SpringOne 2GX 2011

Chicago, October 25-28, 2011

Magnificent Mile Marriott
Downtown Chicago
540 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, Illinois   60611
1 (800) 228-9290
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Mike Stenhouse

Interface Designer and User Experience Consultant

Mike Stenhouse
Mike spent several years doing the rounds in various London web agencies as a web standards and accessibility specialist, working for clients including Virgin, the BBC, the GLA, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, BusinessLink and Red Bull.

In pursuit of a broader interest in how and why people use the web Mike has settled into User Experience, helping to conceive and implement effective and usable user interfaces for web applications. When spare time presents itself Mike writes technical articles for Content with Style (contentwithstyle.co.uk), blogs on Donotremove (donotremove.co.uk) and Vitamin (thinkvitamin.com), and takes lots of photos (donotremove.co.uk/photos/).

Presentations

Building Modern Web Apps

Web applications are the new rock and roll. Everyone seems to either have one already or be thinking about writing one. In this session Mike will take a helter skelter dash through some of the front-end technologies and techniques that can make your web interface better, including web standards, progressive enhancement and unobtrusive Javascript.

As more and more companies move their interfaces online those with the knowledge of what is possible in the Internet medium will have the advantage in this fast-filling marketplace.

Themed on the progressive enhancement philosophy the session will run through proper HTML, Microformats, CSS, Dom Scripting, Ajax and unobtrusive Javascript. If properly applied, the result is more flexible, reliable and maintainable applications that work better and are available to a larger audience.





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