Web Direc­tions are hold­ing another free event in Syd­ney in the lead up to the conference.

This time around, it’s Emily Boyd talk­ing about the devel­op­ment of Remem­ber the Milk, an online task man­age­ment app devel­oped in Aus­tralia, and Stephen Cox of Intu­ity, who’ll be talk­ing about “the use of ethno­graphic research in the process of inno­va­tion and design”.

I will be the first to admit I had to google “ethno­graphic research” to find out what the hell that was, but it sounds really inter­est­ing — essen­tially, look­ing at your users to work out how to design for them. Even bet­ter, for those of us (like myself) who can’t be there in per­son, Max­ine tells me she will be mak­ing every effort to have the ses­sion recorded and the pod­cast made avail­able after­wards. Woot.