Digital Sketching with Remote Users, Clients, and Peers, World IA Day DC 2016Anthony D. Paul
Anthony D Paul is the Director of User Experience who uses various tools like Balsamiq, Axure, Sketch, Photoshop, and InVision in his work. He emphasizes natural collaboration that is organic, unplanned, and improvisational using multi-modal and tactile methods. The tools he recommends provide benefits like native versioning, user permissions, offline mode, and low learning barriers. He closes by providing his contact details across Google Hangouts, video equipment, sketching apps, websites and social media for further discussions.
Lean UX Without Skimping on the Meat: Assembling Better Project Requirements
In today’s project feature debates, you and your web team hash out priorities based on budgets, timelines, and what one of the clients mentioned in passing. Ignoring the larger context of the design problem, the team focuses on the current list of edits—and rallying for the user is lost in the shuffle. In this session, you’ll be introduced to a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create value statements that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.
Attendees should walk away with:
1. A method for breaking complex design problems into smaller problems without losing awareness of surroundings
2. A skeleton for assembling more effective, yet lightweight use-cases to audit against
3. A means to debate the validity of your decisions (and win) This session is designed for web professionals of all levels and skillsets—including design, development, and content planning.
It’s not required, but a writing utensil is recommended.
Collaborative Design Without an Office - Mobile UXCamp DC 2014Anthony D. Paul
The document discusses collaborative design without an office, mentioning tools like Tasking, Communication, GoTo Hangout, IM protocols, GitHub, and shorthand terms. It also notes a speaker at a conference next weekend and that the company is hiring for UX wireframers and UI developers.
Lean Requirements Without Skimping on the Meat - WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Anthony D. Paul
In today’s website feature debates, you and your team hash out priorities based on budgets, timelines, and what one of the clients mentioned in passing, ignoring the larger context of the design problem. We focus on the current list of edits–and rallying for the user is lost in the shuffle. In this session, you’ll be introduced to a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create success goals that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.
ATTENDEES SHOULD WALK AWAY WITH:
- A method for breaking complex design problems into smaller problems without losing awareness of larger project needs
- A skeleton for assembling more effective, yet lightweight use-cases to audit against
- Ammunition to debate the validity of your decisions (and win)
This session is designed for web professionals of all levels and skillsets–including design, development, and content planning. It’s not required, but a writing utensil is recommended.
Agility Recovery - Dec Marketing Update - 12 days of preparednessTaylor Busby
This document outlines a 5 email December marketing campaign called "12 Days of Preparedness" that sends preparedness tips and information over 12 days to opted-in recipients. The campaign includes an initial invite email, four emails with holiday tips and links to educational documents, and a final email with an infographic summarizing all 12 days of content. Templates for the campaign emails can be found in the company's sales email folder.
Rapid Prototyping with WordPress Page Builders - WordCamp Asheville 2016 - an...Anthony D. Paul
There are many popular page builders out there—CornerStone, Beaver Builder, Site Origin’s “Page Builder,” Velocity Page, Themify, Divi, and more. Some are free. Others have multiple price tiers. This session won’t get into the ins and outs of which are best for production code, but I’ll demo a couple I’ve found helpful for quick turnaround projects.
In this talk, I’ll take a couple of my favorite page builders and show you why I like them, why I feel they’re good for your clients, and how to use them as a foundation for your own UI prototyping library.
Take aways:
• The benefits of using theme builders outside of the typical development process.
• How to get started and what to focus on.
• How to build a reusable toolkit to save time on future projects.
War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon - WordCamp Baltimore 2015Anthony D. Paul
Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it.
In this talk, I’ll share how a work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as professionals who want to impress their clients when presenting online.
Digital Sketching with Remote Users, Clients, and Peers, World IA Day DC 2016Anthony D. Paul
Anthony D Paul is the Director of User Experience who uses various tools like Balsamiq, Axure, Sketch, Photoshop, and InVision in his work. He emphasizes natural collaboration that is organic, unplanned, and improvisational using multi-modal and tactile methods. The tools he recommends provide benefits like native versioning, user permissions, offline mode, and low learning barriers. He closes by providing his contact details across Google Hangouts, video equipment, sketching apps, websites and social media for further discussions.
Lean UX Without Skimping on the Meat: Assembling Better Project Requirements
In today’s project feature debates, you and your web team hash out priorities based on budgets, timelines, and what one of the clients mentioned in passing. Ignoring the larger context of the design problem, the team focuses on the current list of edits—and rallying for the user is lost in the shuffle. In this session, you’ll be introduced to a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create value statements that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.
