ChicagoRuby : Remote Edition

Speakers:
🎤 Nikky Southerland - Spaceships, Radiation Therapy, and Power Users
We build software that our users interact with daily, and it’s only natural that over time they become really, really good at navigating the interfaces we’ve designed. This is great! Except their skill makes them more prone to introducing unintended behavior to the system.
We’ll zoom in on a couple of notable interface designs from history: Apollo’s guidance computer and the Therac-25 radiation therapy machine. We’ll explore how to proactively keep power users in mind to increase efficiency and reduce frustration.

About Nikky:
Nikky has been working professionally with Ruby on Rails since 2013. He grew up in Washington State along Puget Sound but recently moved across the country to Philadelphia. He is currently Lead Engineer at Vehlo and Director of Technology at McSweeney’s. His analog interests include birding, photography, and digging through disordered shelves at used bookstores.

🎤 Vadim Leader - Testing Mocking

For remote attendance:
Join us via the following Zoom URL.

We want to hear from you!
Interested in speaking but unsure what to talk about? Interested in hearing a specific topic? We have compiled a list of potential topic ideas that members of the community are interested in learning more about.
See: this google spreadsheet for potential talk topic ideas.
For moderation purposes, this spreadsheet is only available for comments and admins will add ideas from comments onto the list.
Reach out to Michelle (michelle@zooniverse.org) if you have any questions.