On November 12, 2014, Elizabeth Quigley gave a talk titled "UX @ Harvard's IQSS."
Details of the talk appear below.
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When: November 12th @ 3:30-5:00pm
Title: UX @ IQSS
Who: Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist, Data Science Team, Institute of Quantitative Social Science
Where: Harvard University, Lamont Library, Forum Room
Description: Over the past year and a half, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) has integrated multiple user experience methods into their product development cycle to enhance the user experience for multiple products and websites developed at IQSS.
Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist at IQSS, will outline how to start a user experience program for your products and/or websites, demonstrate the UX methods she uses, and show examples of how the UX of IQSS products and websites has been enhanced through these methods. If you have ever wondered how to start a user experience program, this is the talk for you.
Bio: Elizabeth has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She has conducted user research on the collaborative processes and profiles of undergraduates interacting with a Microsoft surface table, academic portals, the use of a library website by faculty members as well as the products and websites developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
Michael Rossetti lead a talk that focused on MIT's upcoming service offering known as Drupal Cloud. We will try to go over what the service offers, the goal of the service, why we chose Drupal, our custom Drupal distrobution, a brief description of the infrastructure, the status of the project, the road map of the project, and ideally showcase a few of our pilot participants sites and give a little demo.
Jay Luker will be presenting an introduction to Ghost Inspector, a cloud-based web UI testing service that takes some (some!) of the pain away from creating browser-based, web application tests. Think Selenium, but for projects that are short on the resources, infrastructure and/or coding expertise to confidently develop and manage a suite of fully automated, “good-enough” UI tests.
Jay is a Senior Software Engineer at Harvard DCE where he works on back-end applications and software for analytics data collection, deployment automation, and integration testing for the Extension School’s video processing and delivery system. Previously he has been an IT Specialist at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System, and a Software Developer at Ex Libris.
Universal Design for Learning: A framework for addressing learner diversityHarvard Web Working Group
On September 9, 2015, Sam Johnston gave a talk entitled "Universal Design for Learning: A framework for addressing learner diversity". Educators designing online and blended programs are responsible for ensuring the success of all students including those with physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and various motivations for learning. Providing accessible learning materials to postsecondary students with disabilities is essential — and required by law. Assistive technology and accessible materials can lower barriers to access. However, access to materials is not the same as access to learning. “The purpose of education is not to make information accessible, but rather to teach learners how to transform accessible information into useable knowledge” (CAST, 2012). Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. This session provides an overview of UDL with examples from open educational resources (OER) development. We will showcase UDLonCampus.cast.org, a collection of resources on UDL for postsecondary stakeholders to help them provide flexibility in instructional materials, teaching methods, and assessments.
On May 14, 2015, Jeff Winkler gave a talk at Harvard University's Lamont Library titled "Intro to ReactJS."
Description
Created by Facebook and Instagram, React has recently been embraced by companies and organizations including Airbnb, Khan Academy, Reddit, the BBC, and Code Academy. This presentation will be especially interesting for those using or planning to use javascript libraries such as angularJS, backbone.js, ember.js, and others.
For this talk, Jeff Winkler will present:
- An introduction to React, mixed with demos.
- An examination of how React implements Computer Science principles from Functional and Object-Oriented. The discussion will consider the impact on maintainable large-scale systems.
Biography
Jeff Winkler, is a professional developer* in the Boston area and organizer of the Boston ReactJS Meetup. In addition to the ReactJS Boston Meetup, Jeff works with React professionally at TapJoy and runs http://react.rocks.
(* Full-stack guy. ReactJS, Rails, TDD. Best OODA loop wins)
"A Practical Guide to HTML5" was delivered by Mat Marquis (@wilto) of Marquis Design on May 11th, 2011 at Harvard University's Lamont Library Forum Room.
