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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/2009/09/23/some-links-247/>
Audience Segmentation Models
<http://www.uxmatters.com/mt/archives/2009/09/audience-segmentation-models.php
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Progressive Enhancement and Graceful Degradation: an Overview
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/09/22/progressive-enhancement-graceful-degradation-basics/
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Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web ranking
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html
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Guide to CSS Font Stacks: Techniques and Resources
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/22/complete-guide-to-css-font-stacks/
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Beyond Goals: Site Search Analytics from the Bottom Up
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/beyond-goals-site-search-analytics-from-the-bottom-up/
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Internal Site Search Analysis: Simple, Effective, Life Altering!
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/internal-site-search-analysis-simple-effective-life-altering/
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Testing Search for Relevancy and Precision
<http://www.alistapart.com/articles/testing-search-for-relevancy-and-precision/
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The hgroup tag
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/the-hgroup-tag>
Keyboard accessibility presentation
<http://www.splintered.co.uk/news/112/>
Better CSS outline suppression - test page
<http://people.opera.com/patrickl/experiments/keyboard/test>
The HTML5 drag and drop disaster (language warning)
<http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/09/the_html5_drag.html>
Semantic client side validation
<http://ajaxian.com/archives/vanadium-semantic-client-side-validation>
Why low-fidelity prototyping kicks butt for customer-driven design
<http://andrewchenblog.com/2009/09/15/why-every-consumer-internet-startup-should-do-more-low-fidelity-prototyping/
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Rough Introduction to Character Encodings on the Web
<http://annevankesteren.nl/2009/09/web-character-encodings>
Ultimate IE6 Cheatsheet: How To Fix 25+ Internet Explorer 6 Bugs
<http://www.virtuosimedia.com/tutorials/ultimate-ie6-cheatsheet-how-to-fix-25-internet-explorer-6-bugs
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The Z-Index CSS Property: A Comprehensive Look
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/15/the-z-index-css-property-a-comprehensive-look/
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Shimmer
<http://shimmerapp.com/>
URLs and Search Engines
<http://www.work.com/seo-advise-urls-and-search-engines-42327/>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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Vic CHISIG - Mental Modelling (presentation & workshop)
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Date: 29-Sep-07
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Learn how the process of mental modelling was applied in the redesign
of a user-generated portal for the Australian Broadcasting
Corporation. We'll also get a bit more interactive and dig into how to
undertake elements of the mental modelling process.
RSVP is essential: <http://bit.ly/2kZY12>
Writing for the web workshop
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Date: 29-Sep-09
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Our full day web writing course is suitable for anyone who writes or
edits content for their organisation's website (intranet or Internet,
including blogs). We'll show you how to improve your writing to make
it more effective for use online.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=153>
Future of Web Apps
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Dates: 30-Sep-09 to 2-Oct-09
City: London (UK)
"We have a full day of workshops on 30th Sept followed by a 2 day, 1
track event at Kensington Town Hall on 1st- 2nd Oct. Here's a little
taster of some of the fantastic workshops"
<http://events.carsonified.com/fowa/2009/london>
Oz-IA/2009
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Dates: 2nd-3rd October, 2009
City: Sydney (Australia)
Australia's Information Architecture Conference - two stimulating days
of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects
from across Australia and beyond.
<http://www.oz-ia.org/2009/>
Web Directions South 2009
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Dates: 6-Oct-09 to 9-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Two days of workshops plus a two day, three track conference - Design,
Development and Business - with leading international and local
experts in user experience, interface design, social media, coding and
development, SEO, accessibility, interaction design and much more. A
place for anyone who works on the web in any way at all to learn,
connect, share and experience ideas in 2009.
<http://south09.webdirections.org/>
Writing for the web workshop
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Date: 09-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Our full day web writing course is suitable for anyone who writes or
edits content for their organisation's website (intranet or Internet,
including blogs). We'll show you how to improve your writing to make
it more effective for use online.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=160>
Sydney Joomla Day 2009
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Dates: 17-Oct-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
Join us for JoomlaDay Sydney conference on Saturday 17th October 2009
and a day of Joomla! workshops on Sunday 18th October, at COFA. There
will be two streams this year - beginners/business and advanced/
technical - but you can choose between sessions on the day.
