Live
Sketchnotes done live - usually at conferences.
IRMS Day Cardiff 2024
Nice mix of speakers - Jody got me very interested in the range of work that Records Managers can get involved in and was fascinating on the wider field of Knowledge and Information Management. Liz Taylor then talked about the her long history in the field of Data Protection with some scars and an an ongoing enthusiasm - again showing the range of things ‘Records work’ gets to cover. Finished off by Paul on Digital Preservation - some sobering ideas, and I think the room was collectively gulping at the scale of things - but it did also feel that slight overwhelm at the scale of the job in hand does seem to come with the territory.
IRMS Conference 2024
The annual conference of the Information and Records Management Society
WHELF Excluded Voices 2022
Single day conference event run by WHELF
Maximising the Use of Microsoft Teams in Regulated Environments
A fast-moving panel session that could by necessity only scratch the surface, but some good thoughts and insights.
Four principles of Retention in Microsoft 365
I haven’t done sketchnotes for a while, not having any real world events to go to, and online can be tricky. The focus of being in an audience and having less distraction really helps me, so I was very glad to be able to attend a great session where I learnt loads. I have bookmarked so many of Joanne’s links and posts, all with the intention of making the time to read/watch them, but this time I pencilled in some time to watch her live. It was a good decision - aside from the super clear slides and delivery Joanne answered lots of useful questions - one thing actually made easier by online.
Synthesising Stories - Teaching Excellence
Sketchnotes from an excellent session with Simon Lancaster, who came all the way to USWfrom UEA - the home of the wonderful Denys Lasdun Building.
UCISA Event - Preparing for the new digital accessibility requirements
Really useful day with experts from across the sector with practical advice and insight in getting to grips with the new Digital Accessibility regulations.
IWMW19 Plenary Talks 11 to 14
The closing session of the conference.
IWMW19 Plenary Talk 4 and Short Talks
No, You Don’t Need a Website!
IWMW19 Plenary Talks 9 and 10
How to train your content- so it doesn’t slow you down…
IWMW19 Plenary Talks 5 and 6
What we Learnt from Rebuilding the University of Derby Website in 10 Months
IWMW19 Plenary Talks 7 and 8
Grassroots & Guerrillas: The Beginnings of a UX Revolution
IWMW19 Plenary Talks 1,2 & 3
The opening session of the conference.
Digifest19 Sketchnotes
I attended day two of JISC’s DigiFest having heard lots of good things about the range of sessions on offer, covering lots of the pressing issues around Teaching and Learning tech. @JoysyJohn from Nesta gave a keynote that raised the issue of skills gaps across lots of economies, even accounting for the massive predicted changes in economies across the world. All very optimistic for learning organisations if they (we) can grasp how to deliver these things, and figure out how to get the ‘non AI’ skills we need. Joysy’s slides were all very interesting and I think the video could easily have been longer and delivered at a more leisurely pace and been great. The slides are available on the DigiFest programme and well worth a look.
ITIL Service Design Training
ITIL Service design training - Lot of notes for 3 days worth of ITIL training.
Power BI Dashboard Design Training
Training in Power BI. Some people seemed fascinated by my notes so here they are.
ITIL Training
Training in ITIL. Lot of notes for 3 days worth of ITIL training.
IWMW18-megan-mcfarlane-mike-mcconnell
One for the people in the audience hungry for detail about good tools to do something that will be increasingly important for Universities as they up their competitive games. It was nice to have a meaty talk with plenty of detail about tools alongside how they are important.
IWMW18-keith-macdonald
Another case study about content. There was a consistent theme emerging of content out of control, lack of expertise across the org added to the very unique needs of such a federated University. Got a big thumbs up from me for the
IWMW18-jenni-taylor
Big finish for the conference with a cracking talk, ending the conference on a nicely evangelistic note. Also loved the way that it wasn’t just an exhortation, but there were examples of Jenni and her team putting their own advice into practice.
