Refresh Boston
Where do we begin?

Who am I?
Mark J. Reeves
Circa 1977
(http://circa1977.com)

What is Refresh?
Started with Refresh
Dallas
Bringing designers and
developers together,
away from the
computer

And Refresh Boston?
Getting together offline with peers
Sharing ideas and opinions
Bring value to meetings

So What’s Next?
Refresh logo design
Refresh Boston website
Lining up meeting topics
Refresh-related projects

What Would You Like
to See Happen?
And back to that in a moment...

SXSW Interactive ‘06

Patrick Haney, Harvard

What is SXSW?
A quick recap by Patrick and Stefan

It’s All About the People
Meeting your peers
Networking
Sharing ideas
Get the creative juices
flowing

And the Panels...
Pick and choose your
topics of choice
Focus on creative ideas
and learning by example
Learn from the best

And the After Events...
More opportunities to
network
Meet and greet in a less
formal situation
Having fun

And... Bowling?
Team Refresh triumphs!
Refresh Boston, D.C.,
Dallas, Houston, Austin
come together to win
the Avalonstar Bowling
Extravaganza
bowling.avalonstar.com

Wide Variety of Panels
General web design
DOM scripting
Accessibility
Blogging
User Experience

How To Be A Web Design
Superhero
Andy Budd & Andy
Clarke
General overview of
web design and best
practices

How to Create Passionate
Users
Panel hosted by Kathy Sierra
headrush.typepad.com
Keep your users happy and interested (like the
audience for this panel)

Holistic Web Design:
Finding Creative Balance
Combining efforts from
multiple disciplines
The whole is greater
than the sum of its
parts
Shaun Inman, Jason
Santa Maria, Eris Stassi,
Carl Sieber, Garrett
Dimon

Plazes Before...

And After.

Design Eye for the List Guy
A redesign of craigslist
Similar to the Holistic
Web Design panel
Ryan Sims, Paul Nixon,
Andrei Herasimchuk,
Cameron Moll, D. Keith
Robinson

Stefan Hayden, Sconex

Making Money With Your
Blog Design Skills
Tons of clients looking for designers
Blogs quickly turn into larger projects

Dogma Free Design
Don’t design to a checklist
A-B testing only works to a point

Standard Deviation: Hacks
and Dirty Tricks for the
Web
aka. F*ck standards
Cool web apps break standards

Questions?