Complete event listing for
Four Seasons
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Friday, March 7
I'm going to show you how to make your customers happy using techniques that are normally employed by the lowest of the low; con-men, pick-up artists, used car salesmen, and as-seen-on-tv marketers. You'll learn that it'…
Intermediate
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Chris Nodder
As product design, user interfaces and frameworks are all converging to humanize technology and make it all about the complete user experience, valuable, relevant content is the currency of the new digital economy. Users…
Intermediate
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Jon Setzen
Achieving financial bliss, or even organizing everything in one place, is no easy task. There are many obstacles to maintaining stability like: How much am I spending on necessities? What’s the best way to handle debt? A…
Intermediate
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Vince Maniago
Estimating digital & software projects has long been considered a dark art. Many luminaries have written books, articles, blog posts, and rants on the subject. Steve McConnell, the guru of project estimation, has suggest…
Intermediate
Presenters
Brett Porter, Deborah Hanamura, Joshua Philips, Trevor Kale
Saturday, March 8
Ocupop has maintained an authority position as a design resource for everyone from the W3C to Google to countless startups; we've navigated hundreds of design reviews while avoiding the bullshit and bastardization most d…
Intermediate
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Michael Nieling
User experience (UX) and user interface (UI) designers face the challenge of designing software applications for different screen sizes. Most consumers have smartphones, tablets, and large Smart TVs that allow them to en…
Intermediate
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Ana Karen Ramírez, Anjuan Simmons
Third-party JavaScript widgets (think Facebook Connect or Twitter Widgets) add functionality and enhance user experience, at very little cost to you. Unfortunately, much of the existing third-party JavaScript currently …
Intermediate
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Kent Brewster
There is an ever-increasing number of devices available to us, and an equally large number of ways to interact with them. We want to examine the role of gestures in interaction: how we've moved forward from mice and keyb…
Intermediate
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Allison Sigrist, Amber Heinbockel
Watch this fast-paced experiment where four strangers come together to launch a product in an hour. One supercoder will launch the back-end for an e-commerce website. One design guru will bang out stylesheets and logos. …
Intermediate
Presenters
Bill Hogan, Jess Morse, Pippin Williamson, Shiloh Daniel
This talk will break some of the myths regarding pre-processors, and explain how they have help us to be more efficient when coding CSS. There are very influential people in the industry that have put down Sass, Less and…
Intermediate
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Ramon Lapenta
Almost everyone and everything has an app now, but whether those apps get traction with users and perform well for developers depends on a special blend of brains (backend functionality) and beauty (UX). As with dating, …
Advanced
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Ilya Sukhar
Gigabit fiber means more than just faster Internet. Low latency, virtual networks and frictionless online experiences enable a new world of possibilities. Next generation Internet applications are challenging from both a…
Intermediate
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Aaron Deacon, Bob Metcalfe, Will Barkis
The smartphone has changed every element of research over the past few years – from the way consumers want to respond to inquiries (some 40% of research surveys are opened and completed on a mobile device) to the tools a…
Intermediate
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Andrew Campbell
Why do we produce charts, infographics, reports or, indeed, any kind of media? We do it to change the world and to influence people. Are you succeeding in doing that in your role? We've chosen the 5 most influential vis…
Beginner
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Andy Cotgreave
Sunday, March 9
Why is it important to focus on accessibility on your website? We'll show you how one highly dynamic and video-rich website was brought to life and then adapted for mobile—all while adhering to Section 508 compliance to …
Advanced
Presenters
Jordan Sheckman
1. Collect all the data. 2. Design all the data with integrity. 3. ??? 4. Achieve universal knowledge and understanding. When Edward Tufte tweets mockingly of the leaked NSA slides, he does so as the self-anointed king o…
Advanced
Presenters
Gabriel Schaffzin
With continuously changing technology, and fast-paced product cycles, we as designers no longer have the luxury of laboriously debating every pixel. I will be discussing how product design & innovation is tackled at a gl…
Intermediate
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Joel Beukelman
Google, Netflix, Square, Adobe. These are companies known for creating incredible software products and services. And yet, they are boldly pushing into new territory by creating hardware. But why? Google’s investment in …
Intermediate
Presenters
Julia Hu, Matt Rolandson, Michael Gough, Robert Brunner
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) are in their early stages of being developed for delivery of educational content. Current structural limitations inhibit everything from sophisticated game based learning to simple ema…
Intermediate
Presenters
Dawn Zimmaro, Donna Kidwell, Janet Walkow, Ross Strader
