Speaking tomorrow at the Rich Web Experience in Orlando, Fl. I fly out tonight at midnight. Arrive at 10am, speak at 4pm. I promise to get some sleep on the plane so that I will be fresh for the talk! Fly out on Thurs evening. So if you see me there and I look a little spaced out -- you know why :-)
Talking on Designing for Interesting Moments. Hope to see you there.
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Tuesday, December 01, 2009
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Upcoming Talk: Designing for Interesting Moments @ IxDA 7/22
I am busy this weekend restructuring a talk I have given in the past that parallels my book. I will be restructuring the way I present the information as well as bring in new material. When I was at the Big D Design conference in Dallas in May I was really impressed by Stephen P. Anderson's presentation on the Art and Science of Seductive Interactions. Not only was the material helpful, but Stephen's take-aways and presentation organization were excellent as well.
Anyway I am looking forward to a fresh take on this topic. The talk will be titled Designing for Interesting Moments. I will be giving this same talk on 8/24 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond as well as at a Ruby Meetup group (event details in a followup blog posting).
If you can make it meet me at the Google Campus on Wednesday night, 7/22 at 7:30pm. Note: It will be in Seville which is in building 40, not building 43 as advertised!
By the way, I have embedded Stephen's talk (again not mine!) here for your enjoyment:
[Stephen P. Anderson's talk: The Art & Science of Seductive Interfaces]
Anyway I am looking forward to a fresh take on this topic. The talk will be titled Designing for Interesting Moments. I will be giving this same talk on 8/24 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond as well as at a Ruby Meetup group (event details in a followup blog posting).
If you can make it meet me at the Google Campus on Wednesday night, 7/22 at 7:30pm. Note: It will be in Seville which is in building 40, not building 43 as advertised!
By the way, I have embedded Stephen's talk (again not mine!) here for your enjoyment:
The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions
View more documents from Stephen Anderson.
[Stephen P. Anderson's talk: The Art & Science of Seductive Interfaces]
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Talk: Video Available - Interactive Prototyping with DHTML (Mix 09)
The video for my Interactive Prototyping with DHTML from Mix 09 is available for my prototyping talk.
You can also find all of the Mix 09 videos online as well.
You can also find all of the Mix 09 videos online as well.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Talk: Interactive Prototyping with DHTML (Mix 09)
Gave a new talk this morning at Mix 09 here in Las Vegas. It seemed to resonate with the crowd so sharing it hopes that others find it helpful in their practice.
One note, I am a fan of rapid ideation which is often hard to do in DHTML. Sketching as Bill Buxton points out is an incredible way to do this. Both Flash Catalyst and Microsoft Expression Blend 2 (version announced this week) get us closer to this vision. But often we need to prototype directly in the technology of our web site (often DHTML). This talk works to point out ways to make this faster and more error free.
Prototyping can be challenging. Especially prototyping in DHTML. But over the last few years a number of tools, techniques, libraries and frameworks have emerged making the task easier. Drawing from years of experience at companies such as Yahoo! and Netflix, come hear Bill Scott discuss these solutions and best practices for laying out pages rapidly, injecting interactive behavior and simulating data for prototyping your Web applications in DHTML.
One note, I am a fan of rapid ideation which is often hard to do in DHTML. Sketching as Bill Buxton points out is an incredible way to do this. Both Flash Catalyst and Microsoft Expression Blend 2 (version announced this week) get us closer to this vision. But often we need to prototype directly in the technology of our web site (often DHTML). This talk works to point out ways to make this faster and more error free.
Talk Description
Prototyping can be challenging. Especially prototyping in DHTML. But over the last few years a number of tools, techniques, libraries and frameworks have emerged making the task easier. Drawing from years of experience at companies such as Yahoo! and Netflix, come hear Bill Scott discuss these solutions and best practices for laying out pages rapidly, injecting interactive behavior and simulating data for prototyping your Web applications in DHTML.
Interactive Prototyping with DHTML
View more presentations from Bill Scott.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
O'Reilly Webcast Video & Audio: Designing Web Interfaces
I have been having trouble getting my audio synced to the slideshare version of my O'Reilly Webcast. Hoping that the good folks of slideshare can help me figure out an easy way to get it going.
In the meanwhile, the O'Reilly team has placed the live video & audio feed from the webcast on YouTube. This video will give you a clear idea of what is kind of material is covered in the book.
NOTE: For best experience, watch it on the YouTube site in high resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4MwvgW_ww&fmt=18
In the meanwhile, the O'Reilly team has placed the live video & audio feed from the webcast on YouTube. This video will give you a clear idea of what is kind of material is covered in the book.
NOTE: For best experience, watch it on the YouTube site in high resolution. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW4MwvgW_ww&fmt=18
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
O'Reilly Designing Web Interfaces Webcast Available
I presented Designing Web Interfaces on the O'Reilly Webcast today. Almost 1400 people signed up and the actual attendance hit 862. We set the record for an O'Reilly webcast :-) And we had overwhelmingly positive responses to the talk. If you liked the talk & the material then I think you will enjoy the book.
If you did not hear the webcast, check out the slideshare presentation below. It will give you the best flavor for what our book is about (keep in mind much more is in the book with lots more details and guidelines).
