As a part of the Wufoo team, Kevin Hale is no stranger to creating wonderful web apps. In his presentation, Kevin will be showing how to focus on user interaction in order to create an experience that users will love.

UPDATE: Join us from 5:30 on for pre-meeting cocktails at Versailles (located next to 101 Restaurant & Lounge, directly across from the Challenger Learning Center).

Thursday, May 27th
7:00 – 8:30 PM
The Challenger Learning Center
200 South Duval Street
Tallahassee, FL 32301
Cost: FREE

About Our Speaker:
Kevin Hale is the co-founder of Infinity Box, Inc., a company seeded by Y Combinator. He is responsible for safe guarding the user experience of the Wufoo application and designing every pixel of its interface. As much as Kevin likes keeping things clean and reliable, he loves innovation. He writes about interface design issues for the web development blog, Particletree and served as editor-in-chief of the web development magazine, Treehouse. As a child, Kevin was the kid in class who ate a box of crayons for a dollar.

And a Word of Appreciation
Special thanks to Alan Hanstein at Paragon New Media and Darren Allen at White Dog Design Group for helping sponsor and coordinate our meeting!

How to Design Web Apps People Love (13.4 MB)

The mind behind UXBooth.com uses Photoshop to deconstruct some of the most common UI effects from scratch to add greater depth and realism to your work.

Tuesday, March 30th
7:00 – 8:30 PM
Room 249 (a 100-seat auditorium), FSU Fine Arts Building
530 W. Call Street St.
Tallahassee, FL 32301

About Andrew: Hailing from the great city of Atlanta, GA, Andrew Maier designs interactions and user experiences for a variety of clients. He writes, speaks, and teaches about design and its intersection with the internet. In addition he serves as the editor–in–chief of the user experience blog, UX Booth. When he’s not crazy busy, Andrew likes singing, practicing yoga and drinking coffee, like a good little hippie should.

People often talk about usability and learnability when discussing web and application development. Things have to be intuitive and familiar to increase conversions and trial… blah blah blah. All of this is really important. But what does it really boil down to?

It’s all a matter of trust. Trust between the user and the developer. Between the user and the designer. Ultimately trust is allowing yourself to become vulnerable based on a positive expectation. So how do you build trust? And how do you avoid breaking it? It’s about the promises you make in subtle and obvious ways.

In his presentation Carl will break down key steps to understanding, building and keeping trust with your users. More than that you’ll get to hear from real users what they think when you break that trust. Ouch!

Special Thanks to Alan Hanstein of Paragon New Media for the generous event sponsorship! Also, thanks also to Eric Thomas and the folks at Zimmerman for their continued support and hosting our event! Lastly, if you haven’t already done so, please help us plan by letting me know if you plan to attend! You can shoot me an email or give me a call at 850-212-4044.

Earlier this year, Rob Milstead from Sapient in Atlanta spoke at one of our Refresh meetings. Though I forwarded his presentation to many of you a few days later, I thought it might be nice to post his presentation in case any of the newer folks might be interested. Enjoy.

Power to the Marketer (1.6 MB)

CSS Inspiration (25.8MB)