2009-02-03T22:08:05+00:00 Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Boston area while promoting design, technology, usability, and standards. 16 2009-02-03T22:08:05+00:00 http://refreshboston.org 4.22 2010-01-21T19:10:14+00:00 1995 The Simpsons has been on TV for 20 years, longer than many of us have been in the User Experience field, and they have been continuously ahead of their time as it relates to UX, by way of poking fun of it by doing things oh-so-wrong. Discover the lessons that The Simspons have taught us about the dangers of bad design, bad UX methods, and why you shouldn't stand in the way of a t-shirt cannon. And yes, we will watch clips from the show! For educational purposes only! Not entertainment! Patent-pending! One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/5182877/ 2010-01-21T19:10:14+00:00 2010-01-28T19:00:00+00:00 3.46 2009-12-11T18:58:40+00:00 1890 When you're shaping a user experience, what tune do you sing—typography? Interaction affordances? Taxonomy? Keyword enrichment? Whatever your area of focus, content strategy can help you more clearly understand your client's needs, articulate your approach, and align your tactical decisions with an overall brand-driven, user-centered message architecture. Drawing cues from this year's heightened focus on content strategy, Margot will address how content strategy differs from just copywriting and how you can incorporate insights from this aspect of interaction design into your next project. Discover how the questions a content strategist brings to the table can enrich your deliverables, learn how your collaboration can benefit your end users, and discuss ways to reframe the RFP to upsell content strategy in your next pitch and bring a new partner into the project. If you're a designer, IA, search engine marketer, or any type of social media or web strategy consultant, learn how insight to content strategy can rock your work from a new angle. One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4768677/ 2009-12-11T19:02:47+00:00 2009-12-08T19:00:00+00:00 4.47 2009-12-11T18:53:52+00:00 1889 For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun will explain an insiders perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on the new book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, in this interactive talk you'll learn from lively lessons and insightful confessions, giving you new insights into the art of persuasion-as well as teaching and learning, directly from a master of the trade. For Refresh, he'll be emphasizing situations designers and creative people face. Please bring your toughest questions and situations as he'll spend as much time as possible on them. One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 02142 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4550994/ 2009-12-11T18:53:52+00:00 2009-11-05T19:00:00+00:00 4.75 2009-10-07T16:35:05+00:00 1544 Sex and Design Axioms describes the minimal rule set for designing interfaces: the foundational concepts that are required knowledge for designers and engineers to create usable and elegant interfaces. A production stratification has evolved into stove-piped disciplines from information architecture to user experience to interaction design to usability to graphic design much to the detriment of designers. Emerging is the Renaissance interface designer: a technically savvy artist that’s fluent in typography, color theory, composition, layout, usability, interaction design, and code. Microsoft New England Research & Development Center 16 http://www.slideshare.net/jsonin/sex-design-axioms-5sections-f http://designaxioms.com 2009-10-07T16:35:05+00:00 2009-10-06T19:00:00+00:00 4.7 2009-08-21T14:59:04+00:00 1361 How many touch points or channels that represent opportunities for customers to interact with your brand? What types of experiences do customers have and how do the experiences fluctuate from one to another? In this talk, Megan & Amy will be leading discussion on considering the entire user's experience and contemplating all possible touch points to optimize the interactions of that audience. Microsoft New England Research & Development Center 16 http://www.slideshare.net/megUX/designing-for-a-multichannel-experience http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4126851/ 2009-08-21T14:59:04+00:00 2009-08-20T19:00:00+00:00 4.02 2009-05-01T18:57:09+00:00 1278 Attendees will learn about CSS 2.1 and CSS 3, how they can simplify front-end development, reduce the amount of code they write, and add nice visual attributes for visitors who are using a good web browser while degrading nicely for visitors who aren't. They'll also see HTML and CSS demonstrations for many of the selectors, properties, and values available in CSS 2.1 and CSS 3. 