The audio will be available in a week or so. Look for a post here when I get the audio to share.
If you did not hear the webcast, check out the slideshare presentation below. It will give you the best flavor for what our book is about (keep in mind much more is in the book with lots more details and guidelines).
The audio will be available in a week or so. Look for a post here when I get the audio to share.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Two Upcoming Webcasts
On Tues, Feb. 3rd I will be presenting a short talk on Designing Web Interfaces as a webcast for O'Reilly. This talk is free and space is limited (and filling up fast), so if you are interested sign up now.
And a reminder on a completely different (brand new) talk I will be giving on Feb. 26th: Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering. This talk comes out of my longtime experience bouncing between the design & engineering worlds and in particular lessons learned at Yahoo! and Netflix. This 60-minute webinar is initially available as a live class, and then is made available in a DRM-free recorded, edited format. By avoiding the travel required in attending a physical seminar or conference, you save money and reduce your impact on the environment. You are free to watch the webinar with colleagues in a conference room, making for an even better value. The cost is only $129.
Details here:
And a reminder on a completely different (brand new) talk I will be giving on Feb. 26th: Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering. This talk comes out of my longtime experience bouncing between the design & engineering worlds and in particular lessons learned at Yahoo! and Netflix. This 60-minute webinar is initially available as a live class, and then is made available in a DRM-free recorded, edited format. By avoiding the travel required in attending a physical seminar or conference, you save money and reduce your impact on the environment. You are free to watch the webinar with colleagues in a conference room, making for an even better value. The cost is only $129.
Details here:
- O'Reilly Webcast - Designing Web Interfaces: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction. Feb. 3rd (18:00 GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST)
- Rosenfeld Media Webinar - Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering. Feb. 26th (18:00 GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST)
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Upcoming Talk: Bringing Design to Life (Rosenfeld Future Practices Webinar) - Feb 26th
I am excited about a new online seminar that I will be giving Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering. This is part of the Rosenfeld Future Practice Webinars series (a joint venture of Smart Experience and Rosenfeld Media).For the last 25 years I have been solidly focused in the world of user interface creation. At times I have been solely focused on design and at other times on interface engineering. At other times I have held both responsibilities at once (e.g., leading a UX team while leading two interface engineering teams). Having spanned both design & engineering, I deeply understand the challenges is translating ideas into products. For this talk I decided to focus specifically on how web designers can work in the most efficient manner with their engineering counterparts. It is the "stuff" that most engineers wish their design colleagues knew.
This 60-minute webinar is initially available as a live class, and then is made available in a DRM-free recorded, edited format. By avoiding the travel required in attending a physical seminar or conference, you save money and reduce your impact on the environment. You are free to watch the webinar with colleagues in a conference room, making for an even better value. The cost is only $129.
Join me on Feb. 26th (18:00 GMT / 1pm EST / 10am PST) for Bringing Design to Life: What Every Designer Should Know about Interface Engineering.
(Previous webinars include Luke Wroblewski on Modern Web Form Design and Indi Young on Using Mental Models for Tactics and Strategy. Also check their schedule for a complete lineup of monthly webinars.)
Also, if your are interested in purchasing materials from Rosenfeld Media, please use my discount code when you visit the site (good for a 15% discount): SCOTTWBNR.
Photo credit: Auroville: Under Construction from premasagar's flickr stream, Creative Commons License.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Yahoo! Front End Developer's Summit 2008 - Talk
I had the wonderful privilege of giving a keynote today at Yahoo!'s Frontend Summit. Douglas Crockford gives the one for tomorrow.
I took a stroll down memory lane talking about everything from slide rules to Wang Desktop Programmable Calculators to programming on the Macintosh 128k. In many ways this played off an earlier blog "All I reall need to know I learned from a Mac 128k".
Here are the slides:
A video will be available at the YUI Theatre later this month. I will post a link here when that happens.
I took a stroll down memory lane talking about everything from slide rules to Wang Desktop Programmable Calculators to programming on the Macintosh 128k. In many ways this played off an earlier blog "All I reall need to know I learned from a Mac 128k".
Here are the slides:
A video will be available at the YUI Theatre later this month. I will post a link here when that happens.
Sunday, December 02, 2007
Events This Week - Dec. 2nd
Attending & Speaking at Web Builder 2.0 this week in Las Vegas, NV (Dec. 3-4).Later in the week I will be one of the judges for the PhizzPop Design Challenge (sponsored by Microsoft) down in Los Angeles, CA. That will be Thurs night, Dec. 6.
I also did a podcast with Jared Spool (UIE.com) on Friday. It was about the upcoming Web App Summit 2008 in Coronada Island, CA where I will be giving a talk on "When Designers Get Too Clever: Avoiding the Traps of Bad Design". We chatted about Yahoo!, Netflix, Patterns, Anti-Patterns, Yahoo! Teachers and so on. Always a blast to chat with Jared. Should show up here when the podcast is live.
Look me up if our plans intersect.
Monday, June 04, 2007
Express Yourself! UX Event
Our local Microsoft UX Evangelist, Will Tschumy (formerly of Flock) is putting on a UX Design/Bar Camp-like event.
