Lightning Talks – Design

Four lightning talks all about design!

Sunday 22nd March
2:30pm
Track 2: The Graduate Centre

Colour & A11y
Julio Potier
Julio is colourblind and would like to share his user experiences with you, users and designers, where and why the colours or contrasts give me headache. He wants to give you the tricks to improve your designs – he is not a designer, help him to see better!

Empathy & User-Centred Design
Lance Willet
The big difference between good and bad designers (and developers, copywriters—all of us) is how they handle people struggling with their design. In this lightning session Lance will argue why empathy is important to beautiful, engaging, and useful products.

Iconography: First Time for Everything
Dave Redfern
Slides: http://www.iwebsolutions.co.uk/2015/03/iconography-talk-at-wordcamp-london
New projects bring new challenges. It’s what keeps our jobs interesting. Recently Dave had the opportunity to design a set of bespoke icons. Embracing this new challenge he wants to share his experience

The WordPress of Things
Scott Evans
Slides: http://scott.ee/journal/the-wordpress-of-things/
A man called Matt once said: “I see the future of WordPress as a web operating system.” We have done a great job at conquering desktop, mobile is going well, and there are plenty of new WordPress APIs to shout about… but where will WordPress sit within the “Internet of Things?”

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Lance Willett

Product manager, technologist, and business leader living and working from Phoenix, Arizona. See lance.blog for my latest photos and things. I blog about leadership, WordPress, productivity, mindfulness, web technology, and more at The Full Stack Leader. I've I led various teams at Automattic over the years: product quality, new user engagement, and themes/customization. I love WordPress themes, and contributed to Twenty Twelve, Twenty Thirteen, Twenty Fourteen, and Twenty Fifteen as a core committer.

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