{"id":241720,"date":"2014-11-11T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?p=241720"},"modified":"2014-11-02T17:29:50","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T22:29:50","slug":"featured-speaker-james-archer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-james-archer\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Speaker: James Archer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jamesarcher.me\" target=\"_blank\">James Archer<\/a> is the Chief Creative Officer at <a href=\"https:\/\/crowdfavorite.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Crowd Favorite<\/a>. He\u2019s a future-focused optimist who loves identifying problems and designing solutions for companies that make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>James Archer is founder of <a title=\"Visit Forty's website\" href=\"http:\/\/forty.co\/\" target=\"_blank\">Forty<\/a>, a creative firm that\u2019s been designing rich, emotional, and effective experiences for over a decade (using primarily WordPress). I\u2019m future-focused optimist who loves identifying problems and designing solutions for companies that make a difference.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years he\u2019s worked for clients like Microsoft, Motorola, Walmart, and Yahoo, and has spoken at many conferences and workshops.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"James Archer\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/james-archer\/\">View James&#8217; speaker profile.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Presentation: <a title=\"The Human Side of UX Design\" href=\"https:\/\/2014.toronto.wordcamp.org\/session\/the-human-side-of-ux-design\/\">The Human Side of UX Design<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019ll explain why empathy and emotion are crap-tons more important to overall user experience design than parallax, front-end frameworks, and even the hamburger icon. I\u2019ll also explain why design is too important to leave to the designers, and why developers, and others should be directly involved in the process.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Archer is the Chief Creative Officer at Crowd Favorite. He\u2019s a future-focused optimist who loves identifying problems and designing solutions for companies that make a difference. James Archer is founder of Forty, a creative firm that\u2019s been designing rich, emotional, and effective experiences for over a decade (using primarily WordPress). I\u2019m future-focused optimist who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/featured-speaker-james-archer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Featured Speaker: James Archer<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6358608,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6358608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241723,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241720\/revisions\/241723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}