IWMW18-ayala-gordon-padma-gillen
Another good exposition of real world work, and the challenges along the way. Even though there are teams doing lots of similar transformation exercises, there’s always unique little things that come out of these. I particularly liked
IWMW18-Panel
Interesting perpectives on this panel. This conference has always been great for having sponsors that are a million miles away from a hard sell, and a few came and gave their advice on how to work with external people. Treating suppliers like people and making some effort to include them in a meaningful way means you actually get more out of the whole relationship. Who knew?
IWMW18-gareth-edwards
I was looking forward to Gareth’s talk based on the topic and the knowledge that he is one of those strange people that don’t seem to get nervous and actively enjoys public speaking. He didn’t disappoint.
IWMW18-dave-musson
This tour around some great content really got me scribbling down things to go and catch up on, steall and try. Dave even managed to make me reconsider my boredom with Campus shots of Buildings. And the advice about Press Releases was very pertinent.
IWMW18-andrew-millar
Andrew’s opening bit about the severe panic attack that he experienced was a great way in to one of the conference highlights. If you saw his talk last year, you’ll understand that Andrew and his team at Dundee have been doing tons of great work, and perhaps this talk showed a little of the personal cost of such demanding work.
IWMW18-chris-scott-jane-van-de-ban
Chris and Jane’s talk about the use of customer journeys at Birbeck was a qualiity case study that I enjoyed mainly because it showed just how layered and hard it is to accurately model people’s behaviours onto a pretty unique organisation. It’s a wonder people manage to work this stuff out and make change happen. Birbeck and Headscape seem to have made a pretty good fist of it.
IWMW18-alison-kerwin
Alison’s talk was a great way to kick off the conference. As a well known and respected leader in multiple Web roles across multiple institutions, her personal insight into the difficulties often come with the territory of making change happen The open admissions that she found presenting hard, introversion challenging and mental health issues hard to talk about really seemed to resonate with the audience.
IWMW17 Tom Wright
Tom’s talk was a showcase of some of the cracking work that students have created on his watch. He was very generous and explained how much progress the students are making when given the opportunity and a bit of support.
IWMW17 Stratos Filalithis
Overview of the thorny issue of creating a collaborative culture. No shortcuts. To get something valuable requires a lot of relationship building.
IWMW17 Christopher Gutteridge
A very different flavour of talk this time. A really interesting and useful explanation of the life academic - getting an insight into why that academic you’ve asked for ‘content’ is taking a while to get back to you was really good.
IWMW17 Paul Boag
One of the handy things about such an experienced speaker is that the slidedeck is usually a great aide memoir, but Paul took that concept to the next level with his UX Culture cards.
IWMW17 Piero Tintori
Despite the slightly linkbait title, Piero managed to cram quite a lot of practical things to try in a short space of time, not going into tons of depth, but a really handy starting g point of things to try.
IWMW17 Micheal Frantzis
Interesting range over ways in which universities can understand Student behaviour better, by thinking a bit more about their experiences at university and what might be best for them as individuals, with some ideas how that might be achieved. Bloom’s sigma 2 problem sounds mysterious, but looks interesting.
IWMW17 Richard Prowse
Rich is always an engaging speaker, and in this session he had plenty to talk about. I’ve seen him describe the journey through content strategy at the University of Bath, and this talk was about the experience of building tools to support that. There was plenty of good reminders that the landscape content is being released into is changing fast, and so they’re trying to build a tool that accommodates that. The standout for me was incorporating user needs into the content creation process, to remind people that there needs to be a reason for the content to exist, and a measure of how successful it is against that goal. I’ve advocated a goal based reminder in CMSes for a while and it’s nice to see it happening - I think we’ll see it more and more.
IWMW17 Ruth Mason, Matthew Castle
This felt similar to the Cardiff talk in explaining a real world problem they faced - A scary security situation caused by lots of sites - and how they are dealing with it. I almost felt they covered too much. There were tantalising things about how the Lean Startup book was influential, how they were rebuilding a live product and the development setup to enable them to ship to product every 2 weeks.
