who. Speakers
Andy Budd
Clearleft
Andy Budd is one of the founding partners at User Experience Design Consultancy, Clearleft (clearleft.com). As an interaction design and usability specialist, Andy is a regular speaker at international conferences like The Web 2.0 Expo, An Event Apart and SXSW. Andy curates dConstruct (dconstruct.org), one of the most popular design conferences in the UK. He's also responsible for UX London (uxlondon.com), The UK's first dedicated Usability, Information Architecture and User Experience Design event.
Andy has helped judge several international design awards such as the BIMAs and currently sits on the advisory board for .Net magazine. Andy is the driving force behind Silverbackapp (silverbackapp.com), a low cost usability testing tool for the Mac. Andy also wrote the bestselling book, CSS Mastery (cssmastery.com) and occasionally blogs at andybudd.com.
Never happier than when he's diving some remote tropical atoll, Andy is a qualified PADI dive instructor and retired shark wrangler.
Persuasive Design: Encouraging Your Users To Do What You Want Them To!
So you've designed a great product, fixed a stack of usability problems and spent a fortune on marketing. The only problem is, people aren't using it. In this session you will learn how to get your users to do what you want them to through good design, human psychology and a touch of mind control.
Antony Ribot
ribot
Antony is co-founder of ribot - a design lab specialising in enjoyable small screen interfaces and experiences.
He started his digital expedition 11 years ago with London-based Tomato, during which, amongst other things, he earn't a D&AD pencil award for an interactive project for Levis.
Antony entered the mobile industry 6 years ago, taking up the challenge of turning the constraints of mobile devices into a collection of subtle but positive experiences.
Ribot was founded 3 years ago and now work with a broad collection of clients including Nokia, Samsung, Tesco, Microsoft and Intel, to push the boundaries of mobile design and user experience."
The Future of Mobile UX
How technology, web standards, human behaviors and emotion will affect our mobile user experiences.
Inayaili de León
yaili.com
Inayaili de León is a London-based Portuguese web designer. When she’s not designing sites or coding HTML and CSS, she is usually writing about it on her own web design blog or as a guest author on various sites. She works at the brand consultancy agency FoxLand and is pretty much incapable of going a day without at least 30 Twitter updates. Cats, chocolate, tea, pizza and pancakes are amongst the things that make her less dangerous on Monday morning commutes.
Stop Being So Clever
CSS3 is here and now is the time to use it! In this session we will see how we can create more powerful and robust style sheets; how carefully considered CSS can save you from IE headaches; and why you should be using CSS3 now to save you time — without breaking the Web for older browsers — and to make the world a better place.
Bruce Lawson
Opera Software
Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He's currently working with the British Standards Institution to draft the new Standard for commissioning accessible web sites and writing a book about HTML5.
Previously, he's been front-end technical lead for the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority web sites, tutor to a princess' daughter in Thailand, a movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul.
He blogs at www.brucelawson.co.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.
@brucel | www.brucelawson.co.uk
Web Development 2.0
Forget the empty "Web 2.0" buzzword! Web development, however, is changing. In this session, Bruce gives and overview of HTML5, its intelligent forms, scriptable images and native video. Together with CSS3 and SVG, it will change the way you work making it easier to develop exciting applications. The emergence of more and more Web-enabled devices presents headaches: do you write and test many sites for different devices, or make one site for all? Some simple techniques help you write one site to work everywhere, saving you time and grey hairs. Web development 2.0: Web workers of the world, relax!
Remy Sharp
Left Logic
Remy Sharp cut his teeth in web development 10 years ago as the sole developer for finance web site, Digital Look, which groomed him to be the one man coding machine he is today. Now he runs his own Brighton based development company, called Left Logic coding and writing about JavaScript, jQuery, HTML, CSS, PHP, Perl and anything else he can get his hands on.
jQuery: write less do more
jQuery is a JavaScript library which allows you to develop solutions with less code, in less time. You can build interactive prototypes for your prospective clients, or take an existing solution and add new dynamic behaviour with little effort.
We will see how jQuery can be used to quickly and concisely apply JavaScript behaviour to your web app. It will cover selectors, Ajax, DOM manipulation and more. The aim: to produce lean unobtrusive JavaScript with jQuery
jQuery for designers: the essentials
This talk will introduce some more advanced features of jQuery to designers beyond simply showing and hiding, expose common development issues and help you to identify specific areas jQuery can help build part of your application.
Bartłomiej Zass
Microsoft
Bartłomiej is ISV Developer Evangelist at Microsoft. Cooperating with Polish software development companies, helping them in choosing appropriate technologies and using the newest solutions most effectively.
As a developer, he’s participated in many IT projects. For a few years he held the leading position in the .Net Group, operating by Warsaw Univeristy of Technology and been an owner of ISV company. Currently he’s working for Microsoft in the Developer&Platform Group. Bartłomiej often performs as a speaker either at Polish and international events related to the IT industry. IT Technologies, mobile development and user interface are the main areas of his interest.
Rich Internet Applications/Silverlight 4
Future of RIA and role of Silverlight 4 in this context. More details soon. Stay tuned!
Matt Biddulph
Nokia
Matt Biddulph works at Nokia Social Location in Berlin. He is a co-founder of Dopplr, the social network for smarter travel. He started out in 1994 building search engines on CD-ROM, and now specialises in digital media, social software and putting data on the web. In past lives he was a creative technologist for hire, working with companies like Joost and the BBC to bring cutting-edge technologies into the mainstream.
Mobile Social Location
It’s a great time to be building mobile location apps. Phones with GPS and compasses are now widely deployed, with good mobile data plans available. Projects like Geonames and OpenStreetMap are creating reusable datasets that provide the data backbone for your service. Open source mapping and GIS software is getting better and better.
How do applications like Foursquare, the Dopplr Social Atlas and Twitter (with its new geolocation API features) bring people into the equation? We’ll explore how location data can be improved through the collective intelligence of a social network.
We’ll consider how the interaction design of a service can be as important as its database schema for successful data analysis. We'll highlight the most interesting systems out there, and give a comparison between the different platforms and styles of application available to you.