Measuring the reach of your social media efforts is a good first step--but it’s not enough. Chris will describe the social tools that aggregate, syndicate, and amplify Harvard’s message to the world, including integration with Facebook’s open graph and real-time Twitter collaboration via Social Flow.
Chris Traganos is the Web Developer responsible for Harvard University's main website and WordPress-powered Harvard Gazette news site.
On November 12, 2014, Elizabeth Quigley gave a talk titled "UX @ Harvard's IQSS."
Details of the talk appear below.
---------------------------------------------
When: November 12th @ 3:30-5:00pm
Title: UX @ IQSS
Who: Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist, Data Science Team, Institute of Quantitative Social Science
Where: Harvard University, Lamont Library, Forum Room
Description: Over the past year and a half, the Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) has integrated multiple user experience methods into their product development cycle to enhance the user experience for multiple products and websites developed at IQSS.
Elizabeth Quigley, Usability Specialist at IQSS, will outline how to start a user experience program for your products and/or websites, demonstrate the UX methods she uses, and show examples of how the UX of IQSS products and websites has been enhanced through these methods. If you have ever wondered how to start a user experience program, this is the talk for you.
Bio: Elizabeth has an M.S. in Library and Information Science from the School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. She has conducted user research on the collaborative processes and profiles of undergraduates interacting with a Microsoft surface table, academic portals, the use of a library website by faculty members as well as the products and websites developed at the Institute for Quantitative Social Science.
Michael Rossetti lead a talk that focused on MIT's upcoming service offering known as Drupal Cloud. We will try to go over what the service offers, the goal of the service, why we chose Drupal, our custom Drupal distrobution, a brief description of the infrastructure, the status of the project, the road map of the project, and ideally showcase a few of our pilot participants sites and give a little demo.
Jay Luker will be presenting an introduction to Ghost Inspector, a cloud-based web UI testing service that takes some (some!) of the pain away from creating browser-based, web application tests. Think Selenium, but for projects that are short on the resources, infrastructure and/or coding expertise to confidently develop and manage a suite of fully automated, “good-enough” UI tests.
Jay is a Senior Software Engineer at Harvard DCE where he works on back-end applications and software for analytics data collection, deployment automation, and integration testing for the Extension School’s video processing and delivery system. Previously he has been an IT Specialist at the Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System, and a Software Developer at Ex Libris.
Universal Design for Learning: A framework for addressing learner diversityHarvard Web Working Group
On September 9, 2015, Sam Johnston gave a talk entitled "Universal Design for Learning: A framework for addressing learner diversity". Educators designing online and blended programs are responsible for ensuring the success of all students including those with physical, sensory, and learning disabilities, differing cultural and linguistic backgrounds, and various motivations for learning. Providing accessible learning materials to postsecondary students with disabilities is essential — and required by law. Assistive technology and accessible materials can lower barriers to access. However, access to materials is not the same as access to learning. “The purpose of education is not to make information accessible, but rather to teach learners how to transform accessible information into useable knowledge” (CAST, 2012). Universal design for learning (UDL) is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn. This session provides an overview of UDL with examples from open educational resources (OER) development. We will showcase UDLonCampus.cast.org, a collection of resources on UDL for postsecondary stakeholders to help them provide flexibility in instructional materials, teaching methods, and assessments.
On May 14, 2015, Jeff Winkler gave a talk at Harvard University's Lamont Library titled "Intro to ReactJS."
Description
Created by Facebook and Instagram, React has recently been embraced by companies and organizations including Airbnb, Khan Academy, Reddit, the BBC, and Code Academy. This presentation will be especially interesting for those using or planning to use javascript libraries such as angularJS, backbone.js, ember.js, and others.
For this talk, Jeff Winkler will present:
- An introduction to React, mixed with demos.
- An examination of how React implements Computer Science principles from Functional and Object-Oriented. The discussion will consider the impact on maintainable large-scale systems.
