Pittsburgh Web Design Day - October 26th, 2012 - Web Design Conference, Web Development Conference

Web Design Day

Web Design Day is a one-day conference designed to bring the best of modern Web Design to Pittsburgh. This is our fourth year and we’ve made things both bigger and better just for you. A larger, fancier venue means we can hold more people but still keep things small and friendly - just how we all like it. Spend the day with high-end presentations from some of the best and friendliest in our industry and lunching with the best set of attendees around. Then leave the digital aside just for a while for a party and printmaking fun exclusively for Web Design Day attendees.

Shop talk, friends, and making things. We couldn’t think of a better way to spend the day!

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Speakers

Schedule

8:00 AM to 9:00 AM	Registration Morning Coffee & Light Breakfast Sponsored by FreeAgent	Sponsored by:
9:00 AM - 9:10 AM	Kicking off Web Design Day Right!	Val Head
9:10 AM - 9:55 AM	Designing Meetings to Work For	Kevin M Hoffman
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM	Becoming a Web Design Champion	Meagan Fisher
10:50 AM - 11:00 AM	Lightning Talk: Overcoming Collaboration Challenges	Laura Sweltz
11:00 AM - 11:20 AM	Break
11:20 AM - 11:30 AM	Lightning Talk: Large Format Playgrounds	Josh Sager
11:35 AM - 12:20 PM	It's 2012 & I'm Still Writing 'Should web designers know how to code?' On All My Checks	Geoff Barnes
12:20 PM - 1:40 PM	Lunch Catered by Franktuary
1:45 PM - 2:30 PM	Responsive Design vs Separate Mobile Sites: Presidential Smackdown Edition	Brad Frost
2:35 PM - 2:45 PM	Lightning Talk: A Short Lintermission	Jacob Swartwood
2:45 PM - 3:10 PM	Break Sponsored by Pair Networks	Sponsored by:
3:10 PM - 3:55 PM	Useful, Usable & Desirable: Designing for People	Jessica Ivins
4:00 PM - 4:45 PM	Hulkamania & Design	Dan Mall
4:45 PM - 4:55 PM	Ending Web Design Day Right!	Val Head & Jason Head
6:30 PM - 10:30 PM	The Eyeflow After Party: Party with the presses! Our Presstastic hosts: Sapling Press & Commonwealth Press	Sponsored by:

**Schedule subject to change.

Venue

Day

We’ve moved to a bigger and more historic venue for this year so we can show you a little bit more of Pittsburgh’s Northside. The Hazlett Theater was built in 1889 as the Carnegie Musical Hall and was dedicated by President Benjamin Harrison. The Theater is part of a historic landmark which also houses one of the first Carnegie Free Libraries in the country.

New Hazlett Theatre
6 Allegheny Square E.
Pittsburgh, PA 15212

Hotel

For everyone coming from out of town, we've made some arrangements with a nearby hotel to help you out. We have a group rate set up at the Hyatt Place just a short walk from the main venue. Tell them you're with the Web Design Day Group when you make your resevations for a rate of $199 a night.

Hyatt Place
6260 North Shore Drive
Pittsburgh, PA 15212, USA
Phone: +1 412 321 3000

Night

We’re going to party with the presses! Literally. Our lovely friends at Commonwealth Press and Sapling Press are opening up their warehouse studio exclusively for Web Design Day attendees on Friday night. Spend an evening with speakers and attendees while trying your hand at letterpress and screen printing. You print it, you keep it. So much better than a bar! (There are plenty of bars within a short walk for afterwards, don’t worry, we still like bars too.)

About

2012 marks the fourth Web Design Day. Starting in 2009, this event has aimed to bring the best of Web Design to Pittsburgh in a fun, intimate and affordable event. Organized by G. Jason & Val Head of Refresh Pittsburgh and Viewsource events, Web Design Day is designed to encourage the wonderful community of folks from Pittsburgh and beyond who work to make the web a better place. Check out what we did in 2011, 2010 & 2009.

We’d love to hear from you! Drop us a line at info@webdesignday.com

Pittsburgh Web Design Day 2012