 
"Design + Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Khoi Vinh"Many designers and developers dream of quitting their day job to build a product or start a new business, but doing so requires more than inspiration and innovation, it takes staying power, an understanding of business principles and the ability to stake out a space in what may be a crowded market. In their session on "Design + Entrepreneurship", Khoi Vinh and Alice Twemlow will discuss the challenges that designers face to make the transition to entrepreneurs, lessons learned from app development, why it's important to have a distinctive voice, and how user experience affects a product's success in its social communities of use. Khoi will draw from his experience in creating Mixel, an iPad app for creating digital collages that are insanely simple to make and to share. Khoi Vinh is a blogger at Subtraction.com, former design director at NYTimes.com and founder of Lascaux Co., a company that combines the transformative power of social networks and multi-touch tablets to let people from all walks of life make art–and have fun doing it–in a wholly new way. Alice Twemlow is chair and co-founder of the Design Criticism MFA program at the School of Visual Arts and writes about design for publications including Eye, Design & Culture and the New York Times Magazine. She is the author of What is Graphic Design For? (Rotovision) and of essays for books such as The Barnbrook Bible and 60 Innovators: Shaping Our Creative Futures (Thames and Hudson), and the catalogue for “Graphic Design Worlds” at La Triennale Design Museum. Workshops with the Experts
Sign up for a pair of half day workshops at WebVisions NYC. Held at the Hudson Hotel on Wed., Jan. 18th, the workshops explore web and mobile design, UX, research, game development and the ever popular duo of HTML5 and CSS3. Space is limited! Morning Workshops"Adaptive Web Design" - Aaron Gustafson "Building HTML5 Games" - Jesse Freeman "The Future of Web Design Isn't Just the Web" - Samantha Starmer Afternoon Workshops"How to Use Scifi to Create Better Interfaces" - Nathan Shedroff "Zombie Apocalypse of Devices Preparedness 101" - Jason Grigsby "HTML5 + CSS3 = Your Web Design Future" - Jason Cranford Teague Scale Mt. Default at WebVisions NYC - Win an iPad!
Live type is revolutionizing web design. No longer do designers and developers need to choose from a limited set of six typefaces - with WebINK, overcoming the obstacles of default fonts is a thing of the past. As a fun way to celebrate the new era of web typography, WebINK will set up the Mt. Default photo backdrop at WebVisions NYC on Jan. 20th - take your picture in mountain climbing gear and post it on Twitter with the text "I scaled Mt. Default!" and include the hashtag #WebINKphoto. David Stump (pictured at right with a friend) had the winning photo in Atlanta. WebVisions NYC attendees who post their awesome and hilarious photos will be entered to win an iPad. Do you feel a yodel coming on? You're Not Hitchhiking Anymore, You're RidingThere's a new private car service in town, and it's called GroundLink. GroundLink isn't your typical car service - you can use a mobile app that allows you to instantly track and reserve nearby luxury vehicles, and they're offering a $30 credit on trips around the city or to NYC airports. Neato. To download the app, available on iPhone and Android, visit: http://www.groundlink.com/app. Be sure to use Invite Code WVNYC30 in the first set-up screen in the app to get your credit, and Ride Now! UPCOMING EVENTSHackathon for Social Good
Jan. 19, 2012 from 8:30am-5:30pm Join web and mobile experts in a free all day Hackathon for Social Good. Hackathons are events when programmers and designers meet to work collaboratively to build programs and applications. If you have a great coding and design mindset, put your talents to the task and help create tools to solve local community needs. RSVP today at http://wvnyc-hackathon.eventbrite.com/ Business Innovation and Education Lab
Jan. 20, 2012 from 8:30am-5:00pm The Business Innovation and Education Lab is a free, all day event connected to the WebVisions conference that features a series of lightning presentations from startups with innovative ideas for digital, interactive and mobile apps, commerce and services. During breaks, speakers and attendees can connect and discuss opportunities to do business, create partnerships and develop new markets for goods and services. The afternoon will feature a roundtable discussion on the future of education and training for the digital economy with educators and leaders from Parsons, School of Visual Arts and NYU's ITP. WebVisions Portland
May 16-18, 2012 It's our 12th big year in Portland, and we're celebrating with a fabulous lineup of experts in web and mobile design, technology, user experience, DIY, strategy and more! Registration is now open...and the Early Bird rates are great. Find out more at http://www.webvisionsevent.com/portland/ Association PartnersMembers of the following groups can receive discounted admission to WebVisions. Contact Jennifer or Brad at 503-230-2058 to inquire about groups that are not listed below:
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