IWMW17 Graham Bird, Jenni Taylor, David Hopkins
Some of the team at Cardiff University presented a roundup on how they’ve tackled the thorny issue of CMA compliance by some wrangling their course information into a Single Source of Truth. It felt like lots of people in the room were at various stages of this with their own peculiar problems of their own setups, but it was interesting to hear a story from the front line. Was tickled by the heartfelt “Get a Project Manager” that someone said.
IWMW17 Gareth Edwards
I was looking forward to Gareth’s talk, despite a pretty dry title, I enjoyed his talk from last year and was expecting good things. I wasn’t disappointed - his lovely slides had plenty of good nuggets to take away as a well as a nice introduction to a way of thinking about information management.
IWMW17 Melanie Read
Melanie’s talk was quite a departure from St Andrews’ since she explained how much restructure and change that the university has undergone, and that she has been tasked with sorting out a pretty big mess.
IWMW17 Carley Hollis
Probably my favourite talk of the whole conference.
IWMW17 Andrew Millar
Andrew talked a bit about the various organisational changes that they’ve undergone that universities are so fond of, and how that process has created opportunities to tackle some pretty fundamental problems.
IWMW17 Bonnie Ferguson
Interesting opening around the particular effect of Brexit on the very European facing University of Kent. The University has taken a conscious decision to continue emphasising it’s commitment to ‘remain European’.
WDC2016 - Ruth John
I’ve seen Ruth talk once before, when she talked about the fiendish sounding shadow DOM. Obviously some kind of mascohist, she attempted live demo of technology and was beset by technical glitches with the in-house projector. Whilst annoying, she pressed on and gave a really interesting introduction to MIDI, focusing on the ‘Digital Interface’ bit of the acronym.
WDC2016 - Nicholas Alpi
I am very much an IT salaryman having been in-house for a *long* time so Nicholas’ talk about his journey to running his own agency wouldn’t seem to be that relevant to me, the talk worked nicely. Talks with a strong narrative thread are always nice to follow, and this had that.
WDC2016 - Lightning Talks
Three very good talks about switching activities, making things and recruiting well.
WDC2016 - Jack Sheppard
Empathy. I liked Jack’s range around psychology and interactions with people, though it did meander a bit for more, which goes with the territory when talking about such an interconnected topic. Not to say I didn’t enjoy it, but perhaps covered TOO much.
WDC2016 - Harry Roberts
Packed with useful and relevant info for work we’re doing in work right now, I really liked the balance of specific tips and broad principles. Lots to take away and work on.
WDC2016 - Dan Edwards
Good reminder that efficiency isn’t the only thing to consider when doing good work.
Creative Mornings Cardiff - Gavin Strange
A cracking way to spend a Saturday morning. The lovely people at Creative Mornings, Cardiff put on another cracking speaker, and the Saturday Morning format was great for me, meaning I could hang around a little after. Gavin Strange’s talk was a whirlwind journey through his work and some of the stories behind it. The joy he has creating such a varied range of cracking work really came across. I scribbled out just a few of the things that had particular resonance for me - not sure that anyone else would find them any use, but Gavin said to share, so I am.
Ben Calvert and Helen Walbey at the USW Support Staff Conference 2016
My first time of attending the Support Staff Conference in the University of South Wales, saw me listen to a talk by Ben Calvert, The Pro Vice-Chancellor for Learning, Teaching and Student Experience. It was a lot more interesting than his rather dry title would lead you to expect.
