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How Designers Can Build a New World
Startups; coworking; traction; lean everything. Traditional forms of work are breaking down and reforming into new models, and entrepreneurs carry the torch of change. At the same time, the UX field...
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Things I've learned from leading UX Designers
Speaker: Russ UngerI’ve worked for a lot of idiot managers in my career. And then, one day, after I had become a manager, it dawned on me: Now I’m the idiot! You see, most of my career has been an...
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Adaptive Input
Speaker: Jason GrigsbyWindows 8. Chromebook Pixel. Ubuntu Phone. These devices shatter another consensual hallucination that we web developers have bought into: mobile = touch and desktop = keyboard...
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The Mechanics of Magic
Speaker: Christina WodtkeThe web world thinks of game design as the next silver bullet, and companies are slapping badges and progress bars over every annoying thing they wish users to do. But as users...
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History of the Button
Speaker: Bill DeRoucheyThe most significant things are often hidden in plain sight. In the world of design and technology, it’s the button. Let’s take a 100 year tour of the history of the button to...
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(Re)framing - The first step towards innovative ideas
Speaker: Steve BatyThe questions we ask ourselves at the idea generation stage of design play a critical role in the nature of the ideas generated. Bold questions beget bold ideas; and incrementalism...
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Citizen Experience Design and You!
Speaker: Jess McMullinMany governments are dealing with today’s challenges using tools from the last century. UX design (and designers) can help meet those challenges and make a difference in our...
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UX Strategy Means Business
Speaker: Jared Spool We are in an age where poor user experiences become the focus of nationwide attention. One doesn’t need to look beyond recent catastrophes, such as Apple’s iOS6 Maps,...
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Are we Architecting the Information Age?
Speaker: Lisa WelchmanIf this is the information age, what special role do information and user experience architects and play? The rise of industrial aged forced changes in supply chain management for...
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Building Innovation in Real Time
Speaker: Josh SeidenImagine you have a limited budget, a disruptive idea for a social-networking product, and a short timeline to get your vision built and launched. How do you know if your idea will...
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The Art of Deception
Speaker: Stephen HayThere's a fine line between persuasion and deception. On the web, that line is frequently crossed. Sometimes purposefully, sometimes unwittingly. The best way to avoid falling prey...
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Words as Material
Speaker: Nicole Fenton Words shape our ideas, how we see the world, and how we relate to each other. In this session, Nicole will talk about writing—an often invisible partner and material in the...
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Wayfindr: Independent Travel for the Blind
Umesh Pandya"Investigate what it would be like for a young vision impaired person, to travel London’s transport network in the near future.”In this lightning talk, Umesh Pandya will share the story...
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Content strategy for slow experiences
Speaker: Margot BloomsteinOnline experiences can be fast, efficient, easy, orderly—and sometimes, that’s all wrong! Users click confirm too soon, miss important details, or don’t find content that aids...
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Atomic Design
Brad FrostOur interfaces are going more places than ever before, so it's essential to break UIs into their atomic elements in order for us create smart, scalable, maintainable designs. This session...
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Information Architecture for Everybody
Abby CovertWhat does a restaurant menu, a business to business sales process and an eCommerce website have in common? All of these things involve structuring information for an audience to understand....
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Separation Anxiety: Taking Messenger from a Feature to a Standalone App
Marissa PhillipsAbout a year ago, most people didn’t know that Facebook had a separate app for messaging, and Messenger didn’t offer much that you couldn’t already get from the Facebook app. Since...
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Designing with Linked Data
Mike AthertonThis is not your usual UX talk. It’s a little about information architecture, a bit about content strategy, but mostly it’s about how we can use information floating around the web to...
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3 Strategies for Behavior Change
Stephen WendelDo your users fail to engage with your app, or don't follow through on their goals? Steve Wendel, the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet and author of Designing for Behavior Change, will...
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Magical UX and the Internet of Things
Josh ClarkWhat if this thing was magic? The web is touching everyday objects now, and designing for the internet of things means blessing everyday objects, places, even people with extraordinary...
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