A product design talk series
Taco Tuesdays is a product design talk series created and hosted by thoughtbot, a web and mobile application consultancy.
We want to create an intimate and low-key space where designers can learn about each others' processes and techniques.
Speakers
Alex Dixon
@dixonandmoeAlex is a partner at Dixon & Moe, a design and software consultancy building websites and digital products in San Francisco. Previously he studied architecture at MIT and co-founded Monograph.io, which just relaunched as a website builder for architects.
Adding another layer to the “Should designers…” debate, we’ll share the story of how we took a small design project to number one on Google with over 250,000 page views per month (and growing), divulging our hacker-strategy and pulling back the curtain on the dark arts of SEO.
Shan He
@heshan_cheriShan He is software engineer and data visualization specialist at the visualization team at Uber. She is a designer and coder and the earliest member of the team. At Uber, Shan builds data tools and platforms to make business intelligence easy to access, creates exploratory data visualizations to facilitate data analysis and modeling, and publishes public facing graphics and animations to tell data stories about Uber. Prior to joining Uber, Shan studied at MIT and received a master in design computation while conducting research at the MIT Senseable City Lab as data visualization specialist. Her work was exhibited at Milan Design Week 2013, GoogleIO 2013 and venice biennale 2014.
Shan is going to give a introduction about data visualization and why is it important. She is going to introduce different types of data visualizations and talk about some technical topics including web standards and tools for data visualization. In the end, she will show case some of her work at the visualization team at Uber.