Event Registration Alternatives to Meetup.com

Meetup announcement that pricing has changed for organizers and attendees.

With this week’s announcement that Meetup.com was changing its pricing policy, many meetup organizers are looking for alternatives to using Meetup.com for their event registration.

The news of the pricing change spread quickly among meetup organizers on Twitter.

While the decrease in cost to organizers at $24/year was welcomed, the $2.00 fee for attendees was not. Continue reading Event Registration Alternatives to Meetup.com

Inclusive Design 24: The Tipping Point, How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences

Inclusive Design 24 2019

In his The Tipping Point: How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences presentation at Inclusive Design 24 2019 this month, Henri Helvetica discussed the relationship between performance and inclusive design.

A designer who works in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, he explained how performance metrics like

  • Time To Interactive
  • Wait time anti-patterns
  • Resource management

impact inclusive design and how people are included. Continue reading Inclusive Design 24: The Tipping Point, How Performance Decisions Make Accessibility Differences

Photo of the Week: Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse

brown brick lighthouse with red roof with Mackinaw Island in the background.

It was a cold, windy, rainy day when I stopped along the beach of Lake Huron to see the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse at the tip of Michigan’s mitten in the Lower Peninsula.

One of three lighthouses along the narrows of the Straits of Mackinac, the Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse joined the McGulpin Point Lighthouse and Bois Blanc Lighthouse in guiding ships through the treacherous straits where Lake Huron meets Lake Michigan. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse