Over the weekend of 10th/11th April the second Barcamp to be held in Bournemouth took place at Bournemouth University with over 70 participants in attendance. The sponsors of this year's event were: Red Web, G3 Show, BCS, C4L, Fibreband and Squizzleapp.
Sessions I went to on Saturday
Usability vs Accessibility - Phil Heywood and Luke Guppy
In this session Phil and Luke gave the pros and cons of Usability vs Accessibility and how they should be carefully considered in web projects as one may conflict with the other. They gave examples of the downsides of JQuery and what we can do to improve the accessibility if people have Javascript turned off in the browser.
Smashing Mag sucks or how to blag it as a webdesigner - Rich Quick
In this talk, Rich gave examples of application websites that were obvious rip-offs of each other in terms of design and content. He also questioned who is to blame for designs looking the same, the designer or online articles and tutorials.
Creativity - top 10 tips for better brainstorming - David Burton
In David's presentation he gave the understanding of creativity, how it works and how we can get the most out of brainstorming. He went through the fives types of creative behaviour including Fact Finding, (Re) organising, Improvising, Meaning and Maverick and how people can sometimes shift between them. He also went through how we can come up with freshness and new ideas.
Rolling a turd in glitter, 10 steps to design awesomeness - Damian Proctor
In this talk Damian examined various websites and different design techniques in each site and how they are used effectively. The 10 steps that Damian talked about were: Power of 3, Leading the eye, Creating emotions with elements, Contrast, Hierarchy of type, Whitespace, Unity, Depth, Grids and Colours.
Chat roulette - Dom Hodgson
You know the score.
The rest of Saturday night was spent generally hanging about and playing a few games of Werewolf including probably the best game I've played which had Cristiano as the moderator and no werewolfs were involved. Lets just say it made for a very interesting game.
Sessions I went to on Sunday
XSS with JQuery - Kevin Prince
In this presentation, Kevin showed how we can use widgets across sites using JQuery and JSON and how XSS isn't always evil.
Get Inspiration for Photography - Martin Cunningham
In this session I gave examples of how we can get inspiration for photography when you aren't really inspired to get out with the camera.
Version control with Git - Abizer
In this session Abizer talked about version control with Git and commands that can be used to make life easier when dealing with version control.
Lightning talks - Various Speakers
A session including various 5 minute presentations given by a number of speakers.
As always for these types of events a big thank you to the Organisers, Sponsors and the Attendees. Oh and also Dom and Heather for the cups of tea in Leeds.
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