Recap: 25 User Experience (UX) Lessons from Hollywood
In January we were lucky enough to have Steve Tengler give a talk to a joint meeting between Refresh Detroit and the Michigan Usability Professionals’ Association. His talk built off his ongoing series of articles which explore user experience lessons from actors: Five … Continue reading →
Recap: Brad Colbow – It’s the little things
Last week we were lucky enough to have Brad Colbow talk about designing interfaces for mobile devices. Brad has extensive experience explaining usability and produces a Web comic called “The Brads.” The Presentation Notes from the meeting: Brad works from home … Continue reading →
Recap: Share Your Favorite Application Night
At tonight’s Refresh Detroit meeting, we had an excellent time talking about and sharing our favorite tools and applications. While we didn’t have big attendance at the meeting, our discussion lasted almost two hours. We took time to demo several … Continue reading →
Recap: The Tricky Business of Website Testing
You might think software testing would be a bit of dry topic but Christopher Martello’s talk at the November Refresh Detroit meeting was far from it. Chris gave us a look at what website testing is, who does it, why … Continue reading →
Recap: Contracts, What You Need to Know
It was a pleasure to have attorney Mary Novrocki speak at Refresh Detroit again, she last spoke to our group about freelance legal issues in spring 2009. Mary started her talk with background on contracts and why they’re important for … Continue reading →
Recap: Taking the Bulldog to 30,000 Unique Monthly Visitors
Thanks to everyone who came out July 17 to hear Dave Lingholm present and celebrate our five-year anniversary. Dave discussed the Detroit Regional News Hub and how their focus on building relationships, both online and offline, has led to success. … Continue reading →
Recap: Web Design Process… More or Less
For our July meeting we were lucky enough to have Colleen Case and Maria Gosur from Schoolcraft College to talk about the Web Design Process. The talk was about a framework for the web design process, taking 45 hours of teaching time and … Continue reading →
Recap: May PhoneGap Meeting
For our May meeting, Erik Daniel presented PhoneGap and his experience writing mobile websites how to transition them to native applications. What is PhoneGap? PhoneGap is an HTML5 app platform that allows you to author native applications with web technologies … Continue reading →
Recap: March Demo Night
For our March meeting, Refresh Detroit held a demo night where we invited anyone to show off their work, the work of others or anything really that others can learn from. We had four demos: Stephen Sadler from Buztweet Brent … Continue reading →
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