Where have I been?

March 22, 2004

create your own visited country map

Make you own here

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Last night in Austin

March 16, 2004

Well, the last night is drawing to a close. Some good panels today, the highlight of which was User Interface Design by 37signals. Some really good nuggets of contingency design - design for when things go bad! Some good advice.

SXSW has been good although my brain has reached saturation point after 4 days of intense panels and lectures. I’d definatley come again if I had the chance.

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SXSW - the highlights and lowlights (so far)

March 15, 2004

The conference has been good so far. The attendance is through the roof although it’s disappointing not to see more of a global representation, both on the panels and in the attendees.

The highlights so far have been:

Hi-Fi Design with CSS
CSS, the good, the bad and the ugly
The frontiers of User Experience

The lowlights:

Edutainment
Non-traditional navigation

I think my fave so far has been the “Frontiers of User Experience”. This was originally to be give by Jesse James Garrett, but he couldn’t make it, so Jeff Veen did it instead. A very, very good panel. Some interesting things cameout of it, most of which was that we’re going the right direction at work, we really are. Once he posts the presentation on the Adaptive PAth site, i’ll link it in here.

I’ve got a bunch of the panels to write up, once I’ve done it i’ll chuck them up here, there’s some great resources come out of these panels.

More to come…

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Texas, not quite grasped tea.

March 15, 2004

I’ve now been in Texas for 3 days. I’m writing this post in my Hotel room, on the laptop I said I was going to buy (which is excellent by the way). Overall the experience has been been good so far. The flight was ok, the hotel is superb, the conference is really good and the food is fantastic.

The bad stuff is, tea. First off you have to ask for hot tea, then your have to say what type of tea you want, and then 50% of the time the tea that arrives is wrong. Then, you have to ask for milk, at which point cream arrives. You get the idea. America would be a better place if they got the tea right.

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Laptops mmmm

March 04, 2004

Well, off to texas next week for 7 days to the SXSW conference which should be good. I’ve been thinking of exploiting the weak dollar by buying a laptop over there (and possibly an ipod if I can wangle it.). True, can’t really afford it at the moment but the way i’m looking at it is it’s about long term saving and we were going to buy one towards the end of the year anyway.

The model i’m looking at, the Compaq X1230US costs $1,699.99 from Circuit City in the US (kind of like Dixons) which is £932.18 and the same computer, funnily enough in Dixons in this country costs £1529.99 . That’s a difference of £597. Which is pretty good really. That extra money will come in handy!

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For the latest and greatest in Web Standards design

March 04, 2004

Have a look at the Web Standards Awards. Nice looking site in itself but previews some really good standards compliant sites globally.

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Mushy, mush, mush.

March 02, 2004

My brain is complete and utter mush. Two days of intensive task based interaction flow design. Good, but mush.

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As I live in wales

March 01, 2004

I should mention it’s St David’s day. So, here’s a daffodil.

Oh, and BBC Wales have a launched Icons of Wales, which I worked on, to celebrate the occasion. This site (although it doesn’t look much) represents about six months work on the backend and partial implementation of some much needed CSS.

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