They have asked 5 leading design firms in the bay area (AARF, Organic, AKQA, Frog, IndustryNext) to compete head-to-head to solve real world problems. Focus will be on using Microsoft Expression & Silverlight technology.
I will be one of the judges for the event... Sounds like it will be fun, with drinks & mixer afterwards.
Join us on June 22 in San Francisco at 111 Mina!
Should be a blast :-)
See the details at:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/198868/
Friday, April 13, 2007
Upcoming Talks - Mid Year 2007
Mix'07 in Vegas
Looking forward to Vegas! I was fortunate to be invited by the friendly folks from Microsoft to give a talk about rich web design at Mix' 07. Should be a great event. My good friend Luke Wroblewski will be there speaking as well. Hope to see some of you there on April 30. Looks like it is already a sold out event :-)
The Ajax Experience & The Rich Web Experience
Last year I thoroughly enjoyed my "experience" at the Ajax Experience. Both the San Francisco & Boston events were put on by the folks at ajaxian as well as the folks from nofluffjuststuff. It made for some great speakers and attendees.
It appears that the nofluffjuststuff folks are putting on a new event, The Rich Web Experience which will be from July 30 - August 1 in San Jose, CA. Just the week before The Ajax Experience will debut at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco, CA and is sponsored by the ajaxian dudes. Since I have great respect for both groups I will be speaking at both events.
Look for two new talks that I am in the midst of developing.
Anti-Patterns - Designing for a Poor Web Experience.
Sometimes it is most instructive to look at design patterns in reverse-- as a set of anti-patterns. In this new talk, I will explore the common mistakes that designers & developers make when attempting to craft a rich web experience. I'll also be using counter-examples from consumer facing web sites (both inside & outside of Yahoo!) as well as from enterprise web applications to illustrate the right way to design.
Prototyping the Rich Web Experience - Experiments in creating an Ajax framework for prototyping
How do you communicate the design for a rich web experience? Since there is no one tool, designers have used the tools at hand: Photoshop, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Fireworks, ImageReady, Visio, OmniGraffle, and so on. However, prototyping provides the best way to fully understand & test the nuance of detailed interactions. The problem is that it is difficult to find someone who is both good at design & prototyping. In this talk, I will first survey the tools & techniques for communicating rich design and then propose a simplified Ajax library that makes most behaviors and interactions declarative via CSS styles or by simple declarative style programming. I will then walk through how to quickly prototype the most common patterns with the library. The prototyping library will be available for download at the time of the conference session.
Hope to see you at one of these events.
Looking forward to Vegas! I was fortunate to be invited by the friendly folks from Microsoft to give a talk about rich web design at Mix' 07. Should be a great event. My good friend Luke Wroblewski will be there speaking as well. Hope to see some of you there on April 30. Looks like it is already a sold out event :-)
The Ajax Experience & The Rich Web Experience
Last year I thoroughly enjoyed my "experience" at the Ajax Experience. Both the San Francisco & Boston events were put on by the folks at ajaxian as well as the folks from nofluffjuststuff. It made for some great speakers and attendees.
It appears that the nofluffjuststuff folks are putting on a new event, The Rich Web Experience which will be from July 30 - August 1 in San Jose, CA. Just the week before The Ajax Experience will debut at the Grand Hyatt in San Francisco, CA and is sponsored by the ajaxian dudes. Since I have great respect for both groups I will be speaking at both events.
Look for two new talks that I am in the midst of developing.
Anti-Patterns - Designing for a Poor Web Experience.
Sometimes it is most instructive to look at design patterns in reverse-- as a set of anti-patterns. In this new talk, I will explore the common mistakes that designers & developers make when attempting to craft a rich web experience. I'll also be using counter-examples from consumer facing web sites (both inside & outside of Yahoo!) as well as from enterprise web applications to illustrate the right way to design.
Prototyping the Rich Web Experience - Experiments in creating an Ajax framework for prototyping
How do you communicate the design for a rich web experience? Since there is no one tool, designers have used the tools at hand: Photoshop, PowerPoint, Illustrator, Fireworks, ImageReady, Visio, OmniGraffle, and so on. However, prototyping provides the best way to fully understand & test the nuance of detailed interactions. The problem is that it is difficult to find someone who is both good at design & prototyping. In this talk, I will first survey the tools & techniques for communicating rich design and then propose a simplified Ajax library that makes most behaviors and interactions declarative via CSS styles or by simple declarative style programming. I will then walk through how to quickly prototype the most common patterns with the library. The prototyping library will be available for download at the time of the conference session.
Hope to see you at one of these events.
Saturday, January 06, 2007
Easy 7 Conference - Bangalore
Having a wonderful time in Bangalore. Due to the excellent Yahoo! Bangalore staff, my friend Sameera Gopalakrishna Rao who is here on holiday and the excellent Easy 7 Conference I had the opportunity to speak at yesterday.
Easy7 is a SIGCHI-SI conference held annually in Bangalore, India.
