Inclusive Universe – Wendy Chisholm

February 10, 2010
Wendy Chisholm

Most designers are taught to design for the average user and as a society, we hold many assumptions about the characteristics of those users. However, products are used in unexpected ways and by unexpected audiences.
Challenging your assumptions and designing for non-average users can result in innovative products that can lead to a more inclusive, [...]

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Usability Beyond the Classroom – Jon Bell

February 3, 2010
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It wasn’t until Jon Bell spent a year at Frog Design as a developer that he realized everything he learned in art school was either wrong, outdated, or only told half the story. Jon Bell condenses 10 years of design myth-busting into this action-packed talk.

About Jon Bell
During the day, you can find Jon Bell [...]

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Submission Deadline is Friday, February 5th

February 1, 2010

If you are thinking about submitting a talk for the next Ignite Seattle (March 4th), make sure you get it in by this Friday. We already have a great crop of submissions, but we would love for you to add your own to the mix!

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Eugene Lin – iPhoning My Way to Retirement

January 18, 2010
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I often rewrite someone’s pitch better fit the blog, but in Eugene’s case, I thought it best left intact. Here’s Eugene’s pitch for his highly entertaining, “iPhoning My Way to Retirement” talk.
I want to be rich. Steve Jobs promised it. App after app, the Apple gods got angry with me. Until finally, with nothing [...]

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Submit a Talk for Ignite Seattle 9

January 15, 2010

Do you have an idea for a 5-minute talk that’s been burning inside of you, crying to get out? Or do you have an idea that you think is a little bit crazy, but you’re figuring “what the hell, I’ll submit it anyway”. Today is your lucky day! Submissions for talks at the next Ignite [...]

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Photos from Ignite Seattle 8

December 3, 2009

Photos from the Ignite Seattle Group Pool on Flickr. If you took pictures at Ignite Seattle 8, please add them to the pool with the tag “is8” and they’ll show up here.
Additionally, you can view pictures from all the previous Ignite Events on our Photos page.

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Ignite’s Recession Buster

December 1, 2009

We’re doing a special recession-themed icebreaker tonight, inspired by the Ten Thousand Cents art project. We’ll be handing out sheets of paper with a dollar bill on them (front or back), broken in to a 4×8 grid. Each team of 2 to 3 people will be responsible for re-creating one of the 64 grids. We’ll [...]

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TONIGHT! Speaker Line Up for Ignite Seattle 8

December 1, 2009

Ignite Seattle 8 is tonight! As always we have a cornucopia of speakers talking about a variety of geek topics. The doors to the King Cat Theatre open at 7:00. The talks start at 8:30 PM. It makes “cents” to bring your art hat for tonight’s warm-up that starts at 7:30pm.
Here’s the line up (in [...]

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Geek Generation – Lauren Bricker @brickware

November 30, 2009
Lauren Bricker

Don’t call Lauren Bricker a teacher, she’s more of a “Geek Generator.” For the last two years she’s been teaching computer science at a local private high school. It’s incredibly interesting, rewarding, and yes, a lot of work.
Lauren talks about her experiences teaching CS to high school kids and tells us how we [...]

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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Counterfactuals – Daniel Westreich

November 30, 2009
Daniel Westreich

When looking at data regarding Web site user behavior or in Daniel Westreich’s case, epidemiology, we have to be remember that correlation does not imply causation. That is, just because two events were observed close together in time, it is false to assume that one caused the other. Causal inference is hard.
With great [...]

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Life’s Too Short To Eat Bad Food – Vanessa Fox

November 30, 2009
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Between working long hours, working on geek side projects (and at least in my case, raising kids), putting together a dinner party seems like a lot of work.
Coming from someone who spends more time on the road than in her house, search engine optimization expert, Vanessa Fox gives us her tips on throwing [...]

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Creating Communal Creative Space – Willow Brugh

November 29, 2009
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The experience of building a maker space from scratch is certainly a project, Willow Brugh talks about her experience in doing so, what advice others have shared with her, and what spaces like this (Hackerbot, Saturday House are already available in Seattle.

About Willow Brugh
You can find Willow on her blog, on Twitter @willowbl00. [...]

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I Wish I Was Taller – Elan Lee

November 24, 2009
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Software and hardware developers spend a lot of time combing through the flaws and defects that their products have. But what about their own flaws and defects? Is it as simple as filing a bug?
Elan Lee had always wanted to be taller. Here’s his story of the attempts to fix his [...]

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Lies to Ignore – Jessica Hagy

November 12, 2009

With her familiar charts, graphs, diagrams and deadpan humor, Jessica Hagy indexes Ignite Seattle.

About Jessica Hagy
A recent transplant from Columbus, Ohio, Jessica Hagy writes (and draws) the popular blog, Indexed. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, the BBC Magazine and has won numerous awards. A collection of Indexed was [...]

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Addiction! Staying afloat in the stream – Mónica Guzmán

November 10, 2009
Mónica Guzmán

Glued to email, your RSS reader or Twitter? Has your hand grown by 133 grams — the approximate weight of an iPhone? The Web is a stream, and it’s easy to drown. Mónica Guzmán returns to the Ignite stage to offer tips, tricks and cautionary tales to guide you through the perils of an [...]

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Ignite Seattle 8 Speakers

November 9, 2009

We’ve got a great line up for our next event, held once again at the King Cat Theatre on December 1st at 7pm. Here is the list of speakers for Ignite Seattle 8 (in no particular order). We look forward to seeing you there.

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