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Refresh Boston Where do we begin?

First Refresh Boston Meeting

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Slides from the first Refresh Boston meeting back in 2006, covering who the organizers were and what we'd like to do with the group;

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Refresh BostonWhere do we begin?

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Who am I?

Mark J. Reeves

Circa 1977(http://circa1977.com)

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What is Refresh?

Started with Refresh Dallas

Bringing designers and developers together, away from the computer

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And Refresh Boston?

Getting together offline with peers

Sharing ideas and opinions

Bring value to meetings

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Refresh logo design

Refresh Boston website

Lining up meeting topics

Refresh-related projects

So What’s Next?

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What Would You Like to See Happen?And back to that in a moment...

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SXSW Interactive ‘06

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Patrick Haney, Harvard

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What is SXSW?A quick recap by Patrick and Stefan

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It’s All About the People

Meeting your peers

Networking

Sharing ideas

Get the creative juices flowing

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And the Panels...

Pick and choose your topics of choice

Focus on creative ideas and learning by example

Learn from the best

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And the After Events...

More opportunities to network

Meet and greet in a less formal situation

Having fun

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And... Bowling?

Team Refresh triumphs!

Refresh Boston, D.C., Dallas, Houston, Austin come together to win the Avalonstar Bowling Extravaganza

bowling.avalonstar.com

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Wide Variety of Panels

General web design

DOM scripting

Accessibility

Blogging

User Experience

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How To Be A Web Design Superhero

Andy Budd & Andy Clarke

General overview of web design and best practices

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How to Create Passionate Users

Panel hosted by Kathy Sierra

headrush.typepad.com

Keep your users happy and interested (like the audience for this panel)

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Holistic Web Design: Finding Creative Balance

Combining efforts from multiple disciplines

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Shaun Inman, Jason Santa Maria, Eris Stassi, Carl Sieber, Garrett Dimon

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Plazes Before...

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And After.

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Design Eye for the List Guy

A redesign of craigslist

Similar to the Holistic Web Design panel

Ryan Sims, Paul Nixon, Andrei Herasimchuk, Cameron Moll, D. Keith Robinson

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Stefan Hayden, Sconex

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Making Money With Your Blog Design Skills

Tons of clients looking for designers

Blogs quickly turn into larger projects

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Dogma Free Design

Don’t design to a checklist

A-B testing only works to a point

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Standard Deviation: Hacks and Dirty Tricks for the Web

aka. F*ck standards

Cool web apps break standards

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Questions?