Day 1 Sessions

What Dungeons & Dragons Taught Me about UX Design
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This session will provide tips make your UX process - and your adventure - less stressful.
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Designing a CMS that supports great content design
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In this talk I'll explore how to design your CMS to support and encourage content design, making it more intuitive for distributed editors to use, with built-in tips and trainin
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AI-Generated Art: Understanding the Potential
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We'll showcase inspiring use cases in the film and video game spheres, where AI is reinventing visual storytelling and gameplay.
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Creating Accessible Emails
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Courtney and Liz will provide best practices and tips for creating accessible emails.

Figma and Design Systems
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In this session, we will walk through how we organized, architected, and built a library in Figma with dozens of components, variants, properties, and styles.
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How to Level up your Workday so it’s More Efficient (and Fun!)
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In this session, you’ll hear from three members of Illinois State University’s digital experience team.
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The Creative Writer’s Toolkit: Tried and True Methods for Eye-catching Stories
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In this workshop, we'll go over tools to be creative and draw your reader in so they don't want to stop.
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A Different Kind of Magic: Reimagining our Work with Neurodivergent Creatives and Tech Colleagues
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This presentation introduces those in the creative and tech fields to strategies for working with co-workers who may have ASD or are neurodivergent, which is not often addressed in diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Lunch
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Digital Accessibility Program
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This program will include background information, as well as facts and common misconceptions of creating a digital footprint that is accessible for all.
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Our Digital Home: University Housing’s Journey to New Websites
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Mari Anne Brocker Curry, Dick Detzner, and Chris Axtman-Barker detail the planning, feedback, strategy, and structure of the new Housing websites
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Digital Accessibility Program
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This program will include background information, as well as facts and common misconceptions of creating a digital footprint that is accessible for all.
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Navigating Organizational Milestones: Harnessing Communications for Brand Stewardship
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In this engaging talk, we'll explore the pivotal role of effective communication in amplifying the impact of organizational milestones.
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Behind-the-scenes of digital media: Podcasts, webinars and everything in between
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Get a behind-the-scenes look at how to create and edit a podcast, video, or other digital media
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Moving the needle: How to translate basic market research into a multi-phase awareness campaign
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In this workshop Kristin Tennant and Jamie Hedrick draw from their journey developing a strategic, multi-faceted campaign.

SEO Essentials for Content Managers
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We will cover content-focused strategies you can employ to ensure your audiences find your web pages in Google.

Empowering Education: Leveraging AI to Support Underrepresented College Students
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This presentation delves into the potential of ChatGPT and other AI tools to address these students' unique challenges
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Playing to Win: Redesigning COUNTRY’s User Experience Playbook
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In this presentation, we’ll learn how COUNTRY redefined its User Experience Design Playbook over the course of their quote redesign efforts.
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Web Con Social Mixer – Powered by NCSA
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Gallery Art Bar - Urbana, IL
Join us for our social meet up at the Gallery Art Bar in Urbana, IL!

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