Being somewhat ignorant of the design community in India, I was not sure what the makeup or size of the audience would be. I was pleased to find out we had a sell-out crowd (I think it was around 150 attendees) and they turned away 50+ others due to venue size. And talk about an incredible venue! The Leela Palace Hotel looks literally like a palace with 9 acres of lush gardens. And beautiful weather to match.
What I really enjoyed was the audience participation. After each talk we gave space for Q&A and the questions were passionate and insightful. The in-between hallway conversations were interesting too as India rapidly moves into not just being a place for offshoring but a place for innovation (this has been going on for a while; It is just more real to me now).
Jeremy Ashley, VP of Application User Experience, spoke on Debunking the ‘Ultimate Design Myth’. It was a really great talk that removed the idea that the best design comes from a design diva locked in a room for 24 hours. The truth is good design is hard work that takes moments of inspiration followed by lots of hard work. Surya Vanka, Manager User Experience Excellence at Microsoft showed his iterative product lifecycle chart as a the ooh-aah-wow! model. After research with users there comes that moment of ooh! of understanding the user's plight. Followed by moments of deeper understanding as the product is refined & tested. If done right it ends up as a 'wow!' for the user.
Sarah Bloomer gave two talks. The first was a really great look at the process of designing interfaces. I really enjoyed the talk as I have the tendency to be more ad-hoc and found it to be a good refresher as well as a challenge not to forget some fundamental techniques. Her last talk was on a survey of what tools & methods were commonly used by designers. A few surprises card sorts & patterns ranked lowest. Wireframes of course topped the list. The most valuable tool? Talking to & observing live customers. No surprise, but quite often skipped. Sarah is a gifted communicator. I don't believe she has written any books, but certainly if she chose to it would be a great asset to the design community.
Back to Surya. Surya is an incredible speaker. He gave two short talks. The first talk was on Design Led Product Innovation. Examples he cited in Microsoft Vista were the Ribbon Bar (which does a great job of employing Focus + Context), the magic corner for 2007 provides all file related commands as well as recent files (the difference is in the display treatment of the rounded corner button and the actual menu window that is not bound by traditional menu sizing), and the send a smiley which allows real time digg-like voting for whether you are having a good user experience at the moment or not.
Some of the points he made:
His second talk was on being a Change Agent (his unofficial title). This was
If you get a chance to hear Surya in the future I would highly recommend making the effort. I really liked the emphasis on understanding the culture and working within it, finding its values and using it to make the right changes.
My talk was on Designing for Ajax. I continue to give this talk in its various forms (I think I have given that talk 30 times since last January.) I am happy to report that it was very well received. I think most people appreciate the plethora of examples that illustrate the design principles. Sort of like a visual encyclopedia of current interaction patterns.
You can find my talks at billwscott.com
You can also see flickr photos of the easy7 conference.
Easy7 is a SIGCHI-SI conference held annually in Bangalore, India.
Being somewhat ignorant of the design community in India, I was not sure what the makeup or size of the audience would be. I was pleased to find out we had a sell-out crowd (I think it was around 150 attendees) and they turned away 50+ others due to venue size. And talk about an incredible venue! The Leela Palace Hotel looks literally like a palace with 9 acres of lush gardens. And beautiful weather to match.
What I really enjoyed was the audience participation. After each talk we gave space for Q&A and the questions were passionate and insightful. The in-between hallway conversations were interesting too as India rapidly moves into not just being a place for offshoring but a place for innovation (this has been going on for a while; It is just more real to me now).
Jeremy Ashley, VP of Application User Experience, spoke on Debunking the ‘Ultimate Design Myth’. It was a really great talk that removed the idea that the best design comes from a design diva locked in a room for 24 hours. The truth is good design is hard work that takes moments of inspiration followed by lots of hard work. Surya Vanka, Manager User Experience Excellence at Microsoft showed his iterative product lifecycle chart as a the ooh-aah-wow! model. After research with users there comes that moment of ooh! of understanding the user's plight. Followed by moments of deeper understanding as the product is refined & tested. If done right it ends up as a 'wow!' for the user.
Sarah Bloomer gave two talks. The first was a really great look at the process of designing interfaces. I really enjoyed the talk as I have the tendency to be more ad-hoc and found it to be a good refresher as well as a challenge not to forget some fundamental techniques. Her last talk was on a survey of what tools & methods were commonly used by designers. A few surprises card sorts & patterns ranked lowest. Wireframes of course topped the list. The most valuable tool? Talking to & observing live customers. No surprise, but quite often skipped. Sarah is a gifted communicator. I don't believe she has written any books, but certainly if she chose to it would be a great asset to the design community.
Back to Surya. Surya is an incredible speaker. He gave two short talks. The first talk was on Design Led Product Innovation. Examples he cited in Microsoft Vista were the Ribbon Bar (which does a great job of employing Focus + Context), the magic corner for 2007 provides all file related commands as well as recent files (the difference is in the display treatment of the rounded corner button and the actual menu window that is not bound by traditional menu sizing), and the send a smiley which allows real time digg-like voting for whether you are having a good user experience at the moment or not.
Some of the points he made:
- Virtuous Feedback Loops. Example: Send a Smiley.
- Deep Evidence. Using innovative technical solutions to gathering meaningful metrics.