<http://sydney.joomladay.org.au/>
Gov 2.0 Conference
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Dates: 19-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Would you like to learn how to implement Web 2.0 in Government? Gov
2.0 Conference (Canberra, 19 October 2009) is a case study driven
event showcasing government projects that leverage the Web as a
platform to create openness of public sector information, greater
transparency of policy making and increased citizen-centric
engagement. The conference provides practical insights, expert advice,
solutions and a workshop on how to implement online engagement within
government parameters and manage cultural change. Chaired by Senator
for the ACT, Kate Lundy, the conference will also feature speakers
highlighting best practice international Gov 2.0 examples such as
Great Britain's Dr Andy Williamson, Director, eDemocracy Programme
Hansard Society, and the USA's Dr Melodie Mayberry-Stewart, New York
State CIO and Director of the Office for Technology. To register and
find out more, visitwww.gov2.com.au or call 02 9280 3400.
<http://www.gov2.com.au>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date: 20-Oct-09
City: Canberra (Australia)
Processes and interface design fundamentals for designing usable web
applications - one day course. From internet banking, online learning,
government transactional sites to employee phonebooks, online projects
increasingly include elements of web application design. This course
will explore the value and limitations of building a web application
and introduce a range of tools, approaches and interface design
principles to ensure that you understand your audience and design
intuitive and usable web applications. Includes usability of Rich
Internet Applications and AJAX.
<http://www.peakusability.com.au/training/web-applications.html>
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>
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/>
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/>
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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2 content editors with experience managing, analysing or writing
content are required to conduct a content analysis for an enterprise-
wide initiative for Monash University in Melbourne.
The work includes:
• Review content
• Analyse accuracy of content
• Find duplicate content
• Enter content hierarchy and details into Excel
Skills & Experience:
• Experience in the web industry.
• Experience with web content
• Punctuality, ability to work to timelines and organise and manage
own work.
• Proficient with MS Word and MS Excel.
• Well developed written and oral communication skills
Immediate Start: Early October through to Tuesday 22 December 2009
Hours: We would prefer full-time, but we may accept part-time
applicants. The standard working week is 36 hours and 45 minutes. Some
flexibility in hours worked may be required.
Pay: $37.17 (casual rate) per hour
Contact: Please send your CV to: Gian Wild, 9902 0535,
gian.w...@its.monash.edu.au
Job 2
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Position Description
2 Usability Specialists with strong user testing experience required
to conduct Usability Testing for an enterprise-wide initiative for
Monash University in Melbourne.
You will work closely with the lead Usability Consultant.
The work includes:
• Assist in the preparation of test materials (e.g. test plans, task
lists, scenarios, etc)
• Assist in lab preparation, and other test logistics
• Facilitate, observe and conduct user testing as required
• Record, capture and report on metrics (using Morae™)
• Perform data analysis on interim and final results
• Perform qualitative and/or quantitative analyses
• Translate test findings into prioritised recommendations
• Document and present findings to key stakeholders
Skills & Experience:
• Studies in Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction, or related
discipline or experience in industry.
• Punctuality, ability to work to timelines and organise and manage
own work.
• Solid understanding of various user-centered design research methods
• Experience with Morae™ software - preferred but not essential
• Ability to present test results in ways that emphasize the key
results and illustrate results visually.
• Proficient with MS Word and MS Excel.
• Well developed written and oral communication skills
Immediate Start: Early October through to Tuesday 22 December 2009
Hours: We would prefer full-time, but we may accept part-time
applicants. The standard working week is 36 hours and 45 minutes. Some
flexibility in hours worked may be required.
Pay: $41.02 (casual rate) per hour
Contact: Please send your CV to: Gian Wild, 9902 0535,
gian.w...@its.monash.edu.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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