IWMW16 -Piero Tintori
It’s Time to Get Personal
IWMW16 -Matt Jukes
When your website is a ‘national embarrassment’ the only way is up
IWMW16 -Marieke Guy
Right here; right now: providing the information your students need and your regulator requires
IWMW16 -Mandy Phillips
Working With External Partners
IWMW16 -Rob Van Tol
Managing Change: Leading Horses to Water
IWMW16 -Richard West
100 to 1(ish) – Unifying a Sprawling Web Estate
IWMW16 -Richard Prowse
Building a new university website – an agile content case study
IWMW16 -Martin Hawksey
The google analytics of things
IWMW16 -Gareth Saunders
Establishing Digital at the Heart of the University
IWMW16 -Duncan Stephen
Building a digital team (almost) from scratch
IWMW16 -Chris Scott and Anja Hazebroek
Prototyping the digital university
IWMW16 -Neil Allison
Requirements Are Hypotheses: How Lean UX Can Help You Develop Better Products
IWMW16 Gareth Edwards
Skin Deep: Using Cosmetic Improvement to Drive Real Change
IWMW16 - Claire Gibbons
Leadership 101 – top tips for steering the ship through the seas of change
Port80 2016 Louise Howells Sketchnotes
Louise Howells - Why So Serious?
Port80 2016 James Cryer Sketchnotes
James Cryer - 12 weeks, 600 releases and the One Show - Continuous Delivery with BBC Weather Watchers
Port80 2016 Gavin Evans Sketchnotes
Gavin Evans - Designing accessible web and mobile sites
Port80 2016 Gavin Davies Sketchnotes
Gavin Davies - Using Build Tools
Port80 2016 Fred Heath Sketchnotes
Fred Heath - The uncertainty principle: How to manage fast-moving projects,clients and requirements.
Port80 2016 Ashley Nolan Sketchnotes
Ashley Nolan - Developing for the unknown
Port80 2016 Andy Clarke Sketchnotes
Andy Clarke - Imaginative grid systems
Port80 2016 Helen Clark Sketchnotes
Helen Clark - Designing better websites by including clients and their customers from the start
Bara Brith Open Data Event
Enjoyed getting out and about on a school night to learn some more about open data and really enjoyed the talks with a little networking for good measure.
Niall Lavery and Dan Babington - IWMW15
Some controversial opinons about the extent of treating our users as customers. I suspect that it might be the narcissism of small differences - can’t see anyone not agreeing that people deserve great services and experiences, maybe what we call the people shouldn’t be a banner to rally behind.
Michael Webb - IWMW15
Talking out some new ways that JISC is aiming to support the sector, Michael was especially keen on things as services - not really my area, but it was nice to have some more technical meaty stuff along with the strategising.
Charles Hardy - IWMW15
A bit of an eye opener, this session from Linkedin. The scale of it and the services it’s offering mean that Universities need to have better plans for how to react and maybe even embrace it.
Rob van Tol and Sam Sanders - IWMW15
One great point that resonated from this talk was - ‘stop copying each other’. Guilty as charged, but will try to be better.
Paul Boag - IWMW15
Digital isn’t an end in itself, but a way of reaching the main goal - which is great user experience.
Mike McConnell - IWMW15
Beautifully delivered explanation of Aberdeen’s efforts to be better by raconteur Mike McConnell. Really frank and engaging talk with tons to think about. I’ve a feeling I’ll banging on about this one for a while.
Mark Fendley - IWMW15
The clever people at University of Kent talked about how they very quickly built a tour app.
Claire Gibbons and Mandy Phillips - IWMW15
A ton of things to think about from this long session - hence the pages of notes.
Welcome - IWMW2015
Brian’s welcome to the iwmw15 event, covering some of the key themes and setting the context - especially for lots of new attendees - which is good.
Richard Prowse - IWMW15
Richard always has very tasteful slides, and this was no exception. Luckily, he also had plenty of really interesting substance about how Bath’s content teams work too.
Mandy Phillips - IWMW15
Fascinating talk by Mandy Phillips from Liverpool John Moores, where if anything she undersold just how much the team had managed to achieve. There was a palpable sense of envy when she talked about spending money :-)
Claire Gibbons and Ben Butchart - IWMW15
Really useful session in iBeacons, and similar proximity based sensors. Discovered practical advice on real world problems.
Cable Green - OER15 Keynote
Cable talked about how to move from policy to implementation for Open Education.
Panel Session - OER15
A panel discussion around policy for OER around the world.
