Topic: Interface Design

Unintuitive and Insecure: Fixing the Failures of Authentication UX

What You’ll Learn

• Understand security without frustration
• Discover Amazon’s multi-state security model that reduces fraud and makes money
• Learn how to keep the Paranoids at bay without degrading the user experience

Designing Conversations

Is it true that the next generation of user interfaces are conversational interfaces? This presentation looks beyond the hype to examine why conversational interfaces offer new opportunities for swifter more satisfying interaction. It also shines a light on some of the pitfalls into which conversational interfaces can easily fall. It unpacks the psychology of human conversation and shows how you can turn this into design principles for more satisfying user experiences–whether you’re building a conversational user interface or a standard touch UI.

When Responsive Web Design Meets the Real World

What You’ll Learn

• There is no connection between form factor and input
• We can’t detect input until someone uses it
• Aiming for “touch” as the input is a good starting point
• Designing for user needs and usage works across form factors

The Immobile Web

What You’ll Learn

• Today’s TVs, their capabilities, and their design Best Practices
• What TVs can teach us about designing for mobile devices—and optimizing inputs, too
• Why methods like responsive design aren’t well-suited to TVs
• The challenges of building web pages for TVs—and today’s options for overcoming them

First-Person User Interfaces

What You’ll Learn

• The evolution of user interfaces—from punch cards to GUIs, NUIs, and now FPUIs
• The power of navigating space and augmenting your immediate surroundings
• Apps that interact with nearby objects, locations, and people
• Components and structures used to create first-person apps

Visual Design for Web Applications

What You’ll Learn

• Use key points to use as a checklist or to plan your visual design
• Incorporate brand into your design
• Recognize when you should be consistent, and when it’s important to be inconsistent
• Consider new terms—Stage, interaction planes, and affordances—what they mean and why they’re important
• Start down in the trenches of your application, rather than the dashboard or home screen

Answered! Your Top Questions on Web Form Design

What You’ll Learn

• Create a form length that captures all the information you need without alienating your users
• Make the right choice when selecting buttons or links to guide your users' actions
• Help your users take the correct form path, and avoid obstacles in completing it

Effective Use of Icons & Images

What You’ll Learn

• Evaluate your user interface and information, with a closer look at the icons and images used to represent information.
• Avoid use of symbols and icons in your interfaces that confuse, offend, or even alienate your audience.
• Better judge the inclusion, exclusion, as well as the combination of words and images in your information.
• Create more effective toolbars, favicons, desktops, menus, and UIs with well-balanced, well-thought-out icons, images, and text.

Designing for Sign-up

What You’ll Learn

• Create Immediate Engagement
• Provide Levels of Description
• Leverage Social Influence