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September: TextMate-fu & Breaking eCommerce Sterotypes

August 31, 2010 By 1 Comment

Event Details

7:00 – 9:00p.m. Tuesday, September 14th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

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We have two great rubber-meets-the-road presentations. One focuses on Textmate, one of the most popular editors on the Mac with a big reputation for powerful customization; the other focuses on the user experience of effective e/commerce.

TextMate-fu

Presented by Steve Stedman

TextMate is the quintessential Mac app–simple, capable, magical. Beneath its deceptively quiet interface lies one insanely potent text editor. In this hour,… we’ll take a closer look at TextMate, its environment, and its bundled productivity-enhancers. Beyond that we’ll create our own magical incantations via snippets, macros, and commands. At talk’s-end, we’ll have some new fu and a deeper appreciation for this elegantly powerful IDE.

Breaking eCommerce Sterotypes

Presented by Adam McCombs and Robert Banh of McCombs Creative

eCommerce has gotten a bad reputation. From the cheesy, unusable and sometimes un-trustworthy, designers and developers need to put a stop to terrible eCommerce websites. Just because you are selling product doesn’t mean the website can’t be full of personality. Join us for a look at a few case studies of effective eCommcerce websites that keep the fun in eCommerce. We’ll take a look at best practices as well as some do’s and dont’s for your next eCommerce website.

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July Meeting: An Overview of Usability + Two Short Demos

July 8, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Event Details

7:00 – 9:00p.m. July 14th
Buffalo Billiards, 6th and Brazos

An Overview of Usability

The newly restarted Austin chapter of the Usability Professionals Association will present on Usability and how it fits into business and development processes. There will be a brief overview of usability followed by an open discussion where we will take audience questions, share strategies, and learn from each other.

Demo Slots

We’re going to try a small experiment during this meeting – giving two members a chance to demo their product and gather feedback from other members. Each demo will last up to 5 minutes and will be followed by 10 minutes for questions and suggestions. The key here is that you’ll have a chance to gather the thoughts and ideas of your colleagues, this isn’t a pitch session.

Interested in presenting? E-mail me off list with the name of the product and the type of feedback you are seeking and we’ll set things up. If you can’t demo during this meeting, don’t worry, if we get a lot of responses we’ll use this format for a longer meeting.

Books

We will also have a couple of books to give away courtesy of O’Reilly and Peachpit.

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January Meeting: Google Analytics & User Experience

December 31, 2008 By 2 Comments

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

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February 2008 Meeting: Grids in Depth & Intro to Rails

February 1, 2008 By 2 Comments

We have an info-packed meeting on February 12, chock-full of design and development goodness. Grant Hutchins will cover the use of Grids for design, showing you the ins and outs of their usage and how they can help you on your next project. David Humphreys will present an Introduction to Ruby on Rails, the popular programming framework.

This will be a great meeting for folks interested in all aspects of the Web, and as always, the conversations will likely continue after the meeting at the closest spot with beer and food.

Update: David has posted the slides of his Rails presentation.

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