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Talks at edUi 2015
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Banish Your Inner Critic to Unleash You Creativity
Denise Jacobs 14 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 9:00 AMYour inner critic is an unconscious deterrent that stands between the seeds of great ideas and the fruits of achievement, keeping you stuck by telling you you’re just faking it, that others have more talent, that you’ll never achieve the success you seek. Let’s discover how to anatomize thi…
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THE CHANGING FACE OF VIDEO
Zach Robbins 26 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 10:00 AMOne-third of all online activity is now spent watching some form of video, with the typical internet user exposed to an average of 32.2 videos in a month. These numbers will only increase as the old barriers of online video consumption continue to break down. What does this mean for how we c…
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TEST, TEST, AND TEST SOME MORE
November 9, 2015 10:15 AMWe all focus on testing when we are building our websites and preparing them for an initial launch, but how many of us continue to test 6 months, 12 months, or even years after it has launched? In academia, today’s audience is not tomorrow’s audience and our websites must continue to grow an…
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BUILDING A RESPONSIVE PATTERN LIBRARY
Jenny Slaughter 3 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 10:15 AMTake a look under the hood at three pattern libraries developed using popular responsive frameworks. Learn how designers and developers can work together to identify re-usable layout components and turn these into flexible building blocks. The hard part, of course, is teaching people to use …
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Raising Your Puppy and Domesticating Your Website
Chad Haefele 0 Recommendations Kim Vassiliadis 20 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 10:15 AMCompleting a website redesign is like getting a puppy. In the beginning, everything is new and exciting; but, like a puppy, your website needs proper care and feeding. Before redesigning the UNC Libraries’ website in 2013, we struggled with a site that ballooned to 30K files. Without a gover…
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DELIGHT IS NOT A DESIGN GOAL
November 9, 2015 11:15 AMDo you expect enough from design? Obviously not if your organization just wants screens that look pretty. Superficial design goals often survive even in otherwise sophisticated organizations. You see it in the proliferation of words like “intuitive” and “user-friendly,” concepts that sound r…
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SOLVING THE PLANNING PUZZLE
Terry Peters 1 Recommendation Steven Steiner 2 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 11:15 AMEfficient Planning Based on Competing Needs With countless pieces to assemble and no box top to reference, planning a web project is an extremely complicated puzzle to solve. As the picture starts to come together, additional pieces are uncovered. One does not simply start with the squeakie…
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WE REDESIGNED OUR 2K+ ORG WEBSITE
Valeria Harness 4 Recommendations Larry Becker 1 Recommendation Fareine Suarez 1 Recommendation
November 9, 2015 11:15 AMAsk Us Anything What does it take to tear down a 2,000+ page School website and re-build it from the ground up? An agile internal project management team, a fierce collective will and a lot of coffee. Attend this panel discussion session and hear about the adventure of Darden’s website rede…
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The Power of CSS Flexbox
gauravgupta8 34 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 1:00 PMWeb developers have been trying to solve layout issues since the dawn of web. We started with tables, then floats and grids – each technique had its limitations. Thanks to Flexbox, it’s all about to change. Flexbox is one of the most promising yet underutilized additions to the CSS3 specifi…
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YOUR WEBSITE: BETTER, STRONGER, FASTER
Melissa Beaver 17 Recommendations Rachel DeLauder 15 Recommendations Philip Ribbens 0 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 1:00 PMYour website. A marketing tool barely alive. We can rebuild it. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic website. Better than it was before. Better, stronger, faster. Ok, so you don’t have six million dollars. And your website isn’t a bionic man. But …
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TAKE A SKETCH – IT WILL LAST LONGER
Nathan Rogers 0 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 1:15 PMDo you ever look back at those pages of notes or computer files that you come home with every time you attend a conference? I’m betting you answered with a sheepish, “Nope.” Neither did I, until I began to practice sketch-noting. Develop your own style during this workshop, which features p…
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Flex Track: Ill Communication: Getting it Together with Static Site Generators (Jekyll) and Tabletop.JS
November 9, 2015 2:00 PMDemo of how the speaker uses GitHub, Jekyll, and tabletop.js to build his personal website. Site: http://sdellis.com/labs/ Code: https://github.com/sdellis/sdellis.github.io
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LACKING TRACKING? STOP SLACKING: GOOGLE TAG MANAGER
