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This email covers:
- Links for light reading
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If you have an event, resource or relevant job you'd like posted
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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/2009/06/23/some-links-234/>
How not to use Twitter: HabitatUK as a case study
<http://tinyurl.com/lhsojd>
HOW TO: Back Up Your Tweets
<http://mashable.com/2009/06/21/lifestream-backup/>
SWFUpload jQuery Plugin
<http://blogs.bigfish.tv/adam/2009/06/14/swfupload-jquery-plugin/>
Facebook Usernames and OpenID
<http://simonwillison.net/2009/Jun/13/thefacebookdebacle/>
Layar - mobile augmented reality browser
<http://layar.eu/>
Flash indexing with external resource loading
<http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/06/flash-indexing-
with-external-resource.html>
Deriving Design Strategy from Market Maturity, Part 1
<http://www.uie.com/articles/derivingdesignstrategy/>
18 Free Text Editors To Clean Up Your Code
<http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/06/22/18-free-text-editors/>
50 Fresh JavaScript Tools That Will Improve Your Workflow
<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/21/50-fresh-javascript-tools-
that-will-improve-your-workflow/>
Fever Red hot. Well read.
<http://feedafever.com/>
Pictaculous - A Color Palette Generator
<http://pictaculous.com/>
Minimal form layout
<http://www.onderhond.com/blog/work/css-minimal-form-layout>
Education for a team of none
<http://jasonrobb.com/2009/06/18/education-for-a-team-of-none/>
Writing Efficient CSS for use in the Mozilla UI
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/Writing_Efficient_CSS>
Why browser zoom shouldn’t kill flexible layouts
<http://zomigi.com/blog/why-browser-zoom-shouldnt-kill-flexible-
layouts/>
The Fallacy of Page Zooming — All in the head
<http://allinthehead.com/retro/343/the-fallacy-of-page-zooming>
Why Web authors must specify character encodings
<http://dbaron.org/log/2006-02#e20060212a>
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WSG AND INDUSTRY EVENTS
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UX London 2009
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Date: 15-Jun-09 to 17-Jun-09
City: London, England
UX London is Britain's first major user experience conference,
comprising two days of practical, hands-on workshops, and a day of
inspirational speakers. We have some of the industry's best people on
board, including Don Norman, Peter Merholz, Dan Saffer, LukeW and
Jared Spool, so it's abound to be an amazing event!
<http://uxlondon.com/>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 18-Jun-09 – 19-Jun-09
City: Sydney (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: 19-Jun-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>
Carson Workshops
The Whuffie Factor - Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your
Business - Tara Hunt
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Date: 22-June-09
City: London (UK)
Everyone knows about blogs and social networks such as Facebook and
Twitter. And they've heard about someone who has used them to grow a
huge customer base. Everyone wants to be hands-on, grass roots and
interactive. But what does this mean? And more to the point, how do
you do it?
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/tarahunt/index.html>
Writing for the web workshop
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Date: 23 June
City: Melbourne (Australia)
Full day workshop for anyone who writes or edits content for their
organisation's website (intranet or Internet). We'll show you how to
improve your writing to make it more effective and work well online.
Covers how users read online; planning content; creating content that
is readable, concise, findable, scannable and accessible; evaluating
content.
<http://www.visionaustralia.org.au/info.aspx?page=1653&event=152>
Webstock Master Class workshops - Presentation Zen with Garr Reynolds
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Date: 08-Jul-09 – 10-Jul-09
City: Wellington (New Zealand)
For anyone who has to give presentations with the aid of PowerPoint
or Keynote, these workshops will explore current popular presentation
approaches and highlight techniques from some of the world’s top
business leaders, turning conventional wisdom concerning PowerPoint
and presentations on its ear. Garr’s "Presentation Zen" approach
challenges the conventional wisdom of making slide presentations in
today’s world and encourages you to think differently and more
creatively about the preparation, design, and delivery of your
presentations.
<http://www.webstock.org.nz/upcoming/preszen.php>
Usability Fundamentals Training Course
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Date: 21-July-09 – 22-July-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: 22-July-09
City: Melbourne (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>
WE Believe In Community
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Date: 20-Aug-09 - 21-Aug-09
City: Sydney (Australia)
A web conference for people working in government and the public
sector. Brought to you by the Local Government Web Network. A full
day conference with a mix of split streams and some awesome plenary
sessions, and a second day of in-depth half day workshops - book
these dates in your diary now if you work on, with, or immerse
yourself in the web in the world of Government and the Public Sector.
<http://conference09.lgwebnetwork.org>
UX Australia 2009 - registration now open!
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Dates: 26-Aug-09 to 28-Aug-09
City: Canvberra (Australia)
UX Australia 2009 is Australia's premier user experience design
conference, with inspiring and practical presentations, covering a
range of topics about how to design great experiences for people.
