Our Meetings…
June 16, 2009 at 7:00 PM
Springtime Social
It's Spring! Is your skin too pasty or does it have a greenish glow to it? Get off your computer and meet other geeks face to face!
We've all be working hard - or have been cooped up thanks to snow and other Cleveland weather conditions. It's time to get out of the house and meet other geeks who enjoy what they do. What better way than over food and beverages?
Where
Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
2000 Sycamore St # 260, Cleveland, OH 44113
May 5, 2009 at 6:30 PM
Freelance & Startup Panel
What does it take to start a company? How do you find clients? Do I have to quit my job? This month a panel of professional freelancers and entrepreneurs will be taking your questions and talking about their experiences starting up and going solo at the Cleveland Web Standards Association.
Who
Craig Minch http://www.minchdesign.com/
Craig has been honing his design and markup skills in the professional world since 1999. He got his start in the agency/consulting environment and worked his way up the chain before branching out on his own in 2006. Craig has been supporting, practicing and advocating web standards while building W3C compliant XHTML and CSS since its inception.
Dan Ott http://www.dtott.com/
Dan is an independent contractor out of Bloomington, Indiana. He has worked for the past 5 years in the web development field, and full-time for the last year and a half. He has experience in back-end work like PHP and MySQL (and front-end javascript/AJAX), but his true passion is XHTML and CSS. He lives for the green bar on the W3C validator.
Joe Walters http://rightclickmarketing.net/
Senior Manager and Founder at Right Click Marketing & Management.
Lori Boos http://boosdesigngroup.com/
Lori worked for large and mid-size corporations including, American Greetings, Blonder Home Accents, and State Industrial Products before embarking on her freelance career. Lori is active in the design community as a chapter board member for AIGA, the professional association for design. She is Treasurer for the Cleveland chapter.
Where
Progressive Insurance
6300 Wilson Mills Road, Cleveland, OH 44143
April 7, 2009 at 6:30 PM
A Programmers Guide to the User Experience
What would happen if programmers let the people who actually use an application design the user experience? It is often assumed that the people who engineer the software are the ones who should dictate how it is used. People who design fantastic user interfaces are those who are passionate about what kind of experience people have while using an application.
Josh Walsh will share fundamental concepts behind great user experiences.
- Deciding what the main focus of the screen is.
- Emphasizing priority by using greyscale and blurring the design.
- Removing elements which aren’t necessary (most of what you think is important actually isn’t).
- Making features prove themselves to be important by telling simple stories.
After quickly reviewing those points, Josh will illustrate the concepts by building a new interface in real time.
Who
Josh Walsh http://madeforpeople.net/
Josh is “the guy you call when something is hard to use.” He is an award winning user experience designer, interaction designer and usability trainer. His work spans from one-man startup companies to large applications for the Fortune 100–from elementary school students to leading surgeons. He currently serves as a founding partner at Designing Interactive, a software development company in Cleveland, Ohio.
Where
Lean Dog
1151 North Marginal Road, Cleveland, OH 44114
