{"id":1725,"date":"2017-08-01T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T13:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.toronto.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_session&#038;p=1725"},"modified":"2017-09-20T11:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-09-20T15:44:54","slug":"wordpress-design-and-you","status":"publish","type":"wcb_session","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/wordpress-design-and-you\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress, Design, and You"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Description:<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">User Experience (UX) design is such a hot industry today with no shortage of Medium articles telling you how to break into UX. There\u2019s detailed talk about portfolios, which courses to take, and whether designers should learn how to code, among others. What they seem to miss, though, is the \u2018getting started\u2019 part: How do you do a design project and ensure that it gets from discovery all the way to deployment? If design portfolios are about the projects that you\u2019ve brought to life, then how do we do them and build them well? <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this session, we will be looking at the design process and the Elements of User Experience. We will be reviewing the milestones inside web projects and the activities that make it successful. You will learn what makes great websites great, and what makes designers advocates for their own work. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Design is finally having its golden age. Will you be a part of it?<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Learning Objectives:<\/span><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Switch from \u2018design = \u201cmake it pretty\u2019 to \u2018design = problem solving\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Get acquainted with the design process (especially for WordPress sites)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Apply Jesse James Garrett\u2019s \u201cElements of User Experience\u201d to deliver human-centered products and services<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Become advocates for your work through case study writing (a key requirement for design portfolios today)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Prerequisites<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">None<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: User Experience (UX) design is such a hot industry today with no shortage of Medium articles telling you how to break into UX. There\u2019s detailed talk about portfolios, which courses to take, and whether designers should learn how to code, among others. What they seem to miss, though, is the \u2018getting started\u2019 part: How &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/session\/wordpress-design-and-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WordPress, Design, and You&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15657690,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wcpt_session_time":1506794400,"_wcpt_session_duration":3000,"_wcpt_session_type":"session","_wcpt_session_slides":"","_wcpt_session_video":"","_wcpt_speaker_id":[1590],"footnotes":""},"session_track":[185,1053294],"session_category":[],"class_list":["post-1725","wcb_session","type-wcb_session","status-publish","hentry","wcb_track-design","wcb_track-room-1-149"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p837Y2-rP","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"session_date_time":{"date":"September 30, 2017","time":"2:00 pm"},"session_speakers":[{"id":"1590","slug":"jesse-emmanuel-rosario","name":"Jesse Emmanuel Rosario","link":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/jesse-emmanuel-rosario\/"}],"session_cats_rendered":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_session"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1909,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/1725\/revisions\/1909"}],"speakers":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1590"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/jemrosario"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_track","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_track?post=1725"},{"taxonomy":"wcb_session_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session_category?post=1725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}