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2017 Schedule
Refresh Austin meets the second Tuesday of every month, rain or shine! Here is the schedule for this year, and upcoming talks.
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The State of Refresh
The Refresh Austin team
The Refresh Austin team will present an update on the status of the organization and solicit feedback from the community. This is your time to make suggestions on what topics you'd like to hear about in 2017!
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Getting Unstuck
Dan Newcomer
Have you ever felt stuck? Are the experiences that surround your daily routine a blocker to discovery? This is a conversation and experiment in helping others who might have run into the same ruts I may have- from one creative burnout to another.
Building a Real World Inspired UI
Youssef Chaker
Showing how a "can do" attitude and some patience can tap into the power of CSS to create very complex, yet fun, UIs without resorting to images. In other terms, why developers and designers should not be scared of creating something fun.
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Bayes is Bae
Richard Schneeman (Heroku)
Before programming, before formal probability there was Bayes. He introduced the notion that multiple uncertain estimates which are related could be combined to form a more certain estimate. It turns out that this extremely simple idea has a profound impact on how we write programs and how we can think about life. The applications range from machine learning and robotics to determining cancer treatments. In this talk we'll take an in depth look at Bayes' rule and how it can be applied to solve problems in programming and beyond.
Linking the world's data to solve data science's first mile problem
Jon Loyens (data.world)
The “first mile” on the road to solving any data problem is, curiously, the longest mile. We spend far too much time and energy searching high and low for the “right” datasets, wrangling them into usability, and loading them into rigid systems held together by little more than digital duct tape and baling wire.
But what if, amidst the chaos of the first mile, we rush too quickly past two of the most important features of the data landscape, context and provenance?
While the problem is nearly universal, it is far from insurmountable. In fact, the solution relies entirely on existing technologies. The trick is to combine them in a way that allows people who work with data to cruise through the most frustrating stretches of the first mile while providing a better route to familiarity with context and provenance.
social features and Linked Data. Add these potent technologies to your data and watch as community, context, and provenance combine to make it simultaneously conversational and interoperable.
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The 5 existential crises of working in tech
Brandon Hayes
Have you ever felt like you are in the passenger seat of your career? By simply looking around and seeing how few 20+ year veterans you work with, you're actually staring our industry's sustainability problem right in the face. But the software industry needs you still contributing 20 years from now! Fret not, we can start fixing these problems, right now, in your own job.
Using in-depth research across companies of all sizes, you'll come away with a plan to start designing a sustainable career track to help you grow in skill, influence, and income now and long into the future.
Indie Blogging
Manton Reece
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Microsoft
Using the Happiness Metric to Develop a High Performing Team
Dan Corbin
Learn how incorporating the Happiness Metric into your continuous improvement process can result in a more focused, productive, and collaborative team. We'll discuss concrete ways you can use the metric to improve systemic issues which will result in not only in better team morale but more satisfied customers.
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Michelle Greer
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Panel on freelancing/ independent contracting as a designer
Scott Thompson, Annette Priest, Rebecca Loar, & Eric Nordquist
Panel discussion on independent contracting and consulting as a cross meet-up with UXPA
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Selling a Design System Before Asking for Buy-In
Ryan Rumsey - Director of Experience Design at EA
Design Systems: they’re all the rage right now, as they should be. Teams at Salesforce, GE, Airbnb, IBM, and others are sharing wonderful stories of constructing, managing, and operating Design Systems. This is not one of those stories. Instead, this talk will detail how the Experience Design team at EA sold and gained adoption of an internal Design System before asking for buy-in to build it.
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Title: The Psychology of Fake News (and What Tech Can Do About It)
Cecy Correa
Fake news is not a tech problem, it’s a human problem. To build the tools necessary to combat fake news, technologists must think differently. We must understand the psychology behind fake news to arrive at a solution that is human-centric and attainable.
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Vague But Exciting
Dave Rupert
These three words are etched into the history of the World Wide Web. I think these three words leave a legacy for the Web and can teach us a lot about how we design and build products. We’ll delve deep into the art of prototyping and learn how to do it well.
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