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Sooner or later most of us will likely face the demanding undertaking of a major website redesign. To help you prepare for this the Webmasters group is providing an informal presentation and discussion focused on what all is involved in the redesign process.

Daniel Pshock, the webmaster of The Daily Tar Heel website (http://www.dailytarheel.com) and an integral part of the ~2-year long redesign project, will be walking us through their team’s process, design decisions, and insights the DTH picked up along the way. His talk will also include his experiences working with developers remotely, a bit on how the launch went, and what the plans are now that it’s live.  Following Daniel’s presentation there will be a chance for you all to ask questions and/or share how your own redesign process/experience relates (or doesn’t) with the DTH process.

Whether you are a ‘communicator’, design professional, web manager, or developer, you will find something of interest in this topic be that in the development and results, or in the design and decision making process. So, come join us on Thursday, April 24^th at 2:00 PM!

Please note that this presentation will be held on a different day/time than our usual first Thursday. Details below:

Location:  Grad Student Center  (http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/gsc/)
Date: Thursday, April 24th
Time: 2:00P.M. – 3:30P.M

For July and August we’re going to take a look at concepts, methods, and strategies centered on user experience – sort of a UX summer series…

ABE CRYSTAL
Introduction to UX
Thursday, July 8, 2:00PM – 3:00PM

Some of you may know Abe from his work here at UNC and his involvement in Triangle usability/UX community. He co-founded the TriUPA group (http://triupa.org) and is a principal at the user experience consultancy MoreBetterLabs (http://www.morebetterlabs.com/). Abe is also an adjunct instructor at SILS. This will be a fairly high-level overview which will touch on things like  strategy (product planning, brainstorming), research (interviews, data analysis), and design (sketching, storyboarding, prototyping).

Note that this is the second Thursday in July.

EVAN CARROLL
Case Study: UNC.edu Redesign
Thursday, August 5, 2:00PM – 3:00PM

Evan is a User Experience Designer with Capstrat, the Raleigh-based agency that designed the new UNC.edu site. Evan will return in August to talk about the significant role that user research played in the new design. Evan conducted 1:1 interviews, stakeholder surveys, and was involved throughout the site development process to ensure that UX goals were met.

Both events are at the Graduate Student Center on 211 W. Cameron

(map –http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/gsc/)

Learn how the new Unc.edu can help your department’s web efforts. You’re invited to Unc.eduTALK on March 25, from 1 to 4 pm in the Tate-Turner-Kuralt building’s (Social Work) main auditorium. Members of the development team from University Relations and ITS will be on hand with updates as we near a launch date.

• 1 p.m. consistency of design and navigation
• 2 p.m. content management system CarolinaContent
• 3 p.m. improvements in the campus events calendar, standards, and more.

All on campus are welcome to attend. If you have any questions beforehand, please feel free to send them to sjared@email.unc.edu. If you can’t make it, content will be online after the event as soon as possible.

If you’re on the Refresh the Triangle email list, you may have received an email about a presentation next week on “Designing Outside the Browser.” I thought it looked interesting and contacted Richard Powell, the presenter, to see if he could do a similar presentation for our November meeting. He’s in.

Details (from Refresh site)

As designers, we’re constantly looking around for sources of inspiration and influence. Spending all day working on the web, it can be tempting to limit one’s gaze to other websites. While many of the challenges we face on the web are unique, in this talk, we’ll look beyond the browser window; at the techniques designers in other disciplines have used to solve their unique design problems and how we can apply those lessons to our own work on the web.”

Richard Powell is a freelance web designer working in Chapel Hill. Working solo and as a Terralien crew member, Rich has had the opportunity to design and build sites for saddle pad vendors and underwater photographers, acupuncturists and investment firms, software consultants and massage therapists. He enjoys the challenges of finding just the right arrangement of pixels and tags to fit each client. When the glow of the LCD becomes too much, he loves taking a quick break to play “Hullaballoo” with his wife and 2 year old daughter.

Date and Location:
Thursday, Nov 5 @ 2:00PM
211 W. Cameron (map – http://gradschool.unc.edu/student/gsc/)

If you can’t make it to the Webmasters meeting consider attending the Refresh the Triangle meeting next Thursday– sounds like a cool group. http://refreshthetriangle.org/posts/refresh_022_designing_outside_the_browser/