Sessions
@media is all about web design best practices, and is well known for informative, inspiring, educational sessions. Covering areas such as design, usability, CSS, and JavaScript, the in-depth presentations will explain how to improve your web sites with the latest cutting-edge techniques.
- Beyond Ajax
- The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
- Bulletproof Ajax
- Designing for Communication
- Designing for International Users: Practical Tips
- Dynamic Interfaces
- Hot Topics Panel
- Interface Design Juggling
- Microformats, Building Blocks, and You
- The Mysteries of JavaScript-Fu
- Royale with Cheese
- When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem
Beyond Ajax
Having trouble separating hype from reality? Where is the Web really headed? In this keynote presentation, Jesse James Garrett looks at the deeper trends driving the latest innovations in Web development and considers the broader implications for the skillsets Web teams will need to invest in to successfully leverage emerging Web techniques and technologies.
Beyond Ajax will be presented by Jesse James Garrett
The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All
The Web was meant to be interoperable, but as every web designer and developer knows, interoperability is the very thing we lack. As we build standards-based, flexible, accessible, well-designed sites, we find it’s the browser that gives us most of our headaches. In this session, you’ll learn to take better control not through hacks and filters, but through an understanding of why browsers work the way they do. You’ll learn the differences in layout engines, see visual models of the DOM and learn about the process of developing a Web browser. Finally, you’ll see how their flaws and features play into our daily work, and how we can all make our lives easier by advocating for better software and implementation.
The Broken World: Solving the Browser Problem Once and For All will be presented by Molly E. Holzschlag
Bulletproof Ajax
Ajax need not be a technological barrier to entry. By implementing Ajax using the principle of progressive enhancement, you can ensure access for everyone. With a little forethought and planning, you can provide a rich Ajax-enhanced experience for the majority of your users, whilst making sure that the minority aren’t left behind.
Bulletproof Ajax will be presented by Jeremy Keith
Designing for Communication
When interfaces transcend pixel and prose to become conduits of communication rather than self-serving forms of artistic expression, the result is a rewarding user experience. In this session, Cameron hopes to exploit design as communication. Discover new ways to blend human computing principles, typography, markup, and visual aesthetics to produce meaningful web interfaces.
Designing for Communication will be presented by Cameron Moll
Designing for International Users: Practical Tips
If you are a designer, developer or author working on a website that may be translated or adapted for users in other countries or languages, you need to ensure that you don’t build in substantial barriers to localization. If you think that the translation vendor or the localization team can take care of things for you when the time comes, you really need to hear this talk. Moving forward from Molly Holzschlag’s popular introduction to internationalization last year, Richard uses examples to examine some of the specific things that must be designed into a site, rather than treated as an afterthought.
Designing for International Users: Practical Tips will be presented by Richard Ishida
Dynamic Interfaces
Just when we thought that the HTML-based Web was destined to become a static library of documents, JavaScript was re-discovered by a new breed of interface designers who recognised its potential to take web page interaction to a new level.
This presentation will take a look at how design is intersecting with client-side scripting to produce some truly innovative interfaces. Interfaces that are not only just fun to play with, but ones that actually help the user to navigate, manipulate, and elevate their Web experience.
Dynamic Interfaces will be presented by Cameron Adams
Hot Topics Panel
A favourite of past @media conferences, the very final session will feature a handful of @media speakers discussing questions posed by conference attendees.
Interface Design Juggling
Keeping all the right pieces in play when designing for the web can be a balancing act. This session will focus on being an independent interface designer in a complex world of endless choices. Learn how streamlined process and smart approaches can make for compelling, adaptable designs with XHTML and CSS. You’ll soon be juggling the following with ease:
- Balanced interface design: what works and what works better.
- Reducing complexity: CSS wireframing, smart typography.
- Embracing microformats: how designers can benefit from semantic markup.
- Self-efficiency: tools and best-practices for independent-minded designers.
Interface Design Juggling will be presented by Dan Cederholm
Microformats, Building Blocks, and You
Taking microformats another step forward, Tantek Çelic, the foremost authority on the subject, will explain how to both use microformats to make your site more indexable, parsable, and reusable, and how to get it built into other services and also how to use microformats to build other sites and services into your site.
Microformats, Building Blocks, and You will be presented by Tantek Çelik
The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu
Your HTML and CSS abilities may well be up to scratch but do you really have the JavaScript powers you need to survive in this modern era of Ajax and Web 2.0? This presentation will introduce a whole raft of advanced but incredibly useful JavaScript tips, tricks and techniques to add to your scripting arsenal. From discussing some of the inner secrets of JavaScript itself, through to libraries and toolkits and on to the secret methods of debugging and testing, you’ll leave with some nifty tricks up your sleeve.
The Mysteries Of JavaScript-Fu will be presented by Dan Webb
Royale With Cheese
When we look around the web at designs from across the globe, what do we see? Do we see a rich diversity of design culture, where different regions bring their own unique flavors to the web? Do we see a multi-cultural melting pot of design influences and inspiration? Or do we see a dull uniformity where design has become increasingly globalized?
Designer Andy Clarke discusses his findings from five months of discussing these issues with web and other visual designers from across the world. He will share his own thoughts about the future of web design might be in an increasingly globalized industry.
Royale With Cheese will be presented by Andy Clarke
When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem
Everyone at this conference will have a working knowledge of Web accessibility. At this point, it would be hard to surprise you with the facts. But that’s just what this session sets out to do. We’ll explore the question of what the Web designer or developer definitely does not have to worry about in making sites accessible - and what the designer or developer should not have to worry about in an ideal world. Get ready for an entertainingly scathing indictment of browsers, screen readers, and so-called authoring tools. In a working environment where we always seem to be given one more thing to worry about, this session will give you a whole set of things to stop worrying about.
When Web Accessibility Is Not Your Problem will be presented by Joe Clark