- Simplicity is Hard But Worth Striving For
- Instead of FindAndUse it's now UseAndFind. This is the basis for the Office Ribbon Bar. With the incredible growth of features (which contrary to popular belief are needed to satisfy the wide audience) the Ribbon Bar took the approach to let the user USE the product and FIND out along the journey the commands as they need them. The old way focuses on the tools. The other on the flow.
- Constraints are Opportunities
- Details Matter
- Lead with Design/Validate with Data. I like this one in particular. This combines the interaction design approach of Alan Cooper with the detailed testing rigor of Jared Spool.
- Keep the Engine Under the Hood
- Don't Sacrifice Clarity for Depth
His second talk was on being a Change Agent (his unofficial title). This was
If you get a chance to hear Surya in the future I would highly recommend making the effort. I really liked the emphasis on understanding the culture and working within it, finding its values and using it to make the right changes.
My talk was on Designing for Ajax. I continue to give this talk in its various forms (I think I have given that talk 30 times since last January.) I am happy to report that it was very well received. I think most people appreciate the plethora of examples that illustrate the design principles. Sort of like a visual encyclopedia of current interaction patterns.
You can find my talks at billwscott.com
You can also see flickr photos of the easy7 conference.
Friday, October 06, 2006
Lisbon, Paris, AjaxWorld, Code Camp, UI11, WebGuild & Ajax Experience
The last few months have been pretty crazy. In one 8 day stretch I put in 17,000 miles in the air!
I had a wonderful time in Paris presenting a couple of sessions on design & developing for Ajax to the People in Action folks. It is interesting to see the excitement about "what is possible" being a world-wide phenomonon.
The same week Luke Wroblewski, Kevin Cheng, Peter Merholz and myself (we have dubbed ourselves the "Bay4") had a great time in Portugal in the wonderful city of Lisboa (Lisbon as we say) giving 4 back to back talks to the first annual SHIFT conference. Our wonderful hosts Bruno Figueiredo and Pedro Custódio gave us tours of the city. Most interesting (besides being in Portugal) was having discussions with people from all over Europe about what all these changes in the web world means to them.
In Portugal there are wonderfully bright folks who are starting to really get the whole concept of innovation. For so long (at least this is what I heard from multiple Portugese sources) there is a strong cultural influence that shuns failure. Of course the freedom to fail is a key ingredient to innovation and something that we generally cherish in the U.S. (probably to a fault).
I had a wonderful chat with an engineering manager, Bruno Pedro at Sapo (sapo.pt, largest site in Portugal) who echoed these sentiments. He shared his enthusiasm about the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library as well as the Yahoo! UI library. Very encouraging to hear of the nice impact these tools are having around the world. He promises to share some of the exciting developments they will be making on this site.
You can check out photos from the various folks that attended as well as blog posts at Luke's blog, Luke's photos, Kevin's photos, Peter's photos and mine.
Closer to home I will be at the Silicon Valley Code Camp tomorrow (10/7/2006). There are 700 attendees and a bunch of us speaking. Its going to be at Foot Hills College this weekend in Los Altos, CA. Doug Crockford, Kent Brewster and myself will be giving talks from Yahoo!
This past week I spoke at the Ajax World Conference here in Santa Clara. Enjoyed giving my talk and had some great conversations afterward. But the highlight was getting to hear my fellow cube-mate, Doug Crockford, give his abbreviated Advanced JavaScript talk. Its definitely great material.
Next week I will be presenting an all day workshop with David (Heller) Malouf on Designing Rich Internet Applications at the UI11 Conference. Looking forward to the session (well over 100 signed up!) as well as the rest of Jared's exciting conference.
Then the next week I will be on a panel at the First Annual Web Guild Conference on "The New Web". I am an advisor for the Web Guild which usually meets over at the Googleplex. This looks to be a really great conference. Its very affordable and has an incredible lineup of great speakers like: Jared Spool (ui engineering), Ram Shiram (Founding Member Google), Marissa Mayer (Google VP), Kelly Goto (gotomedia) just to name a few. Still time to sign up!!
The next week Nate Koechley, Doug Crockford and I will be at the Ajax Experience. This was the best Ajax event I have attended (last event was in May) and I really look forward to hearing what the top quality speakers there have to say as well as connect with others in the field. That will be in Boston, hope you can join us there.
I had a wonderful time in Paris presenting a couple of sessions on design & developing for Ajax to the People in Action folks. It is interesting to see the excitement about "what is possible" being a world-wide phenomonon.
The same week Luke Wroblewski, Kevin Cheng, Peter Merholz and myself (we have dubbed ourselves the "Bay4") had a great time in Portugal in the wonderful city of Lisboa (Lisbon as we say) giving 4 back to back talks to the first annual SHIFT conference. Our wonderful hosts Bruno Figueiredo and Pedro Custódio gave us tours of the city. Most interesting (besides being in Portugal) was having discussions with people from all over Europe about what all these changes in the web world means to them.
In Portugal there are wonderfully bright folks who are starting to really get the whole concept of innovation. For so long (at least this is what I heard from multiple Portugese sources) there is a strong cultural influence that shuns failure. Of course the freedom to fail is a key ingredient to innovation and something that we generally cherish in the U.S. (probably to a fault).
