Webmaster Jam Session 2007 Highlights – Day 2
Webmaster Jam Session Day 2 begins with Content Strategy and Web design. Yesterday was a great experience and I learned a lot and had a chance to meet some really interesting people. I expect today to be nothing short of that.
Currently sitting in on
- Content Strategy and Web Design – Keith RobinsonFor many Web professionals content can be the hardest part of the job
Currently Sitting in on
- Psychology of Color – Doris Brown A look into how color affects the way people use our Websites
- Color doesn’t change, attitude changes, become more aware of your environment
- colors and trends don’t sell alone, consider consumers response to color, demographics
- Signs of impending color changes
- Fashion industry
- Entertainment industry
- Museum collections
- Economic issues
- Sociological issues
- Environmental issues
- Colors through the decades
- 1960s – vibrant colors
- 1970s – more earth colors
- 1980s – started using vibrant colors again
- 1990s – iMac furbies Southpark minimalism
- 2000s – non-vibrant, grays, dull colors
- Current color trend
- Red – (chili pepper red)
- Color Calibration
- Different tools used to calibrate monitors in order to achieve correct color through all mediums
Currently sitting in on
- The Contextual Web – Nick Finck On the emerging Internet, context is everything
- Four aspects of context in web design
- User
- Define the user
- Who is the user?
- What are their challenges
- What are their needs?
- Task
- What exactly is the task?
- Who is involved?
- Environment
- What tye of environment is it?
- What about the business environment?
- Social environments
- Technology
- What type of technology will be involved
- What are the technical limitations
- How does the user interact with these technologies
- User
- Four aspects of context in web design
Currently sitting in on
- Managing Web Design – Michael Lopp Often managing the design process is harder than the design itself
- Design is making decisions, decision based on the Pitch
- The perfect development process that never happens
- Design
- Develop
- Deploy
- Costs of skipping design is high, too much backtracking is involved
- Design Process
- “Imagination is more important than knowledge” – Albert Einstein
- Constraints are your ally (deadlines)
- Details matter
- Soaking
- Active Soak
- Ask dumb questions
- Pitch a stranger your idea
- write it down, throw it away, write it down again
- Passive Soak
- Stop thinking, sleep on it
- Great ideas emerge from random connections that a rational person would never consider
- Active Soak
- Brainstorm Guidelines
- Controlled chaos
- Discussion to find decisions
- Gathering every bright idea you can
- The nuttier, the better
- Meeting Guidelines
- Enough time for everyone to soak
- Visible, touchable results
- Is it real?
- Directly maps back to brainstorm
- Key: little victories
- Who to invite?
- Who are your detail czars?
- Visuals
- Architectural
- Cultural
- Practice
- Who is the decision maker?
Currently sitting in on
- Pile it on with CSS – Jonathan Snook Taking a look at the power and flexibility of positioning techniques
- Stop laying out your website with tables
- Box model
- Phark Technique
- When something is set ‘postion: static’ you can not change the z-index
Currently sitting in on
- Real World Accessibility – Derek Featherstone Get the scoop on creating accessible Websites from one of the world’s top experts.
- Small accessibility problems might be a large problem for those who have a disability
- Having standard search on the advance search page can be a major accessibility error
- (He’s dancing on stage now)
Next up is the long drive home.
It was great meeting all these new and interesting people. Looking forward to WJS 2008 (Just not at the Adam’s Mark).
let it be known that on the 28th day of october, in the year 2007, I stumbled on to your site. LOL good job.
oh yea, StumbledUpon this one too