Refresh Boston in May: The Art of Disciplined Creativity with Denise Jacobs May 24, 2011

Refresh Boston's May event features speaker Denise Jacobs, an author, speaker, web designer and consultant, who will present:

The Art of Disciplined Creativity

As web industry professionals, we rarely experience a shortage of projects that necessitate our creativity. Everyone has had moments of being on fire with creativity, but often the time of being in the state of creative flow is all too short. Conversely, sometimes we get stuck: we lack inspiration, our creative confidence wanes, and the generation of ideas comes to a standstill. Much like elite athletes, creatives need to exercise discipline to be able to get into the "zone" at at will and produce great results consistently.

In this session, we will explore ideas and practices for regularly gathering sources of inspiration, eliminating blocks to more easily access creative states, prolong them, and leverage their power to develop and execute great work.

We'll meet in our usual location, on the 11th floor of the Microsoft NERD Center in Cambridge, next to Kendall Square. Doors open at 6:30pm, presentation starts at 7. For more information, visit the Refresh Boston website.

About Denise

Denise Jacobs is a web industry veteran with over 14 years of experience, ranging from software localization project management, enterprise website implementation, and web design/development technical training. She wrote The CSS Detective Guide and is a contributing author to Interact with Web Standards: A holistic approach to Web Design. She also develops curricula for the Web Standards Project Education Task Force (WaSP InterAct), and is a member of the Social Media Club South Florida organizing committee.

Our Sponsor

Thanks to Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, we'll have some books to raffle off to attendees again this month.

Our friends at UIE are giving us two more free registrations to their next Virtual Seminar, User Interface Engineering's monthly series of online seminars with the latest perspectives in the world of design from the field's premier experts, to give away to attendees.

Once again, we need to thank Microsoft for providing us a wonderful space, bringing us pizza for attendees, and allowing us access to numerous beverages in the coolers on the 10th floor.

Support Refresh Boston

We always keep an eye out for companies and individuals who are interested in helping us out by donating things to raffle off or providing drinks/appetizers for attendees. If you'd like to sponsor an upcoming event, check out our Support page.

Refresh Boston is organized by Hanerino, a design studio north of Boston that specializes in attractive, accessible interfaces for web & mobile.

Official Website: http://refreshboston.org