I had a wonderful chat with an engineering manager, Bruno Pedro at Sapo (sapo.pt, largest site in Portugal) who echoed these sentiments. He shared his enthusiasm about the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library as well as the Yahoo! UI library. Very encouraging to hear of the nice impact these tools are having around the world. He promises to share some of the exciting developments they will be making on this site.
You can check out photos from the various folks that attended as well as blog posts at Luke's blog, Luke's photos, Kevin's photos, Peter's photos and mine.
Closer to home I will be at the Silicon Valley Code Camp tomorrow (10/7/2006). There are 700 attendees and a bunch of us speaking. Its going to be at Foot Hills College this weekend in Los Altos, CA. Doug Crockford, Kent Brewster and myself will be giving talks from Yahoo!
This past week I spoke at the Ajax World Conference here in Santa Clara. Enjoyed giving my talk and had some great conversations afterward. But the highlight was getting to hear my fellow cube-mate, Doug Crockford, give his abbreviated Advanced JavaScript talk. Its definitely great material.
Next week I will be presenting an all day workshop with David (Heller) Malouf on Designing Rich Internet Applications at the UI11 Conference. Looking forward to the session (well over 100 signed up!) as well as the rest of Jared's exciting conference.
Then the next week I will be on a panel at the First Annual Web Guild Conference on "The New Web". I am an advisor for the Web Guild which usually meets over at the Googleplex. This looks to be a really great conference. Its very affordable and has an incredible lineup of great speakers like: Jared Spool (ui engineering), Ram Shiram (Founding Member Google), Marissa Mayer (Google VP), Kelly Goto (gotomedia) just to name a few. Still time to sign up!!
The next week Nate Koechley, Doug Crockford and I will be at the Ajax Experience. This was the best Ajax event I have attended (last event was in May) and I really look forward to hearing what the top quality speakers there have to say as well as connect with others in the field. That will be in Boston, hope you can join us there.
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
Latest Talks, Upcoming Events
Had a wonderful opportunity speaking at BayCHI last night. Excellent turnout. The presentation material can be found here.
The highlight for me was hearing Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress talk about lessons he has learned in building a startup. Matt is only 22, but has the wisdom of a sage, is bright and incredible funny. Could have listened to him for hours. Also love to hear his "mom" stories :-)
I have a pretty full schedule over the next three months. Here is where I will be speaking:
Please vote for our panel!! You can select up to 10 panels from the Panel Picker at the SXSW site.
The highlight for me was hearing Matt Mullenweg, creator of WordPress talk about lessons he has learned in building a startup. Matt is only 22, but has the wisdom of a sage, is bright and incredible funny. Could have listened to him for hours. Also love to hear his "mom" stories :-)
I have a pretty full schedule over the next three months. Here is where I will be speaking:
- 08.15 - MetaDesign. San Francisco (private)
- 08.24 - O'Reilly Web 2.0 Summit. Sebastapol, CA (private)
- 08.25-08.27 - O'Reilly Foo Camp. Sebastapol, CA (private)
- 09.18 - Travelocity. Southlake, TX (private)
- 09.19 - Federal Reserve Software Convention. Dallas, TX (private)
- 09.25 - Rich Internet Conference. Paris, France
- 09.28-29 - SHIFT Conference. Lisbon, Portugal
- 10.02-10.04 - Ajax World Conference. Santa Clara, CA
- 10.09-10.12 - UI11 Conference (Jared Spool). Cambridge, MA
- 10.19 - Web Guild Conference. Mountain View, CA @ Google
- 10.23-10.25 - The Ajax Experience. Boston, MA
Please vote for our panel!! You can select up to 10 panels from the Panel Picker at the SXSW site.
Monday, May 15, 2006
Ajax Experience Slides & Ajax Links
At the Adaptive Path Designing & Building with Ajax workshop (Austin, TX) I mentioned that I would post a set of good Ajax technical links. You can find these links (in their unadorned state) on my portfolio site.
I also spoke on Friday afternoon at the Ajax Experience in San Francisco. You can find the same basic talk I gave there in a previous blog article.
Michael Mahemoff has also posted his notes on Ajaxian of my talk.
The Ajax Experience was an excellent conference. The depth of materials, the quality of speakers, the excellent venue, and the awesome nofluffjuststuff and Ajaxian guys really made this the best conference I have been to this year.
Technorati Tags: ajax, design, patterns, design patterns, ria, user+experience, interaction design, ypatterns, ajaxexperience, billscott
I also spoke on Friday afternoon at the Ajax Experience in San Francisco. You can find the same basic talk I gave there in a previous blog article.
Michael Mahemoff has also posted his notes on Ajaxian of my talk.
The Ajax Experience was an excellent conference. The depth of materials, the quality of speakers, the excellent venue, and the awesome nofluffjuststuff and Ajaxian guys really made this the best conference I have been to this year.
Technorati Tags: ajax, design, patterns, design patterns, ria, user+experience, interaction design, ypatterns, ajaxexperience, billscott
Wednesday, April 12, 2006
Designing for Ajax - Presentation
Update (07/24/06): You can now find my presentations at http://billwscott.com/share/presentations/
Recently I have been giving a talk on Designing for Ajax. I have given the talk or variations of the talk at:
In the course of giving the talk I have now simplified it to 7 interactive design principles:
You can download a medium sized Quicktime version of the presentation here.
