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Marc Rettig – How to Do a Better Job of Changing the World
The way we have been living and doing business is over. Start getting used to that. Climate change makes the shift essential. Peak oil makes it inevitable. There are reasons to be optimistic. Our job is to make the transition feasible and viable. Create and establish the attractive new way on the other side of [...]
The Elements of Editorial Strategy
What is editorial strategy? Why is it so integral to content strategy? And what is the relationship between content strategy and publishing?
UXCamp DC 2010
UXCamp DC is an ad-hoc unconference and is part of the larger BarCamp movement. The focus of this camp is user experience–online and offline. There is no set agenda until everyone gathers. Attendees are required to participate to some degree: either by leading a discussion, showing a demo, or by creating another type of collaborative [...]
UX Show & Tell DC
This UX Show & Tell DC event with John Douglass took place on January 28th.
This was a roundtable discussion where attendees brought deliverables to either get useful, implementable feedback or to show unique solutions to potentially common design problems – including drafts and incomplete works.
See the UX Show & Tell community at the UX Show [...]
Design Research – Discussion @ixd10
There has been increasing interest in our professional community around the research that informs our designs. Traditional user research may shed light on superficial complaints or wish-list items, but we want to talk more about how we can uncover opportunities for ground-breaking experiences. We will be having a round table discussion and hope that you [...]
CSS3 in 3D
CSS3 allows for greater control and creativity in web design. Attendees in this workshop will learn about using colors through RGBa and opacity, border images, text and box shadows, animations, transformations, and much, much more to enrich their design.
Content Curation is My Superpower – What’s Yours?
So much web content sucks. Who will save the web from page after dreary page of lifeless, disjointed prose, and posts that go to die in huge sites? What we need is a hero to sort through this mess and save us from ourselves and our severely lacking content cycle. Enter content [...]
Photoshop Wow!
It’s so popular and ubiquitous that it’s made its way from the computer screen to sitcoms and movies screens and into the common vernacular. It’s Photoshop – the swiss army knife of graphic design. Whether you are a novice or a seasoned pro, Photoshop is so versatile that there’s always a [...]
Battling Bureaucracy
Why is it that so many web projects within public institutions are delivered late and fail to stay within budget?
In this session we discuss the challenges faced by institutional Web site managers and look at specific techniques to address issues such as design by committee, scope creep and internal politics.
Sustainable Design
Sustainable design: it goes beyond the environment. 95% of the designers who have ever lived are alive today, and so it’s up to us to decide what our profession will be about. We live in a time of great fragility, yet there has never been more hope, and designers have never [...]
UXCamp DC – Say THANKS to Our Video Crew!
In this short piece the CDIABU students who helped us stream and record UXCamp DC are helping us give away books. Ty, who you don’t see here was our fearless producer.The team in no particular order is: Avery Fields, Aaron Purnell, Drew Loughlin, Holden Boyles, Tysheka Pierson, and Sean Greenwood
A big thanks to all of [...]
UXCamp DC 2010 – Dan Willis on Belief
In this episode Dan Willis talks about what we believe.
This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.
Producer: Tysheka Pierson
Camera: Holden Boyles
UXCamp DC 2010 – On Design Inspiration
In this episode Joe Sokhol talks about design inspiration.
This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.
Producer: Tysheka Pierson
Camera: Holden Boyles
UXCamp DC 2010 – On Accessibility
In this episode the group discusses accessibility issues and solutions.
This episode was produced by Olga Howard and a team of students from the Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Georgetown.
Camera: Sean Greenwood
Camera: Drew Loughlin