October 19, 2017 — Good design is important no matter what the medium. Making the transition from print to web has been an ongoing and evolving education. There are certain constants as well as plenty of differences between the two. I’d like to share some of the things I’ve learned as a designer that will help others who feel like the learning curve is overwhelming. I’m a graphic designer who will likely never write original code, so WordPress has made the web a friendlier, more inviting place for me to work. Once a print piece is on press, at the bindery and then sent to the mailhouse, there’s a definite finality to the process, which is completely different than the web.

October 19, 2017 — Frustrated with trying to make a living doing WordPress websites? Think you just need to find the right theme for a project or learn a few more design tips? This presentation will let you in on what you don’t know you don’t know. I will present a framework you can follow to become a skilled WordPress Designer who can price, close, create, and deliver amazing, effective WordPress websites for happy clients!

October 19, 2017 — User Experience (UX) design is such a hot industry today with no shortage of Medium articles telling you how to break into UX. There’s detailed talk about portfolios, which courses to take, and whether designers should learn how to code, among others. What they seem to miss, though, is the ‘getting started’ part: How do you do a design project and ensure that it gets from discovery all the way to deployment? If design portfolios are about the projects that you’ve brought to life, then how do we do them and build them well?

In this session, we will be looking at the design process and the Elements of User Experience. We will be reviewing the milestones inside web projects and the activities that make it successful. You will learn what makes great websites great, and what makes designers advocates for their own work.

Design is finally having its golden age. Will you be a part of it?

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October 19, 2017 — Vytvorenie obsahu webovej stránky je samozrejmosťou. Avšak nemali by ste zabúdať aj na SEO, bezpečnosť webu a rýchlosť. O tom, čo treba spraviť pred a po spustení stránky nám príde povedať Martin Macík.

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October 19, 2017 — Find out what WordPress does well and if you should be using it for your website. WordPress may not be the perfect solution for everything, but it has many strengths that make it powerful enough to use in different situations.

Dig a bit deeper into what you could be using WordPress to do on your website or blog.

October 19, 2017 — Intro to WordPress multisites.

October 19, 2017 — Het hebben van een mooie website betekent niet dat je automatisch ook veel bezoekers hebt. Hierbij komt SEO als tak van sport kijken. Hoe kun je je website het beste optimaliseren zodat je goed gevonden wordt in Google? In deze lightning talk worden veel gemaakte SEO fouten besproken en tips gegeven die je rankings aanzienlijk kunnen verbeteren.

October 19, 2017 — Vous est-il déjà arrivé de rencontrer un client qui veut un site qui fait « tout » ? D’assister à des conflits entre les différents départements qui veulent tous leur section du site ? D’avoir du mal à arrimer les besoins avec le budget ?

Le processus de « modélisation d’usage » est traditionnellement utilisée dans le développement de logiciel pour définir le Produit minimum viable (Minimum viable product ou MVP). Elle permet de recenser et prioriser des scénarios d’utilisation et des priorités d’affaires et s’avère extrêmement efficace pour planifier un site Web.

J’ai utilisé cette approche des dizaines de fois pour aider des clients à structurer leurs besoins, les prioriser et faire les évaluations budgétaires de projets. Dans cette séance, on apprendra à utiliser le processus de modélisation d’usage à l’aide d’exemples concrets.

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October 19, 2017 — This talk aims to provide WordPress developers with a deep technical introduction to native mobile development using React Native with WordPress as a headless backend. We will walk through an example case study to demonstrate the overall architecture, design and prototyping of a mobile app from scratch.

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October 19, 2017 — Using WordPress to Grow our Network – Maura Teal (Fansided)
Customizer-centric Workflows – Jonathan Wold (XWP)
Tune Up Democracy – Ernesto Aguilar (National Federation of Community Broadcasters)
How a drumming magazine leapt into digital subscriptions with resounding success – Peter Ericson (Zeen 101)
How to design branded content – Katya Bazilevskaya (Setka.io)
A Biased Guide to Managing Bias – Jake Spurlock (Wired)