Web App Summit 2008
March 26-28 - Coronado Island, California
Over the three days of this premier event, you'll meet the innovators and world-class designers behind today's most successful web apps and come away inspired to create amazing applications that will delight your users.
We've carefully crafted this three-day event to give you what you need. You'll start your journey with our full-day workshops, designed to dive right into the in-depth expertise behind creating successful applications. On Day 2, you'll explore what makes a great web app design, with the essentials for planning great designs. On Day 3, you'll wrap up the event learning how to implement the best web apps, uncovering how to successfully go from concept to a coded web application.
DAY 1: FULL-DAY WORKSHOPS
March 26, 2008
The Essentials of Interaction Design
Kim Goodwin, Cooper
Apply interaction design principles, scenarios, and patterns to create designs that elate your users.
Collaboration, Creativity, & Consensus in User Experience Design
Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity.com
Learn practical techniques to foster team and stakeholder collaboration, creativity, and consensus within your project methodology.
Web Form Design Best Practices
Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo!
Learn the best practices to create web forms that support the user behavior you want to elicit from your customers.
Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior
Indi Young
Get a solid grounding in information architecture that will enable you to create designs that help your users find what they want.
Read the Day 1: Full-Day Workshop descriptions.
DAY 2: Making a Great Web App Design
March 27, 2008
Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business
Jared M. Spool, User Interface Engineering
AJAX and RIAs: Moving Functionality Over to the Client
Steve Mulder, Molecular
Serious Design Considerations when Using AJAX
Jeremy Keith, Clearleft
When Designers Get Too Clever: Avoiding the Traps of Bad Design
Bill Scott, Netflix
Engaging an Audience: Using Out-of-the-Box Thinking to Create Great Designs
Andrew DeVigal, The New York Times
DAY 3: Implementing the Best Web Apps
March 28, 2008
The Little Things Matter: Building Apps with a Laser-Like Attention to Details
Jason Fried, 37signals
Web App Makeover: Getting From Here To A Great Design
Hagan Rivers, Two Rivers Consulting
Making The Translation: Critical Web App Design Deliverables
D. Keith Robinson, Blue Flavor
Making Apps that Work for Everyone: Accessibility Beyond Compliance
Derek Featherstone, Further Ahead
Doing It All Over Again: Taking the Netflix Experience to a New Level
Sean Kane, GetListed
Read the Day2: What Makes a Great Design? and Day3: Implementing Web Apps descriptions.
EXPERT SPEAKERS
The premier leaders in web application design share their best practices and principles.
- Andrew DeVigal, The New York Times
- Derek Featherstone, Further Ahead
- Kim Goodwin, Cooper
- Sean Kane, GetListed
- Jeremy Keith, Clearleft
- Jason Fried, 37signals
- Steve Mulder, Molecular
- Hagan Rivers, Two Rivers Consulting
- D. Keith Robinson, Blue Flavor
- Leisa Reichelt, disambiguity.com
- Bill Scott, Netflix
- Jared Spool, User Interface Engineering
- Luke Wroblewski, Yahoo!
- Indi Young
Read all of the Speaker Biographies.