May 1, 2010 — Jane Wells uses real examples to demonstrate how to best design your WordPress user experiences to mesh with those of the core software and fulfill the expectations of your users.

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May 1, 2010 — Daniel Cook explains using game mechanics to teach users how to learn features and controls in applications. What the Office Labs team did can provide inspiration for engaging users with your new product or website.

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April 24, 2010 — Colin Loretz discusses specific methods for using WordPress as a content management system, including when WordPress is best for your site and how you can optimize your WordPress use for a complete site.

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March 15, 2010 — Take a look behind the curtain of WordPress and its theme engine, and get a step-by-step road map of how to use Expression Web 3 with WordPress to take a boring standard blog theme and make into a functional CMS site design in this talk by Morten Rand-Hendriksen.

Video courtesy Microsoft and MIX10.

November 15, 2009 — Mushon Zer-Aviv describes some of the challenges and opportunities in open sourcing the design process in this five-minute presentation from WordCamp New York.

Video courtesy ISOC-NY.

November 13, 2009 — Brent Spore of WHATABLOGGER teaches design fundamentals that can help you learn how to design effective WordPress sites.

September 26, 2009 — Donald DeSantis teaches starting with a bare-bones WordPress theme and building it into something more in this five minute presentation.

The demo site from the presentation is available here.

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September 26, 2009 — Ian Lurie reviews a few WordPress blogs for the audience, providing tips to improve SEO, readability, performance and subscribership.

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September 20, 2009 — Scott Porad from The Cheezburger Network talks about the design and business philosophy behind the Cheezburger network of sites and how those sites use WordPress to accomplish those things.

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September 19, 2009 — Tyler Sticka talks about creating and maintaining a WordPress site to serve as a portfolio to both show and describe your work, including plugin and theme ideas to get you started easily. The talk also includes code snippets and suggestions for optimizing your theme for serving a portfolio.

Video production by Joe Christensen of Blaze Streaming Media.