Cool Design & UX Talks We’ll Catch at DrupalCon
We love to see more web design and UX talks popping up at DrupalCon each year. And we’re particularly excited that our own Samantha Warren is helping to lead that trend publicly. She’ll be presenting twice on March 9 at DrupalCon in Chicago, so you can catch her:
- At 11 AM, when she will give a solo presentation called “Avoiding a Frankenstein Website Design: Collaborating with Clients.” The name isn’t a bash against clients who want “a little bit of this and a little bit of that” if designers show several gorgeous choices. But it is intended to help designers -- and anyone else who has been in the uncomfortable position of mixing two or more different design aesthetics to please a client -- better create, explain, and present work in a way that helps to prevent requests for “Frankenstein Website Designs.” We think this will be a good session for PMs, too, who may sometimes be caught in the middle of moderating client and designer communications on this type of topic.
- At 2:15 PM, when she will join a panel discussion called “Design Thinking.” She’ll be surrounded by other renowned leaders in the open-source industry, including UX Expert Steve Fisher and Lullabot’s Chief UX Leader Jared Ponchot. Together, they’ll chat about systems and processes they use to enhance their own designs day-to-day, which translates into increased brand awareness, more sales, and/or a greater sense of aesthetic success. (We all could use a bit of inspirational talk here and there, and this panel will deliver just that.)
All the design/UX track presentations this year sound awesome, but there are several that seem like they’ll provide awesome brain food applicable to our work on a daily basis (particularly with enterprise-level publishers and government clients). Those sessions include:
- Baby Got Backend: Content Administrators Are Users, Too. (Well said!) -- By Karen McGrane and Jeff Eaton
- Don’t Design Websites, Design Web Systems -- By Todd Ross Nienkirk and Adam Snetman
- Free and Open Source Tools for Integrating Web Accessibility into the Design Process -- By jongund
- From Usability to UX Strategy -- By Leisa Reichelt
- Visual Hierarchy 1, 2, 3: This MUST Be Important! -- By Jared Ponchot
We hope to see you there!
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