Making Multi-user Life-like

Speaker: Phillip Kerman
9:00 am – 10:15 am

How can you take what makes good multi-user experiences and use it to create living Web sites? In this session you'll learn the typical challenges inherent in building multi-user applications and see successful solutions in action. You'll find that it's possible to embrace latency, avoid "grieving situations," and that AI might be more than just a bad movie. This presentation focuses on three games released globally through MSN Games and also includes technical concepts applicable to any multiuser environment. Additionally you can apply these lessons to give your traditional Web applications a more human feel.

Crucial Conversations: The Art and Science of Conversation in Social Media

Speakers: Erica O'Grady, Kelsey Ruger
9:00 am – 11:45 am

So you'd like to incorporate Social Media into your company or organization, but you don't know where to start? Or maybe your current company is hesitant about adopting Social Media, and you'd like to find a way to start the conversation. Or perhaps your company is already starting to use Social Media, and you'd like to craft a Company Policy that protects company interests while still allowing you to take advantage of all the benefits of community based marketing?

This Intensive 3.5-hour workshop will cover everything you need to know about adopting a Social Media Strategy that's right for your corporation.

JavaScript for Designers

Speaker: David McFarland
9:00 am – 11:45 am

If you're a designer who wants to add interactivity and improve the usability of your site, JavaScript is the answer. This powerful scripting language lets you create dynamic navigation menus, improve the usability of forms, and add stunning visual effects to Web pages. Unfortunately, JavaScript can be intimidating--it's not like HTML or CSS--and many designers don't have time to tackle the steep learning curve required to master JavaScript. In this session, you'll learn how current JavaScript libraries can simplify JavaScript programming and let you quickly enhance your Web site's presentation. In particular, you'll learn how the jQuery library--a small, fast and powerful collection of JavaScript--can make programming simple, fun and rewarding. This intensive 3.5 hour workshop will show you how to:

• improve typography with JavaScript
• add drop-down navigation menus
• quickly format data tables and make them interactive
• build visually stunning image galleries and slide shows
• make Web forms more usable

The Control Freak's Guide to Design for the Web

Speaker: Tyler Sticka
9:00 am – 11:45 am

Want to narrow the distance between a compelling mock-up and a realized Web presence? Tired of compromising your vision to combat unforeseen challenges in layout, type, color, graphics and more? Wish your designs remained consistent browser-to-browser?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, you may be a control freak--and we can help. Join Tyler Sticka for an intensive 3.5-hour workshop celebrating the journey to pixel-perfection. You'll learn practices and tricks you can apply to your work immediately for consistency in your design and development processes, including:

• Setting up the perfect mock-up
• The essentials of color
• Controlling typography with CSS and dynamic Flash type
• Graphics, backgrounds and alpha-transparency
• Multi-column and complex layouts
• Cross-browser and cross-platform consistency

Blogging For A Living: Taking Your Skills To The Next Level

Speaker: Jim Turner
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Blogging has been a new phenomena and companies and businesses are now looking to make this a part of their marketing, advertising and public relations plans. Bloggers are now taking their newly learned skills and translating that into a career. The skills of a blogger, like basic knowledge of blog design and development, analytics, copywriting and other facets are making it possible to earn a living as a professional blogger.

The Importance of Emotional Connections in Interactive Design

Speaker: Dan LaCivita
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Visitors, users and audiences. Regardless of what we call them, as interactive designers we need to look at ways to connect with the people who experience the work and discover how to create an emotional connection. We will look at existing campaigns that use emotion successfully and uncover why it makes a campaign that much stronger. What are the interactive concepts and design elements that help to create these connections and what are the challenges faced in the context of the devices, from computers and televisions to iPhones and the small, small screen? We will also discuss action and interaction through smart design (building off visual concepts even used in theatre), analyze negative and positive affecters and learn how visual elements can cause surprise when put out of context.

Best Practices for Permission-Based Email Communication

Speaker: Mark Wyner
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Permission-based email communication is not email marketing. But in a virtual world riddled with spam, the gray area between the two is quite large. Mark will help draw a line which narrows that gray area with some best practices to effectively communicate to subscribers. He will cover topics such as deployment frequency/timing, appropriate headers, subscription forms, formats/construct, content preparation and list maintenance. While some technical topics will be covered, the presentation will primarily encompass high-level information appropriate for anyone with a subscriber-based email list.

