The @Mail staff attended the Web Directions South Conference at Sydney, Australia on the 27th/28th Sept, all about Web Usability, Design, Web standards and the future of Web technologies.

The event was a huge success with over 500 of the most talented and influencial people in the industry in Australia and abroad attending.One of my highlights for the event was speaking with Chris Wilson, the Group Program manager of IE and one of the original developers for IE since v2.0 - Discussions on Microsoft’s next version named IE.Next, and the complexities of designing new browsers while maintaining all the old hacks and workarounds designers made for IE5/6.

My top 3 quotes I glemed from the event include:

• Web 2.0 is “caring about the quality of the web User-interface” - Creating a better user experience - Chris Wilson (Microsoft)
• Human Traffic: Too many options is lazy design - Highlight defaults as recommended - George Oates (Flickr)
  
• You can’t make a design thats perfect for everyone - Andy Clarke (W3C)

It was a great event, and to meet other successful Australian Web-software companies making a big impact.