Archive for the ‘work’ Category

WV13: Digital Democracy & Startups WV13: Digital Democracy & Startups

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

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 […]

WV13: Future Web Layouts WV13: Future Web Layouts

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

  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 […]

WV13: The Future of Comics WV13: The Future of Comics

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

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 […]

WV13: Keynote - The Future of the Web is Video WV13: Keynote – The Future of the Web is Video

Thursday, May 23rd, 2013

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 […]

WV13: Real World Lessons:Moving to Lean UX WV13: Real World Lessons:Moving to Lean UX

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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 […]

WV13: Play to Change: Using Game Mechanics to Motivate Your Audience WV13: Play to Change: Using Game Mechanics to Motivate Your Audience

Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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 […]

Project: Metrofiets.com Project: Metrofiets.com

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

Metrofiets is a local company that creates custom cargo bikes to haul around everything from kids to kegs. These bikes are based on the old Dutch freight cycles known as bakfietsen, but incorporate the classic styling of American bicycles from the 1930s & 40s. Each one is hand-built in Oregon from US aircraft grade steel. […]

#WRK10: Using HTML5 & Accessible Rich Internet Accessibility to Create Highly Accessible Web Resources

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Jon Gunderson 102 A & B, Frontier Airlines Center Dynamic content and HTML5 technologies are rapidly become a standard part of web design. This session will provide an overview of how to use the Accessible Rich Internet Accessibility (ARIA) technologies and HTML5 to improve the accessibility of dynamic web content. The session will also cover […]

#AIM9: Mobile Warming: A New Approach To Student Engagement

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Kyle Bowen 102 D & E, Frontier Airlines Center It’s no surprise that the students sitting in the back row with their cell phone in hand probably aren’t following along. We can’t be certain if they are taking notes, texting that cute girl in the next row, or contemplating their next Facebook status. Regardless of […]

#MCS1: No Such Thing As TMI: How to Create a Culture of Sharing

Wednesday, October 10th, 2012

Donna Talarico 102 A & B, Frontier Airlines Center Sharing is nice. We’ve known that since kindergarten, right? Yet why are so many things still siloed in higher ed? Generating fresh content and sharing accurate, up-to-date information is pivotal to a college website’s success, and sharing said content through social media and other marketing channels […]