The Australian and New Zealand teams

Date: 07-Jul-07
Author: Russ Weakley

The wait is finally over!

The following names from both teams were drawn from a hat*:

The Australian team:

  • Marla Mitelman - Project manager
  • Ruth Ellison - User experience /IA
  • Sarah Peeke - Designer
  • David McDonald - HTML/CSS coder
  • Rex Chung - Programmer
  • Melissa Cater - Writer

The NZ Team:

  • Peter Johnston (Sorted) - Writer
  • Jeffrey Wegesin (Xero) - HTML/CSS
  • Mark Rickerby (Coretxt) - Programmer
  • Zef Fugaz (Provoke) - UX/IA
  • Steve Dennis (Enlighten) - Designer
  • Thomas Scovell (Shift) - Project Manager

Stay tuned for the announcement of the Captain's Choice position, to be announced next Friday.

* In an effort to be as transparent as possible, please note that a hat was not actually used for either team. they were actually an urn and a rather a large trophy shaped receptacle.

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."