You should download it to your desktop as I don't want my host to have to suffer with streaming it. Also, the interactive (click to move through presentation) works better when downloaded.
The PDF version is also available here.
I will be giving this talk (or variations of the talk) in the next couple of months at:
Technorati Tags: ajax, design, patterns, design patterns, ria, user+experience, interaction design, ypatterns, yui, billscott
Recently I have been giving a talk on Designing for Ajax. I have given the talk or variations of the talk at:
- eBig/Emoryville, CA
- Yahoo! Search & Marketplace User Experience Team
- Yahoo! Front End Engineering Summit
- eTech/San Diego, CA
- Real World Ajax/NYC
- VeriSign/Mt. View
- WebGuild/Mt. View
In the course of giving the talk I have now simplified it to 7 interactive design principles:
- Keep it direct
- Provide live feedback
- Offer an invitation
- Cross borders relunctantly
- Create a light footprint
- Show Transitions
- Think in Objects
You can download a medium sized Quicktime version of the presentation here.
You should download it to your desktop as I don't want my host to have to suffer with streaming it. Also, the interactive (click to move through presentation) works better when downloaded.
The PDF version is also available here.
I will be giving this talk (or variations of the talk) in the next couple of months at:
- CSU/Hayward (not open to public)
- City College/SF (not open to public)
- Oracle Brown Bag
- Adobe/Macromedia Brown Bag
- eBay Brown Bag
- Adaptive Path/Austin
- The Ajax Experience/SF
- Adaptive Path/Amsterdam
- SIGCHI.NL/Amsterdam
- If you find other examples that illustrate the patterns I have in the presentation, feel free to
- Tag the site in either del.icio.us.com or myweb2.search.yahoo.com under the tag 'ypatternexample'. Add other tags as you see fit. Also, add a comment to tell how to see the feature or what your thoughts positive or negative are about this example
- Or send me a link, snapshot or description via email at ajaxevangelist @ yahoo dot com
- If you find good counterexamples, also tag them and not it in the comments.
Technorati Tags: ajax, design, patterns, design patterns, ria, user+experience, interaction design, ypatterns, yui, billscott
Tuesday, March 28, 2006
Round Up from IA Summit 2006
Just got back from lovely Vancouver where I attended the IA Summit 06 (Mar 23-27). I really meant to blog during the event. But I always found someone interesting to talk to or somewhere lovely in Vancouver to explore. I was also on a panel discussing Challenges to Wireframing with Rich Internet Applications.
As a quick aside, I do not believe I have visited a friendlier city. Smiling, friendly, helpful and always accommodating. And what an incredibly beautiful city. The 2010 Winter Olympics will be there as well as just north in Whistler. I got a chance to drive half-way to Whistler to the lovely town of Squamish. Mountains, sea, waterfall-- splendid beauty.
Ok now back to the summit.
Big Thoughts
So not really sure I came away with a lot of new revelations. But several ideas were reinforced.
Has to go to my fellow Yahoo!s, Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao. They presented on Communicating Concepts Through Comics. Kevin is one half of the wonderful ok/cancel site (the other have is Tom Chi also at Yahoo!). It was a fun talk that showed how storyboarding with comics can communicate user scenarios in a way that engages the complete product team as well as users who participate in reading the comics and commenting on the storyline. It is a great technique for fleshing out the conceptual phase & features of a product.
Kevin and Jane also gave an all day workshop and taught people how to draw simplified comics. I dropped in at the end of the day and was really impressed with some of the comics I saw. (I will have them on flickr later tonight tagged as iasummit06
My Panel
I had a great time with Todd Warfel, Thomas Vander Wal, Nathan Curtis and Livia Labate discussing with the audience the challenges of creating rich interactions with wireframes.
Some folks requested the latest version of our interesting moments grid. You can find the inline editing and drag and drop templates at my blog article on The Interaction Matrix.
Some Books, Sites and other Things of Random Interest
They gave us big badges with lots of space to tag ourselves (or let other tag us). I chose to tag myself like this:
As a quick aside, I do not believe I have visited a friendlier city. Smiling, friendly, helpful and always accommodating. And what an incredibly beautiful city. The 2010 Winter Olympics will be there as well as just north in Whistler. I got a chance to drive half-way to Whistler to the lovely town of Squamish. Mountains, sea, waterfall-- splendid beauty.
Ok now back to the summit.
Big Thoughts
So not really sure I came away with a lot of new revelations. But several ideas were reinforced.
- Make good design viral
Not his words, but my take from Jared Spool's talk on the Role of IAs in User Experience: The best organizations propogate good design by education & adminstration rather than by review or consulting. Both consultation & review become bottlenecks. I have often been in centralized groups (as I am now at Yahoo!) and I find that sharing knowledge and creating many avenues for sharing best practices to be the secret to new and wonderful ideas forming. Here were some of his tips: - Have a clear vision of success
- Disseminate user knowledge and feedback quickly
- Use design problems as teachable moments. People that find problems get kudos.
