As a follow-up to my presentation at MinneWebCon, 2009, the University of Minnesota’s web conference, I’ll be giving a giving the next iteration of my engagement, "It’s the Little Things, Part 2: You’re Still Doing It Wrong". This year, I’ll dive in deeply to the most used, and arguably most important, interaction elements of the web: forms.

In this extension to "It’s the Little Things" from 2009, my presentation will focus on the most widely used interactive sets of elements and most frustrating user experience of the web: forms. By looking at the necessity of collecting data from web site visitors, we’ll look at worst and best practices, managing user assumptions, new ideas and future considerations, and how we can help our visitors finish painful forms without frustrating them to the point of giving up and bouncing from your site.

So come join me and other web design and development professionals from across the Upper Midwest for the University of Minnesota's third regional conference, MinneWebCon, about Web design and standards, content management and strategy, user experience, and social networking.

Share your thoughts on “Speaking at MinneWebCon 2010”.

Last Friday, I had the great opportunity to demo WebSlide at MinneDemo, the local geek show & tell event for Minneapolis, MN. As always, it was a great chance to catch up with peers and colleagues and see the awesome stuff that everyone has created. This year, Tech.mn was able to provide us with live video feeds via ustream.

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Outside of being awesome all the time, I have accomplished quite a few other things this year. It actually surprised me to look back and be reminded of all of the things that I’ve done. Not counting freelance and client work, I really feel like I’ve accomplished a lot towards my goal of helping make the web more awesome.

Share your thoughts on “2009: The Year in Review”.

How do you display your creative mockups to clients? Do you email them a package of images? Or maybe a single, poorly compressed PDF? Or do you spend a bunch of time dropping images into HTML wrappers and placing them up on a demo site? I’ve tried all of them and I found that none of them really gave me and my clients what we really needed.

Share your thoughts on “WebSlide: A New Way to Collaborate on Your Designs”.

Watermelon Sauce is a collaboration of two experienced professionals, myself and Zachary Johnson. We spent almost 2 years on our original identity, but always felt like we needed something that more fit both Watermelon and Sauce. With that, we have our new logo and new Watermelon Sauce website.

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