WordCamp Europe 2019: Accessible Content

Maja Benke on stage, discussing accessible content.

Thanks to the free livestream, I joined bloggers, digital marketers, content specialists, designers, and developers around the world last week at WordCamp Europe 2019 to learn and talk about WordPress.

The conference was held in Berlin, Germany. With a six hour difference, I knew I had to plan carefully what sessions I could attend.

I focused on accessibility, content, and user experience sessions that didn’t require me to get up at 4:00am in the morning. Continue reading WordCamp Europe 2019: Accessible Content

WordCamp Miami 2017: You Are Not Your Audience, How to Create User-Centered Design

WordCamp Miami 2017, March 24-26,2017 with nighttime scene of South Beach in the background

Though I was over 1,300 miles away, thanks to the WordCamp Miami 2017 livestream, I was able to attend their WordCamp this past weekend.

The free livestream covered both Saturday and Sunday sessions, with talks for users, designers, developers, business owners, and marketers.

I kicked off Saturday with the first content/design talk of the day, You Are Not Your Audience: How to Create User-Centered Design by Tracy Apps, which focused on using design to solve problems for your audience.

Tracy shared insights for looking at our design process and steps we can take for a more successful design project.

Here are my notes and some of the social media conversation from Tracy’s talk. Continue reading WordCamp Miami 2017: You Are Not Your Audience, How to Create User-Centered Design

Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links

Metal chain links

Have you ever visited a website, selected a link, only to discover the page you were taken to wasn’t what you expected?

Or worse, you selected a link on your mobile device, and a 5MB Excel spreadsheet started to download?

Me too. And it irritates me. Continue reading Plain Language: Use Descriptive and Meaningful Text in Your Links