Design for Non-Designers
What You’ll Learn
- How to find design inspiration in the world around you
- Why better-designed interfaces are better for your business
- Simple techniques to improve your user interfaces
Managing Outcomes in Three Easy Steps
What You’ll Learn
- The logical framework and scientific approach to managing outcomes.
- How outcomes over outputs as an approach aligns with our work and goals.
- How to shift your work plan to be outcome focused.
Language Arts for the Lizard Brain
What You’ll Learn
- Understand the brain’s two modes of interrogating the world around us
- Discover the role of context in the meaning we assign to words
- Grasp the salient thresholds at which the message we’re trying to convey “clicks” … or crumbles
- Learn the ways you can leverage this knowledge to make better design decisions in the work you do
Designing To Learn: Testing Your Minimum Viable Product
What You’ll Learn
- Approach your MVP as an Experiment to test your product hypothesis and learn more about your customers
- Design the most effective product experimentations and MVPs
- Gain support within your organization for using MVPs as a testing method
- Incorporate MVPs into your overall product strategy
Collaborative Design Discovery: Four Essential Techniques
What You’ll Learn
- Create a shared pool of knowledge
- Consider discovery as a mindset and not an artifact
- Embrace critique as an important part of the design process
- Examine three mindsets for designers
Building a Culture of Design
What You’ll Learn
- Define what a culture of design is — and what it isn’t
- Understand the transformative power of design thinking
- Recognize your role in transforming your company culture
- Develop a game plan for effecting change
Rise of the DEO: Leadership by Design
In Rise of the DEO, Maria Giudice and her coauthor explore the intersection of creativity and business smarts. They look at how and why this unlikely coupling produces leaders capable of solving our increasingly complex business problems.
At Warm Gun, Maria will lead a conversation that focuses on techniques, tactics, and intuitions that create stronger leaders. She’ll untangle the characteristics and qualities that distinguish great creative leaders. She’ll introduce you to today’s role models and rule breakers. Join us to uncover your own skills to build, revive, or reinvent the next generation of great companies.
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Fostering Effective Collaboration in a Global Environment
PJ’s team recently transitioned from reactive, agency-like project work to a proactive, self-driven roadmap. They had to figure out a way to collaborate efficiently across 5 different disciplines—and a bunch of time zones—to make awesome products for their customers. And, they had to convince everyone else at Amazon to get with the program.
Find out from PJ how talking and listening can be the key to creating meaningful change. He’ll share everything his team learned about winning allies, building responsive systems and processes, and meeting the needs of a user base that spans the globe.
Designing for Startups
Most startup designers focus on delighting customers with how their products look and feel. But if a product isn’t solving a problem or meeting a need, customers won’t care how pretty it is. So, how can design be used to help shape the core of products? And how can designers convince their teams to let them go beyond visual design?
Braden Kowitz will share his insights into what startups really need from designers, as well as his team’s “Design Sprint” process for rapid prototyping. You’ll learn how user research lets you move faster and take more risks. How to work at the right level of fidelity. And how ugly things can lead to great design.
Building Design Systems from Atomic Elements
What You’ll Learn
- Deconstruct your organizations’ interfaces
- Create systems that includes templates, and pages
- Create designs that are future-friendly and extensible
- Establish a repeatable workflow tailored to your team and product
Adapting to Different Forms of Input
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
Mobile Behavior and Design Trends
What You’ll Learn
- What’s going to make your whole company focus on mobile
- How people interact with their mobiles device
- To think about how people are using your designs on mobile
- How you can design for this new reality and even create experiences that translate from mobile to laptop to TV
How Do We Design Designers?
What You’ll Learn
- Why design students coming out of school don't know about responsive design or creating mobile apps
- What's causing our self-taught hackers and C.S. grads having a tough time keeping up with the pace of technology innovation
- Why our tendency to focus on skills alone isn’t sustainable
- How we can start investing in the ways we create designers and fuel their growth
Designing for Micro-moments
What You’ll Learn
- Design interactions from conversations
- Focus on “how” rather than “what”
- Integrate micro-moments by starting your process from the bottom up
Color: Designing for a Global User Experience
What You’ll Learn
- Understand common cultural influences on color perception
- Use color to inspire or deter emotional responses
- Examine typical gender reactions to color
- Accommodate visual impairments with smart color choices
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.
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