to learn how to do it the "Drupal Way"?
Please join us for Drupal Day Sydney on Saturday 31st October 2009. A
full day of workshops for beginner and intermediate users and special
code & documentation sprints for advanced users and developers. Bring
your laptop, questions and ideas - there is no room for spectators,
participants only!
<http://tr.im/DrupalDaySyd>
Edge of the web - Perth 2009
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Dates: 4-Nov-09 to 6-Nov-09
City: Perth (Australia)
Edge of the Web brings a world-class web conference experience to
Western Australia, featuring exciting national and international
speakers, in November 2009.
<http://www.edgeoftheweb.org.au/>
OpenAustralia Hackfest - MashupAustralia Edition
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Dates: 7-Nov-09 to 8-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
The OpenAustralia Foundation and Google invite you to this free all-
weekend hacking extravaganza for anyone interested in creating a
mashup for the MashupAustralia competition or hacking on the
OpenAustralia website.
<http://hackfest.openaustralia.org/>
November Sydney WSG meeting 2009
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Date: 11-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Presentation 1: "Visual design principles for electronic forms" - by
Jessica Enders
Presentation 2: "Bringing PAX to the people" - Mikkel Bergmann
<http://webstandardsgroup.org/event/179>
OZeWAI - Australian Web Adaptability Initiative
Date: 23-Nov-09 to 24-Nov-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
OZeWAI will be for only two days at OZCHI and you will need to
register (soon) via the OZCHI website. See details at:
<http://www.ozewai.org/2009w/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 24-Nov-09 to 25-Nov-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
World Usability Day 2009
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Date: 12-Nov-09
Cities: all over!
It's about "Making Life Easy" and user friendly. Technology today is
too hard to use. A cell phone should be as easy to access as a
doorknob. In order to humanize a world that uses technology as an
infrastructure for education, healthcare, transportation, government,
communication, entertainment, work and other areas, we must develop
these technologies in a way that serves people first.
<http://www.worldusabilityday.org/>
Web Analytics in Government
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Date: 24-Nov-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
The ABS has recently started developing indicators to measure the
success of its website using web analytics. In talking to some of our
counterparts in other government agencies, we realised that many of
them are in a similar position and going through the same learning
curve as ourselves.
<http://betaworks.abs.gov.au/Betaworks/Betaworks.nsf/projects/WAFregistration/WAF_main.htm
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Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 25-Nov-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users'
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date: 1-Dec-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Introduction to User Centred Design tools and techniques. As a result
of attending this one day course, participants will have a good
understanding of the value and importance of user centred design and
have the basic skills, knowledge and tools to apply the user centred
design approach to developing usable Internet sites, Intranet sites or
web applications within their own organisation.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-usability.html>
Usability Evaluation & Testing Training Workshop
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Date: 2-Dec-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Discount evaluation techniques and how to conduct usability tests. In
this one day interactive workshop, learn valuable usability evaluation
and testing methods that you can use to evaluate your organisation's
Internet and Intranet site, web applications and software. This course
will explore the difference between expert reviews and usability
testing and which is better to use and when. We will cover when to
usability test, what to test and how to test.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/evaluation-and-testing.html>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 7-Dec-09 - 8-Dec-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
The training course uses interactive materials and examples to
introduce key concepts of usability. Insight is provided to help you
understand how to convert website visitors into paying customers,
maximising income streams, minimise the likes of Call Centre costs,
and help avoid common design mistakes.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-training.php>
Running in-house usability tests (Workshop)
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Date: 7-Dec-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Empowering you and your staff to run usability tests is a cost
effective approach at gathering valuable insights into your users'
behaviour. Usability Testing is a crucial activity to ensure you
develop successful and usable interfaces. In this workshop you will
learn what is involved to set up and run a usability testing project
from start to finish.
<http://www.usabilityone.com/services/usability-testing-workshop.php>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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1 Position: Front End Developer
Deloitte’s online practice is a dynamic, creative environment
currently working with a large number of Australia’s largest premium
clients. Deloitte Sydney is seeking a web interface developer who
wants to be part of an energetic team and who is committed to
delivering high quality and innovative work.
The role reports to the Creative Director and represents a great
opportunity for rapid growth and professional development.
1.1 Role Description
The front end developer will initially be responsible for the
development of html, CSS, JavaScript and related production
preparation and liaison with both the creative and the development
teams. Additionally the web developer will be responsible for the
development of interface designs for a range of projects including web
sites, intranets and digital marketing campaigns.
1.2 Responsibilities
Interface development activities including:
- Production of graphics and development of HTML, CSS, JavaScript
- Interpreting style guides and following design instructions from the
creative team
- Flash development and action scripting an advantage
- Working closely with Creative Director and other members of the
creative team
- Delivering high quality work on time and within budget.
1.3 Selection Criteria
1.3.1 Qualifications/Education
BA in multimedia design or similar an advantage
1.3.2 Requirements
- Exceptional HTML, CSS, JavaScript skills
- Flash skills
- Strong communication skills
- Personal organisation and time management skills
- Strong analysis/judgement/problem solving skills
- Team player
- Enthusiasm to learn new skills and acquire new knowledge.
1.4 Tools
- Dreamweaver
- Photoshop/Image Ready/Fireworks for image preparation
- Illustrator
- Flash
- Mac and PC operating systems.
To register your interest for this role please contact Rebecca Turner
on 02 9322 5236 or rebtur...@deloitte.com.au.
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Did I miss an event, resource or job in your city? If you have an
event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted (from any country),
please let me know - r...@maxdesign.com.au
Thanks
Russ
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