Biography
Jeff Winkler, is a professional developer* in the Boston area and organizer of the Boston ReactJS Meetup. In addition to the ReactJS Boston Meetup, Jeff works with React professionally at TapJoy and runs http://react.rocks.
(* Full-stack guy. ReactJS, Rails, TDD. Best OODA loop wins)
"A Practical Guide to HTML5" was delivered by Mat Marquis (@wilto) of Marquis Design on May 11th, 2011 at Harvard University's Lamont Library Forum Room.
Measuring the reach of your social media efforts is a good first step--but it’s not enough. Chris will describe the social tools that aggregate, syndicate, and amplify Harvard’s message to the world, including integration with Facebook’s open graph and real-time Twitter collaboration via Social Flow.
Chris Traganos is the Web Developer responsible for Harvard University's main website and WordPress-powered Harvard Gazette news site.
On April 10, 2013, Eric Mattison gave a talk on Tastypie: Easy APIs to Make Your Work Easier.
"Have you ever dealt with any of these problems:
- Unwieldy, Scary-to-Change Applications?
- Long Development Cycles?
- Replicated Code?
- Scope Creep?
- Restless Leg Syndrome?
Tastypie can help you solve these problems and more!”
"Flexible web publishing with Expression Engine". Delivered by Johannes Booy, Jeff Ausura, and Michael Witwicki of Booyant, on April 14th, 2010 at Lamont Library, Forum Room.
Talk presented at the April 2011 meeting of the Harvard CMS working group. Overview for Facebook open graph integration and the approaches taken at the Harvard Gazette.
On May 14th, 2014 David Marshall, Senior Web and Application Developer at the Harvard School of Public Health, gave a talk entitled "Responsive Design: Building for a Modern Web."
David is a senior web and application developer at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is responsible for maintaining the main website and other web applications. He recently rebuilt the HSPH website to make its design responsive and to reduce page size and load times. His current work focuses on PHP development for the WordPress CMS as well as on CSS3 and HTML5. Prior to joining the web team at HSPH, David’s work as an independent contractor included founding Club Site Solutions, a company that developed specialized websites and online registration systems for private clubs.
On September 11th, 2013, Doug Roerdon, Vice President for User Experience Design Strategy, gave a talk entitled "Will my helicopter fit in your garage?" essentially a plea from “the rest of us,” whomever that may be. Over the past decade or so of creating user experiences in a digital world, the original 80-20 rule has silently and inadvertently become a fundamentally different 80 rule, where satisfying just 80% of users has somehow become acceptable. And it really isn’t, from user or business points of view. In fact, the 20% in many situations has shrunk in percentage but grown in importance.
Eric Mattison, Senior Analyst at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and former ABCD W3 co-chair, will explain how the Internet of Things (IoT) is being used to streamline scientific processes, shortening the time-to-market for life-saving drugs. The talk will include:
- What is IoT? Just another buzzword to get budget allocation from C-level executives, or an actual game-changer?
- How we got here: the technologies and economics that make IoT possible
- Implementations, large and small (the small ones are the most interesting)
Bio
Before selling out to almighty Mammon, Eric Mattison was an impoverished journeyman web serf here at Harvard, extolling the virtues of Python, Django and web APIs. Now a Senior Analyst at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, he works to streamline internal business processes using Python, Django and web APIs.
(This presentation occurred on October 11th, 2017)
(Note: This talk was given by Dorian Freeman on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at Harvard University.)
Talk:
How are the apps and websites you work on perceived by the people who use them?
As content editors, designers, researchers, and developers, it’s hard not to focus on specific details in isolation rather than looking at the larger context. This makes it even more important to remember the mental models and expectations people have as influencing their perception of usability of your products.
What affects perception? How do you measure it? What happens if perceptions are not what you had anticipated?
