31 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Director, UX Strategy, Red Square
Steve Baty joined Red Square in February 1999 and is responsible for Red Square’s eCommerce and user experience strategy. Steve’s work involves the alignment of user experience strategies with the overall business goals of the organisation, balancing brand, marketing, IT, financial, user and competitive forces in the development of a cohesive project …
27 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
User experience, Trade Me
With over 2.5 million unique visitors each month, Trade Me has a large number of users to cater for. Natasha Hall spends her days conducting usability testing, contextual enquiry and ethnographic-based research to identify and solve behavioural oddities and problems.
Natasha has had her hand in the web pie for over 7 years: …
25 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Senior Consultant, Adobe Systems
Senior Consultant with Adobe Systems, Matt Voerman has over twelve years of professional web and rich media development experience. As a long-time Flash Platform evangelist, he has worked with a multitudes of organisations both locally and internationally (specialising mainly in the enterprise finance sector).
Matt has written, or contributed to, numerous books, whitepapers, …
25 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Technical Editor, SitePoint
As a technical editor for SitePoint, Matthew Magain has edited books on topics ranging from Photoshop and Web Usability to CSS, Ruby on Rails and ASP.NET. He is also the organizer for Melbourne’s Web Standards Group, and digs retro cartoon strips, crazy Japanese TV and pints of Kilkenny. He writes about all these …
25 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Director, FurtherAhead
Derek Featherstone is a well known instructor, speaker and developer with expertise in web accessibility consulting.
Derek delivers technical training that is engaging, informative and immediately applicable. A high-quality instructor, he draws on his background as a former high school teacher plus seven years running his web development and accessibility consultancy Further Ahead
His experience …
25 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Manager Usability and Accessibility Services, Monash University
Gian Sampson-Wild has worked in the accessibility industry since 1998 and consulted on the development of the first Level AAA accessible web site in Australia. She ran the accessibility consultancy PurpleTop from 2000 to 2005 and is currently the Manager of Usability and Accessibility Services at Monash University.
Amongst other …
25 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
There have been a few comments recently about the lack of an accessibility expert position on the FullCodePress teams. Have we been ignoring accessibility?
The answer is no, we wanted to surprise the teams…
The FullCodePress judging panel will comprise of two assessibility judges. Gian Sampson-Wild will be accessing the sites with the other judges at the FullCodePress event and Derek Featherstone …
23 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
A subcommittee from Webstock and WIPA have been busily assessing the non-profit organisation registrations. The winning organisations cannot be revealed until Saturday 18 August, when our two teams meet. However, there is one thing we can tell you…
There will now be two non-profit organisation websites built instead of one!
At 9am on 18 August, the teams will each be given a …
16 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Alison Green - Captain’s choice
Ali Green has been designing and building websites for the past 11 years, and still loves her job as much today as she did when she started. She’s worked on over 120 websites - covering all aspects of the web design process, including design, information architecture, scoping, HTML development, image creation and manipulation, …
12 July 2007 | admin | Comments Off
Marla Mitelman - Project manager
Marla got interested in the Web approximately 10 years ago in her native London. When her boss of the time let her loose on the company web site it was an the start of an addiction that’s still going strong today!
With over 9 years commercial experience project managing and producing for the web, …
Gold sponsor: 
Silver sponsor: 
Team sponsor: 
Hosting sponsor: 
Supported by: 
Partner: 
