{"id":2371,"date":"2018-04-20T11:45:23","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T15:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2018.raleigh.wordcamp.org\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2018-04-20T10:49:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T14:49:51","slug":"speaker-spotlight-alisa-herr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-alisa-herr\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Spotlight: Alisa Herr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Alisa is a multi-disciplinarian who loves flexing her skills in strategy, data analysis, empathy, design, and web development. In 2016, she established Unity as a digital agency for community-focused businesses. A North Carolinian to the bone, Alisa is from the Triangle, has a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Appalachian State University, a master\u2019s degree in library and information science from UNC Chapel Hill, and ardently defends her preference for Lexington style bbq. She is a mom, wife, public speaker, open source evangelist, and serves on the community board of AIGA Raleigh as the chair of the Women Lead Initiative.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\">Alisa will be presenting: <\/span><span class=\"s3\"><b>The Ultimate Guide to Building the Worst Product. <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s3\">As she states \u201cLet\u2019s face it. There\u2019s a gap between what developers care about and what users care about. In this session, we\u2019ll explore what happens when we ignore this simple fact. We\u2019ll discuss what UX is and why the user\u2019s experience matters, how to think like your users, and some new rules we can all get behind. After all, UX is more than just about visual design, but also about making sure systems are set up in a way that makes them easy for people to actually use.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alisa is a multi-disciplinarian who loves flexing her skills in strategy, data analysis, empathy, design, and web development. In 2016, she established Unity as a digital agency for community-focused businesses. A North Carolinian to the bone, Alisa is from the Triangle, has a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Appalachian State University, a master\u2019s degree in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/speaker-spotlight-alisa-herr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Speaker Spotlight: Alisa Herr&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7973571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Speaker Spotlight: Join @isabisa as she presents \"The Ultimate Guide to Building the Worst Product\" at #WCRaleigh","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9463],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-speaker-spotlight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9CHoB-Cf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7973571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/raleigh.wordcamp.org\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}