Green Tech

Speakers: John Beaston, Sarah Rich, Alexis Madrigal
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Join us for this engaging discussion on environmentally sustainable practices, trends and possibilities for Internet-based businesses. Find out what you can do to make your business or professional practice more environmentally responsible and attract the growing number of sustainability-focused clients. Explore new technologies that demonstrate a low impact to the environment, and learn how to specify sustainable practices when selecting your own vendors and service providers.

The Experience Economy and Hybrid Desktop-Internet Applications

Speaker: Kevin Hoyt
10:30 am – 11:45 am

The Internet has become a vital part of everyday life. The web has changed everything - sometimes for the better, sometimes for the worse. Over the past several years there has been an increasing focus on the richness of web applications, with terms such as Rich Internet Applications (RIA) now becoming commonplace. But have you ever stopped to think about why? Have you thought about what it means to your skill set? Your business? And what comes next?

This session will explore the economic and technology drivers behind Rich Internet Applications, and seek to put a definition around the term "rich". Along the way, consideration will be given to today's competitive landscape to include examples of how ignoring interaction design can negatively impact revenue. Finally, we'll examine what the convergence of the web and the desktop might mean to the future of RIA development, and how you can take your skills there now using Adobe AIR.

Designing for Video Game Marketing

Speaker: Andi Rusu
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Every industry has its own challenges and rewards. Designing for the video game industry is no different. Incorporating game narrative, gameplay simulations, look and feel, and specific marketing messaging is both a design and programming challenge.

This session will cover the challenges, opportunities and specific workflows associated with designing high-bandwidth, high-traffic, high-interactivity Web sites. Specific examples include Web sites for Halo 2, Jade Empire, Flight Simulator, Age of Empires, Bungie, Rise of Legends and more.

Hacking the Enterprise with Social Media

Speaker: DL Byron
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Byron will discuss how the enterprise is being hacked by blogs, wikis, Google apps, and anyone with a few bits of Web 2.0 code. He'll tell you all about working for "the Man," how Big Business is being revolutionized, and why you need to pay attention or watch your business die a slow painful death surrounded by traditional MarComm homies.

Social Media: Strategies for Creatives

Speakers: DL Byron, Kelsey Ruger, Erica O'Grady, Jim Turner
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Everyday it seems a new platform emerges (usually without vowels and ending in "r") that offers you some new thing to do with Social Media. This panel will offer a straight-up discussion of social media strategies for creatives: what works, doesn't, and how we use it for ourselves and our clients. The panel will also consider how terribly branded most platforms are, and whether or not tweeting about the lint under your couch is any better than blogging about it.

Responsible Web Design

Speaker: Scott Fegette
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Web design methodologies are constantly evolving, but the larger patterns they generate are undeniable. In this session, we'll take a step back and explore the current state of Web standards, best practices and workflows, and how you can bring them to bear in your own projects.

Progressive Enhancement with JavaScript and CSS

Speaker: Aaron Gustafson
1:15 pm – 4:00 pm

In this workshop, Aaron Gustafson covers the current best practice in Web standards development: progressive enhancement. Staring with an introduction to the topic, Aaron will walk you through the best ways to apply style and behavior to your pages, all the while providing concrete examples and implementations that you can start using right away.

After this session you will be able to:

• manage browsers (and their differing CSS and JS implementations) effectively
• determine what content is best delivered explicitly in XHTML and what's best left to CSS
• identify obtrusive scripting and right its many wrongs
• reduce your scripts' markup dependencies
• create scripted interactions which layer perfectly on top of traditional ones
• build scripts which enable themselves and their associated styles only when they run properly

Type Class

Speaker: Roger Black
1:15 pm – 4:00 pm

How to work with type on the Web from three points of view:

Design. (How do you adapt the history of type in print to the screen? What fonts are available? How do you get better type choices? How can you exploit the typographical layout variables in Web design?) Context. (How do user's feelings about type affect your choices? Is it worth using serif fonts? How are conventions driving web page design?) Technology. (What can you do while waiting for higher-resolution screens? What will the next generation of browsers do for you? Is Flash good for type? Is it worth getting users to download a font? What about ClearType?)

