Refresh Seattle
- July 23rd, 6:00PM
- Speaker: Dan Rubin, Superfluous Banter
Making Your Interface Invisible
Application design is about the experience: allowing users to perform specific tasks quickly and easily. When this is done correctly, the interface becomes transparent — users only notice your application’s interface when it gets in their way.
By taking cues from the world of product design, and testing with real people throughout the design process, we can create interfaces that users never even notice.
You must RSVP if you plan to attend
DAN RUBIN is a highly accomplished user interface designer and usability consultant, with over ten years of experience as a leader in the fields of web standards and usability, specifically focusing on the use of (X)HTML and CSS to streamline development and improve accessibility.
His passion for all things creative and artistic isn’t a solely selfish endeavor either—you’ll frequently find him waxing educational about a cappella jazz and barbershop harmony, interface design, usability, web standards, typography, and graphic design in general.
In addition to his contributions to sites including Blogger, the CSS Zen Garden, Yahoo! Small Business and Microsoft’s ASP.net portal, Dan is a contributing author of Cascading Style Sheets: Separating Content from Presentation (2nd Edition, friends of ED, 2003), technical reviewer for Beginning CSS Web Development(Apress, 2006), The Art & Science of CSS (SitePoint, 2007) and Sexy Web Design (SitePoint, 2009), and coauthor of Pro CSS Techniques (Apress, 2006) and Web Standards Creativity(friends of ED, 2007). He spends his professional time on a variety of online and offline projects for Sidebar Creative, Webgraph, and Black Seagull, and consults on design, user interaction and online publishing for Garcia Media.
Dan writes about web standards, design and life in general on his blog, SuperfluousBanter.org.
Making Your Interface Invisible
This Refresh meeting is held at the Fremont Library, located near the Troll. Please RSVP if you'd like to attend.
And don’t forget that we’ll all head over to The Red Door for food and drinks after Refresh. Hope to see you there.
