To follow on from Woody's post - Journey to the Center of Design this was such a strong talk that I have to add some points myself.
The down to earth approach to looking at design (UE) Jared was very against the dogma of design that the industry has currently got it's self into and explains that the formulas being touted by be names and companies are not a recipe for sucess. Looking across the spectrum of successful sites some ...
Tony Hsieh of Zappos fame has most definatley given the most inspiring speech of the conference so far with a real logical but different approach to business management and development.
Often times designers and developers' relationships are contentious. Designers want features that would require two Googles to run and developers want features that nobody but the nerdiest of the nerds would care about. This panel will showcase some of the top designers and developers who have worked through their differences and feel they're making better products as a result. Sometimes designers know users' needs best and sometimes developers can enhance a feature with their innate understanding of the system. Knowing ...
We're doing so darn much with the Web platform these days, from cross-domain access mechanisms to new drawing and graphics tools. But in the end, we still have to deal with different web browsers. This discussion brings the leads from Mozilla (Firefox), Microsoft (IE), Google (Chrome) and Opera (Opera) together for yet another incendiary discussion about the future of the web.
Whilst we left Matt to the OpenID talk at the Hilton, Kieron and I had a wander to the Convention Center to listen to Jared Spool from User Interface Engineering talking about the Journey to the Center of Design.
This session featured 4 presenters, each representing one of the JavaScript libraries (JQuery, YUI, Dojo and Prototype). Each presenter did a 10 minute talk on something new and interesting relevant to their library. These were a bit mixed with John Resig's talk on how the performance of jQuery is being improved probably the highlight. There followed a very interesting discussion and Q+A with subjects covered from ARIA and accessibillity to some discussion whch followed on from the earlier Even Faster ...
At the end of the day Matt and I attended the live podcast of Boag World. This was a very funny session with some serious content. There is little point running through the points said as it is easier to listen to the pod cast which will be launched soon.
Day 3 starts at The Hilton at 10am to listen to the following presenters talking about mapping online.
Andrew Turner - Mapufacture
Michal Migurski - Stamen Design
David Heyman - Axis Maps LLC
Elizabeth Windram - Google
Day 2 and presented by Richard Rutter (ClearLeft), Ian Coyle (iancoyle.com), Samantha Warren (Viget Labs), Jonathan Tan (OmniTi inc) and Elliot Jay Stocks, we all crammed into the small room at the Hilton to watch Web Typography: Quit Bitchin' and Get Your Glyph On. A very well-turned up presentation which had the panelists talking about the future of web typography, best ways on how to implement and what are the problems we as developers encounter.
Steve Souders - Google
Steve was the creator of Y-slow at yahoo prior to joining google and as such knows a lot about how to optimise websites. He admitted that he has spent the majority of his time trying to optimise the Server (backend) to speed up the delivery of content but has subsequently realised through testing that this generally amounts to less than 10% of load time.
