We all want our projects to appeal to as wide an audience as possible. We work hard on the work we produce and we want to make sure that our product is usable, appealing, and inclusive, but frequently an unintended bias or underlying assumption may turn an innocuous oversight into an inconvenience or even a barrier for the people we’re trying to reach. You don’t have to reinvent the wheel to increase your product’s appeal.
A competition between Durham's creative finest called the Bull City Blowout begins this year on April 16th. DesignHammer is one of nine competing agencies to raise money for local nonprofit organization SeeSaw Studios.
Come out this Sunday, February 21, to see the first ever Niko Cup against Cancer, a soccer tournament organized by local players to support fellow player and friend, Niko Harlan, in his battle with brain cancer.
DesignHammer representatives Kosta Harlan and Caroline Silver joined in the ProductCamp conversation, presenting on “Usability Testing as a Method for Ensuring Marketing Success.”
DesignHammer’s Managing Partner, David Minton, leads BarCamp discussion on “The Intersection of Usability, Accessibility, and SEO.”
DesignHammer has recently joined the Meetup trend and is sponsoring a group supporting further education of local web professionals in the Triangle.
Online registration is open for the fourth annual BarCampRDU, to be held Saturday, August 8, 2009, at the Red Hat World Headquarters in Raleigh. The popular event for local technologists has attracted over two hundred participants each of the last three years, and will probably reach capacity well before August.