Lightning Talks

Here's your opportunity to present in a casual, friendly environment!

Members will have 5-10 minutes to present a fun, useful, and enlightening talk about a web project: coding, technology, design, user experience, development, project management, accessibility, tools.

It could be a story, lessons learned, design problem solved, something you're passionate about and want to share. Some ideas to spur your imagination:

• Automating your work

• UX prototyping tool

• Git

• Accessible dashboard

• Mobile navigation

• Working with clients

• Web performance monitoring

• Productivity tool

We're looking for 5 people to present. You'll have 5-10 minutes for your talk, keep in mind, lightning talks go by really fast!

You can choose to create a slide presentation, or not. Your choice! Note: you will be cut off at 10 minutes, so we recommend you rehearse beforehand.

Comment below if you're interested in speaking, and include your title and short talk description. Or answer the question about speaking when you RSVP with your title and talk description.

Agenda

6:30 pm to 6:40 pm: Welcome
6:40 pm to 6:55 pm: Introductions
6:55 pm to 7:00 pm: Info about Grand Circus
7:00 pm to 7:40 pm: Presentation and Q & A
7:40 pm to 8:00 pm Networking

Our Talks

Confident Design Every Time - Maria Gosur

"Design" is a term that is thrown around in a variety of contexts. It can mean different things to different people, and it can be daunting knowing where to start designing at times.

How can you be sure your design is going in the right direction? What are the design aspects we should be attending to when measuring a project's success? How can we be confident that our design solution meets the needs of both our client and their target audience? Get a quick glimpse into the answers to these questions in this lightning talk.

Maria Gosur is a full-time web designer/developer at Schoolcraft College and has taught at multiple colleges in the same field. In addition, she is an independent web and graphic designer, entrepreneur co-founder of LivWel (https://livwel.co/), and a Masters student at the University of Michigan School of Information studying Human Computer Interaction. Learn more about her work (http://www.icancreatethat.com/).

HTML fieldset tag - Randy Walker (https://twitter.com/randywalker)

What it is, what it's for, and how to use it.

Device Frame, A11Y, & Color Picker AKA My Top 3 Chrome Dev Tools…so far. - Chris Demars (https://twitter.com/saltnburnem)

Chrome Dev tools are super powerful and plentiful. In this talk, I'll highlight the three that I just can't live without.

"Hyphen, En dash, or Em dash, oh my!" - Katherine Fox (https://www.meetup.com/refreshdetroit/members/202406865/)

Here lies the beat-up, broken-hearted, broad-shouldered, and nearly-departed hyphen! Learn about when to use the hyphen, the em dash, or the en dash.

Venue and parking

Grand Circus is located in the Broderick Tower (http://www.brodericktower.com/) near Grand Circus in downtown Detroit. The entrance is on Woodward, through two gold-colored doors.

Once inside, go to the end of the hall, and take the elevator to the fourth floor.

Parking is available at the Detroit Opera House parking garage, located on Broadway. Parking is $10 (unless there's a special event). There's also street parking on Woodward and Washington Boulevard.

The Detroit Opera House parking garage is a short walk up Broadway and around the corner from the Grand Circus space. Here's parking information from the Broderick Tower website (PDF) (http://grandcircus.co/GCParkingMap.pdf).

Sponsor

Special thanks to our sponsor Grand Circus (http://www.grandcircus.co/) for offering venue space for our Refresh Detroit meetups!