Creating usable website solutions
Like many people in 2020, I’ve attended my share of virtual meetings, events, and conferences.
And I’ve had the opportunity to discover a lot of different event pages on the web.
Some online event pages make it easy to learn about an event.
I can quickly review
while other event pages seem to think basic event information should be a scavenger hunt for potential attendees. Continue reading UX Win: Workforce Software Event Page
Last week, when I wrote about moving our Refresh Detroit event registration from Meetup.com to Eventbrite, I explained the main reason was to create a more usable and accessible experience for our members.
I talked about how the Meetup.com design released in late 2017 resulted in a frustrating and less accessible experience for organizers as well as people registering for events.
As Refresh Detroit co-organizers, Nick DeNardis and I talked about event registration alternatives to Meetup.com and ultimately chose to use Eventbrite.
I’ve been a Meetup.com event organizer for something like 10 years.
During that time, I’ve managed events for five meetup groups. I estimate I hosted 400+ events in the past decade with the Meetup.com platform.
When Meetup.com first came out, I was ecstatic to have a unified event management tool.
It was free, over time they started charging low fees. Which I didn’t mind, because it offered what I needed for managing meetup events. Continue reading Refresh Detroit: Creating a More Usable and Accessible Experience