Attendees should walk away with:
1. A method for breaking complex design problems into smaller problems without losing awareness of surroundings
2. A skeleton for assembling more effective, yet lightweight use-cases to audit against
3. A means to debate the validity of your decisions (and win) This session is designed for web professionals of all levels and skillsets—including design, development, and content planning.
It’s not required, but a writing utensil is recommended.
Collaborative Design Without an Office - Mobile UXCamp DC 2014Anthony D. Paul
The document discusses collaborative design without an office, mentioning tools like Tasking, Communication, GoTo Hangout, IM protocols, GitHub, and shorthand terms. It also notes a speaker at a conference next weekend and that the company is hiring for UX wireframers and UI developers.
Lean Requirements Without Skimping on the Meat - WordCamp Minneapolis 2015Anthony D. Paul
In today’s website feature debates, you and your team hash out priorities based on budgets, timelines, and what one of the clients mentioned in passing, ignoring the larger context of the design problem. We focus on the current list of edits–and rallying for the user is lost in the shuffle. In this session, you’ll be introduced to a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create success goals that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.
ATTENDEES SHOULD WALK AWAY WITH:
- A method for breaking complex design problems into smaller problems without losing awareness of larger project needs
- A skeleton for assembling more effective, yet lightweight use-cases to audit against
- Ammunition to debate the validity of your decisions (and win)
This session is designed for web professionals of all levels and skillsets–including design, development, and content planning. It’s not required, but a writing utensil is recommended.
Agility Recovery - Dec Marketing Update - 12 days of preparednessTaylor Busby
This document outlines a 5 email December marketing campaign called "12 Days of Preparedness" that sends preparedness tips and information over 12 days to opted-in recipients. The campaign includes an initial invite email, four emails with holiday tips and links to educational documents, and a final email with an infographic summarizing all 12 days of content. Templates for the campaign emails can be found in the company's sales email folder.
Rapid Prototyping with WordPress Page Builders - WordCamp Asheville 2016 - an...Anthony D. Paul
There are many popular page builders out there—CornerStone, Beaver Builder, Site Origin’s “Page Builder,” Velocity Page, Themify, Divi, and more. Some are free. Others have multiple price tiers. This session won’t get into the ins and outs of which are best for production code, but I’ll demo a couple I’ve found helpful for quick turnaround projects.
In this talk, I’ll take a couple of my favorite page builders and show you why I like them, why I feel they’re good for your clients, and how to use them as a foundation for your own UI prototyping library.
Take aways:
• The benefits of using theme builders outside of the typical development process.
• How to get started and what to focus on.
• How to build a reusable toolkit to save time on future projects.
War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon - WordCamp Baltimore 2015Anthony D. Paul
Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it.
In this talk, I’ll share how a work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as professionals who want to impress their clients when presenting online.
War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon - WordCamp NYC 2015Anthony D. Paul
Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it.
In this talk, I’ll share how our work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as freelancers who want to impress their clients.
Example 1 - Diagrams - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FIq-t-1tZHKE7QECazdGJUsWsy21oEKC9JWxQBNbx2s/edit?usp=sharing
Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWPylj-Lf_5PVwN0n9-ZRRuOmbfgLT1QknAlU6YET6U/edit?usp=sharing
Example 3 - Sketching Studio - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwCvjvxuYFMXs_T_iY3K1v8ZUB-XfLX12EDTd_xRvE0/edit?usp=sharing
Example 4 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QYCTAHNOfyuMtVpnJoGlGsGfyh3DGMOT67Dsmk9WvAI/edit?usp=sharing
Organizing Your First Website Usability Test - WordCamp Boston 2016Anthony D. Paul
You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.
In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.
Plan 100 is a viable stimulus for the economic crisis affecting our country. It centers around the idea that if taxpayer money is going to be used for a bailout, then it should be invested intelligently, with complete transparency, with local people and with respect to taxpayers as the investors they are.
Organizing Your First Website Usability Test - WordCamp Lancaster 2016Anthony D. Paul
You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.
In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.
Joomla for PHP Developers (ditching com_content)Anthony D. Paul
Presented at DC PHP Meetup, 10/10/2011
We'll take a look at Joomla from the developer perspective, setting aside the typical configurer process and instead introduce the custom component structure, where to put your function libraries, a better theme format, core modifications for a better UX and more.
