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Design trends and metrics inspire the new face of TechNews

The topic for our April 5, 2023, Design Community session was the trends and metrics that DoIT Communications used to inspire a new design for the TechNews newsletter. Our guests Kyle Henderson and…

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Best Practices for Inclusive and Diverse Photography in Higher Education

The University Photographers’ Association of America (UPAA) put out a first-of-its-kind guide around visual representation in 2022. Four UPAA members and university photographers who were…

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(original) Best Practices for Inclusive and Diverse Photography in Higher Education

The University Photographers’ Association of America (UPAA) put out a first-of-its-kind guide around visual representation in 2022. Four UPAA members and university photographers who were…

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Design Community — Send even better emails: Insights gained from emailing 50,000 people

When should you send your emails out? What does it look like to send out an email to 50,000+ users? What goes into a responsive design template? Learn about email newsletters as Kyle Henderson at…

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Design Community: How content can support—or impair—your DEI efforts

Dayana Kibilds, strategy director at Ologie, joined us to talk about the effect our content has on our DEI efforts. We can have the best of intentions but inadvertently confuse prospective students,…

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Design Community: Build a better email—Tips and tricks for using Eloqua to send communications

Rebecca (Bex) Quigley, Web Solutions Analyst with WIDA, joined us for our October 27 Design Community session to share tips and tricks for using Eloqua to send communications.

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Design Community: Now Better and more Design-y

Our September 28, 2022 Design Community event focused on you. You shared. Are we getting it right? We structured this event to ask you to hold us accountable and to learn about future sessions. We…

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August Design Community Retrospective

As we come up on our first anniversary as a community, we will use our August 25 UW Design Community session to re-center ourselves and review our past year together — how we got started, how…

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July 2022 Design Community

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is tough! How your website appears on social media and search engines will impact its click-through rate. Luckily, we have tools and strategies that make improving…

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Design Community: Swag —If you buy it will they come?

As part of the Design Community series, Alison Caffrey from the Instructional Design Collaborative joined us to talk about her experiences with designing and purchasing swag at UW–Madison and…

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Crafting New Futures Using “Ideas Arrangements Effects”

The Studio proposes that we can redesign systems if we follow a simple premise: “Ideas are embedded in social arrangements, which in turn produce effects.” They offer arrangements as a…

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Design Community: Color Theory — Using color to enhance your design

As part of the Design Community series, Al Nemec and Kedar Joyner share their expertise in color theory. Whether you design for print, digital, or both, the use of color in your design supports the…

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Design thinking: problem-solving through creativity

This session focused on “design thinking,” a process that fosters collaboration and creativity to solve problems and innovate in a human-centered way. Mandy Morrow, associate director of…

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Toni Gilpin: “‘We’re Not Going to Be Second Class Citizens in the South’: the Radical, Interracial Organizing Model of the Farm Equipment Workers in Louisville, Kentucky“

The second in a series of two lectures from Toni Gilpin, given for the Havens Wright Center Spring 2021 Visiting Scholar Program. Toni Gilpin is a labor historian, writer, and activist who holds a…

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STRONG AMERICA: A BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION TO REBUILD AMERICAN PROSPERITY

Strong Towns President, Chuck Marohn, gives a STRONG AMERICA: A BOTTOM-UP REVOLUTION TO REBUILD AMERICAN PROSPERITY presentation at the Urban Futures: Fall 2020 Virtual Talks series on November 17,…

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CDMC Conversation Series / Serie de Conversaciones de CDMC: Día de los Muertos en los Tiempos de COVID

Domingo, 8 de noviembre de 2020, 7-8: 30pm CT / Sunday, November 8, 2020, 7-8:30pm CT Para esta edición de la Serie de Conversaciones de CDMC, el Centro de Diseño y Cultura Material…

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