Recorded Event: UX Immersion 2012 Talks from the conference

It’s a Great Time To Be a UX Designer

There’s never been a better time to be a designer. After years of wishing we’d have the recognition and appreciation for the value we bring, we’re now highly sought after for our talents and skills. A growing number of organizations have seen success through great design, from Apple to Cirque de Soleil to the White House. Others now want to get the same results. The demand for great designers has never been better.

Yet, as the proverb says, "Be careful for what you wish for, lest it become true." Now that everyone expects us to deliver great things, are we ready? While we’re presented with more opportunities than ever, we also have increased challenges.

Organizing Mobile Web Experiences

What You’ll Learn

• How to organize your content and services for mobile users
• Why you should design for content first, navigation second
• Effective ways to layout navigation menus on mobile screens
• How to choose between multi-device design solutions like responsive design & device experiences

Designing UIs with jQuery

What You’ll Learn

• The basics of JavaScript and jQuery
• How to take advantage of advanced JavaScript concepts, like functions and objects
• Simple techniques for creating UI animations in jQuery
• Using jQuery UI to create tabbed panels, date pickers, and other UI elements

The Enterprise Mobility Revolution

What You’ll Learn

• Ways to take advantage of four types of enterprise mobility
• The trap of creating a mobile version of your intranet
• How to identify the top things staff need from their mobile device
• Where to start when creating a next-generation enterprise mobility strategy

Moving Beyond Staggered Sprints: How One Company Integrated UX & Agile

What You’ll Learn

• The resources they used to learn about Agile and UX integration
• The steps they took to begin the integration process
• How to side-step failures to ensure success
• How they realized that Agile/UX integration is an iterative process in and of itself

The Mobile Frontier

What You’ll Learn

• How to think about and create experiences that span and scale across multiple devices
• Where natural UIs go beyond what we can do with traditional graphical UIs
• Ways to traverse the chasm between gestures and mouse-based interactions
• Moving from efficiency and tasks towards providing a sense of comfort and connection

What UX Designers Bring To Agile Development

What You’ll Learn

• How to successfully reconcile the different meanings of “customer” in Agile and UX
• Why a solid “Sprint Zero” is not the all-feared Big Design Up Front
• The magic behind working in 2-week sprints
• Using good UX practices to turbocharge good Agile workflow