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Accessibility is Not a Checklist: A UX Designer’s Guide to Creating Accessible Interfaces Too often, people approach accessibility only when required to, and simply by looking at a checklist. That approach rarely works, or it does so only at great additional cost. But accessibility is not a checklist; accessibility happens by considering it from the
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This month, our own Wren Lanier will share her experience on The StartupBus, a 3-day, 1,800 mile startup bootcamp in which teams of hackers, hipsters, and hustlers launch companies at 70mph and compete for a chance to pitch to investors and venture capitalists at SxSW. Learn more about The StartupBus here: http://www.businessinsider.com/being-stuck-on-a-bus-at-60-miles-per-hour-for-3-days-changed-their-lives-2012-2 When: Wednesday, March
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Destroying the Box: Experience Design Inspiration from Frank Lloyd Wright “When we said we wanted a house at Bear Creek,” client Lillian Kaufmann said to Frank Lloyd Wright, “we didn’t imagine you would build it ON the creek!” To which Wright replied, “In time you’d grow tired of the sight of creek…but you’ll never grow
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Join us as Wren Lanier gives us a sneak peek of her edUi Conference presentation, Sophisticated Web Design: What makes a great design better than a good design? How do award-winning sites achieve the polish that sets them apart? This session will review a variety of visual design practices that elevate sites beyond the ordinary.
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Please join the Richmond User Experience group for a special presentation by Jeff Gothelf, Director if User Experience at TheLadders.com. Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business Traditionally User Experience Design has been a deliverables practice. Wireframes, sitemaps, flow diagrams, content inventories, taxonomies and “The Spec” defined the practice of UX Designers (IxD, UX
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Come join your fellow RUX members for some drinks and fellowship! We’ll be talking about upcoming meetings and looking for ideas, so we’d love your input! When: Wednesday, June 30 6-8pm Where: Xtra’s Cafe 3322 B W. Cary St Richmond, VA 23221 Everyone is welcome!
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Just Do It! How Making Something Every Day Will Make You a Better Designer In June 2007, designer Noah Scalin decided he would make a skull out of orange paper. This simple creative act turned out to be the first step in a long journey of discovery and craftsmanship. Noah made a skull every day
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Join us on November 17 for the next installment of the RUX Book Club! We’ll be discussing A Project Guide To UX Design (http://projectuxd.com/) by Russ Unger, who will be joining us via Skype at 6! This is a great chance to interact with one of most well known User Experience authors as well as
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Cookin’ Personas: Improvising a Successful Recipe Join us Wednesday, October 27 at 6pm for this fun and informative session on how to make your personas better! When: Wednesday, October 27 from 6-7:30pm Where: Ironworks Consulting, 10900 Nuckols Road, Ste 400, Glen Allen (please note- this is the NEW Ironworks office, not the old location on
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Please join us for the RUX book club as we discuss The Design of Everyday Things by Donald Norman. This is an informal, laid back conversation around this easy to read book that parlays our interest in user experience as it relates to the world around us. Anyone who designs anything to be used by
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