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It's All About the Mix

Having just completed an Opinion piece for .net magazine on ‘Crafting Web Design Education’ (and currently crafting our next semester’s lecture programme), we’re looking forward to taking part in next week’s Web Teaching Day in Manchester.

With Andy Clarke and Chris Mills - and a host of others - on the bill, it looks set to be a great day. (Did we mention it’s free?)

If you’re involved in web design education or active in our industry and want to improve the state of web design education you should make every effort to attend.

Organised by Richard Eskins, Senior Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University’s Department of Information and Communications, the day is a great opportunity for everyone involved in our industry to get together, share experiences and best practices, and help move our industry forward.

Our presentation, ‘It’s All About the Mix’, will look at ways in which we might improve web design education by practicing what we preach: embracing the tools we teach to develop a rich and varied range of learning materials, delivered in a variety of media, to ensure a dynamic learning environment; using agile methods to ensure course content is kept up-to-date; and fostering partnerships between academia and industry to deliver best practice teaching that’s tailored to today’s web.

There are still places left, you should sign up now.

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• AIGA have long fought the good fight against crowdsourcing, clearly articulating the very real issues that plague the 'winner takes all' approach to sourcing design by subcontracting it to the masses…
• In 2009, Andy Baio - a writer and entrepreneur who helped build Kickstarter - ate his own dog food and launched a Kickstarter project called 'Kind of Bloop'. The idea was elegant, and one we immediately fell in love with…
• As the old saying goes, "You only get one chance to make a first impression." Launched amid much fanfare late last week, Color is, apparently, "a miraculous application," and one of the first of many, new life-changing applications for the 'Post-PC World' in which we now live. It's also guilty of a not insubstantial degree of hyperbole…

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In addition to their role as lecturers in interactive design at the University of Ulster at Belfast, where they have been active in promoting a web standards-based curriculum, Christopher Murphy and Nicklas Persson are practicing designers and digital artists. Their work has featured in a variety of design books and magazines alongside numerous internationally respected designers and they are regular speakers at design conferences and workshops worldwide.

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