- Make collecting feedback inexpensive
- Share learning
- Make good design the path of least resistance
- Embrace Change
I didn't really hear anyone say this but there are some in the Information Architecture community that are a little fearful of the changes that are happening with the move from content being central to interaction being more central. I say to them go read Who Moves My Cheese? and go embrace change. Jared mentioned that if you are going to be an IA specialist you will need to find companies large enough to have an economy to support your specialization. [hey there are folks who only do surgery on the hand-- they are needed but are not abundant.] And let me clarify one point. The skillset of IA is just as needed now as ever. It is the specific narrow role I am speaking of. - It's About the Community, Stupid
The term mentioned by Rashmi Sinha was Social Information Architecture. This is the understanding the information must be crafted/architected in a way that can be virally manipulated by social networks. It gets to the heart of the thought the experience is not just the computer human interaction but the interaction between humans enabled by technology. This is also the thought behind David Weinberger's book, Small Pieces Loosely Joined (he gave the keynote).
Has to go to my fellow Yahoo!s, Kevin Cheng and Jane Jao. They presented on Communicating Concepts Through Comics. Kevin is one half of the wonderful ok/cancel site (the other have is Tom Chi also at Yahoo!). It was a fun talk that showed how storyboarding with comics can communicate user scenarios in a way that engages the complete product team as well as users who participate in reading the comics and commenting on the storyline. It is a great technique for fleshing out the conceptual phase & features of a product.
Kevin and Jane also gave an all day workshop and taught people how to draw simplified comics. I dropped in at the end of the day and was really impressed with some of the comics I saw. (I will have them on flickr later tonight tagged as iasummit06
My Panel
I had a great time with Todd Warfel, Thomas Vander Wal, Nathan Curtis and Livia Labate discussing with the audience the challenges of creating rich interactions with wireframes.
Some folks requested the latest version of our interesting moments grid. You can find the inline editing and drag and drop templates at my blog article on The Interaction Matrix.
Some Books, Sites and other Things of Random Interest
- Book - How Customers Think
- Carson Workshops - Mentioned by Francois Jordaan
- Book - Lead Users - Understanding early adopters as users
- Interesting IA Tool - swipr - Visio toolkit for end-to-end wireframing. Looks promising.
They gave us big badges with lots of space to tag ourselves (or let other tag us). I chose to tag myself like this:
Technorati Tags: iasummit06, iasummit, vancouver, information architecture, design, user+experience, wireframing
Friday, March 17, 2006
Real World Ajax - NYC
Real World Ajax in NYC, Monday 3/13 was a blast. I gave a talk on Designing for Ajax. It is a look at the most common patterns used by Ajax applications and the good design principles that underpin them.
You can catch a video interview with me about what is going on with the patterns, ajax and developer services at Yahoo.
I especially enjoyed
It was good to touch base with JackBe founder, Jacob Derechin. The exciting news for them is they have added three really talented folks from Sun Microsystems (Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi). These are the authors of the Core J2EE Patterns book. I had an great talk with them about the world of patterns. JackBe is an interesting Ajax toolkit for the enterprise. It is the only full framework I am aware of that can handle really low bandwidth/latency connections (and I am talking 9600 baud Ajax!)
So others have done a great job of summarizing. Here are a few articles on the conference:
Jeremy Geelan and Dion Hinchcliffe are great hosts. Check out their upcoming seminars in San Jose, CA in April as well as back in NYC in June.
You can catch a video interview with me about what is going on with the patterns, ajax and developer services at Yahoo.
I especially enjoyed
- Christophe Conraet from Adobe demo'ing the extra cool Adobe Ajax-Flex Bridge. I have already found an internal app within Yahoo! that this might be a good fit for. Essentially I can now mix Flex and Ajax freely on the page. I can manipulate flex (flash) components via JavaScript. And with the connectivity capabilities of flash you can do some pretty cool Comet style interactions (collaboration, white boarding, push style technology)
- David Heinnemer Hannson's Rails talk. David just keeps adding more and more cool stuff to Rails every day. His example of driving multiple rails applications via a flash bridge (again Comet-style technology) was really cool.
- Kevin Hackman of Tibco gave a very interesting tour of early Ajax apps in the enterprise (1999-2003). Its really cool to see what incredible work was happening before the "Ajax Christening."
- Scott Dietzen, CTO of Zimbra gave a great look into the world of Zimbra. I really like the Zimlets. Great way to extend their product. Scott, Ross and the others at Zimbra are a very talented team.
It was good to touch base with JackBe founder, Jacob Derechin. The exciting news for them is they have added three really talented folks from Sun Microsystems (Deepak Alur, Dan Malks, John Crupi). These are the authors of the Core J2EE Patterns book. I had an great talk with them about the world of patterns. JackBe is an interesting Ajax toolkit for the enterprise. It is the only full framework I am aware of that can handle really low bandwidth/latency connections (and I am talking 9600 baud Ajax!)
So others have done a great job of summarizing. Here are a few articles on the conference:
Jeremy Geelan and Dion Hinchcliffe are great hosts. Check out their upcoming seminars in San Jose, CA in April as well as back in NYC in June.
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