January Meeting: Google Analytics & User Experience

Date: January 13th, 7pm
Location: Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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Translating Google Analytics Data Into Marketing Metrics

Presented by Chad Brustin
Are you having difficulty making sense of all the data contained in your website report? In this presentation we will make the connection between website data and marketing goals. We will share a variety of goals to help you create a dashboard for monitoring your site and making ‘data driven’ updates. We will also look at a few good ‘off the shelf’ tools that can help you make better sense of the data including: goal creation, custom reports.

Presentation Slides: Translating Google Analytics Into Marketing Metrics

Kickstarting User Experience: Tools and Practices

Presented by Alex Jones
The term “user experience” is bandied about a lot these days, and while every aspect of Web sites and apps have an impact on the experience, it can be hard to plan ahead if you don’t know the tools that are available. We’ll cover the general concepts of the process I use when working on a new project and discuss alternate methods and tools throughout. As we wrap up the presentation, we’ll cover useful methods for integrating the process into development cycles and how to balance the needs of the user with those of the business.

Presentation Slides: Kickstarting UX

June Meeting

June 10th, 7:00 p.m.
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

200s, 304s, HTTP Compression, And You
Mark Phillip will cover YSlow-esque principles around caching, using Last-Modified and Expired headers, and efficient ways to publish APIs.”

Design Roundtable: Steal What Works: Examples of Good Design
Alex Jones will start a discussion that highlights five to ten examples of interfaces, crafty design touches or brilliant interactions found on the Web. We need samples, so if you have a minute and know of a good example, please e-mail Alex (alex [at] silverspider [dot] com) with a couple pieces of information:
- URL of the page that the example appears
- A description of the example, especially describing how it can be recreated
- Two or three bullet points as to why you like it.

Can’t make the meeting? That’s okay, you can still send a suggestion – we’ll post all of them on the Refresh Austin site after the meeting.

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