A big thanks to Sydney web developers Molt:n Digital for my cool new “i like words” t-shirt which arrived this week, which is part of a range they made to coincide with last month’s Web Directions conference in Sydney.

It actually turned a few heads when I wore it to the movies the other night… in [...]

The Web Directions crew, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp have just launched a brand new print/PDF/online resource, Scroll Magazine, for web professionals by web professionals.
Eschewing the faddish, Scroll features in depth articles by deeply experienced practitioners in the fields of user experience design, web design, web development, information architecture, accessibility and more. If you want [...]

I was flicking through the earlier mentioned Web Directions photos, and this shot taken during one of the presentations, asking that old computer-age question, has print become obsolete, caught my eye.
Now I’m, in disassociated style, going to jump to a completely different thought. We saw WALL·E (write-up coming soon) the other night, which portrays a [...]

A collection of 400, and counting, photos from last week’s Web Directions conference in Sydney, taken by Wade Millican.
I wasn’t there but I get the feeling Ben Buchanan’s “behind you, mark, behind you!” tweet was a classic WD08 moment.

Sydney web developers Molt:n Digital have designed a very cool range of t-shirts especially for wear at this year’s Web Directions conference in Sydney, and it’s rather easy to score yourself piece of the web fashion action.
The thing we love the most about Web Directions is the social aspect; it’s meeting 600 other people who [...]

Last link of the week and time to head out of here… the Web Directions crew have recently launched a new job board, Web Directions Jobs, where you can post, or look for, web related jobs in Australia and beyond.
With the network of web professionals that has built up around the Web Directions conferences, [...]

There and Back Again
British web designer Andy Budd writes about his recent visit to New Zealand and Australia, where he spoke at Webstock and Web Directions events.
I love this paragraph about Hong Kong, “a city where east and west collide”, though:
The trip started with a two day lay-over in Hong Kong to break the journey. [...]

John Allsopp and Maxine Sherrin re-launched the Web Directions website last week with the aim of centralising the vast array of information and resources gathered from the Web Directions’ conferences held since 2005.
Far beyond the appearance of the site, it was important for us to tame what was becoming a large number of event specific [...]

Validation: coming soon to a web site near you
Ben Buchanan discusses the challenges involved in a recent project to re-write the homepage of Australian IT so as to make it standards compliant, in an interview with Maxine Sherrin published at Web Directions.
Ben points out that the bigger the website, and the more third party [...]

Upton: from Airbag Industries. Today we are learning about design.
From what I’ve read in the last two weeks I’ve learned this much: design is like water, it comes in a variety of quality and clarity, in abundance or scarcity, both under valued and under appreciated at the same time.

And…
Design is everywhere, it’s talked about [...]