Remix07 in Zurich – Day 2
The next morning the keynote speech WPF and Silverlight: Creating designs that will Captivate not Intimidate users from Paul Dawson was really impressive. Paul talked about the new thinking of web content. People want to cut out the rubbish content during their web surfing which means that browsing via RSS feeds is getting more and more popular. Using RSS feeds for getting and overview is much more effective and has less “noise” of unwanted content. A nice way to look at this trend I think.
Also thinking about the following questions when starting a project may help to make the right decisions:
- What will people use ?
- What can we build ?
- What can the business support ?
Some interesting links from his talk:
Conchango.com
kayak.com (great search engine for flights)
systemone.at (great search engine: make a sketch to find similar pictures)
The next presentation Killer Digital Reading Experiences was also from Paul Dawson. He showed us new intelligent ways to read information on screens. Text flow and layout is dynamically adapting to the screen size. The New York Times uses this modern form of reading experience already.
The last talk and the second part of yesterdays “Thinking in CSS” was Web Standards and IE7 by Molly Holzschlag.
All in all these two days were very informative and well organized. I am looking forward to the Remix08 …
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