WDS07 day 1 part 1

One of the prob­lems attend­ing WDS07 is find­ing the time to blog, With all the present­a­tions and social­ising, I am not get­ting enough time to sleep let alone blog. So here is a quick post of the first 24 hours or so, writ­ten in bursts between sessions.

Sydney Port80 meet

This was a fun even­ing at the Quarryman’s Hotel. with around 35 geeks from all round Aus­tralia, which took over the local triva night and won. The social­ising con­tinue late into the night.

A few hours of sleep later it was time to head down to the con­ven­tion centre to help out by hand­ing out con­fer­ence satchels.

Rashmi Sinha

After John Alsopp’s great con­fer­ence intro­duc­tion. We had a key­note from Rashmi on social net­work­ing. While it was a inter­est­ing talk, it was a pale com­par­i­sion of her 10 les­sons from the design of Slide­Share given at Oz-IA.

Andy Clarke

Andy gave a visu­ally stun­ning present­a­tion on what web design­ers can learn from comic books. Def­in­itely got me think­ing about how I build web pages.

Justin French

Justin had a tough task fol­low­ing Andy Clarke and com­pet­ing with Cameron Adams. The present­a­tion was not not what I was expect­ing with Push­ing bey­ond design, which was all about design­ers mov­ing on from the design space, start­ing with Justin&8217;s per­sonal his­tory. While not being a designer the present­a­tion was a little of tar­get, but there was some nug­gets for me.

Sebastian Chan

This was the present­a­tion I was most look­ing for­ward to. The Power­House museum is one of most inter­est­ing and advanced web­site amongst Aus­tralian Gov­ern­ment Insti­tu­tions. I learnt a lot about their pro­cess and a little about how it was done.

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