November 9, 2015 3:15 PMWhether you’re a part-time HTML tinkerer or a full-time developer, Google Tag Manager lets you more easily measure how users interact with your site. In the past 6 months, Google Tag Manager has seen a complete overhaul: a new UI, updated terminology, and easier ways to configure the measure…
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WHAT THE AGING WORKFORCE REALLY NEEDS
November 9, 2015 3:15 PMImportant But Invisible: What the Aging Workforce Really Needs From Us Many of us look forward to the promise of growing old and retiring without the worry of work. Unfortunately, that has changed for millions worldwide who now have to work up to a decade past retirement age. They’re going…
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SUCCESS OF THE “ONE GEORGIA TECH” REDESIGN
Eric Sembrat 6 Recommendations
November 9, 2015 4:15 PMCommunity Building, Knowledge Consolidation, & Pain Points Georgia Tech embarked on a top-level web redesign project in 2011, which culminated in a refresh design released to the campus community in late 2013. As the redesign of top-level web content completed, the larger task began: “H…
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TAKING INTERFACE ANIMATION FROM GOOD TO GREAT
November 10, 2015 9:00 AMMotion design is a necessary skill for anyone working on the web today. Everyone from UX practitioners to front-end developers needs an appreciation for what motion can add to their work. This workshop will give you the skills you need to design and meaningful and sophisticated animations f…
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE “WEB APP”
Henrik Joreteg 7 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 9:00 AMSingle page apps have become a legitimate part of the web, but what role should they play? Where do they shine? Where do they fail? How should we think about them and how can we evaluate tools for building them? Henrik will opine on the tradeoffs of abstractions and frameworks, share his app…
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DESIGNING FOR THE ENTIRE USER JOURNEY
Kim Vassiliadis 20 Recommendations Emily Daly 1 Recommendation Jill Stover Heinze 1 Recommendation
November 10, 2015 9:00 AMA “user experience” is not a “web experience.” While much of UX work focuses on creating and enhancing web presences, we must remember that users are simply focused on accomplishing their goals. Their work commonly spans both the digital and physical environments. Our job as UX professionals…
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FROM CAVES TO THE WEB: BRAND STORYTELLING AND BEING HUMAN
Greg Breeding 1 Recommendation Hope Voelkel 1 Recommendation
November 10, 2015 10:00 AMThe primacy of storytelling in communications and marketing has enjoyed a market surge of late, as if it were a recent innovation. Yet in his influential book, The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall suggests that modern humans might just as well have been named Homo Fictus: “Fiction ma…
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DANCING WITH MYSELF
Emily Mitchell 0 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 10:00 AMRockin’ It as the Sole Person Responsible for the Website edUi sessions are full of people who can talk knowledgeably about being an information architect or a content strategist or a web designer. Unfortunately, not every institution has an entire team devoted to its website. For many of u…
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INTERACTIVE DATA VISUALIZATIONS WITH JS, HTML & SVG
Jeff Everhart 2 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 10:45 AMEvolving Beyond Excel: Creating Interactive Data Visualizations With JS, HTML & SVG Data are everywhere and come from tons of sources: our phones, social media, GPS, the government. According to IBM, we produce 2.5 quintillion bytes of data every day, but how do we begin to make sense o…
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THE PROBLEM WITH TRICKLE-DOWN TECHONOMICS
November 10, 2015 1:00 PMHooray for technology! It makes everything better for everyone!! Right? Well, no. When a new technology, like ebooks or health trackers, is only available to some people, it has unintended consequences for all of us. Jon Gosier, a TED Fellow and tech investor, calls out the idea of “trickle-…
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HUMAN JAVASCRIPT
Henrik Joreteg 7 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 2:15 PMBuilding Simple but Powerful JavaScript Apps As it turns out, building clean, maintainable JS applications is hard. There are so many tool kits, so many ways to structure code, so many possible best practices! How do we keep things simple? In this half-day workshop, Henrik Joreteg will de…
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DESIGN STUDIO: HOW TO KEEP UX LEAN AND REAL
Nate Wootten 4 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 2:15 PMAt WillowTree, our team is fortunate to work with brilliant design and engineering teams from a wide variety of industries including healthcare, enterprise, media/entertainment, government and education. While each one of our partners has a different organizational culture and process, they …
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Drawing for Chickens
Jean Sampson 0 Recommendations
November 10, 2015 2:15 PMWant to improve your drawing skills but don’t know where to start? Take a break from all that left-brain learning you’re doing in edUi sessions and come learn to “see” with your right-brain instead. This session is an excerpt from local artist Jean Sampson’s Drawing for Chickens class. It i…