The goal of this session is for designers, developers and editors, to know how type can work better on the Web, and what to expect in the next way of browsers and RIA (Rich Internet Application) clients.

RSS: Bleeding Edge Tips and Tricks

Speaker: Marshall Kirkpatrick
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

This session will focus on advanced uses of RSS syndication for gathering competitive and market intelligence. We'll discuss how to filter and prioritize feeds and how to create feeds from sources that don't offer them.  Put these advanced tools to use and you'll be known as the person in your field who knows the most - the fastest.

Design is in the Details

Speakers: Bryan Veloso, Dan Rubin
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Sometimes the smallest things make the largest impact. Many times, what separates a great design from a good design is the attention to the smallest details. Dan and Bryan will take you through many of the techniques they put to use, teach you how to think about the details, and show you how to add extra polish that will set your design apart from the rest.

Overcoming Death by PowerPoint

Speaker: Dave Yewman
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

It's often called Death by PowerPoint. It's also known as Show Up and Throw Up. You know who they are; slide slaves who can't speak without a cascade of bullet-ridden, text-heavy, animated PowerPoint slides. It's not pretty, but it is preventable. Dave Yewman is a presentation coach who cringes at the sight of CEOs and senior executives trying to deliver good presentations based on bad slides. This session will offer five easy tips for preventing "Death by PowerPoint" and more importantly it will help everyone get to the point and deliver a clear, concise, compelling message - with or without slides.

Inching from Mediawiki to Rails on a High Traffic Site

Speakers: Brandon CS Sanders, Stephen Judkins
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

AboutUs.org used Mediawiki to build an 11 million-page site that attracted five million unique visitors a month. However, at this scale, Mediawiki offers little opportunity to innovate beyond the services made famous by the top-ten site, Wikipedia.

AboutUs.org has incrementally extended Mediawiki with a Ruby-on-Rails based capability code named Compost. The ecologically sensitive will recognize that composting is a process that makes fertile soil out of plant scraps.

In this talk we present the sequence of transitions we employed over a year and a half, culminating this month with our elevation of Compost to front and center with Mediawiki as an add-on to it. At each step, we consider the technical, organizational, operational and entrepreneurial consequence of our decisions.

Drupal: This Aint Your Father's CMS

Speaker: Sean Larkin
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Drupal is arguably the world's leading open source content management system. However, Drupal is much more than a CMS. In the last few years, Drupal has become one of the most popular and powerful rapid application development frameworks around. Its core architecture is elegant and highly-flexible. Plus, with an incredibly diverse development community, it has already been extended with close to 3,000 contributed modules and tools.

This session will introduce graphic designers with Drupal's powerful mash-up tools and key contributed modules. Our goal will be to help graphic designers with limited programming skills to install and configure key Drupal features, and then to get started creating custom Drupal themes.

User Experience Best Practices

Speaker: Nick Finck
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Nick will explore the best practices of user experience by reviewing some of the most popular and highly trafficked websites today such as eBay, Amazon, Toyota, Flickr, Twitter, Netflix and more.  Nick will identify and explain both good an bad experiences on these sites on the merits of visual design, information architecture, interaction, and ease of use.  If there is time we will open the floor for audience submissions and to provide quick feedback and areas of improvement.

Avoid the Venture Capital Trap: Fund Your Own Business

Speaker: Matt Haughey
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

The Pros and Cons of taking funding while building your online business will be covered, with an emphasis on going the self-funded route. Strategies and ideas will be shared for building efficient, sustainable businesses and dealing with growth. Focus will be on creating a long-term business instead of "building to flip" to the highest bidder.

Total Recall: Complementing Information Architecture with Instructional Design for Memorable Web Experiences

Speakers: James Keller, Sean Cowne
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

This presentation will explore the similarities and differences of effective information architecture and instructional design and will demonstrate how instructional design complements information architecture to create more thought provoking and memorable user experiences.

Traditionally, IA focuses on guiding a user's experience online, whereas ID's primary goal is to get a user to take action offline. Instructional Design principles focus on knowledge retention, which is critical in sites that serve the purpose of brand awareness, experiential marketing, complex product marketing, or supporting extended sales cycles. Learn practical tips, tricks and fundamentals that will help your site visitors take their web experiences with them when they log off.

