SFDUG - February 2019 Meetup

Join the San Francisco, Bay Area Drupal community the second Thursday of the month.

Where: Mission Center Building, UCSF Room MCB 6A
1855 Folsom St., San Francisco, CA, 94103, USA
The building entrance is on a parking lot which is entered from 15th Street

General Agenda:
* 5:30 -6:00 pm: networking and socializing
* 6:00 - 7:00 pm: Design Strategies: Our Process for Building User-centered Websites with Valerie Neumark and Andrew Goldsworthy from Rootid followed by a Drupal show and tell.

* 7:00 - 7:30 pm: wrap up, more hanging out and chatting up Drupal

Design Strategies: Our Process for Building User-centered Websites

Designing a website can be a very complicated process with a lot of stages depending on the size of the site you are building. But with a user-centered strategy, grounded in best practices, you will be set-up for success.

In this session, we will guide you through the strategies we use and the basic steps needed for a clean, user-friendly website that is based in user research and design best practices.

What we'll cover:

- Research
- Defining Audiences (based on real people you know directly or indirectly)
- User Surveys
- Using Data to Understand Users
- Developing Personas
- Identifying Motivations
- Designing Persona-based Information Architecture
- Wireframing
- Developing User Workflows & Predicting User Interactions
- Interviewing Stakeholders & Testing Assumptions
- Optimizing for Drupal Functionalities
- Design Best Practices
- Basic Color Theory for Accessibility
- Current Trends vs. Universal Constants
- Design Hand-off

https://www.meetup.com/SFDUG-San-Francisco-Drupal-Users-group/events/jhs...