Usability primer, Ink for narrative interaction, Typed Lenses

Well this month really snuck up on everyone and we didn't have a talk backlog to draw from... It's okay though! ...some legends came to our aide at the 11th hour! This is a reminder that you can help keep BrisJS informing and delighting us all by giving back with your own talk for any month this year 😍

Please share the lineup with your friends/colleagues/world and RSVP to join us on Monday night, as they may have missed it.

Partake in pizza and drinks from our sponsors while networking with your peers, as is standard at our famous events ;-)

⏱ Schedule:
6:15 PM - Arrive & mingle - wait at Gallery Level elevators for security to let you up (same level as the train station)
6:30 PM - Welcome & introductions by Kevin Vanderbeken
6:45 PM - Talks begin…

🖖Build without regrets: a primer on usability - Kartik Gupta (@kartikgupta) - 20min:
Too often we build products only to find that they don’t work and then spend time rewriting them. Kartik Gupta takes us through the importance of regular usability analysis so you end with a product your customers can use.

⚡️Using ink to write the ABC amazon game - Nathan Hoad (@nathanhoad) - 10min
Nathan will take us through some of the work involved in Using the "ink" narrative scripting language to write interactive pieces like the Amazon race - an interactive ABC news game about what it’s like to work in an Amazon warehouse.

⏱Networking during intermission - 25min:
Pizza thanks to PCCW Global's Brisbane team & Drinks thanks to Just Digital People :-)

🔬Typed Lenses: STAB your way to safety - Josh Girvin (@girvo) - 20min:
A dive into the world of typed functional lenses; powerful composable getter-setter pairs for even the most complex of data structures, and what they look like in production. We will be looking at their usage within Redux and React Native in Kidsoft’s real production mobile app.

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❓Why not volunteer to speak next time? We're talking talks for Feb! Have you got something to say? Submit your talk today! https://brisjs.org/#present

Also check our github issues page for upcoming topics or make requests. https://github.com/BrisJS/meetups/issues

👉 Code of Conduct
BrisJS is dedicated to a harassment-free experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: https://bris.js.org/#conduct
We expect everyone to abide by this straight-forward policy to attend.

👉 Accessibility
The upper and lower car parks in Toowong Village are open until 10:30 at night, leaving plenty of time for you to leave after the event. BrisJS is wheelchair accessible from the taxi rank, car parks and train station, but please note the train station is only wheelchair accessible via the street after the centre closes at 9pm.

Please get in touch for presenting your insightful discoveries in the rapidly developing frontend or backend javascript world.

You're also welcome to get in touch with me at kevinv@brisjs.org (or tweet at @brisjs) for any information for future events.