Teresa Mackinnon - OER15
Issues in creating and using video resources for language teaching.
Paul Bacsich - OER15
Policy development to support OER in Wales
Nicole Allen - OER15
Open Government Partnership as a platform for advancing Open Education policy
Josie Fraser - OER15 Keynote
Josie Fraser’s keynote was about the reality of making Open Education happen.
Sheila MacNeill - OER15 Keynote
Sheila’s keynote was about ‘Openwashing’ and Open Practitioners.
The Cost of Not Going Open - OER15
The cost of not going open! - public session
Lightning talks - OER15
Two short papers - OER in schools and FE/skills
Lightning Talks - OER15
A short paper and two lightning talks.
Martin Weller - OER15 Keynote
Martin talked about how OER community need to take control of the narrative, to challenge different versions of history around Open.
Process Improvement Training Sketchnotes
Sketchnotes from a ‘Process Improvement Training’ workshop.
Ollie Wells - What has User Experience ever done for us?
Nice examples of product design illustrating user experiences. Also liked the distinction of customer/user experience.
Gavin Davies - Hollywood On Demand
Loved the quote Treat servers like cattle not pets
Craig Marvelly - Gene Simmons and the path to good product design
Working at Bipsync Craig talked us through his process, with some nice ideas and tools including Papertrail, Slack and New Relic
Benjy Stanton - Responsive HTML Email
Benjy gave out some handy links too.
Austin Walters - Finding your web design Niche and Generating Leads there
Enjoyed Austin’s storytelling approach, and the little discussed (for me at least) nitty gritty of the business of web design.
Scott Jenson - The Web is like water
Scott Jenson’s talk was an intriguing introduction to some pretty technical aspects of the ‘Internet of Things’. Scott gave out little hardware beacons to encourage people to vist https://github.com/google/physical-web and get experimenting. Aside from that I also enjoyed his notion of ‘Truck Ideas’ and ‘Road ideas’ illustrated with the story of Malcom Mclean - developer of the shipping container.
Sally Jenkinson - The Web is our responsibility
Sally’s talk reminded us about our responsibilities for what create and the experiences we craft. I’ve managed to make that sound rather dull, but her examples and ideas were far from dull - especially the way the we can keep evolving with the web and push how we make the technology the servant of great experiences.
Robin Christopherson - The Web is turning difficulties into opportunities
I’ve seen Robin talk a few times now, and he never disappoints. Aside from the dextirity with which he uses technology to demonstrate technology - which is hard to do - he also gives a great insight into just how transformative technology can be.
Owen Gregory - The Web is read/write
Owen’s talk was a change of pace with an exploration of the way we write on the web with some observations about styles and their intent. I’ve done him a horrible disservice with my precis, so at least read What screens want by Frank Chimero and watch When we build by Wilson Miner.
Mr Bingo - The Web is taking itself far too seriously
On reflection, a theme seemed to emerge from the whole conference when watching Mr Bingo, which was that of implementing things. It’s not enough to have ideas, but you have to run with them. Mr Bingo does that in spades. Big, Sweary, Delightful spades.
David Hieatt - A Creative Mornings Session
The thing I enjoyed most from the Creative Mornings session from David Hieatt was the obvious enjoyment and stimulation from having ideas, often widly ambitiously, and then running with them. The emphasis on following through on ideas was great.
Brad Frost - The Web is progress
It was a good finish to end with hyper-optimist Brad Frost’s talk sending everyone away with Work Hard. Don’t be an asshole. Share what you have learnt.
Benjamin Hollway - The Web is still young
I think Benjamin Hollway slightly scared everyone over 30 in the audience by being so precocious. He gave a good talk about younger devs and what we can do to help them along. My constructive criticism would be to talk more about himself - the story of coding from age 8 is way more extraordinary than it probably feels to him - I think lots of people would love to hear more about that specifically.
Andy Davies - The Web is too slow, but we can fix that
A really practical talk from Andy with plenty of stuff to go away and do (or ask someone else to do), with really good reasons why you should.