Bio:
As User Experience Lead (Academic Technology / HUIT / HPAC / HWP), Dorian Freeman focuses on the user experience of the administrative interface of OpenScholar. She is founder of the Harvard UX Groupcommunity of practice, created to connect user experience practitioners at Harvard, now at close to 90 members. She also runs a working group to manage the community of practice, and currently teaches an IT Academy UX Fundamentals course* open to all staff. She joined Harvard in July 2013. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorianfreeman
Twitter: @dorianshmorian
5 Steps to (Remote) Team Bliss: How to Build Thriving, High-Performing (Remot...Harvard Web Working Group
Description: Jen will discuss tools and tips for evoking the best performance from every team member – even when they’re never in the same room! She’ll reveal how to be a superstar mentor and how to GTD so that teams run like well-oiled machines. In sum, this will be a talk about how anyone who leads teams can leverage the power of people skills to making a positive difference in the world.
Bio: An expert in the science of organizations, Dr. Jennifer Bunk has extensive experience teaching diverse audiences how to apply science to make workplaces better. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2006. After 10 years in the academic world, she launched Jen Bunk Ventures and People Stack Academy. As a tech leadership coach, she helps tech managers build thriving, high-performing teams. She has also served a variety of organizations in Greater Boston including coding bootcamps and local meetup groups. http://peoplestackacademy.com http://jenbunk.com/
An Introduction to MongoDB
MongoDB is a rapidly growing noSQL database solution used by many major companies and favored by startups for its simple design and setup. Its greatest advantage is the ability to use the unstructured data type, BSON, which allows developers to avoid writing, maintaining and upgrading schema. Unlike some SQL options, it has scaling and redundancy built-in and allows for quick ad-hoc querying of any data. This talk will go over the basics of data insertion/retrieval, compare querying between SQL and MongoDB, work through some advanced queries like map/reduce and aggregation, and look at the more sophisticated features from a 10,000 ft view.
Bio: Matt Warren is a graduate of Northeastern University and has been working in Systems Administration and Engineering for 8 years. His career started at Smarter Travel Media and most recently he is working for Boston-based ground travel startup, Wanderu. He specializes in scaling solutions to handle the traffic loads of high performance, e-commerce websites. In September of 2015, he became organizer of the Boston MongoDB Meetup.
Event: http://w3.abcd.harvard.edu/ai1ec_event/intro-to-mongodb/
On October 14, 2015, Michael Gill gave a presentation entitled "The Process of Communication, A Practical Guide for Project Managers." Communication is not about knowing the process. Communication is about managing the process. A successful project manager communicates effectively by setting and managing expectations throughout the lifecycle of a project and, by doing so, creates redundancy in a fluid industry. The importance of a simple and redundant communication framework cannot be overstated. Referencing my book, The Process of Communication, I will focus on the role of pre-production and the importance of Requirements Gathering, establishing a teams Level of Effort, communicating Assumptions and through the development of these tools establishing a realistic Timeline. I will speak about how all of these deliverables are used to manage clients expectations as obstacles arise and requirements change.
On October 8, 2014, Tania Schlatter gave a talk entitled "Visual Usability."
Visual Usability
Bringing graphic and UI design together
Following UI design guidelines can help you have a usable app. Working with a graphic designer can help you have an attractive app. The reality is that it’s hard to create something that’s both usable and appealing. The more complex or functional the app, the greater the challenge.
“Visual usability” is an approach to designing interfaces that bridge the gap between “works well” and “looks great.” In this talk, Tania will explain three design principles critical to successful UI design, and show how they can be used to help or hinder the design of digital applications.
Tania Schlatter is a designer, author, and lecturer. She combines user-centered and visual design expertise to design application interfaces that help people understand and use technology. She co-founded of Nimble Partners, a Boston experience design firm; co-authored Visual Usability, Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications; and teaches interactive design to students at Northeastern University in Boston.
Tania has worked with over 14 MIT offices, Tufts University, Endeca Technologies, catapult.org, cafepress.com, and real-time labor data software company Burning Glass Technologies. Formal study includes an M.Des. in human-centered communication design from the Institute of Design in Chicago; a summer with Paul Rand and Armin Hofmann in Brissago, Switzerland; and a BFA in graphic design from Boston University.
