Rachel Andrew visit

Last week we had a visit from Rachel Andrew to university where she was to give a talk about The Web and The Future, and it was a good talk. She concentrated on the basics that are required to succeed in the industry, and made the point that we were ideally placed to experiment with the emerging specs of HTML5 and CSS 3 by using them on uni projects which provide a lot more freedom than client work. She explained the current state of the web industry and some of the exciting things which are in the near future such as improvements in typography, and advancements in other areas.

The talk was slightly delayed as over 100 folk turned up to hear her speak in a room with around 30 seats, so there was a slight delay as we moved into the main lecture theatre and Rachel did well to deal with the upheaval and still deliver a great talk. Speaking to a full lecture hall would scare the living daylights out of me!

It was good to see a leading name in the web industry up in Dundee and hopefully more will follow in time.

One Response to Rachel Andrew visit

Nick says: April 1, 2010 at 9:54 pm

It was a good talk, and she was pretty good with all the questions afterwards as well (especially considering she’d been awake since 4am…)