World-renowned for its buzzing nightlife, dazzling ice sculptures, and exotic street fair*, now the City of Perth can add one more line to its list of solid attractions – The Edge of the Web conference.
Take a couple of hundred international geeks, add several dozen speakers, re-searchers and web enthusiasts, sprinkle with a handful of professionals trying to figure out “what that Twitter thing is good for”, wrap the whole thing with impeccable organisation and you get a world-class conference with a good grip on tomorrow’s web landscape.
Out of the 20 or so talks on the agenda, I picked six according to my tastes and thirst for knowledge. Most of these talks were highly valuable. I have highlighted two of my favorites for your viewing pleasure 🙂
Ruth Ellison on “Guerrilla user & design research: Undertaking Research on a Shoestring”
View more documents from Ruth Ellison.
Matt Balara on “Flogging Design – Daily Disasters & Best Practice in Online Shop Design”
View more documents from Matt Balara.
I also recommend Pascal Klein’s presentation on “Beautiful Web Typography” and Judd Exley on “Optimise Everything”.
If you want to experience the buzz generated by the conference I suggest you look at the twitter feed (#eotw09) and Flickr photo-stream.
Now if you feel like you’ve been missing out on something, wait no longer and lock some time in your Agenda for Edge of the Web 2010 🙂
* Some or all of the facts cited here might actually be erroneous and/or fiction based 😉