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Usability, Accessibility, and Search Engine Optimization: How They All Work Together DSheffler We often see usability, accessibility, and search engine optimization discussed individually, but the three all work together to make a site easy to use for all site visitors. This presentation will... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Responding to touch LewisNyman The popularity and diversity of mobile devices forced us to create sites that work at any screen size. Big, small, and everywhere inbetween. But making a site mobile friendly is more than just... Beginner Frontend
Need a Drupal website? Wait! Have you gone through a discovery process? seanberto, bheckman Website redesigns can be overwhelming - from selecting a vendor, to budgeting, to managing implementation, to training, to launching and maintaining a new site.... It's easy to dive into the... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
Notes from a Dissipate Life: UX Lessons I've Learned jsokohl What really goes on in UX projects? How does a story come together? In this talk, I'll present four real projects from my 20 years of experience. Spending 10-12 minutes on each, Ill talk about the... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Managing Your Content's Life Cycle using Workflow and Rules eric.lotze Moving content through all of its necessary stops on the way to publication in Drupal can be a mysterious and complex process. Drupal core provides a "published or unpublished" switch for each node,... Beginner Business + Strategy
Case Study: Building Drupal for Building Products Aimee Degnan Building bridges needs building materials, which you can find from Pacific Coast Building Products, a family of companies that manufacture and distribute construction materials such as brick,... Beginner Business + Strategy
Better Git it in Your Soul - Git Basics _vid, theMusician Git has continued to be the version control system of choice for Drupal and the related projects. If you have yet to take the plunge or are unsure of how to use git with Drupal during development... Beginner Coding + Development
The business of being a software developer thejmather There are many things about business theory that is never talked about in our circles: disruption, jobs to be done, pricing, engagement practices, billable hours, and most importantly, how to... Beginner Business + Strategy
Making sense of policy: A case study of Stanford University's research policy website Adam Snetman, furiouslymandy, Suzy Bates Throughout much of 2012, Four Kitchens in Austin and Thinkso in NYC collaborated on a complete redesign of the website for the Office of the Dean of Research at Stanford University, one of the... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
The Tao of Project Management (It's Not About the Tools) atedgerton, chrisstrahl Drupal loves to talk about tools. They’re something you can touch, see, use, and wield. However, much like a sword, tools can be ineffective or even dangerous in the wrong hands. It’s great that we... Beginner Business + Strategy
Organising Drupal Events: The journey to a DrupalCon mkostrzewa, rcross Want to know what it takes to get a DrupalCon in your city? This session will talk about how to build your local community from organising local monthly meetups, running drupal camps, to coordinating... Beginner Community
How Drupal Won the Heart of Princess nate_craddock, subru77 Once upon a time, a family of fair Princess' were assigned a content management system by the King. Though the King's heart was in the right place, that CMS turned out not to be a prince, but a frog... Beginner Business + Strategy
Design: What is it good for (and other great tracks by Edwin Starr) keyhitman What it is Developers think design means graphic design and pretty colors. Graphic designers think it means how a website should behave. But design, is governed by function. Hence, the old adage -... Beginner Frontend
Re-imagining libraries on the web: a case study of the Stanford University Libraries website redesign snydman, mksweet Drupal has become the web platform of choice in academia, and in particular for research libraries. The role of libraries has been evolving rapidly in this era of information ubiquity, and their... Beginner Government, Nonprofit, and Education
How design research will help you solve the problem? dcmistry All of us are trying to solve a problem or a pain point for our users through features, websites, products and apps. We want to build a solution that is not helping our users but also helping us grow... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Creating a Drupal Co-op - the Ins and Outs MatthewS How do you manage the risk of hiring full time staff? How can your one-man-shop ever take on large projects? You should consider a co-op. A cooperative of Drupal professionals is a great way to... Beginner Business + Strategy
So... you want to present at DrupalCon? floretan If you're reading this you're probably one of those attendees who gets super excited by the energy of DrupalCon, and you can't wait to have your turn to get on the stage and share your knowledge and... Beginner Community
Drupal and Authentication: So many choices so little time. worldlinemine, cpliakas Authentication is often a scary topic to broach. Many believe it to be a topic of interest only to security professionals in large enterprise organizations or complex university systems. However, the... Beginner Site Building
Designing organizational culture with LeanUX and coffee technicka As user experience professionals, we are constantly in tune with what our users feel and what they need to meet their goals. Why should we not have the same perspective about what our own team and... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Battlefront Drupal: securing your site dstol, cashwilliams You had to rush a launch, now what? Maybe there were last minute changes that didn’t get vetted with the care they deserve. Drupal is great, but sometimes misconfiguration can sneak its way into... Beginner Site Building

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