Criteria for proposing sessions: You must be a practising web designer/developer, and must be able to show how your own work has advanced the state of the web in the past year. You are expected to present original work that your peers — this event’s audience — recognise as being notable enough to deserve a stage.
About Meta Refresh: Meta Refresh is a conference where Design and UI development converge. A beautiful experience on the web is a result of a deep understanding of your user and the nuances of the medium. Meta Refresh aims to be the platform where designers and UI developers exchange ideas and skills and learn from each other.
Format: This year’s edition spans four days, with two days of workshops and two days of conference. All days feature a single track.
We are accepting talks on:
- Front-end implementations, mainly workflow, processes, tools and automation,
- CSS, animation, UX, trends, and typography, and
- Short, crisp talks on front-end tricks.
Talks on implementation have to be about original work. While covering scalability and productivity aspects to explain implementation details, proposers must also explain who is the user and what is the context in which their product is being used. Therefore, how content and design were tailored in each specific instance.
We also invite workshop proposals on:
- Build systems such as Grunt
- CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap 3 and Foundation
- MVC/JS frameworks such as Angular
- Animations/UX
Workshops will be held on 12th and 13th February at the TERI auditorium in Domlur, Bangalore.
If you are excited about someone’s work and believe it deserves wider recognition, we recommend you contact them and ask them to submit a proposal.
Last date for submissions: 12 January 2014.
Confirmations: 15 January 2014 onwards.
There is only one speaker per session. Attendance is free for selected speakers. HasGeek will offer a grant to cover your travel to and accommodation in Bangalore from anywhere in the world for speakers delivering full sessions (30 minutes or longer). As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. If you are able to raise support for your trip, we will count that as a speaker travel sponsorship.
Travel grants are reimbursed at the end of the conference. You are expected to make your own travel and stay arrangements. We will assist with hotel recommendations, visa letters and general advice on travel.
Commitment to open source
HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like it to be available under a permissive open source license. If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licenses (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognize that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a sponsored session.
Non Accepted Proposals
If your proposal is accepted for a session > 30 minutes long, we will cover your event ticket. If your proposal is not accepted, you can buy a ticket at the same rate as was available on the day you proposed. We’ll send you a code.
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Website: https://metarefresh.in/2014
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Anand A
@anandgrafiti
Designing at break neck speed
Submitted Jan 12, 2014
Section:
Crisp talk
Technical level:
Beginner
A primar to the many challenges of working in a fast paced startup/agile environment for a designer and possible solutions to avoid common mistakes.
Outline
A multitasking designer is one of the key stakeholder in a startup’s early stages where they define the product. As exciting this phase intellectually for the designer, this is also a stage where he/she tend to make some common design and decision mistakes. In this talk, ill be sharing my experiences from startup/lean culture, lessons learned, and some measures that i take to avoid those.
Here are the taking points for this proposal
- Battling fast evolving requirements/feature sets
- Addressing lack of documentation time
- Ability to multitask
- Dealing with incremental changes and user feedbacks
- Going modular in design detailing
- No chrome / Flat designs and its relevance in making faster design cycles
- Importance of being hands on
Speaker bio
Im an interaction designer with over 10 years of experience. Started my career in elearning, then moved around a bit working with small and large scale corporates in consumer/enterprise product teams(Yahoo, Adayana, Pramati, Groupsave, Freshdesk, Cucumbertown) as an interaction designer. I have worked for 3 startups over the last 2 years and this period has been one of great insights (and sleepless nights). I currently head the design efforts at cucumbertown.com
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