Keynote: Putting Users First

Event Overview

Creating an effective website is much more than just programming HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The site also needs to be carefully designed to be both welcoming and usable for its visitors. And not just some of them, all of them.

Looking at website design from the perspective of your target audience is the best way to ensure that you create an inclusive, accessible, and usable site that recognizes the importance of accessibility, biases, and cultural sensitivity.

What You'll Learn

Create a mental model of how web development works.
Understand the big picture of how users interact with websites.
Develop an understanding of what your target audience wants.
Learn the benefits of approaching design from the perspective of the user.

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Kyle Harms

Senior Lecturer

Cornell Bowers Computing and Information Science

Senior Lecturer, Cornell Computing and Information Science

Kyle Harms received his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2017 at Washington University in St. Louis. Under the supervision of Dr. Caitlin L. Kelleher, he investigated leveraging completion problems to help enable middle school students to learn computer programming independently. He has completed and published research on a variety of topics relating to young learners and learning how to code, both through structured programs and through self-taught methods. His software work is available on the novice programming environment, Looking Glass, and the open source program github.

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