On April 10, 2013, Eric Mattison gave a talk on Tastypie: Easy APIs to Make Your Work Easier.
"Have you ever dealt with any of these problems:
- Unwieldy, Scary-to-Change Applications?
- Long Development Cycles?
- Replicated Code?
- Scope Creep?
- Restless Leg Syndrome?
Tastypie can help you solve these problems and more!”
"Flexible web publishing with Expression Engine". Delivered by Johannes Booy, Jeff Ausura, and Michael Witwicki of Booyant, on April 14th, 2010 at Lamont Library, Forum Room.
Talk presented at the April 2011 meeting of the Harvard CMS working group. Overview for Facebook open graph integration and the approaches taken at the Harvard Gazette.
On May 14th, 2014 David Marshall, Senior Web and Application Developer at the Harvard School of Public Health, gave a talk entitled "Responsive Design: Building for a Modern Web."
David is a senior web and application developer at the Harvard School of Public Health, where he is responsible for maintaining the main website and other web applications. He recently rebuilt the HSPH website to make its design responsive and to reduce page size and load times. His current work focuses on PHP development for the WordPress CMS as well as on CSS3 and HTML5. Prior to joining the web team at HSPH, David’s work as an independent contractor included founding Club Site Solutions, a company that developed specialized websites and online registration systems for private clubs.
On September 11th, 2013, Doug Roerdon, Vice President for User Experience Design Strategy, gave a talk entitled "Will my helicopter fit in your garage?" essentially a plea from “the rest of us,” whomever that may be. Over the past decade or so of creating user experiences in a digital world, the original 80-20 rule has silently and inadvertently become a fundamentally different 80 rule, where satisfying just 80% of users has somehow become acceptable. And it really isn’t, from user or business points of view. In fact, the 20% in many situations has shrunk in percentage but grown in importance.
Eric Mattison, Senior Analyst at Vertex Pharmaceuticals and former ABCD W3 co-chair, will explain how the Internet of Things (IoT) is being used to streamline scientific processes, shortening the time-to-market for life-saving drugs. The talk will include:
- What is IoT? Just another buzzword to get budget allocation from C-level executives, or an actual game-changer?
- How we got here: the technologies and economics that make IoT possible
- Implementations, large and small (the small ones are the most interesting)
Bio
Before selling out to almighty Mammon, Eric Mattison was an impoverished journeyman web serf here at Harvard, extolling the virtues of Python, Django and web APIs. Now a Senior Analyst at Vertex Pharmaceuticals, he works to streamline internal business processes using Python, Django and web APIs.
(This presentation occurred on October 11th, 2017)
(Note: This talk was given by Dorian Freeman on Wednesday, April 12, 2017 at Harvard University.)
Talk:
How are the apps and websites you work on perceived by the people who use them?
As content editors, designers, researchers, and developers, it’s hard not to focus on specific details in isolation rather than looking at the larger context. This makes it even more important to remember the mental models and expectations people have as influencing their perception of usability of your products.
What affects perception? How do you measure it? What happens if perceptions are not what you had anticipated?
Bio:
As User Experience Lead (Academic Technology / HUIT / HPAC / HWP), Dorian Freeman focuses on the user experience of the administrative interface of OpenScholar. She is founder of the Harvard UX Groupcommunity of practice, created to connect user experience practitioners at Harvard, now at close to 90 members. She also runs a working group to manage the community of practice, and currently teaches an IT Academy UX Fundamentals course* open to all staff. She joined Harvard in July 2013. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorianfreeman
Twitter: @dorianshmorian
5 Steps to (Remote) Team Bliss: How to Build Thriving, High-Performing (Remot...Harvard Web Working Group
Description: Jen will discuss tools and tips for evoking the best performance from every team member – even when they’re never in the same room! She’ll reveal how to be a superstar mentor and how to GTD so that teams run like well-oiled machines. In sum, this will be a talk about how anyone who leads teams can leverage the power of people skills to making a positive difference in the world.
