Archive for the ‘Conferences’ Category

Attending the Independent Hotel Show in Olympia brought about the chance to meet the crème de la crop in the world of UK hospitality, both hotel owners from across the country as well as some of the most luxurious suppliers to the industry. Throughout the two-day show hospitality experts gave insightful talks, including Alistair MacGregor: [...]

The week before last I attended the Port80 Web Design Conference in Newport, organised by ex-Wired Media employee Joel Hughes who was so keen to have a web design conference in South Wales that he went out and organised it himself. It was a great event, the quality of the content was excellent, with topics stretching from responsive web design to [...]

Future of web apps was a conference held in London last week, focusing on all the latest and greatest developments in the web industry. We were there, here’s some of our thoughts. It was great to see the demo of the Atlas/Cappuccino tools by 280North. They appear to be an excellent platform for building rich, [...]

Paul Boag made an interesting argument when speaking about ‘the battlefield of design: designers vs clients’ at this years Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference. The key points covered were much alike those of which I’ve learnt throughout my studies at the University of the West of England (UWE) prior to my placement at Wired [...]

An interesting quote from Elliot Jay Stocks at the Future of Web Design (FOWD) conference in Bristol this year. Constantly as designers we’re faced with an array of compatibility based concerns that cause us to reduce the design quality or usability of an application purely for the increased accessibility derived from it. But why should [...]