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The Road to Code Girls Who Code, July 2013

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who I am & how I got here

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Stamen Design

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data visual understandable beautiful

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Museum of Modern Art

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Facebook Stories

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MTV Video Music Awards

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Meshu

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But life wasn’t always this glamorous :(

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Math vs. Programming #include using std::cout; using std::cin; using std::endl; int main() { int num=0,sum=0,maxvalue=0; cout <<"Please enter a positive number: "; cin >> maxvalue; for(num=1;num<=maxvalue;num++) sum=sum+num; cout<<"The sum is ...."<

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Data Visualization

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My First Portfolio

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> !stamen > !javascript > !falling in love with ! ! web programming

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> !stamen > !javascript > !falling in love with ! ! web programming

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1) Accessibility 2) User interactivity 3) The internet is your ! ! data source

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1) Accessibility 2) User interaction 3) The internet is your ! ! data source

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1) Accessibility 2) User interaction 3) The internet is your ! ! data source

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a message from the Department of Uncomfortable Truths:

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web programming is complicated

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Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation

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Meshu

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Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation

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Considerations - How should the site feel? - What information do you want to convey? - How will people move through your site? Methods - Sketching out user scenarios - Sketching out different page views

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Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation

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SQL Database Django (Python) HTML CSS Javascript Page Render d3.js jQuery Polymaps

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Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation

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Considerations - Page layout - Colors and type treatment - Hierarchy of information Methods - Sketchbook - Illustrator/Photoshop - HTML/CSS

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Visual Design Frontend Code Backend Code User Experience Animation

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Considerations - Transitions between different data states - Transitions between different page views - Confirming user actions Methods - CSS - Javascript

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whew!

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Thanks! [email protected]