Web Directions North
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I just landed from the vortex of Web Directions North, a web design conference here in Vancouver. Thanks to Elastic Path for sponsoring my attendance and providing the opportunity to learn from some of the web industry’s thought leaders.
It was inspiring to listen and learn from some of the people actively involved in evolving the Internet. Topics covered the gamut of issues from accessibility issues for disabled users, designing for usability, mapping frameworks, AJAX, microformats and mashups.
I found the talks on usability, microformats and mashups to be the most relevant for my world.
What are microformats, might you be asking? From their website:
Designed for humans first and machines second, microformats are a set of simple, open data formats built upon existing and widely adopted standards.
Microformats are new on the scene and much is yet to evolve. They promise to standardize many elements in the html/css world that will make it much easier to interact with websites, both as a user and as software consuming data.