Is Print Dead? How Digital Media is Changing the Face of Publishing

Speaker: Lynne d Johnson (FastCompany.com)
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Mobile phone. Audiobook. Ereader. Social Media. Widget.  What do these all have in common? Each of these forms of digital media, and the rate of consumer adoption of them, are rapidly changing the way publishers do business. Print isn't yet dead, but it's definitely in need of a transplant. This presentation explores successful convergence strategies for print media -- the stuff that can get it back on track -- while also glancing into the future of what publishing could ultimately become

Data Portability, Privacy and Identity: Welcome to the Open Web

Speaker: Scott Kveton
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Over the last few years we've seen a proliferation of technologies that are effectively opening up the Web in ways we never thought possible. The next few years will see new tools and means to share, control and manage all of the pieces of your digital identity. Why should you care about this? This isn't just a geek solution. The privacy and policy ramifications are huge (and oddly enough hugely boring) but the things you'll be able to build in the coming years will eclipse anything we could even imagine today. Come learn about the trends with these technologies, get a basic primer on what you need to know and explore the future possibilities.

Going Fast on the Slow Mobile Web

Speaker: Jason Grigsby
9:00 am – 10:15 am

There are 3.3 billion mobile devices in the world—that is one for half the world's population. The number of mobile devices vastly out-numbers the number of computers, televisions and automobiles. With the release of the iPhone and Google's Android mobile operating system, adoption of the mobile Web is taking off.

Building content for mobile devices is very different than what most Web developers are accustomed to. Aside from the obvious differences of screen size and location, mobile devices are also connected at lower speeds, have slower processors, and less memory than desktop machines.

During this session, you will get an overview of developing for the constraints of mobile devices. In particular, you will learn how to ensure that your content loads as quickly as possible on mobile devices. Finally, you'll get practical resources and lessons that you can use immediately when building mobile sites. Geared towards Web developers who know (x)html and are thinking about developing for mobile devices. Assumes some technical background, but doesn't require an engineering or programming background. Advanced developers will likely learn something about the particular requirements of mobile devices for speed.

Tagging: Emerging Trends and Techniques

Speaker: Gene Smith
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Tagging has been the subject of much discussion over the last several years, including presentations at WebVisions ‘06. But recent trends show that tagging is evolving quickly, and that today's conventional wisdom might not be accurate for long. This session will explore five counterintuitive tagging trends that provide a glimpse into the next generation of user-generated classification.

Faster, Cheaper, Better

Speaker: David Verba
9:00 am – 10:15 am

The costs of building applications, particularly Web applications, have been decreasing dramatically. It takes fewer people spending less time and less money to build applications today that rival those of five or ten years ago. This shift has changed who's building applications today and who can build applications tomorrow. The impact has also started to spread beyond those building Web2.0 applications, and is starting to make inroads into larger, more traditional corporations. David will cover what developments underly this evolution, what challenges remain, and the significant impacts we'll see in the coming years.

Visual & Creative Thinking – How to Give Your Company the Competitive Edge

Speakers: Erica O'Grady, Kelsey Ruger
9:00 am – 10:15 am

Explore the power of Passion, Imagination, Creativity, Exploration, and Experimentation in your Organization. Visual thinking is the hallmark of creativity, and visual learners usually gravitate towards creative professions like art, design, architecture, computer programming, graphics, animation, and physics. But understanding the power of Visual and Creative Thinking can have huge impacts on your company's ability to innovate, effectively communicate with customers and remain competitive in a swiftly changing world.

Open Source

Speakers: Deborah Bryant, Ward Cunningham, Brian Jamison, Josh Bancroft
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Why is open source good for open content? Would the blogosphere ever have succeeded if large software companies had developed it? Is creating content in an organizational environment an oxymoron or are we at the tipping point for a growth in business communications?

The Future of Web Design: Why Your CEO Should Care

Speaker: Kerry Bodine
10:30 am – 11:45 am

With more access to information, more sensitivity to price, and less sensitivity to advertising, customers are getting harder to win and keep.

