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Truly innovative designs anticipate users’ needs and add value in unexpected ways.

October 21 – 23, 2013 in Boston, MA
Brought to you by User Interface Engineering
Register now for $1,389 Only 125 106 spots left at this price. Get registration info and details

Monday’s workshop — Pick from one of these great daylong workshops

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Stephen Anderson

Helping Users Understand Your Data

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Designing effective data visualizations starts with the content, not the graphics. You’ll learn to find the real meaning behind the numbers before telling the story visually to users.

  • Mine and prioritize data, then brainstorm how to display that data
  • Recognize the patterns in visualizations, from control boxes to objects
  • Elevate your designs by considering psychology, perception, and fidelity
  • Display heady information using patterns people naturally understand
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Kim Goodwin

Using Scenarios to Design Intuitive Experiences

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Delve into journey mapping, then create scenarios that identify and resolve design issues. Break down internal silos so you can build user-driven experiences across devices.

  • Getting started with scenario-driven design
  • Creating great designs that work across all channels and platforms
  • Using scenarios to define your design strategy
  • Applying scenarios to drive design at all levels
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Scott Berkun

Innovating on a Deadline

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Exceptional designers aren’t just creative thinkers; they also work to understand the business and people around them. Learn to showcase your ambitions in powerful new ways.

  • Invent ideas, develop them, and then persuade others to get onboard
  • Lead fluid projects and manage egos, including your own
  • Evaluate business risks using a toolkit fit for creative projects
  • Chart paths that fit your company's people, culture, and expectations
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Kevin Hoffman

Leading Super Productive Meetings

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Develop empathy, trust, and collaboration to run effective design discussions. Find out how to apply Lean UX and business-model techniques that help your team prioritize.

  • Making your meetings effective
  • Designing interactive agendas
  • Facilitating productive meetings
  • Persuading others through presentation

Tuesday Featured Talks and Keynote — Hear from each of the workshop presenters and Jared Spool

8:30 am – 5:30 pm
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You’ll have the opportunity to hear each of the workshop presenters talk about the most interesting parts of their work. Cap the day off with fellow attendees, speakers and UIE crew at our networking reception.

Wednesday’s workshop — Pick from one of these great daylong workshops

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Adam Connor & Aaron Irizarry

Building Consensus in Critiques and Design Studios

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Organize energizing workshops that rally teams to explore designs and achieve the best possible results. Make collaborative critiques a mainstay of your process.

  • Learn how to give, receive, and facilitate helpful feedback
  • Explore ideas quicker using rapid-fire sketching techniques
  • Structure design studios to engage everyone in problem-solving
  • Build team consensus to identify and prioritize design solutions
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Dan Saffer

Designing Micro-Interactions

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Design often-overlooked UX elements — microcopy, form controls, and system defaults — increase user engagement overall. See how delightful these details can be.

  • Play with physical, system, and manual events to trigger micro-interactions
  • Set realistic rules to design interesting, enjoyable micro-interactions
  • Balance the experience with static visuals, animation, touch, and sound
  • Extend, evolve, and refine micro-interactions using loops and modes
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Jeff Gothelf

Escaping Product Requirement Hell Using Lean UX

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Validate product ideas and concepts early in the process to ensure you’re on the right track. Discover the true requirements using rapid prototyping techniques.

  • Use a lean validation process before writing requirements
  • Refine your assumptions and hypotheses to clarify your tests and findings
  • Prototype minimum viable products to validate or invalidate your hypotheses
  • Conduct research as a team, then deliver reports about what you learned
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Christine Perfetti

Jumpstart Your UX Research Program

8:30 am – 5:30 pm

Lead enlightening tests to discover where your users are hitting roadblocks in your design. Start to pinpoint where your organization can truly innovate.

  • Create a 90-day plan that considers your audiences, timelines, teams, and managers
  • Organize studies, recruit participants, and design tasks that result in solid usability data
  • Maximize participant feedback by learning how to become a skilled moderator
  • Conduct field research, then read and interpret that data to understand users’ journeys

Get an IPEVO Camera FREE with Registration

IPEVO Camera

If you ever work with remote teams or share designs with large audiences, then you’ll probably love the ridiculously great IPEVO Document Camera as much as we do.

And if you register for UI18 by July 15, we’ll give you one for free! Then you can experience the sheer joy of using this little lightweight camera to:

  • Broadcast live images to teams or clients, wherever they — or you — are
  • Sketch with teams by setting the focus once and then never thinking about it again
  • Take high-quality photos and close-ups, and share them without needing a million cords

Oh and you don’t need a code to get the camera; we’ll add it automatically.

So are you ready to register? Rockin!

Register now for $1,389 Only 125 106 spots left at this price. Get registration info and details