March 12, 2015 — Amit explains the various aspects of design theory, the rationale of site layout, user response and experience.

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March 9, 2015 — WordPress has long evolved from just being a blogging platform. It’s capable of being an integral part of any of your web ideas and concepts, regardless how abstract. In this talk, Noe presents his ideas on how we should stop blocking ourselves with design stereotypes and be limitless in our use of WordPress.

March 9, 2015 — Optimizing WordPress Workflow

March 8, 2015 — Site speed is incredibly important, but it’s often neglected in the WordPress world. This talk discusses tools to evaluate page performance and techniques to help speed your WordPress site up. Speed isn’t just about fast hosting, it’s also good design decisions and plugin choices. The talk covers a number of easy to implement suggestions for any site owner, and then briefly cover some advanced developer techniques for writing efficient front-end code.

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February 28, 2015 — La qualité web est une affaire transverse qui touche à la fois les notions de visibilité (et lisibilité), de perception (l’ergonomie) et de technique (bon fonctionnement) dans le but de délivrer des contenus et des services de qualité qu’attendent les visiteurs.
L’occasion de rappeler qu’elles peuvent être les bonnes habitudes à prendre pour améliorer l’expérience utilisateur et renforcer la qualité attendue, à travers de bonnes pratiques graphiques, typographiques et fonctionnelles.
In fine, le rappel que nous réalisons les sites pour les gens : USER first 🙂

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January 22, 2015 — This talk discusses the lizard brain and how it’s secrets influences our actions and thought. It then covers the framework for emotional reactions and how you can use design to elicit positive reactions to visual stimuli.

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January 15, 2015 — This session talks about how to design interesting and useful WordPress widgets. When creating a mockup or building a theme, it is easy to neglect widgets. You might design or style a few widgets for the mock-up or demo, but what happens when your client adds the Calendar widget? It also covers designing for a wide range of widgets, exploring different widget designs, planning responsive widgets that scale well, thinking about animated and interactive widgets, and upgrading your widgets with plugins.

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January 5, 2015 — This presentation covers an array of tools that the modern designer and front-end developer have at their disposal to refresh not only their ability to create meaningful, lasting websites, but their interest in having a meaningful, lasting profession.

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January 5, 2015 — This talk is about what you need to plan for when building your site. As a designer, I find these are common elements that clients have not even considered before starting their blog or online storefront.Copy, layout, photos… it’s all part of the planning.

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November 7, 2014 — A designer’s perspective on working with clients of different sizes to form creative solutions that meet them where they’re at, and where they’re going.

Taylor will focus more on understanding the position of clients within their own business/organization and asking key questions to further understand their design requests in order to create effective design solutions.

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