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Web Directions Gov08 Canberra

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scenariogirl
on April 28, 2008
in Accessibility, Events, Speaking and User Experience
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One thing I’ve really wanted to do of late is attend the IA Cocktail Hour in Canberra. It always sounds like they have so much fun and actually learn stuff at the same time. It’s rare that you can mix Fun, Alcohol, Learning and Canberra in the one event, but I think they’ve got it sorted.. and I want to give it a go too.

In a strange twist of fate, I’ve been invited to present at the Web Directions Gov08 Conference on May 22nd, which isn’t an IA Cocktail Hour event, but I’m sure there’s going to be some of the same crowd there. And surprise surprise! There’ll be lots of Fun, Alcohol, Learning and Canberra there too.

I’ll be presenting something on Accessibility and the User Experience, a talk based on the one I gave at Web Directions South 07… but better and more interesting, funnier and well, if Cameron Adams is in the room, there might even be a re-run of last years hilarity where he fell asleep during my presentation! Only this time *I will* have a camera ready.

Web Directions Government is a full day two track conference (May 19), plus an optional extra day of workshops (May 20). Presentations will focus on the concepts, technologies and techniques for meeting the challenges of eGovernment:

  • José Manuel Alonso (W3C) – eGovernment Lead
  • Robert Hoekman Jr (Miskeeto) – Interaction design and user experience
  • Lisa Herrod – Usability and accessibility
  • Scott Gledhill (News Digital Media) – Real world web standards
  • Sebastian Chan – Social media and government (workshop)
  • Cameron Adams – Frontiers of Javascript (workshop)
  • Jason Ryan (NZ State Services Commission) – Government 2.0
  • Jenny Telford (Australian Bureau of Statistics) – Opening government data
  • Matthew Hodgson (SMS) – Social computing for knowledge management
  • Ralph Douglas (AGIMO) – GovDex for secure online collaboration
  • Patrick Lee (News Digital Media) – Javascript with legacy systems
  • Andrew Kesper (ABC Online) – Ajax for dry data

It’s all very exciting! I’ve only ever been to Canberra once before, and never to present. I’m really, really looking forward to seeing all my Canberra friends on their home turf for a change… it’s going to be fun!

Ideas4

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scenariogirl
on February 5, 2008
in Events, Speaking and User Experience
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Last Wednesday I had the great pleasure of presenting for AWIA at the Ideas4 seminar in Perth,where the ‘Top Secret International Guest’ was revealed as Molly, who is currently travelling around Australia on holiday. And although she didn’t present this time, everyone was still happy for the chance to pick her brain at the end of the evening.

Rachael Cook, co-founder of Minti, began the evening with a personal discussion on her experiences working and living in Silicon Valley, which she followed up with some really useful tips on working with Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors.

My presentation, Usability: More than skin deep, was based on a talk I gave late last year at Web Directions. What a way to spend my birthday! Really, it was fun :)

And for the first time in the history of the universe, the presentation has been recorded on video.

What can I say but…. Blame AWIA!

WD07 Podcast: More than skin deep

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scenariogirl
on October 18, 2007
in Accessibility, Events, Speaking, Usability and User Experience
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Yeah I might be crazy. I haven’t even finished listening to this myself.

In fact, I haven’t even got as far as the bit where I wake up Cameron Adams (see the final bullet point!), who so politely fell asleep in the middle of my preso…!

But I’m a brave girl and am willing to take the risk.

So here it is, my second podcast in two days, Usability: More than skin deep.

I’ll be creating a Slidecast of this in the next few days and will let you know when that’s been uploaded…

Extraordinary Everyday Lives

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scenariogirl
on October 15, 2007
in Speaking and User Experience
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Last Thursday I had the very great pleasure of appearing on The Extraordinary Everyday Lives show with Mike Seyfang, Dave Wallace and Kent Newsome on the Podcast Network.

During the podcast we discuss my ideas on taking a multidisciplinary approach to user experience design, including the importance of incorporating accessibility into UXD to achieve true user experience design.

We also talk about the potential of RSS to improve accessibility to content for all users and some of the research I’m doing on that at the moment.

There’s also some stuff on the recent accessibility lawsuit against Target and other general banter about user experience design.

Have a listen and let me know what you think!