Many firms still struggle to create robust, internal Web design teams. No wonder: It's tough to make the case for additional headcount, but in today's job market it's even tougher to find experienced Web talent. To make things even harder, the Web is undergoing a period of rapid change: Social applications and rich media have become mainstream site elements, mobile is quickly gaining traction, and consumers are increasingly expecting sites to be updated on a minute-by-minute basis.

And consumers change rapidly too. Shopping is only an occasional activity; receiving photos via email is the fastest-growing activity; instant messaging use is growing only among younger consumers; and PC time has surpassed TV time, even among Gen-Xers.

Online leaders understand the power of the Web to affect companywide business objectives—from increased sales to lower customer service costs, but only a handful of companies have truly utilized the Web for customer experience strategies to disrupt the status quo in their industries. Find out who's done it—and how.

So You Want to Run a Startup

Speaker: Rashmi Sinha
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Ten lessons from running a social Web site.Rashmi will talk about her experiences building and running SlideShare. Including the launch and how to prepare for your own. When to pay attention to the community, when not to. How to live and die by metrics. And how to deal with scaling issues - not about scaling the backend, but the design, the community, the team. This talk should be useful for anyone thinking of building products and working in a startup atmosphere.

The Language of Interaction

Speaker: Bill DeRouchey
10:30 am – 11:45 am

We are interacting with technology in an exploding number of forms. "Traditional" computers, cell phones, pocket PDAs, game systems, gesture-based input, store kiosks and checkouts, and much more. How do people learn new technology? By subconsciously learning the language of interaction and applying that language when learning something new.

Our industry is creating and curating a new language, the language of interaction. During this time of incredible technology flux, we are developing the next standards for how to communicate with technology. Basic words survive in language for centuries. Are we extending this language for the next centuries?

Words, icons, hierarchies, colors, motion, gestures and more all comprise the language of interaction. This session will survey everyday objects out there now to spot patterns and trends in what people are learning from devices and products. Let's train our eyes to see what consumers see, so we can adopt the useful elements, avoid the bad elements, and create a language that makes our products engaging and joyful to our consumers.

CSS Transformation

Speaker: Christopher Schmitt
10:30 am – 11:45 am

Every designer is familiar with the common applications of CSS, like image rollovers and layouts, but now move into the uncommon with this unique demonstration. Award-winning author and Web professional Christopher Schmitt presents an imaginative use of CSS that includes CSS positioning, image replacement and more.

From Idea to Implementation and Beyond: Getting Started with Rails

Speaker: Jim Meyer
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Rails is undeniably the fastest path from idea to implementation for Web applications, all the more so due to its increasing accessibility to even the most neophyte programmers. Its agile style and iterative nature encourage you to start early and learn as you go. In this survey of the Rails framework, we'll cover the essentials of writing your first app, discuss Rails' opinionated nature, and where you'll find a few of the sharp corners worth avoiding.

Star Wars Kid Is Your New Bicycle: The Changing Lives of Memes

Speaker: Andy Baio
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

How do ideas spread online, and how has that changed in five years? Using hard data from primary sources, we'll dissect some insanely popular fads to see how (and why) memes go viral.

The Web is Dead

Speaker: Roger Black
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Some HTML nativists cringe, but online media is moving beyond the Web. YouTube is the best example, but now there are rich-media clients for digital magazines, newspapers and television that offer a better narrative experience. This session looks at some of the examples and explores some of the possibilities of online media for users, producers and advertisers.

Tap is the New Click

Speaker: Dan Saffer
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Even though the technology has been around for decades, only now are we starting to see mass production and adoption of touch screen and gestural devices for the public. Jeff Han's influential 2006 TED demonstration of his multi-touch system, followed by the launches of Nintendo's Wii, Apple's iPhone, and Microsoft Surface, have announced a new era of interaction design, one where gestures in space and touches on a screen will be as prominent as pointing and clicking.

But how do you create products for this new paradigm? While most of us know how to design desktop and Web applications, what do you need to know to design for interactive gestures? This introduction to designing gestural interfaces will cover the basics: usability and ergonomics; a brief history of the technology; some elemental patterns of use; prototyping and documenting; and how to communicate so that a gestural interface is present to users.

