Speaker: Steve Fisher Open source evangelist Steve Fisher prefers designing within the browser, especially when responsive design is a requirement since Fireworks and Photoshop are not flexible enough to demonstrate media queries, button and menu states, HTML5 and JavaScript behaviors, dynamic resizing of elements and navigation flow. Notes: Loves Vancouver, BC: http://www.haveaproblem.com/ Small screen, low […]

Speaker: Mark Frauenfelder Starting with a brief but colorful history of 19th and 20th century making, I’ll present the new tools and technologies that are driving innovation and giving individuals and small groups the ability to create amazing things that would’ve been out of their reach a few years ago. I will present new, inexpensive, […]

Speaker: Derek Featherstone Responsive Web Design is just one of the tools we use to create better designs. In this session, we’ll explore what “better” design is, and apply that in new ways as we craft interactions between people and web sites and applications. Notes: How many of you sleep with your phone? How long […]

Speaker: Mark Frauenfelder From handmade to micro-manufacturing, the Maker Revolution is using digital design and rapid prototyping to push the boundaries of Making to new and exciting territories. Open source software, 3D printing, Maker spaces (like Portland’s own ADX), and communities that offer ideas, advice and support are getting tinkerers out of the garage and […]

Speakers: Mark Trammell, Jason Kunesh, Carla Axtman, Kari Chisholm From the outside, the 2012 Presidential campaign’s digital presence and online tools were flawlessly coordinated and immaculately prepared, easily connecting voters and volunteers with the campaign. On the inside, a mission-driven team fought through long hours, chaos, creativity, laughs, and tears with a scrappy work ethic […]

  Speaker: Chris Mills We’ve been publishing documents, pages, apps, books and cat pictures on the Web for around 20 years now, so it is very surprising that we’ve never really had much in the way of easily manipulable, proper tools for creating web layouts. For years we relied on spacer gifs and horrible abuses […]

Speakers: Arnold Pander, Richard Bruning, Jacob Pander, David Chelsea, Ethan Nicolle, Rachel Nabors While blockbuster films based on comic book characters have been a box office bonanza, the comic book industry as a whole has experienced radical change. Industry powerhouses like Marvel have diversified their non-print offerings by unveiling Infinite Comics, a new digital format […]

Speaker: Leslie Bradshaw By 2014, Cisco estimates that 56 percent of all Internet traffic will come from viewing Internet video and Internet video-to-TV. This makes sense considering that people prefer video content to text content at a rate of 2-to-1. As the demand for video continues to surge online, there is another video-centric platform that […]

Speaker: Bill Scott In this workshop Bill will explore the mindset of LeanUX and how it relates to bring products to life in the midst of big organizations that don’t normally think “Lean”. He will look at how teams can create a strong partnership between product, design & engineering in a way that tears down […]

Speakers: Jason Ulaszek, Carolyn Chandler Experience design and game design have a lot in common, and the two worlds continue to come together. It’s no wonder – we’ve all been playing games for millenia, to learn and grow or to get through tough challenges. Notes: First workshop of Webvisions 2013! Arcades brought in $2M a […]