Name: Lightning Talks
Start: 2017-09-21T18:30:00-04:00
End: 2017-09-21T20:30:00-04:00
Location: Grand Circus

Join us for an exciting evening of 10-minute talks on a range of web topics in downtown Detroit.

Our members will present fun, useful, and enlightening talks about web performance, testing, accessibility, augmented reality, user experience, and design.

It could be a story, lessons learned, design problem solved, something they're passionate about and want to share.

Agenda

6:30 pm to 6:35 pm: Welcome
6:35 pm to 6:40 pm: Info about Grand Circus
6:40 pm to 6:55 pm: Introductions
7:00 pm to 7:50 pm: Lightning Talk presentations and Q & A
7:50 pm to 8:00 pm Networking

Our Talks

Website Performance and Load Testing with Christopher Martello

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Christopher's talk will touch on main planning items for load testing to setup you and/or your team for success when running load and performance tests to support your website.

Having goals and objectives in place to ensure site performance for users is one key for success. Learn how to structure Load and Performance Tests to take your website to the next level!

Christopher Martello continues to enjoy testing software for over 17 years and is currently an Enterprise Application Performance Manager at Cengage Learning (http://www.cengage.com/). When not hacking at load test scripts or analyzing performance metrics, he enjoys outdoor adventures that include hiking, kayaking, wildlife photography, and extreme bird watching.

Accessible Content with Deborah Edwards-Onoro

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Learn how you can make the web a more accessible place for everyone. Deborah will discuss why accessibility matters and the business case for accessibility. You'll walk away with actionable tips you can use today to improve the accessibility of your online content.

Deborah Edwards-Onoro has been creating websites for over 20 years, focusing on usability, accessibility, and WordPress. A former web developer in higher education, Deborah runs her own web design company, Lireo Designs (https://lireo.com/). In her free time, she enjoys bird watching, photography, and exploring the out-of-doors.

Augmented Reality with Vuforia with Peter Guenther

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Vuforia is the world's largest Augmented Reality platform, providing support for iOS and Android and developer tools within Unity. Peter will demonstrate core features and demonstrate the fundamental steps of creating a Vuforia app.

Peter is an instructor at Grand Circus (https://grandcircus.co/), currently teaching Java and .NET backend developer bootcamps. He's a co-founder of the Detroit Game Devs meetup and is developing Grand Circus' Unity3D Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality curriculum for 2018.

Transforming the University of Michigan Usability Testing Strategy with Mike Wojan

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When you’re working on complex applications for tens of thousands of students, it can be difficult to implement a one-size-fits-all testing solution. Mike will be discuss new ideas and strategies for collecting useful user feedback from campus this fall.

Mike Wojan is a User Experience Designer at the University of Michigan (https://umich.edu/) working on many of the University's digital learning platforms. Focusing on user research, usability, and graphic design, Mike develops new technologies that improve the residential learning experience for students on campus.

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. Once you get off the elevator, proceed straight ahead to the end of the hall. We're meeting in the Balcony, which will be in front of you, (entrance slightly to the right) in the room facing Grand Circus Park.

Parking is available at the Detroit Opera House parking garage, located on Broadway. Parking is $10, cash only (if there's a special event that night, it may be more). There's also street parking on Washington Boulevard, one block west of Woodward ($1/hour after 6pm, pay by app or credit card).

The Detroit Opera House parking garage is a short walk up Broadway and around the corner from the Grand Circus space (cash only). 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!

Note

If less than 10 people register, we'll cancel the event on Tuesday, September 19, 2017.

Deborah Edwards-Onoro

Nick DeNardis

Refresh Detroit

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Web Accessibility

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Interaction Design

Information Architecture

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Content Strategy

HTML & CSS

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Peter Guenther

Mike Wojan

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