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The Web and Beyond Conference, June 8th

Saturday / 20 May 06

The Web and Beyond, 10e SIGCHI conferenceSeveral weeks ago I registered to attend an upcoming conference titled The Web and Beyond at June 8th in the beautiful Tuschinski Theater Amsterdam. The conference will focus on interface design, technology and business consequences in the Web 2.0 world. Not really being the conference type of guy (and thoroughly hating the buzzword “Web 2.0”), I just couldn’t let the opportunity pass.

For the past month, along with fellow student Ron Kok, we’ve been taking part in a project designed by ourselves for our Communication & Multimedia Design major. Inspired by a previous project we’re researching the different interface problems when introducing new, dynamic interaction in a website — specifically, an online booking system for a resort. The results will be implemented in our own version of such a system aiming to introduce a better user experience without sacrificing accessibility.

The Web and Beyond will cover many topics I am really interested in, especially with the way the internet has developed in the past year. Having only been a month at work, the project is already showing how challenging it is to keep the accessibility up to par while still introducing that amazing interaction you had envisioned. Furthermore, our user research makes us question some very simple and well established design patterns in the online booking world. Hopefully the conference will give us new ideas on how to solve some of these problems. If not, the list of confirmed speakers is more than enough already.

If you’re planning to attend The Web and Beyond on the 8th of June, let me know and I’ll make sure we run into each other for a quick drink.

Posted in Design, Technology | 20 Comments

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1Ron posted:

21 May 06, 09:21:38 AM

I'll be there :D And i will bring my digicam with me i think...

Well, they have planned the conference in the middle of our AJAX project! That's great, isn't it :D

2Dave Moyley posted:

23 May 06, 09:12:46 AM

OMG! Its alive!

I've just read a few of the articles at 'ALA' and W3 and the world industry standard for designing pages seems to be changing once again...

3Frances posted:

31 May 06, 08:33:58 AM

That looks really interesting. Do they plan to publish lectures and such online after? I'd love to go!

4Jeroen Mulder posted:

31 May 06, 11:43:38 AM

Frances, I don't know. It doesn't look like they have plans to do so, I am afraid. And yes, you really should come to visit this place sometime soon ;-)

5Ron Kok posted:

31 May 06, 12:09:36 PM

Jeroen, r u taking your digicam with you? My cam is from the 6th of june till i don't know in Greece :( Maybe i'm posting some notes of the conference, but they will be in Dutch i think.. or not... or in multiple languages :D

6Jeroen Mulder posted:

31 May 06, 16:30:21 PM

Ron, not likely. I am not much of a photographer and I hate walking around with the damn thing. Besides, what's there to shoot?

PS: If you ever write "r u" again, I will stab you in the face. ;-)

7Ron Kok posted:

01 June 06, 02:00:54 AM

Well, i thought that "r u" is typically Web 2.0....

8Dom posted:

07 June 06, 12:51:54 PM

Sounds cool Jeroen, make sure u give us an update afterwards :)

9Peter Boersma posted:

10 June 06, 15:22:50 PM

What did you think of my little conference? ;-)

10Jeroen Mulder posted:

10 June 06, 18:15:57 PM

Peter, very, very nice. Enjoyed both Jared Spool's and Steven Pemberton's keynote and sessions a lot. However, in some cases I was expecting things to be a bit different, but I'll do a write-up of my experiences this weekend.

11Lorri M posted:

04 July 06, 08:52:45 AM

As Scott's mom, I am stopping by to tell you that I love the work you did on jarkolicious. I love everything about it...quite refreshing!

12Stephen posted:

09 July 06, 04:27:06 AM

Jeroen - there's *always* something to take photos of ;-)

13Dom posted:

14 July 06, 07:50:25 AM

Yo J

Are you gonna write this up?

Dom

14Groningen posted:

22 August 06, 13:02:37 PM

Is there a report on the meeting on your site....?

15Jeroen Mulder posted:

22 August 06, 15:31:09 PM

Groningen, I'm afraid I haven't followed through with my promise. Things have been too hectic around here. I really need to apolegize about this to you and everyone else. It seems I won't be making any updates until I finish (read: start) on a new site.

The only thing I can find is on Flickr and another, seemingly, extensive write-up by Bram Van Damme.

Is there something special you'd like to know? If so, you're free to e-mail me.

16gs posted:

03 December 06, 10:59:54 AM

"Well, i thought that "r u" is typically Web 2.0...."

That was hilarious :)

17Simon posted:

11 December 06, 11:06:55 AM

Where are you these days?

18Jeroen Mulder posted:

12 December 06, 07:47:06 AM

Still here. Busy. In about two months I hope to start a four month internship as part of my graduation process. I also plan to launch a new project before new year (just need to think of a name).

Give me a message on IM and we'll catch up. :-)

19johnus posted:

24 May 07, 10:06:49 AM

too pitty you couldn't keep this blog updated
I used to browse it once in a while
cheers,

20M. Isik posted:

31 May 07, 02:27:03 AM

Thus mean expectations of the Conference were more. I hope to next Web 3.0 Conference wirds more excitingly. Or how does your that see?

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