Bio: An expert in the science of organizations, Dr. Jennifer Bunk has extensive experience teaching diverse audiences how to apply science to make workplaces better. She received her Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from the University of Connecticut in 2006. After 10 years in the academic world, she launched Jen Bunk Ventures and People Stack Academy. As a tech leadership coach, she helps tech managers build thriving, high-performing teams. She has also served a variety of organizations in Greater Boston including coding bootcamps and local meetup groups. http://peoplestackacademy.com http://jenbunk.com/
An Introduction to MongoDB
MongoDB is a rapidly growing noSQL database solution used by many major companies and favored by startups for its simple design and setup. Its greatest advantage is the ability to use the unstructured data type, BSON, which allows developers to avoid writing, maintaining and upgrading schema. Unlike some SQL options, it has scaling and redundancy built-in and allows for quick ad-hoc querying of any data. This talk will go over the basics of data insertion/retrieval, compare querying between SQL and MongoDB, work through some advanced queries like map/reduce and aggregation, and look at the more sophisticated features from a 10,000 ft view.
Bio: Matt Warren is a graduate of Northeastern University and has been working in Systems Administration and Engineering for 8 years. His career started at Smarter Travel Media and most recently he is working for Boston-based ground travel startup, Wanderu. He specializes in scaling solutions to handle the traffic loads of high performance, e-commerce websites. In September of 2015, he became organizer of the Boston MongoDB Meetup.
Event: http://w3.abcd.harvard.edu/ai1ec_event/intro-to-mongodb/
On October 14, 2015, Michael Gill gave a presentation entitled "The Process of Communication, A Practical Guide for Project Managers." Communication is not about knowing the process. Communication is about managing the process. A successful project manager communicates effectively by setting and managing expectations throughout the lifecycle of a project and, by doing so, creates redundancy in a fluid industry. The importance of a simple and redundant communication framework cannot be overstated. Referencing my book, The Process of Communication, I will focus on the role of pre-production and the importance of Requirements Gathering, establishing a teams Level of Effort, communicating Assumptions and through the development of these tools establishing a realistic Timeline. I will speak about how all of these deliverables are used to manage clients expectations as obstacles arise and requirements change.
On October 8, 2014, Tania Schlatter gave a talk entitled "Visual Usability."
Visual Usability
Bringing graphic and UI design together
Following UI design guidelines can help you have a usable app. Working with a graphic designer can help you have an attractive app. The reality is that it’s hard to create something that’s both usable and appealing. The more complex or functional the app, the greater the challenge.
“Visual usability” is an approach to designing interfaces that bridge the gap between “works well” and “looks great.” In this talk, Tania will explain three design principles critical to successful UI design, and show how they can be used to help or hinder the design of digital applications.
Tania Schlatter is a designer, author, and lecturer. She combines user-centered and visual design expertise to design application interfaces that help people understand and use technology. She co-founded of Nimble Partners, a Boston experience design firm; co-authored Visual Usability, Principles and Practices for Designing Digital Applications; and teaches interactive design to students at Northeastern University in Boston.
Tania has worked with over 14 MIT offices, Tufts University, Endeca Technologies, catapult.org, cafepress.com, and real-time labor data software company Burning Glass Technologies. Formal study includes an M.Des. in human-centered communication design from the Institute of Design in Chicago; a summer with Paul Rand and Armin Hofmann in Brissago, Switzerland; and a BFA in graphic design from Boston University.
Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience d...Harvard Web Working Group
On April 9th 2014, Mary Kennedy, User Experience, Product Design & Management expert, gave a talk entitled "Demystifying UX – A toolkit approach to better, cheaper & faster experience design."