Seb Lee Delisle - The Web is a great big playground
Seb Lee Delisle was a very entertaining and relaxed speaker who likes lasers. He also showcased some fantastic art experiments that were impressive on their own, but made more so by the knowledge of the technical skills and ideas that were involved in their creation.
Phil Hawksworth - The Web is made of links
Phil Hawksworth did a lovely job with a timely reminder of the power of the humble URL. It was good to be reminded that such a simple principle as the hyperlink has been so essential to the medium that we all rely on.
Nathan Ford - The Web is Constant
Nathan Ford did a nice job of reminding us that everything changes - which can be very stressful in an industry that depends so much on keeping up with a fast changing landscape - but also gave some pointers on how we might manage to keep on top of things.
Kier Whitaker - The Web is all consuming
Kier Whitaker set the context for the second half of his talk by doing a lightening quick round of up of his personal history on the web, which had more than a few members of the audience reminiscing about how far we’ve come, and maybe gone backwards in some areas.
Emma Mulqueeny - The Web is in the hands of the 97ers
Emma Mulqueeny was a new name to me, and one of the good things about thi event for me was hearing from new people. Hers was a talk outlining the characteristics of people born after 1997 - (the 97ers of the title) and how the things they’ve grown up with online will shape their and our futures.
Chris Murphy - The Web is knowledge
Chris Murphy’s talk was a great way to start the conference, with some heartening stories of teaching the next generation. I particularly liked the reference to Industrical versus Agricultural models of education by Sir Ken Robinson, though when searching that, I also found an interesting rebuttal to some of his ideas.
Anna Debenham - The Web is everywhere
I was looking forward to seeing Anna speak having enjoyed her Pocket Guide on Style guides,as well her 24ways article on Jekyll. - I wasn’t disappointed - It was an intriguing journey through the weird and wonderful world of console capabilities and controllers. I found it a good wake up call to be better informed about the ways that people consume the things that we build.
Andy Clarke - The Web is a discussion
Something different for Andy Clarke’s session where he recorded an edition of his podcast Unfinished Business talking about Mental Health and Wellbeing in our industry to coincide with Geek Mental Help Week
Helia Phoenix - GovCampCymru 2014
Helia lead a good discussion on web sites and whether they are even needed.
Gareth Morlais - GovCampCymru 2014
Gareth lead a discussion that touched on hyperlocal sites and how to make information easily consumable.
Dafydd Vaughan - GovCampCymru 2014
Dafydd lead a cool session puzzling over whether Wales can and/or should get our own version of GDS
Bill Oates - GovCampCymru 2014
Bill Oates lead a discussion about public toilet provison across Wales that was surprisingly wide ranging.
IWMW2014 Vision Panel
Good question and answer session at the end of the conference.
Martin Morrey - IWMW2014
Who knew that portals were still around?
Hiten Vaghmaria - IWMW2014
Into the nitty gritty of a big project and new approach.
Sharif Salah - IWMW2014
Very clever stuff about actually doing stuff in the cloud.
Ross Ferguson - IWMW2014
Ross’ enjoyable and full talk.
Ranjit Sidhu - IWMW2014
Always great facts and opinions from SID, and didn’t let us down this year either.
Neil Allison - IWMW2014
UX in universities - still a way to go.
Chris Gutteridge - IWMW2014
Enjoyable root around university websites and look at the tools to do it.
Tracy Playle - IWMW2014
So what? as a useful tool.
Paul Boag - IWMW2014
Good call to make changes, and how to do it.
Martin Hawksey - IWMW2014
Clever man doing clever things.
Creative Morning Sketchnotes
It really was a creative morning for me. I arrived a bit early in Cardiff, and since it was a lovely day I took the opportunity to try some sketching. I’m amazed at the Urban sketchers who manage to overcome their shyness to get out and draw, but even for my dodgy little drawings it was fun, and like most things the practice felt good.
