Denise Jacobs

Presentations

Givin' Mad User Experience Love with CSS3

Everyone has their eyes set on the future with CSS3 and rightfully so, as the newer properties allow for ease of implementing coveted visual effects. However, advanced CSS and CSS3 not only adds richness to a site's visual layer, but also can create an experience layer by injecting interactivity.

Even though the CSS3 specification as a whole is still in flux, there are many CSS3 properties you can use today to engage and delight your users, providing not only a visual layer that will initially attract, but then following through with an experience layer that will endear.

It’s Business Time: Gettin’ Down With the Graceful Degradation of CSS3

The passion for CSS3 grows steadily as more designers become smitten with its properties and ease of use.

In this session, we''ll cover the few complications that stand in the way of the seemingly perfect love affair, and then will get down the nitty-gritty of how to execute designs for the present and future while using graceful degradation techniques to respect the browsers of the past.

CSS3 Now!

This hands-on workshop answers the question "Can I use CSS3 Now?" with an emphatic "Yes You Can!" Join the ranks of the people pushing for change and start using the new CSS3 properties and attributes for true website styling power. Yes, there will be a little code bloat. Yes, you have to institute fall-backs for older browsers. But don't let the naysayers dissuade you: the pros far outweigh the cons. You can believe the propaganda: CSS3 rocks! Join the revolution and start using CSS3 now!

Workshop details coming soon!

(Welcome to) The Age of Emotional and Experience Design

In this session, we’ll explore just how far we’ve come since the beginning of the web and how leveraging newer technologies is changing the face of web design towards emotional and experience design, and how the lastest platforms are redefining how we use and experience websites now and in the future. It’s time to examine what we consider a “standard” web user experience and discover ways to transform a really good website from a user interface and experience standpoint into a great one.

We are at a critical nexus point in the history of web design: the web is finally coming of age with respect to increasing sophistication of the structure and presentation of visual information, the standardization of technologies to more easily create and display this information, physical devices that make this information easily accessible, and finally growing social connectivity. The confluence of these factors creates an improved platform and foundation upon which to start designing user interfaces that not only create user affinity by being beautiful, but through increased responsiveness and ease of use, delight as well.

Advanced CSS Troubleshooting FTW

Just when you thought you were out of the CSS learning curve frying pan, you fall straight into the CSS troubleshooting fire.

In this session, we’ll cover some advanced CSS investigative and problem-solving techniques, including tiny tidbits to lay the foundation for clean, informative markup; ways of dealing definitively with the dastardly IE6, proactive coding practices for the “other” browsers’ bugs, problems with the popular float-clearing techniques and ways around them, and creating and using the more esoteric selectors and newer css3 selectors for true targeting power.