UX / User Experience is booming as a practice and methodology. However, there is often misunderstanding and mystery around UX basic practices. Join us for a discussion of simple tools and processes to use as a reliable toolkit from project to project. Yes, they take time to complete but these practices in the early stages of design mean lower rates of change later in the project - translating to lower cost, faster timelines and more solid design decisions.
Michael Lowry, Design Director of Mobile at Fidelity Investments, presented "Every Screen is a Touchscreen" at Harvard ABCD's May 8th 2013 meeting. Summary: The era of the mouse and desktop is quickly fading yet many designers are still approaching user interfaces with dated design principles and patterns. Designers now need to account for a multitude of new device types and input methods. Michael exposes some of the complexities and opportunities of this new world and suggest that assuming all screens are touchscreens is a necessary first-step to a successful web design.
Title: Open Scholar as a Drupal Platform
Speaker: The Open Scholar Team
Date: Wednesday, 2/20/2013 (3rd Wednesday of the month)
Time: 12:00-1:30
Location: CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Bowie-Vernon Room (K262)
For more information about Open Scholar please visit, http://openscholar.harvard.edu/
Jumpstart Your Web App
Presented by Ari Rizzitano on
July 11th, 2012
Just about everyone has an idea for a web app, whether you want to implement a business tool, found a startup, or just host a fun project. Learn how to tackle design and technical challenges, take advantage of best practices, power through obstacles, and grow your idea into a successful application.
Jason Robb presented "Draw more, talk less" on May 9, 2012
A hands-on sketching workshop for managers, developers, designers, and pretty much anybody with hands and eyes.
During the workshop we learned:
- Why sketching is so important
- More than just the basics of sketching interfaces and interactions
- Integrating sketching into your workflow
- How to get your colleagues to draw more (and talk less)
- And if we have time, how to draw an owl
Bio:
Jason is an independent designer and illustrator. He builds prototypes, designs websites and web apps, and creates large-scale visual notes at conferences. He's worked for a bunch of design agencies and startups. And he thinks you're just swell.
On April 11th, 2012, Mat Marquis gave a presentation to the ABCD WWW group on An Introduction to jQuery Mobile.
Learn how to use jQuery Mobile to build dynamic HTML5-based web sites
and apps that work on all popular mobile platforms. We’ll go over the
basics of using the framework and discuss ways we can use it to create
compelling experiences that span smartphone, tablet, and desktop
devices from a single unified codebase.
Mat "Wilto" Marquis is a designer-slash-developer working at Filament
Group in Boston. Mat is a member of the jQuery Mobile team, technical
editor at A List Apart, and an active member of the open source
community. He's probably flipping out about something on Twitter as we
speak.
Zeega is an open-source HTML5 platform for creating interactive documentaries, open archives and inventing new forms of storytelling. Zeega makes it easy to collaboratively produce, curate and publish participatory multimedia projects online, on mobile devices and in physical spaces. Zeega is in early alpha. http://zeega.org/
Presenter: Raman Prasad
Abstract: Creating custom data models (similar to "content types" in Drupal) can quickly become complicated. Data that looks like it will fit into 1 database table might actually need 4 tables--or 34. Django, a python based web framework, excels as a method of creating relational database tables, providing comprehensive administrative pages for users, and pulling the data out again in a variety of formats.
Django may be used for large systems, but it's also suitable for small projects. This presentation will cover very basic Django models in the context of moving office data from spreadsheets to online databases.
This presentation provided some helpful content about technical approach and context about how HPAC organized the business end to execute this web project. Capturing the business goals remains the critical first step; requirements provide an important starting point but must also retain the flexibility to deliver on the underlying business goals.
This presentation provided some helpful content about technical approach and context about how HPAC organized the business end to execute this web project. Capturing the business goals remains the critical first step; requirements provide an important starting point but must also retain the flexibility to deliver on the underlying business goals.