Monthly Archive for February, 2005

Adaptive Path in Sydney soon

Published
by
Amit
on 23 February 05
in Web
. 4 Comments

Adaptive Path and Different, the Australian interactive agency specialising in human centred design, have teamed up to bring Jesse James Garrett to the all-new Human Centred Design Revolution workshop this May in Sydney. Join Jesse as he gives his full-day presentation on “The Elements of User Experience” and “The Nine Pillars of a Successful Web Team.”

The details are as follows: Locaton: Tuesday, 17th May 2005, Australian Technology Park, Sydney

Jesse runs his own site at http://www.jjg.net. His book: User - Centered Design for the Web — “The Elements of User Experience” has some tremendously positive reviews. You can download a free chapter from here.

Jesse, I am assume will be talking about Ajax too. Ajax is an innovative web application framework.

Its funny thinking of Bay 8 at Australian Technology Park now that our part of the office has moved back to north shore again, I wonder in the Australian Park for about 4 years. That place all too familiar to me.

Do you take your good living for granted?

Published
by
Amit
on 22 February 05
in Australiana, Environment and Personal and Photography
. 0 Comments

You get up in the morning and turn the tap open for your daily ablution and it runs dry… there is no water, not even for a shower… how would that feel? You already have a long and tiring day to plan for and get on with while your very basic amenities are not adequately met…

Continue reading ‘Do you take your good living for granted?’

Accessible bar chart (standards-schmandards)

Published
by
Amit
on 10 February 05
in Web
. 2 Comments

As you can see I have reproduces the table with the CSS from standards-schmandards. Brilliant use of CSS and Aural text class. Take some time to read through the enrty and the demontration. I think this is a great way to put information up on web where a table is required and the visual representation of data is a must. It is visual, accessible and rich with CSS. Why don’t you try it, go ahead and disable the CSS of this page and you would still see the graph as legibly as it would othwise be with bells on!

Below is an overview of banana imports for top importing countries. Source: Food and Agricultural Organization 1998.

Top banana importers 1998 (value of banana imports in millions of US dollars per million people)
Country Millions of US dollars per million people
Sweden 17.12
United Kingdom 8.88
Germany 8.36
Italy 5.96
United States 4.78
Canada 4.62
Japan 4.30
France 3.33
Russia 1.04