Takeaways from WordCamp Pittsburgh 2017

registration table with basketball covered with Twitter handles, WordCamp stickers, and WordCamp Pittsburgh lanyrds and name tags

This past weekend I had the pleasure of joining over 150 bloggers, business people, designers, and developers at the WordCamp Pittsburgh 2017 conference to learn and talk about WordPress.

I was excited to attend!

Last year, I was disappointed I couldn’t attend the inaugural WordCamp Pittsburgh 2016 so I made sure to mark my calendar for this year’s event.

Plus, it was the first time I’ve been back to Pittsburgh in over 20 years!

I had a great time at WordCamp, made new friends, and picked up some new tidbits about WordPress, customer service, and project management. Continue reading Takeaways from WordCamp Pittsburgh 2017

Takeaways from Demystifying Eye Tracking for UX Research

Demystifying eye tracking for ux research, Laura Rivera

At today’s User Experience Professionals Association webinar, Laura Rivera shared her lessons learned from eye tracking research.

Rivera is a user experience (UX) researcher at Facebook and has been instrumental in getting their eye tracking capabilities fine-tuned for mobile. Here are my takeaways from her presentation. Continue reading Takeaways from Demystifying Eye Tracking for UX Research

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