Today we are still using our mobile devices like the way we used to on old computers with a mouse. We have limited ourselves to only scrolling up, down, left, and right in most of our mobile experiences, when our touch…
Beginner
Presenters
Sung Kim
We live in a cross-platform world, with users now expecting the data they create to follow them across various devices, browsers and even offline. Consumers’ data sync demands range from simple needs (i.e. accessing the …
Advanced
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Leah Culver
This panel looks at a wide range of intersections between interaction design and the performing arts, from narrative to puppetry to dramatic theory. The performing arts may be characterized by the expression of emotion a…
Intermediate
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Allucquere Stone, Brenda Laurel, Emma Westecott, Noah Wardrip-Fruin
Monday, March 10
There's untapped magic in the gap between gadgets. Multi-screen design is a preoccupying problem as we try to fit our content into many different screens. But as devices proliferate, the opportunity is less about designi…
Advanced
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Josh Clark
Struggling to have the impact you want? Win the hearts of your teammates and stakeholders with this simple recipe for Deep Collaboration! We’ll share the techniques we used to transform naysayers into UX advocates whil…
Intermediate
Presenters
Alissa Briggs, Raman Hansi
User experience design typically focuses on creating meaningful experiences that will affect as many people as possible. Startups covet reaching critical mass; success for larger companies is often measured in tens of mi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Joseph Medwid, Kevin McMillin
Quality Assurance (QA) has quickly become a required discipline in today's digital world. As agencies strive to produce flawless digital content, they're struggling with how to establish QA teams to support process, and …
Intermediate
Presenters
Ben Currie, Jim Spillson, Kt Mcbratney, Michael Morowitz
It's uncomfortable for me to admit this: Analysts aren't paid for the elegance of their Python, the resplendence of their R, or even the complexity of their CSV files. But after years of leading social analytics and rese…
Intermediate
Presenters
Eric Swayne
Mobile today means more than handsets in pockets. Welcome to digital ubiquity. Always-on cross-channel services add new dimensions of complexity to the job of user experience strategy and product design. So, yes, “mobi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Abi Jones, Christian Crumlish, Paul McAleer
Customers increasingly expect retailers to understand their preferences so they can deliver personalized service. That’s why people love to shop on Amazon; Amazon uses insights about each customer to provide a seamless, …
Intermediate
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Marc Freed-Finnegan
Recent advances in technology that support the creation of interactive virtual reality, and breakthroughs in the tools of non-invasive human neuroscience have now resulted in a collision of these two exciting worlds. Phi…
Intermediate
Presenters
Adam Gazzaley, Philip Rosedale
Interaction designers the world over often work at their desks solo, headphones on, working deep inside their own head. When they come out of their bubble to show their work, they're often surprised at the response. Coop…
Intermediate
Presenters
Christopher Noessel, Suzy Thompson
I’ve been working on product design for big corporations, for small companies and for my own startups. Each time I come to a point where I need to know more about how the users behave. Why are they not using a new featur…
Intermediate
Presenters
Tue Andersen
Tuesday, March 11
You’ve seen them. The blinking, pulsing eyesores. Animations used by developers and designers who think “Because I can” is a good excuse. It’s not. On the web, there should be a reason for everything. Every transition, t…
Intermediate
Presenters
Gabe Martin, Robby Grant
The Texas Tribune deals with government data ranging from thousands to millions of rows and every data set has one thing in common: there's next to nothing in common. This talk shows you the process for consuming govern…
Beginner
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Travis Swicegood
Cultural design aesthetics have become less isolated and influence each other to evolve a global design standard as technology spreads. Differences between countries in aesthetics and interactions continue to meld. What …
Beginner
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Elizabeth Jensen
Typefaces help you share, rant, tweet, post, publish and sell. They are the behind-the-scenes stars that portray your thoughts in visual language. Cast in the wrong role they may underperform or fail at this task yet ma…
Intermediate
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Blair Brown, Steve Matteson
As responsive design and progressive enhancement become mainstream design practices, the decades old approach of using Adobe Photoshop to comp up page designs for clients is becoming increasingly irrelevant. A quick sear…
Intermediate
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Jeremy Fuksa
As interaction designers, we design how people spend their time. Judging by the amount of distracted multi-tasking, stress from information overload, and struggle for work-life balance, we're doing a pretty bad job of ke…
Intermediate
Presenters
Boaz Gurdin
Pablo Picasso was a prolific artist. He produced over 150,000 pieces of art, which equates to delivering seven finished pieces of art each day of his career. Picasso also delivered in different mediums: paintings, scul…
Beginner
Presenters
Brian Sullivan, J Schuh
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