Port80 2014 Roy Tomeij Sketchnotes
Roy Tomeij : Make them click.
Port80 2014 Nathan Ford Sketchnotes
Nathan Ford : Mastering the dark art of fluid layout
Port80 2014 Matt Jukes Sketchnotes
Matt Jukes : Lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Port80 2014 Louise Tierney Sketchnotes
Louise Tierney : Put yourself in their shoes!
Port80 2014 Kimberley Tew Sketchnotes
Kimberley Tew : Accessibility for Humans.
Port80 2014 Kevin Evans Sketchnotes
Kevin Evans : These ARE the Droids you’re looking for.
Port80 2014 Denise Jacobs Sketchnotes
Denise R Jacobs : Banish your inner Critic
Port80 2014 Dan Donald Sketchnotes
Dan Donald : Designing Evolution
Port80 Localhost Spring 2014
Interesting evening at localhost in Newport, with talks by @sturobson, @rumyra and @garethstrange - something for everyone.
Syd Lawrence - Who misses playing “Guess Who?”
Syd did a brave thing - trying a fun interactive code game, and I thought it went pretty well even if not quite as well as he’d hoped. Plenty of bravery points for standing up there and doing a good job of keeping things going.
Mark Boulton - The Business of Responsive Design
Mark started his take about with a tail of Mountaineering on the Eiger (and his proposal to his concussed wife!). The point of the story about Andreas Hinterstoißer was left hanging until the end. Mark then talked about his experiences working with CERN to understand their content problems - that of very different audiences for the output from CERN and how to tailor messages for them. He also talked about how working for Al-Jezeera has meant a much deeper understanding of the journalistic process and how stories are constructed has been necessary.
Ling Valentine - When responsive sites work as well as a chocolate iPhone
For Ling and Eddie’s talks I was stuck in the dark seats and so my notes are sparse. Ling made some interesting points about the important of the big buying decisions that people make on her site, and doubted whether a smartphone could ever be a comfortable place for that kind of transaction. I suspect many in the audience disagreed with that, but you’d have to be pretty grumpy not to like Ling’s presentation and gusto. Which is reflected on the site Lings cars
Jon Hicks - Icon Design Process
Long been fan of Jon Hicks lovely icon work and bought the Icon Handbook. This talk was great for getting the tons of information contained in the book. Not quite so sure it worked quite so well as a talk. I’ve heard Jon on podcasts and would have liked him to digress and talk around the subject a little more, like I’m sure he can. Some of the examples of odd icons he gave, showed a glimpse of how entertaining and informative he can be when going ‘off piste’.
Jeremy Keith - The Long Web
I’ve seen Jeremy speak twice before and each time was a wide ranging and interesting snapshot of a topic, so I was expecting more of what had worked well in the past. This felt different - the same overview and context of a wider web was still there but he talked through the redesign and refactoring of The Session. Nicely relating everyday development of a site to the principle of preservation and the future friendly web.
Jeffrey Zeldman - Ten Commandments of Modern Web Design
Jeffrey Zeldman finished the day, and gave a cracking talk that had lots of examples, anecdotes, ideas and suggestions liberally littered throughout. I think he did a great job of sending everyone away all fired up to do great work, but with some specific links to help. A pretty ideal combination to my mind. Because it was such a great talk it makes sketchnoting it pretty easy, and I’ve a feeling that I’ll be flicking back to my notes pretty regularly over the next few months.
Eddie Machado - Crafting your Toolset
Eddie did an interesting roundup of the the techniques he used to create the handheld site. It was notable not only for a very in depth explanation of the process, but also for his honesty when confessing things that he’d done that he wasn’t entirely happy with. Detailing the compromises in that way made it better for me, and talking about them in front of a huge audience must have been daunting.