Bringing Order to a Content Hoarder - Cornell Drupal Camp 2016 - part 3Anthony D. Paul
When timid users step up to your site and are spooked by the ghosts of content past, or those who dare to enter become lost in a maze of composted navigation, a dusting just won’t fix the years/decades of content rot. You know you need to pull everything out to figure out what you have, what to keep, and what to toss—but that can be a daunting and overwhelming endeavor.
In this talk, I’ll equip you with the tools and approaches you’ll need to face the overwhelming content beast head-on, to organize it in a way that is not only useful to your visitors, but actually feels welcoming. This talk introduces information architecture techniques, best suited for site owners, designers, freelancers, or small teams lacking dedicated content strategists.
• Audit a complex site to understand what content exists.
• Understand the variety of IA document types and which to use when.
• Create documents that help drive content review and decision-making.
• Promote a positive user experience and overall design through better content organization.
Research and Development of a Comprehensive Wayfinding System for The Ohio St...Anthony D. Paul
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.
War Room Collaboration Across the Internet Canyon - WordCamp NYC 2015Anthony D. Paul
Working remotely can feel creatively isolating. Switching from a brick-and-mortar agency, to pants-optional sounds awesome—but if you’re accustomed to joining a coworker at the whiteboard, to hammer out a UI concept over marker fumes, you’ll agree the back and forth in GitHub/Slack channels doesn’t cut it.
In this talk, I’ll share how our work-from-home team overcomes technical and social hurdles, to mirror natural, in-person creative ideation (sketching, wireframing, etc.) with a mashup of hardware and cloud tools. This talk is best for teams allowing or considering telework, as well as freelancers who want to impress their clients.
Example 1 - Diagrams - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1FIq-t-1tZHKE7QECazdGJUsWsy21oEKC9JWxQBNbx2s/edit?usp=sharing
Example 2 - Remote Interview Tool - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1EWPylj-Lf_5PVwN0n9-ZRRuOmbfgLT1QknAlU6YET6U/edit?usp=sharing
Example 3 - Sketching Studio - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vwCvjvxuYFMXs_T_iY3K1v8ZUB-XfLX12EDTd_xRvE0/edit?usp=sharing
Example 4 - Wireframes with IXD Concepts - https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1QYCTAHNOfyuMtVpnJoGlGsGfyh3DGMOT67Dsmk9WvAI/edit?usp=sharing
Organizing Your First Website Usability Test - WordCamp Boston 2016Anthony D. Paul
You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.
In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.
Plan 100 is a viable stimulus for the economic crisis affecting our country. It centers around the idea that if taxpayer money is going to be used for a bailout, then it should be invested intelligently, with complete transparency, with local people and with respect to taxpayers as the investors they are.
Organizing Your First Website Usability Test - WordCamp Lancaster 2016Anthony D. Paul
You’ve built a shiny, new WordPress site. You asked your grandma and your client if they like it and they both do. However, you’re lying awake at night wondering if you’re missing something—because you know you’re not the end user. You yearn for actionable feedback.
In this talk, I’ll distill my background in usability research into a how-to framework for taking your site and conducting your first moderated usability test. I’ll cover what to look for, best practices in facilitation, tools on the cheap, and how to glean the most from a brief window of time.
Joomla for PHP Developers (ditching com_content)Anthony D. Paul
Presented at DC PHP Meetup, 10/10/2011
We'll take a look at Joomla from the developer perspective, setting aside the typical configurer process and instead introduce the custom component structure, where to put your function libraries, a better theme format, core modifications for a better UX and more.
Bringing Order to a Content Hoarder - Cornell Drupal Camp 2016 - part 3Anthony D. Paul
When timid users step up to your site and are spooked by the ghosts of content past, or those who dare to enter become lost in a maze of composted navigation, a dusting just won’t fix the years/decades of content rot. You know you need to pull everything out to figure out what you have, what to keep, and what to toss—but that can be a daunting and overwhelming endeavor.
In this talk, I’ll equip you with the tools and approaches you’ll need to face the overwhelming content beast head-on, to organize it in a way that is not only useful to your visitors, but actually feels welcoming. This talk introduces information architecture techniques, best suited for site owners, designers, freelancers, or small teams lacking dedicated content strategists.
• Audit a complex site to understand what content exists.
• Understand the variety of IA document types and which to use when.
• Create documents that help drive content review and decision-making.
• Promote a positive user experience and overall design through better content organization.
Research and Development of a Comprehensive Wayfinding System for The Ohio St...Anthony D. Paul
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive functioning. Exercise boosts blood flow, releases endorphins, and promotes changes in the brain which help regulate emotions and stress levels.