Attending dConstruct 2006

A couple of weeks ago I went along to dConstruct 2006, a conference on web applications held in Brighton. I really enjoyed it and managed to pick up a couple of tips that have already been helpful in my work. It was also just good to keep up to date with some of the current happenings in the web world and hang out with some nice people like Leeroy Lugg from Suspire Media and Stuart Clayman from Time Indexing.

There was a useful talk from Derek Featherstone (Furtherahead) about accessibility in web applications, in which he went into some detail about the problems of using the keyboard to navigate through more complex pages. I learned probably more than I’ll ever need to know about Amazon web services from Jeff Barr. And Jeff Veen was entertaining and also provided some interesting insight into how he’s refining the usability of Google Analytics using user task analysis.

After the conference we had time to lounge about on Brighton beach.