WebPub Presents…Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business with Jared Spool

May 28, 2009

Topic: Web Apps: The Collision of Design and Business

Speaker: Jared Spool, UIE

Time: 12:00p–1:00p

Location: 46-3001

Who has the best practices for web app design and what do they do to make world-class applications? Jared will share the latest research in the techniques and methodologies that can make a huge difference.

Thousands of sites have the same web app: the e-commerce checkout process. They all do essentially the same thing: exchange the site’s products for the customer’s money, simultaneously arranging for delivery and payment. Yet, every single one is different and despite their prevalence, frequently hard to use and frustrating. Why is this?

Creating easy-to-use and delightful applications, such as checkout, while meeting the needs of the organization is one of the most difficult challenges designers face. While many sites struggle, some design teams have learned how to do this especially well.

In this presentation, Jared will share UIE’s latest research on designing successful web-based applications. He’ll describe the techniques and methodologies used by the best designers and the common traps they’ve learned to avoid.

Open to: the general public

Cost: Free

Sponsor(s): WebPub

For more information, contact:
Lisa C. Mayer
617-452-4225
webpub-owner@mit.edu

This event is categorized as: personal development, interest clubs/groups

SANS Security 519: Web Application Security Workshop

For our webpub web developers, this SANS training might come in handy. Its a SANS Security 519 Workshop on web application security. Quoting from an email from EDUCAUSE:

“This two day workshop focuses on the latest tools and techniques to provide data to those intended while keeping out the bad guys. Students will have the opportunity for hands-on experience detecting and preventing cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection along with increasing their understanding of authentication, session management systems and their vulnerabilities and how to best defend.

…Who should attend this workshop?

• Web application system and security administrators and architects.
• Individuals responsible for designing, implementing and managing Web
  applications.
• Anyone interested in techniques for securing Web applications.

If you are familiar with Windows and Linux operating systems and have some experience with hands-on security tools, this two day web application security workshop is the right course for you.”

The price is very favorable for EDU participants ($375 for MIT, regular price is $1,745). Its June 25 and 26, 2007 at the Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Thanks to Tim McGovern and Rob Smyser from IS&T’s IT Security Support and Data Analysis and Presentation for this post idea. If you’ve got one, send it to webpub@mit.edu.