<http://www.uxaustralia.com.au/conference-2009>
Carson Workshops
Design Secrets of digg.com's User Interface - Daniel Burka
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Date: 08-Sept-09
City: London (UK)
Web 2.0 is focused on user participation, so how can you promote
interaction on your site? As designers and product people, our focus
is on developing wonderful user experiences where people can come
together to participate in meaningful and useful ways. With social
sites, this is doubly critical as our sites are fundamentally powered
by users interacting with one another. This workshop will focus on
design strategies for lowering the barriers to participation,
adapting to user behavior, promoting positive behaviors, managing
scale, and creating intuitive user experiences.
<http://carsonworkshops.com/2009/danielburka/index.html>
Web Directions South 2009
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Dates: October 6-9
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/>
Web Application Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
18th August – Adelaide (Australia)
20th Oct – 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>
WCAG 2.0 Training New Zealand
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City: Wellington (New Zealand)
Dates:
Thursday 4th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 1 Checkpoints (Level A)
Thursday 11th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 2 Checkpoints (Level AA)
Thursday 18th June - WCAG v2.0 Priority 3 Checkpoints (Level AAA)
Version 2.0 of the New Zealand Government Web Standards was released
in March. A major change is adoption of the W3C's WCAG 2.0 standards.
Accessibility expert Bruce Aylward from W3A will run a series of
training courses for web professionals on complying with the WCAG 2.0
standards at a training lab in Wellington. Each course covers one of
the three WCAG 2.0 priority levels and are practical and hands-on. At
the end of each course participants should be able to design for and
determine compliance with the checkpoints of the relevant priority
level of the WCAG 2.0.
<http://www.w3a.co.nz/contact.htm>
Interaction Design Training Workshop
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Date & city:
19th August – Adelaide (Australia)
21st Oct – 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>
Web Usability Training Course
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Date & city:
16th June – Melbourne (Australia)
28th July – Adelaide (Australia)
1st Dec – 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 & city:
17th June – Melbourne (Australia)
29th July – Adelaide (Australia)
2nd Dec – 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>
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JOBS
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Job 1
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Usability Consultant
Faced Paced, Fun Environment
We are one of Australia's fastest-growing and most respected
Usability Consultancies; leading the way in research and usability
solutions for websites, web-based applications, software, gaming, and
consumer electronics. Our vision and growth is such that an
opportunity has been created for a Usability Consultant to join our
small but growing Sydney operation.
Your Responsibilities
- Conduct interface/usability research using focus groups, in-depth
interviews, and behavioural observations in a lab based environment.
- Analyse and interpret interface/usability research, and report/
present findings to internal and external stakeholders
- Design evidence-based usability solutions
- Liaise with client organisations to ensure their needs are met.
Key Selection Criteria
- Minimum 2-3 years experience in the field of usability/HCI research
and analysis
- A high level of understanding of interface/usability research and
analysis techniques, such as user needs analysis, focus group
moderation, interface/usability testing, card sorting, accessibility,
etc.
- A genuine belief in, and passion for usability solutions and the
value it delivers
- Excellent presentation and communication skills (both written and
oral), innovation, customer and quality orientation, dependability,
attention to detail, flexibility, and an outgoing and confident
personality.
Your Reward
Your remuneration includes a generous base salary, commensurate with
experience, and performance based bonuses. We also offer a genuine
development and succession path, challenge, and a highly supportive
and fun working environment.
If you believe you meet our selection criteria, please contact David
Lilley on (03) 9684 3424 or forward both your résumé and a covering
letter addressing the key selection criteria to [email protected].
Job 2
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A talented Senior User Interface Developer is required to complement
small development team in large online organisation based in
Melbourne’s Inner Suburbs…
- Great opportunity
- Convenient location
- Up to $80K + Super plus Bonuses
An opportunity has arisen for a talented User Interface Developer to
join a busy team of 5 to collaborate on a portfolio of web projects.
You will be responsible for contributing to a range of new web
application projects, maintaining existing applications, engaging in
peer-to-peer programming practises and assisting the organisation’s
move into the Agile environment. On a personal level, you will need
to be the type of individual who can communicate clearly with your
team members and the rest of the business in a relaxed but
professional way. The culture and social environment of the
organisation is very important to its leaders and preference will be
given to talented individuals who can demonstrate that they are just
good people! The technical skills required for this role are:
- Javascript (and lots of it)
- HTML / CSS
- Good knowledge of OO libraries
- Good knowledge of Perl back end development
- Good knowledge of Ruby on Rails
- Good knowledge of contemporary Web Standards, Usability &
Accessibility principles and practises
- Third Party API’s
- Excellent knowledge of Web 2.0 Technologies and concepts
- Experience working with PC, Linux boxes and Mac.
Desirable technical skills:
- Flash Development & ActionScript
Personality traits:
- Good communication manner
- Relaxed and self motivated
- Flexible
- Easy to get along with
- Demonstrated ability to deal confidently with non technical people
Desirable experience:
- You will have worked in a Digital Agency, Web Development house or
Online Communications environment
This position offers the successful individual the opportunity to
work on some of the best known public facing, database driven sites
in Australia and globally. Not only that but the organisation offers
a real career path for talented individuals who wish to contribute
meaningfully to the organisation and the wider web world. If you are
interested in this position please do not hesitate to contact Georgie
on 03 8060 9280 or email your resume to [email protected].
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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 - [email protected]
Thanks
Russ
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