Finalists for the New Zealand team

Date: 04-Jul-07
Author: Russ Weakley

Project management role:

  • Thomas Scovell
  • Amanda Wheeler
  • Haydn Thomsen

User experience advocate/IA role:

  • Zef Fugas
  • Nicolas Steenhout
  • Mike Osborne

Designer role:

  • Steve Dennis
  • Romain Perin
  • Rachel May

HTML/CSS coder role:

  • Darren Wood
  • Geoff Munn
  • Jeffrey Wegesin

With three close runners-up: Alison Green, John Lewis and Sjef van Gaalen.

Programmer role:

  • Mark Rickerby
  • Tom St George
  • Peter de Vocht

Writer role:

  • Peter Johnston
  • Courtney Johnston
  • Pip Fowler

A huge thank you to all the New Zealand selection panel judges!

Final positions will be announced this Friday 6 July. The following Friday 13 July, the sixth and final position - Captain's choice - will be announced for both teams. So, if your name not mentioned above, you may yet be in with a grin!

Recent WIPA event:

Usability and Eye Tracking Seminar

An afternoon seminar with Dr Peter Brawn and Dr John Eklund on the latest eyetracking technologies and the challenges of ensuring usability during Agile Development.

The seminar was held in Canberra, Sydney and Brisbane.

Some of the comments received:

  • "Excellent! Incredibly interesting content"
  • "I found the seminar useful, particularly the eye-tracking content as a tool for improvement in usability and design for the web."
  • "I found it an interesting and economical afternoon (I paid my own registration). The presenters kept my interest all the way along and I'm very glad that I attended."
  • "I found the workshop useful especially the presentation on agile project management and usability."