October 12, 2017 — Live critiques of attendee-submitted websites on 3 categories:

Design
Marketing
SEO

October 8, 2017 — The web plays a lot of roles in modern life. It’s a world wide network designed to be available and accessible to everyone. The types of people, their range of abilities, and their types of devices are quite diverse. How can we, as developers, impact this diverse user base? How can we make the web a better place? The approach we use to develop our code can have a significant impact. That approach is the combination of accessible design and progressive enhancement.

October 4, 2017 — WordPress の案件を様々体験している二人が、どんな実装の依頼をうけて、してどう乗り切っていったのか、実体験の話と、何が問題でどう解決しようと試みたかなど、設計中心にお話します。

二人がかんがえる、無理のない設計とは？

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October 4, 2017 — As a human beings we are guided by our emotions which have a great impact on our decisions. Our rational side in many cases is pushed into the background. The researches of psychologists about emotions are used even in field of human-computer interaction and especially in web design. These help designers to choose and compose the right UI elements, just to create a product for giving as much as possible user experience.

Какви емоции да комуникираме към потребителите си в сайтовете, които разработваме и как?

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September 30, 2017 — 自治体の外郭団体“観光協会”
デザインを一新しWordPressを採用した大規模なホームページリニューアルの際に事務局スタッフだけで更新できるようにしたものの、なぜか更新が停滞。
停滞状態から約2年、この膨大な課題が山積する状況を打破し、アクセスを改善＆活性化させ、安定運用に乗せるまでの1年半の技術とプロセスとは。

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September 28, 2017 — あなたはデザイナーですか？ それともエンジニアでしょうか、ディレクターでしょうか。特にウェブ制作の現場において、「デザイン」という言葉の定義は曖昧かつ限定的です。2極化しているといってもいいでしょう。今回は、現役のデザイナーとしての立場から、デザインの抱える問題と、それに対してウェブに関わるわたしたち全員がどう接していくべきかのひとつの考えをお話します。そして、日々の現場においてどう行動するべきかについて触れていければと思っています。デザインは誰のものでしょうか、一緒に考えましょう。

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August 16, 2017 — Tracy Apps is a creative problem solver with over 15 years of client experience in all types of projects. She got her start blogging on B2 and followed that transformation to WordPress. She is active in several local Meetups in the Milwaukee area.

Tracy is the co-owner of http://cornermarket.media which offers a variety of services including design, custom development, branding and training.

She has spoken at several WordCamps about various aspects of design. Some of her presentations can be seen on WordPress.tv.

Tracy and Shelby Elliott are in the process of launching a podcast titled The Not So Straight and Narrow, which will be available on various podcast platforms soon.

August 14, 2017 — Learn oodles of design tips and hacks to make your WordPress site:

look better
be more appealing
seem more professional and credible
and be an easier, better experience for your audience

Don’t know what colors go together? Don’t know the first thing about design? Don’t have any design software? No worries — this talk is for you. We’ll cover lots of easy ways to make your design better, and free tools that can help you even if you feel like you “don’t have a designy bone in your body”.

August 14, 2017 — This topic will be an overview to the leg work to do before you jump into the design and development stage. I will give an introductory talk on site maps, user personas, content guides, and other things to think about how your website will function before you start designing or developing your site.

August 11, 2017 — Are you a developer, graphic designer, or content creator who makes websites? How’d they turn out? Whether your design skills are good, bad, ugly (or worse), don’t worry, there’s some simple steps and tools that can help you design less like a developer.

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