This month's meetup will be hosted at the awesome HoneyKome Offices in Gardens, Cape Town.
HoneyKome is a creative agency and marketing consultancy that specialises in helping businesses craft winning narratives and customer experiences for the digital age, by combining timeless story telling principles with modern performance methods and technology.
This will be a fully interactive talk, we want people to not only ask question but also share thoughts an ideas.
Please note that talks will commence no later than 19:00 to ensure that the topic is adequately covered by the speakers and that enough questions are asked and answered. Seats are limited to 45 spots - please RSVP if you intend to go and can make the meetup.
AGENDA
18:30 - 18:55 - Meeting new people, networking and chatting with drinks & snacks
18:55 - 19:00 - Welcome by Organiser Marli
19:00 - Talk for the eveing: More heart ❤ and more humans with Inclusive Design
About the talk
What can give us warm fuzzy feelings, more customers, more money, and easier development? Inclusive Design, that’s what! It helps us think about all the kinds of people that could access our websites, not just people that are like us. It helps us accept the web as it is (messy, slow, and broken), not the web as we want it to be (crispy, fast, and perfect). Most importantly, it helps us understand that disability is a spectrum, not a binary.
In this accessibility-themed talk, we’ll learn how we can make our sites work for more humans, on more devices and browsers, under more conditions. We’ll look at practical exercises we can do, and how small changes can make a big difference. We’ll look at ways of testing our sites, of having better conversations about them. This talk will involve movement! :)
About the speakers
Nicola du Toit is a UX designer and usability specialist by day and a musician by night. She has a Masters degree specialising in human-computer interaction but is also left-handed, which means that usability (or a lack thereof) has always been a significant part of her life. She firmly believes that human-centred design can make the world a better place.
Nicola rants about bad UX (and other things) on twitter as @sophdex and can be found on the interwebs at http://nicoladutoit.com.
