Let's join our friends from GDG Central Florida for 2 great talks during the May online meetup!

TALK 1: Bootstrap and Focus your Next Venture with Google Design Sprints

Hey team leaders and product designers! Looking for a fun and effective way to bootstrap and focus your next venture? The Google Design Sprint is a proven methodology for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users. Design Sprints quickly align teams under a shared vision with clearly defined goals and deliverables. This process can add value to startups and enterprise engineering teams. In this talk, we’ll provide an overview of how Design Sprints helps you gain a 360-degree perspective early in your project, how you plan the event, and tips on execution. Looking forward to connecting with you!

Sneak preview - https://designsprintkit.withgoogle.com/

Speaker Bio:
Charis Horner is passionate about synthesizing complex information to solve real problems and meet practical needs through a unified end product. Experienced in process improvement, project management, business systems analysis, project planning, Lean Six Sigma, agile methodology, robotic process automation (RPA), and human systems interaction. Charis serves as a business analyst and researcher at DesignInteractive.net building empowering AR training solutions for commercial and DoD clients.

TALK 2: Accelerating App Development with JSON Schema

Looking for a way to get your application out to market faster with fewer bugs? In this talk, we'll explore ways that Angular, React, and NodeJs developers can leverage JSON schema to accelerate parts of your code execution through code generation and various open-source JavaScript components. The talk will explore tips to prepare your architecture to effectively leverage code generation strategies. We'll also explore ways that you can leverage JSON schema to create adaptable user experiences and encourage data consistency. At the end of the day, we hope that meta-programming and code generation help developers focus on the fun parts of your app domain.

Speaker Bio: Michael is a senior software engineer at Design Interactive. As an engineer and agile leader, he loves to promote software craftsmanship, learning environments, and cultures of innovation. Michael focuses on making apps for the Microsoft HoloLens, mobile devices, and supporting enterprise Angular applications.

Agenda

- Introductions
- Talk 1 (30 minutes)
- Break and mixer (5 minutes)
- Talk 2 (30 minutes)
- Prizes
- Closing remarks

Streaming details will be posted soon.

Sharing from our friends in Central Florida: https://www.meetup.com/GDG-Central-Florida/events/270255810/