Vacuosity

I noticed today that Blogger is holding a contest to attend a web usability workshop hosted by Adaptive Path. One of the founders of Adaptive Path is Jeffrey Veen, a noted usability expert. I know that because he was one of the speakers at RGD Ontario's designTHINKERS conference in October.


He was an interesting and suprisingly engaging speaker, especially for a bona fide web geek. He commented on the irony in the lack of control that designer's have in the web arena, compared to that of traditional layout. I quote: "Imagine sending a job to print and saying 'Use Verdana, and ...well...if you don't have it just swap in Arial or Helvetica...and at the very least, any sans serif font will do.' " (Okay, technically that's not irony, but you catch my drift.) He predicts a future of full scalability, user-defined interfaces, and robust design control. I, for one, hope he's right.


If you want to get a little more intimate with one of the great gurus of our time, check out his personal site. Lot's of neat little functionality tricks to make you go "Hey, how'd he do that?" and make you view the source code.


If you visit, you might also notice his wife Leslie's section, a nice little blog, powered by...Blogger, of course.


The web community is getting smaller all the time.

posted by David @ 9:45 p.m.