Brendan Dawes - Carefully Everywhere
Brendan’s talk was a nice change of style with him talking very fluidly about the very fluid and exploratory work that he keeps in his ‘cupboard of experiments’ ready to be used in more commercial work. I especially like the quote from Paul Rand that a designers’ job is
Andrew Clarke - How to call your client an idiot without getting fired
A late substitute to the speaker line up was Andy Clarke, who delivers great presentations, talked about how Responsive Web Design has changed the landscape of how we communicate with clients, and offered some pointers on how we can do this successfully. All delivered without slides, he outlined some of the pitfalls of getting too fixated on design deliverables during the process to the detriment of the atmosphere of the work.
Port80 Summer Localhost 2013 Sketchnotes
I drew some sketchnotes at the Port80 Summer Localhost
IWMW2013 Richard Prowse
His personal journey to content strategy
IWMW2013 Neil Denny
A wide ranging talk about how to get better and be better.
IWMW2013 Dai Griffiths
All about the contradictaory challenges unis face.
IWMW2013 Ranjit Sidhu
Dealing with the shock of the A level results in 2012
IWMW2013 Paul Walk
Developers are people too. Almost.
IWMW2013 Paul Boag
Institutional culture is crippling your web strategy.
IWMW2013 Open Date in the Public Sector
All about open data in the public sector.
IWMW2013 Martin Hamilton
A new take on how to do things - being open by default.
IWMW2013 Jonathan Hassell
Pretty dry talk about Accessibility and the British Standard.
IWMW2013 David Cornforth
Adapting to Responsive Web Design
IWMW2013 Welcome
A welcome to the conference
IWMW2013 Kyriaki Anagnostopoulou
Kyriaki talking all about MOOCs.
IWMW2013 Doug Belshaw
Really enjoyed this talk about open badges.
IWMW2013 Digital Storytelling
Steve and Hannah’s session on digital storytelling.
IWMW2013 Cable Green
Cable Green talking about open education
IWMW2013 Amber Thomas
How web teams and the like can support researchers.
Port80 Sketchnotes - Jack Franklin
Sketchnotes of Talk by Jack Franklin at Port80 conference[/caption]
Port80 Sketchnotes - Sophie Dennis
Sketchnote of Talk by Paul Sophie Dennis at Port80 conference
Port80 Sketchnotes - Paul Robert Lloyd
Sketchnote of Talk by Paul Robert-Lloyd at Port80 conference
Port80 Sketchnotes - Robin Christopherson
Sketchnote of Talk by Robin Christopherson at Port80 conference
Port80 Sketchnotes - Benjy Stanton
Sketchnote of Talk by Benjy Stanton at Port80 conference
Port 80 Sketchnotes - Andy Davies
Sketchnote of Talk by Andy Davies at Port80 conference
Port 80 Sketchnotes - Rachel Shillcock
Sketchnote of Talk by Rachel Shillcock at Port80 conference
Port 80 Sketchnotes - Matt Andrews
Sketchnote of Talk by Matt Andrews at Port80 conference
Handheld 2012 Sketchnotes
I’ve collected the sketchnotes I did at the Handheld 2012 conference. It was a really enjoyable day, even taking into consideration my nerves at breaking my conference speaking cherry.
Port80 Summer Localhost 2012 Sketchnotes
I drew some sketchnotes at the Port80 Summer Localhost
Dawn Ellis - IWMW2012
What Do You Really Want?
Ferdinand von Prondzynski - IWMW2012
Going Online - Do Universities Really Understand the Internet?
Tony Hirst - IWMW2012
Data Visualisation: A Taster
Rob Borley - IWMW2012
Do I Need an App for That?
Helen Sargan - IWMW2012
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: Two Years of Running a Content Management Service
EA Draffan - IWMW2012
Beyond WCAG: Experiences in Implementing BS 8878
Andrew Oakley - IWMW2012
Key Information Set Data
Neil Allison - IWMW2012
Experiences in User Centred Design
Kevin Ashley - IWMW2012
Data and the Web Manager
@media2005 Sketchnotes
Looking back, through some very old things on the site I found some drawings from @meda2005 - my first conference, and as I see now the start of me drawing during talks. This it what I wrote at the time.