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The Five Meetings – Kevin M. Hoffman
Kevin runs 'Seven Heads' agency @kevinmhoffman sevenheadsdesign.com Used to work at Happy Cog with Jeffrey and Jaimee and others. DESIGNING MEETINGS He’s spent the last decade of his career examining meetings, what makes them go well, what makes them go...
Extreme Design – Derek Featherstone
There’s a bath tap in a London hotel with two hot water spouts… and the directions for these spouts is about 6 feet away out of your field of view if you’re looking at the spout. This is bad design. It could have benefitted from proximity. Proximity - a design...
Revolutionize Your Page: Real Art Direction on the Web – Jen Simmons
ART DIRECTION The web industry doesn’t quite have a handle on it yet. But for a long time she didn’t really understand what it meant either… Art direction is about being in a conversation, telling a story. What kind of decisions do we need to make for people to...
Designing Meaningful Animation – Val Head
Understanding how use animation effectively can make us better designers. But, not everyone agrees with that sentiment… What people are afraid of is an entire internet of content flipping in and sliding and swirling like gochat’s website. But what it also could...
Designing for Performance – Lara Hogan
Performance is user experience… and users expect a 2 second or less load time. After 3 seconds, 40% will abandon your site. They recently did some tests on their site relating to performance: On ETSY they ran a test where they added 160kb of hidden images for mobile...
The Art of the Sell – Jaimee Newberry
She came up with 2 rules of design when she was a professor: Rule 1: Kill Your Darlings - You have to kill a lot of things you put a lot of soul and time and care and research into. We grow attached to our work and when someone wants us to change something we...
Practical Branding – Sarah Parmenter
She started as a designer at eBay, and was the person we now all hate - the person who was devaluing our industry. She looks back on those days and hates herself… Her company, You Know Who is now focused on helping celebrities and big brands with their social...
Designing With Web Standards in 2016 – Jeffrey Zeldman
We will be asking a few questions: Has design changed irrevocable from how we knew it? Has the fun gone out of it? This is a tough time to be a web designer. We have cell phones and smart watches and all of our content and code and CMS systems have to...
Another Opportunity for Growth: An Event Apart Washington DC
So I go to this amazing conference every year - An Event Apart - and I couldn't recommend it higher to someone who works in the web world. This is my fifth year attending, and every year I get more out of it. The first year I understood about 20% of what was said......
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I just got back from An Event Apart in Atlanta, Georgia, where I attended Monday and Tuesday's sessions (February 16-17, 2015) by 12 of the leading minds in the web design and development industry. Ever year I take notes for each session (well, ok, they're more like...
