Webmaster Jam Session

Friday September 21

• 10:00 AM
  • The Dawning of the Age of Experience - Jared Spool A look at how experience design is changing the Web
• 11:00 AM
  • A Field Guide to Design Inspiration - Rob Weychert Cultivating the lifestyle of a creative mind.
  • Designing for Hackability - Brian Oberkirch Opening your web apps for the public to extend and enhance
• 12:00 PM
  • Lunch -
• 1:00 PM
  • Behind the Curtain: Application Interface Design - Garrett Dimon The bare and fully exposed process of making a new web app.
  • Design Panel - A Common Thread - Bryan Veloso, James Craig, Rob Jones, Dan Rubin Inside the Minds of Top Designers
  • Website Critique - Jared Spool, Darrin Ward, Molly Holzschlag, Jonathan Snook Get one–on–one professional feedback on your Website
• 2:00 PM
  • Design for Developers - Jason Beaird Practical graphic design principles for the non-designer.
  • Measure Twice, Code Once - Rob Jones How to use web statistics and analytics to get better results from your site.
• 3:00 PM
  • Break -
• 3:30 PM
  • Typography: Beyond the Font - Jeff Croft How to produce web typography that doesn’t suck
  • Viewports and Byte-ranges and Bandwidth. Oh my! - James Craig Standards-based, practical tips for developing for the next generation of mobile devices.
  • Inside Information Architecture - Nick Finck, Garrett Dimon, Keith Robinson Get insight on how to organize your content for optimum usability and impact
• 4:30 PM
  • The Broken World - Molly Holzschlag Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
  • Comparison Shopping Engines - John Fallon Get Your Piece of a 54 Billion Dollar Pie
• 5:30 PM
  • Design is in the Details - Bryan Veloso, Dan Rubin Sometimes the smallest things make the largest impact.
  • Kissing Cousins: Classic Design and Web Design - Chris Bernard What we’ve learned and can apply from a history of design
• 9:00 PM
  • Blue Flavor Party - Grab someone interesting, get a drink, pull up a chair and chat

Saturday September 22

• 10:00 AM
  • Web Design Roundtable - Dan Rubin, Jonathan Snook, Molly Holzschlag, Rob Jones, Keith Robinson, Garrett Dimon, James Craig, Nick Finck, Darrin Ward, Bryan Veloso, Chris Bernard, Jeff Croft An Open Q & A with the Industries Top Talent
• 11:00 AM
  • Content Strategy and Web Design - Keith Robinson For many Web professionals content can be the hardest part of the job
  • Search Engine Strategies - Darrin Ward Optimization For Organic Search Traffic
• 12:00 PM
  • Lunch -
• 1:00 PM
  • Psychology of Color - Doris Brown A look into how color affects the way people use our Websites
  • Unlocking Value Through User Experience - Jose Martinez Salmeron, Chris Bernard, Nishant Kothary, Nick Finck Innovation in Software, Products and Services
  • Dirty Little Secrets of Web Design - Molly Holzschlag, Dan Rubin, Jason Beaird, Bryan Veloso Learn the inside tips and tools that separate the good designers from great ones
• 2:00 PM
  • The Contextual Web - Nick Finck On the emerging Internet, context is everything
  • Be an Adobe CS3 Power User - Greg Rewis Accelerate your workflow with tips from an Adobe expert
• 3:00 PM
  • Break -
• 3:30 PM
  • All Systems Go - Stephanie Sullivan Preparing your content for takeoff with CSS
  • Managing Web Design - Michael Lopp Often managing the design process is harder than the design itself
  • What the SEO Services Won’t Tell You - Darrin Ward, John Fallon Learn about the Tricks, and Tools Pros use to Get Better Rank
• 4:30 PM
  • Pile it on with CSS - Jonathan Snook Taking a look at the power and flexibility of positioning techniques
  • Creating the Adaptive Interface - Stephen Anderson Now the conversation gets interesting:
• 5:30 PM
  • Real World Accessibility - Derek Featherstone Get the scoop on creating accessible Websites from one of the world’s top experts.
• 9:00 PM
  • Adobe Closing Party - You’ve learned a lot in the last few days, now it’s time to party!