MeshU 2008

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I'm currently in Toronto at the Mesh conference taking place at the MaRS centre on College Street. Today was the MeshU day of workshops, including great presentations by John Lax, Leah Culver, Ryan Carson, John Resig, and a bunch of others. I presented in the morning and promised that I'd stick my slides online, so here they are. If audio is available later, I'll try to add it on, but I promised to get them up there at least in a basic way. Thanks to anyone/everyone who came out!

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Randal "sw0rdfish" Santia -

Hey Daniel,

Did you make the meet at The Rhino on Monday? I got caught up and had to miss it, would have been cool to meet some Powncers.

Rich -

http://www.richardcornish.com

Dude, I'm telling you...I have better examples of modular design!! :p

Joshua Ford -

Thank you so much for your "Iteration & You" talk at MeshU. It was very insightful and original. It was very refreshing especially compared to most of my design classes that I took at college.

I would be interested in seeing other pieces you have designed aside from silverorange and digg could you possibly post a few examples if you have any available. Thanks again.

All the best. Josh

Brad -

Thanks Daniel for the inspiring presentation. Finally an excuse to take the low road... I knew the day would come.

Luckyspin -

http://www.luckyspin.org

I thought this was one of the standout presentations at FOWD in London recently. Even though you're about web design, the principles apply to software development as a whole. Rapid Iteration, Extensibility, Refactoring. They sounds extremely like some of the key tenets of agile development I’ve been pushing for a while.

Keep up the great work!

Fred -

http://www.toner-emstar.de/

Thanks for your interesting slides.

Yesterday I went to the dentist...so I don't like slide no. 23 :(

I'll share your slides to my friends!

Randall -

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Daniel Burka

My name is Daniel Burka. I'm a web designer living in San Francisco. Currently, I'm the director of design with a startup called Tiny Speck and for several years I was the creative director at Digg. I grew up in PEI, Canada, where I was one of the founders of silverorange. Aside from obsessing about interface design and css selectors, I'm a frequently-falling rock climber, a lazy cyclist, and an often out-of-bounds disc golfer.

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I'm a web designer living in San Francisco, California. I sometimes get the chance to present lectures and workshops at conferences around the world, where I speak about iterative design strategies, designing for large online communities, and more broadly about interface design for web applications. I've posted many of the slides from past presentations I've done on Slideshare.

Currently, I'm the director of design at a small gaming startup called Tiny Speck. Until October 2009, I was the creative director at Digg. I was also one of the co-founders of the social content-sharing site Pownce, which is now a part (heh heh) of Six Apart. Back in 1999, I helped found silverorange, a stellar web development and design firm based in Prince Edward Island, Canada. I continue to work with silverorange, but as an inactive partner.

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