Workshops
Thursday, Sept. 11th
- 8:00am - 9:00am
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Registration
- 9:00am - 12:30pm
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C-Speak: Presenting UX To Deciders
User Experience Track
Angel AndersonCrispin Porter + Bogusky -
Interface Animations Workshop
Design Track
Mark GeyerSalesforce -
Getting to know Sass
Front-End Track
Claudina SaraheOddBird -
Microsoft Azure Hands On
Back-End Track
Mark WilsonLogical Advantage
- 12:30pm - 2:00pm
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Lunch
- 2:00pm - 5:30pm
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Think like them: Solving UX Problems
User Experience Track
Jessie ShternshusThe Improv Effect -
Designing Killer Apps & Websites Using Photoshop
Design Track
Paul TraniAdobe -
Hands-on with Polymer
Front-End Track
Michael LabriolaDigital Primates
Michelle YaiserAdobe -
Rangular: Blending Rails and Angular for Enterprise Applications
Back-End Track
Adam HunterTax Management Associates
Conference Day
Friday, Sept. 12th
- 8:00am - 8:45am
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Registration
- 8:45am - 9:00am
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Opening Remarks
- 9:00am - 9:30am
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The Future of Interfaces to Government
Keynote
Jennifer PahlkaCode for America
- 9:45am - 10:30am
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Digital Fluency and User Experience
User Experience Track
J. CorneliusNine Labs -
Responsive Typography
Design Track
Clarissa PetersonPeterson/Kandy -
Modern Layouts: Getting Out of Our Ruts
Front-End Track
Jen SimmonsThe Web Ahead -
Beyond MVC
Back-End Track
Alex GaynorRackspace
- 10:45am - 11:30am
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Designing for Love
User Experience Track
Scott StroudNPR -
Take a Deep Breath: We're All in This Together
Design Track
Laura Helen WinnSmart Design -
Responsive Email Design and Tooling
Front-End Track
Dan DennyEnvy Labs -
To The Moon And Back: Taking the Leap Towards Solving Big Problems
Back-End Track
Julia Elman
- 11:45am - 12:30pm
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Design for the One Little Thing that Changes Everything
User Experience Track
Pamela PavliscakChange Sciences -
Learnings from Collaborating across UX and Design
Design Track
Anton RepponenFi
Irene PereyraFi -
Teaching with JavaScript
Front-End Track
Martha GirdlerUber -
API Anecdotes and Aspirations
Back-End Track
Jason HunterRed Ventures
- 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Lunch
- 2:00pm - 2:45pm
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My Handbook
User Experience Track
Mark BoultonMark Boulton Design -
Good Design for Good Reason
Design Track
Netta MarshallWatsi -
Ain't No Party Like A Third-Party JS Party
Front-End Track
Rebecca MurpheyBazaarVoice -
Azure for non-Microsoft People
Back-End Track
Scott HanselmanMicrosoft
- 3:00pm - 3:45pm
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More Than UI: How the Brand Plays a Role in the User Experience
User Experience Track
Jason TothViget -
Work is the Magic Bullet
Design Track
Greg HoyHappy Cog -
Falling in Love with Forms
Front-End Track
Aaron GustafsonEasy Designs -
Full-Stack Clojure
Back-End Track
Clinton DreisbachThe Iron Yard
- 4:00pm - 4:45pm
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How to Make Sense of Any Mess
User Experience Track
Abby CovertIA Institute -
Start at the Top: Getting Your First Design Job in Tech
Design Track
Allison House -
SVG is for Everybody
Front-End Track
Chris CoyierCodepen -
Applications, Languages, and Libraries
Back-End Track
Steve KlabnikFreelance, Mozilla
- 5:00pm - 5:30pm
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JavaScript, The Cloud, and the rise of the New Virtual Machine
Keynote
Scott HanselmanMicrosoft
Blend Day
Saturday, Sept. 13th
- 8:00am - 8:45am
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Registration
- 8:45am - 9:00am
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Opening Remarks
- 9:00am - 9:30am
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Black Girls Code
Keynote
Kimberly BryantBlack Girls Code
- 9:45am - 10:30am
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Love & Trust – What we know about relationships holds true in products
User Experience Track
Ben LehnertWunderlist
Cat NooneLiberio -
Process, Poetics and Performance
Design Track
Sougwen ChungFreelance -
Shepherding Unicorns: How to be a Good Web Mentor
Front-End Track
Jen MyersDev Bootcamp -
The Web Developer's Toolbag
Back-End Track
Moses NgoneNine Labs
- 10:45am - 11:30am
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Sell Your Story, Grow Your Business: How to Create Engaging Content That Attracts and Converts
User Experience Track
Michelle SalaterSūmèr Copywriting -
How to Do Great Work Without Losing Your Shirt (and Soul)
Design Track
Brad WeaverNine Labs -
Simple Accessibility: The Bare Minimum for Compassionate Development
Front-End Track
Melissa Avery-WeirFuture Proof Games -
Hardware for a Soft World
Back-End Track
Stacey MulcahyMicrosoft
- 11:45am - 12:30pm
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Digital Adaptation – Time to Untie your Hands
User Experience Track
Paul BoagHeadscape -
Designing for Clients: Working Together For The Health of the Project
Design Track
Sophie ShepherdHappy Cog -
You, Me & the Future of Online Video
Front-End Track
Darcy ClarkeBlanche -
Building OSS-Centric Companies (and why you want to)
Back-End Track
Leah SilberTilde Inc
- 12:30pm - 1:45pm
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Lunch
- 2:00pm - 2:45pm
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Polishing Your Content Publishing Process
User Experience Track
Lisa Maria MartinIndependent Content Strategist -
Designing for a Brand Aware-less Customer
Design Track
Nora RichardsonSpot-on Branding -
Sass Map Magic
Front-End Track
Eric M SuzanneOddbird -
Building Modern Web Applications with Meteor
Back-End Track
Mark ShropshireClassic Graphics
- 3:00pm - 3:45pm
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How Usable Are You?
User Experience Track
Heather O'NeillPixels for Humans -
The Creation of a Brand
Design Track
Christy HarnerBinary Ventures -
Lessons Learned from Teaching Thousands of People to Code
Front-End Track
Heather PayneHackerYou -
Reaching asynchronous cloud nine in JavaScript
Back-End Track
Garrett JohnsonSegment.io
- 4:00pm - 4:45pm
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Interface Writing: Code for Humans
User Experience Track
Nicole FentonSwell Content -
Neuromarketing: The Next Generation of Customer Intelligence
Design Track
Diana LucaciTrue Impact -
Web Designer/ Motion Designer
Front-End Track
Val HeadLadies in Tech -
Team Communication Through Code
Back-End Track
Rachel OberPaperless Post
- 5:00pm - 5:15pm
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Closing Remarks
- 5:15pm - 5:45pm
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How Designers Destroyed the World
Keynote
Mike MonteiroMule Design
- 7:00pm
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After Party
