#web expo

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[taskhub]

Web Expo Guildford

Last Friday I was lucky enough to attend the fantastic Web Expo Guildford and get some serious inspiration from some awesome techies. 

The expo had a range of talks that covered everything in the world of tech and web. There were two tracks of talks, Design and Dev, so designers, marketeers and developers could easily find something that suited their interests. 

I won a ticket to the WXG, organised by web design agency Kyan, at the Rails Girls event in London that I attended at the beginning of October. You can read about that here. 

The speakers at WXG were all informative and inspiring, but my favourite speakers were Seb Lee-Delisle, Gavin Strange and Frances Berriman. 

Gavin Strange works for the digital team at Aardman Animations (the guys behind Wallace and Gromit). Through a torrent of energy and hilarious anecdotes, he shared his tales of creativity and passion. Gavin follows the tiniest spark of inspiration and showed us that there are 24 hours in the day so why hold back from making your ideas a reality. 

Seb showed his amazing coding skills and how to build digital fireworks. He brought along a rather cool laser and showed us that computer science is pretty darn cool. The PixelPyros show that he has created showed how vision, drive and knowledge can get you where you want to be. 

Frances shared her experience working on the Gov.uk website redesign and explained how to put the user first. At Taskhub, we are always interested in improving user experience so this was particularly valuable. Frances' story showed how you can take the most complicated of websites and make it user friendly by applying (and sticking to) key principles and guidelines.

The Web Expo Guildford was a brilliant day that gave me plenty of food for thought. It will be on again next year and I'd advise you to go along. The talk has some real takeaway value for anyone, not just people in the tech world. 

Thanks to all the organisers at Kyan!

Isabel

[ennovation-blog]

going to the internet world expo

going to a massive expo at earls court the 10-12 may. looks like there will be some good keynotes and interesting topics. sign up while its still free here: http://www.internetworld.co.uk/page.cfm/ID=1/trackLogID=1102719_04A036B7F6