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This is the weblog of Kit Kemper. It is generally about marketing. Marketing in the sense that pretty much everything you do as a company and more often as a person these days devolves into marketing of some sort or another. It is also about tech in much the same way as it is about marketing, technology touches more of our lives every day and where people, marketing, and technology converge there are some pretty interesting things happening.
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OSCON – When Interface Design Attacks
I have never really given much thought to web design and usability. Not that I don’t think that it is important, I just always thought it was someone else’s job and that if I mimicked what other people had done, it should be right or pretty close to right. I have the feeling that is pretty much the attitude of most programmers (not that I claim to be one of those either). That being said, I had the opportunity to attend Amy Hoy’s session at OSCON entitled ‘When Interface Design Attacks’. I did so because I have known Amy for some time via the PHP Community Project, but have never had the opportunity to meet her in person. I have also thought that she would make an excellent author as she ably combines the skills of a designer and developer.
Surprisingly, this design centric session at a “coder show” drew a standing room only crowd. And Amy, for whom this was her first time attending let alone presenting at OSCON, handled the crowd perfectly. The content was dead-on eliciting numerous follow-up questions and ample note taking. It was a nice mix of Jakob Nielsen-esque by the book usability advice and street smart web design. I could bastardize the presentation by summarizing it here, but you’d be better off visiting the her site and downloading the slides for yourself.
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