Networking Things: How the Internet is Redefining Environmentalism

Speaker: Alexis Madrigal
1:15 pm – 2:30 pm

Green tech venture fundings are going to surpass Internet fundings this year, but you don't need a new skill set yet. The next big investment trend will bring together networks and stuff, using the former to make better use of the latter. Americans need to consume less energy, but the rhetoric of conservation hasn't stopped a steady rise in power usage. Networking the technologies that make and use electricity can reshape human behavior. Even better, developing new technologies can eliminate the need for older, dirtier ways of getting what you want.

Instead of looking at how to get off-the-grid, Alexis will look at how to plug-in better. We'll explore hacking the power grid, and the grid being hacked, new gadgets that incorporate sustainable thinking, DIY power sources, iHitchhiking embedded in Facebook, the necessity of urban ecology, the footprints of networks, and pervasive wireless sensors that will turn the physical world into data and let us see real cities like SimCities.

Web Site Optimization in Seven Easy Steps

Speaker: Kimberly Blessing
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Think optimization is only for the big sites out there? Whether your site is small, mid-sized, or enterprise-scale, you (and your users!) can benefit from server tuning and code honing. And it's really not that difficult! In this presentation you'll learn seven easy steps that you can take today—no special software or skills needed—to speed up your website. Along the way you'll learn a bit about browsers, protocols, and how the big guns sometimes circumvent standards to get results.

A River Runs Through the Digital Divide: Women Using Global Communications Technology to Shift the Balance of Power

Speaker: Jensine Larsen
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Could women with cell phones be the earth's greatest engine for global development? Women, powerful agents of change, are rapidly rising to leadership positions worldwide and connecting to interactive communications technology as never before. Even in remote and impoverished villages from Iran to Kenya, women are using cell phones and laptops to rapidly access health care, market information, micro-loans, document crimes, and to build influential movements. In this talk Ms. Larsen will unveil the startling truth and promise for the global communications revolution.

Designing Social Media: Interface Tricks and Tips

Speaker: Christina Wodtke
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Social Web sites have unique design needs. The design must invite participation and connecting, yet the participants themselves determine the ultimate shape of the site. This session illuminates critical design decisions that help a community thrive. Learn about the building blocks of social software, and which ones are most relevant to your business. Learn how to promote desired behaviors with interface design, and who's doing it right. Learn when to apply familiar designs (such as with logging in or adding a friend) and when to strike out into entirely new territory.

We'll answers questions like:

• What are avatars, and why should you show them?
• When do you let your users be anonymous?
• Blogging, wikis and message boards: what's appropriate for your site?
• Do you need a social network?
• Spam and trolls: how do you keep the neighborhood clean?

Convergence 2.0: The Seamless User Experience

Speaker: Tjeerd Hoek
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Media convergence connects the worlds of telecoms, Internet, and computing, including fixed-mobile convergence, voice-and data convergence, and—most importantly—three-screen-convergence. Messaging convergence integrates email, chat, video-conferencing, and other messaging tools. And then there is device convergence, in which everything from a laptop to a mobile phone to a television to a game console has become, arguably, the same kind of device: each consists of a microprocessor, a screen, some storage, an input device, and a network connection. You can make phone calls on your laptop, play games on your mobile phone, and watch videos on your game console.

Finally, there is the convergence of the user experience, which Norbert Bolz approaches from a philosophical, design-thinking angle: "Shaping the interface between telecommunications, new media, and computer technologies is the most important task of the future. There is a computer in an increasing number of things around us. And an increasing number of things that surround us are the products of design." This gradual convergence of things with Internet and the Internet of things poses a daunting challenge for designers: Ubiquitous computing requires ubiquitous design.

What You Need to Know About IE8 and Standards

Speaker: Aaron Gustafson
2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Internet Explorer 8 features a completely rewritten rendering engine authored to the CSS 2.1 spec. It also features an updated scripting engine, meaning better adherence to those standards as well. In this session, Aaron Gustafson will talk about IE8's new standards mode, what the browser is capable of doing, and what it means for the future of the Web.

Overcoming Chaos: Designing the Future Web

Speaker: Jeffrey Veen ()
4:15 pm – 5:30 pm

Designing for the Web of today - and tomorrow - requires an increasingly diverse set of skills: grappling with complex data, crafting rich interactions, and understanding the sometimes messy goals, fears, and social lives of your audience. This presentation digs into what it takes to successfully create compelling and comfortable user experiences.