This month saw the French city of Limoges hosting the Webdesign International Festival, for the fourth time.
This year’s edition was chaired by Rémy Bourganel, Orange Vallée’s head of design whose work on ON has already won awards.
The WIF is a biannual event aimed at interface and digital content designers. The event hosted a 24 hours webdesign competition as well as a bunch of conferences around 4 major themes:
- As we face more and more numerous information feeds, what are the challenges that designers have to cope with to captivate the audience and answer its needs?
- What is mobility today, what are its main challenges, what’s coming next? What defines ‘good design’ on a mobile interface?
- With state-of-the-art technologies we are discovering connected devices that are more and more tactile and body-oriented. How can we develop some basic fundamentals when dealing with gestural interfaces?
- Issues that webdesigners face: The Flash/HTML 5 debate, interface prototyping, CSS improvements, 3D and augmented reality, multi-screen and multi-touch
On the “Issues of Identity in Mobile” video, Rémy summed-up the opportunities that represent mobile – the on-the-go media - in terms of design:
If you want to learn more about the WIF conference, then please check out Rémy’s post on the WIF blog here. If you attended this year’s WIF, don’t hesitate to share your thoughts with Rémy and with us!