1 Memorial Drive Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 16 http://marcamos.com/presentation/intro-css2.1-css3/slides/ http://marcamos.com/presentation/intro-css2.1-css3/ 2009-07-27T14:53:55+00:00 2009-07-23T18:30:00+00:00 3.8 2009-06-16T03:25:41+00:00 1195 Joshua will talk about how to get (and keep) business when times are slow, as they are now. He'll be sharing tactics for improving your portfolio, your networking, and your general marketing strategy. And he'll discuss how it's applicable to both freelancers and agencies/organizations alike. Microsoft Startup Labs 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2811494/ 2009-06-24T14:55:00+00:00 2009-06-25T19:00:01+00:00 4.15 2009-05-14T18:17:54+00:00 1108 Everyone wants an "intuitive" interface: the users, the designers, and the content publishers. But building them is hard. User Interface Engineering's recent research has given insight into why it's hard and how to get past major obstacles. To build an "intuitive" interface, a designer has to do two things: (1) Take complete advantage of what the user already knows, so what they see is completely familiar to them and (2) make the act of learning anything new completely imperceptible to the user. It turns out, if the interface requires the user to realize they are learning something, the "intuitive" label disappears instantly. In this talk, Jared will show: - How users need both tool knowledge and domain knowledge to complete their tasks - How simple problems with designs can cause big problems for users - What successful teams are doing to create experiences that delight Jared will show examples from Microsoft Word, MSN, Google Talk, Flickr, Avis, and many more. One Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2632950/ 2009-05-14T18:18:20+00:00 2009-05-28T19:00:01+00:00 4.8 2009-04-16T14:52:26+00:00 642 Speakers Dan Pickett & Jon Follett will be presenting Making Agile Work for Design. They will present a short introduction to "agile" and touch on current design and UX practices, as well as discussing why developers like agile and the problems it poses for design. One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02142 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/2357284/ 2009-04-16T14:52:26+00:00 2009-04-29T19:00:01+00:00 4.18 2009-02-10T22:42:24+00:00 134 Matthew will talk about user research, defining requirements, design validation (testing), and post-implementation monitoring that should be done in order to ensure good usability the first time so it's easier to redo the second time around. 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge MA 16 http://www.slideshare.net/matthewoliphant/refresh-boston-feb2009 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1515724/ 2009-02-19T16:02:13+00:00 2009-02-18T19:00:01+00:00 4.53 2009-02-03T22:09:13+00:00 74 John will discuss general use of the jQuery JavaScript library as well as diving into jQuery UI, and Kyle will talk about jQuery best practices while showing off some of his own examples of how jQuery can be used to enhance the user experience on the web. 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/925677/ 2009-02-03T22:09:13+00:00 2008-08-07T19:00:01+00:00 2009-02-04T15:36:17+00:00 78 This talk will explore general design principles and how they can be applied to the web in order to create a more usable, more attractive design. Boston, MA 16 http://patrickhaney.com/presents/ 2009-02-04T15:36:17+00:00 2008-05-22T19:00:01+00:00 2009-02-04T15:30:07+00:00 77 John Resig will be presenting on his lightweight, easy-to-use Javascript library known as jQuery. Cambridge, MA 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/114279/ 2009-02-04T15:30:07+00:00 2006-10-12T19:00:01+00:00 2009-02-04T15:27:55+00:00 76 During the 2nd Refresh Boston meeting, Jim Rich will talk to the group about Windows Around the World, a web-based project to allow elementary kids to see the world through the magic of the internet. We'll also recap the previous meeting and discuss any site people are interested in (bring one if you like). Cambridge, MA 16 http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/71290/ 2009-02-04T15:27:55+00:00 2006-05-02T17:30:01+00:00 2009-02-04T15:22:34+00:00 75 The first official Refresh Boston meeting kicks off with a discussion about the direction of the group and a recap of SXSW. Cambridge, MA 16 http://www.slideshare.net/notasausage/first-refresh-boston-meeting http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/62249/ 2009-02-23T14:55:59+00:00 2006-03-22T18:00:01+00:00