World Usability Day, Detroit: Usable Usability: Inclusive Design for the Real World

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You’re invited to join Refresh Detroit and Michigan Usability Professionals Association (Michigan UXPA) as we host World Usability Day, Detroit the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2017.

World Usability Day, Detroit returns for a fourth year to ensure that the services and products important to life are easier to access and simpler to use. Events will be held around the world to raise awareness about usability.

This year’s theme is Inclusion through user experience and we’re excited to offer a hands-on activity for our attendees. Continue reading World Usability Day, Detroit: Usable Usability: Inclusive Design for the Real World

Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

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sign showing distances to Chicago, Detroit, Washington DC greets walkers at the entrance of the boardwalk

What a beautiful fall day it was to walk along the boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan on the northern shore of Lake Michigan. I knew I had traveled a far distance over the weekend. What I didn’t realize: it’s shorter to travel to Chicago, Illinois from Manistique, Michigan than to return back to metro Detroit, Michigan… Continue reading Photo of the Week: Strolling the Boardwalk in Manistique, Michigan

Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

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Melinda Gates at lectern, pausing and smiling during her talk

When Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, kicked off the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference with her keynote today, she shared a fascinating story about her youth and her first love.

She fell in love in high school. Hard.

It was an all-consuming love, changing how she felt about her life, what she did, and how she lived.

However, her husband Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, is not fond of this story from her high school years.

Why? Continue reading Melinda Gates: Break Down the Barriers Keeping Women out of Technology

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