Refresh Portland
About this original series
Refresh Portland is a monthly event for designers interested in refreshing the creative, technical, and professional culture in the Portland area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards, Refresh Portland is a part of the Refreshing Cities movement.
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# Episodes
16 episodes -
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Episodes of Refresh Portland
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Refresh Portland November 2009 - Part 2: Nick Fi...
This will be a crash course in mobile user experience design, are you ready? We will look at how the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed. We’ll explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web ...oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into. I will give you the information you need to design an optimal user experience for t...
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Release date
Feb 1, 2010
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Runtime
46:39
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Refresh Portland November 2009 - Part 1: Nick Fi...
This will be a crash course in mobile user experience design, are you ready? We will look at how the mobile context has evolved over the years and where it is headed. We’ll explore the differences between the web and the mobile web, why these differences are important, what the key user experience principals are for the mobile web ...oh yeah, and there will be plenty of examples for you to sink your teeth into. I will give you the information you need to design an optimal user experience for t...
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Release date
Feb 1, 2010
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Runtime
05:00
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Refresh Portland October 2009: Andy Beach on Onl...
Everybody’s doing it these days, but are they doing it right? Probably not. Creating high quality video content for the web is not quite as simple as whipping out your Flip HD, then uploading to YouTube. That said, it’s a lot easier than most people know (and doesn’t require a two-hour uploading annoyance). We should all be putting more videos online, after all it’s the fastest growing and most popular communication vehicle on the web, but there are better ways to do it. Learning a few trade s...
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Release date
Jan 31, 2010
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Runtime
01:11:26
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Refresh Portland September 2009: Benton Barnett ...
Avoid common business mistakes to increase your perceived value, keep your clients happy and charge them more for the privilege. Freelance work is getting harder to find, jobs are more competitive and clients are choosier then ever. Benton Barnett would like to share his experience from both hiring programmers and designers to working as a contractor himself. Benton is going to go over the general tactics you should employ to ensure that your clients are happy with your work, you’re happy with...
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Release date
Jan 31, 2010
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Runtime
01:02:11
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Refresh Portland August 2009: Clifton Barnhart o...
Although the practice has been picking up speed among developers and creatives, user experience is still a relatively unknown phrase, and while the discipline covers several facets of the design process, it is largely overlooked concerning many products, systems and services. The subtleties that might add up to a wonderful interactive experience are often left to programmers or artists with little understanding behind the psychology of interaction. At the same time, consultants and agencies ha...
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Release date
Sep 24, 2009
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Runtime
58:18
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Refresh Portland July 2009: Thomas Reynolds on S...
Learn how to implement grids, sprites and browser-specific tweaks in a fraction of the time in normally takes with SASS. SASS is a CSS-preprocessor which keeps you from repeating yourself and automatically implements common CSS idioms.
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Release date
Sep 24, 2009
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Runtime
01:02:11
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Refresh Portland June 2009: Sheetal Dube on User...
Blogs, wikis, social networks and other web2.0 tools are being used increasing to share information and connect with others, in the healthcare industry. While this is significant for an industry that has not taken advantage of digitization until now, how does the new technology work with the user needs? How do we design products and applications that could benefit us all? Join me for a presentation where I will share my learning?s on: Designing around user needs Unique challenges faced while d...
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Release date
Jul 3, 2009
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Runtime
01:15:33
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Refresh Portland May 2009: Jared Spool on The Da...
Experience design is no longer a nice-to-have luxury of a few organizations with tons of money and exceptional visionary management. It's become commonplace for organizations that build products and web sites. Experience Design is a centerpiece of boardroom discussions and quickly becoming a key performance indicator for many businesses. However, you can't just hire a couple of "experience designers" and tell them, "Go do that voodoo that you do so well." Today's business environment forces us...
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Release date
Jul 3, 2009
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Runtime
01:25:03
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Refresh Portland April 2009: Buck Wilson on Desi...
jQuery: it's so hot right now, and its ease of use is making it the JavaScript library of choice for designers everywhere. Learning jQuery can give you a greater depth of knowledge in creating rich user interactions on the web, allowing you to design with these interactions in mind. Buck Wilson will take you for a ride through the history of JavaScript on the web, why jQuery has seen so much success, and how jQuery speaks the language of designers.
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Release date
Jul 2, 2009
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Runtime
47:47
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Refresh Portland March 2009: David Lowe Rogstad ...
We had some trouble with the streaming video, so here's Substance's own recording of the event: http://vimeo.com/3945271 -- The creative and business problems of tomorrow will not be solved by the same business and agency structures of today. Substance's David Lowe-Rogstad will take you under the hood of how some companies are shifting their entire work style to create a environment that is culturally suited to solving the complex design problems that businesses face. David will show how they ...
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Release date
Jul 3, 2009
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Runtime
37:31
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