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Here are my slides from the presentation I did last Thursday at VanUE. I plan on writing a post to sum it up on Monday, but I thought I would get the slides up now.

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Just wanted to give a quick heads up that I will be speaking at the VanUE event this Thursday night. My talk is entitled Mobile Web: The Expectation of Experience.

Here is the abstract:

Almost half of the global population in 2009 is expected to have mobile phones, of which 90% of them will have web browsers built right into them. The landscape for consumption of websites and media is changing at a rapid pace and as user experience professionals we need to provide appropriate advice to create engaging mobile experiences for our clients.

This talk explores how the user’s expectations of the mobile web is based directly on their desktop web usage. Examining the mobile strategy for two major web properties, key aspects of an effective mobile web strategy will be discussed.

There will be three other presentations as well that night, check out the details at www.vanue.com.

Hope to see you there.

Last week marked the end of my stint in the Interactive Design faculty at Capilano College. The past 2 years have been an amazing experience, coloured with education and personal growth. The faculty continually pushed me to produce better and better work, and I thank them for that.

Although the program has it's problems, it does allow for an open education where students can choose to be the leaders of their future and enforces the necessity of self education within this industry. This point was re-iterated by Dave Robertson in his keynote speech at the Grad Show this past week where he shared his views on continual education.

This point in time marks an end of formal education in my life (for now) and a new beginning in the industry (although I have been working in the design world for the past 5 years) at Analytic Design Group. I would like to thank everybody who helped me at Cap these past two years and say good luck to all of my fellow graduates. Keep in touch.

Well, it was finally time. A new design is born. There is plenty of cool stuff in this new design as well as an entirely new section called Library which will keep track of all the reading that I do. While there are still some kinks to work out in the style sheets, on a whole, I really like the direction that the site took. I think that it incorporates both my design and analytic sides better than the previous design.

I hope to continually evolve the design and typography throughout the site as the content continues to grow.

So, what do you think? Do you like it?

Bill Scott of Yahoo! posted a short article about how he uses an "Interaction Matrix" to document rich interactions. I really like this approach because of how it explicitly details out each actor and state within the interaction.

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