Archive: Learn

Personas are a powerful tool for helping you to better understand the needs of your users. In this comic, drawn exclusively for Think Vitamin, you’ll learn more about Personas and how they’ll revolutionize the way you design and build web sites.

Come hear Dan Cederholm, Jason Santa Maria, Joshua Davis, Bill Buxton, Daniel Burka, Elliot Jay Stocks and more speak at The Future of Web Design NYC on Nov 16 – 17th.

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At FOWA London 2009 Bruce Lawson gave an introduction to HTML 5 and how it might be used in the future.

The HTML 5 spec was originally called “Web Applications 1.0″. Most of the attention has been on the new markup elements, but in his talk he takes a further look at the applications side of the spec, covering:

1. Dynamic images and graphs with canvas
2. Eliminating much forms validation with webforms 2.0
3. Local storage automagically saving your data
4. Geolocation
5. Building toolbars and menus.

Editor’s Note: We’ll be covering “How HTML 5 is Going to Completely Change your Web App” at The Future of Web Apps in Miami.

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In this video from The Future of Web Apps London (FOWA), Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, WeFollow and Revision3, shares 9 things he did to increase his users to 1,000,000 and beyond.

Here’s a quick bullet-point summary. You can watch the video, view the presentation slides or download the audio.

If you enjoy this article, you’ll love The Future of Web Apps Miami. Speakers include: Twitter, Mint.com, Gary Vaynerchuk, jQuery, Reddit and more. Buy your ticket now.

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