Schedule: Design & User Experience sessions

Turn collaboration from 'touchy feely' to super productive with a tool kit of techniques to use in your team when you need to come up with new ideas, devise solutions, agree on priorities and much more. Read more.

This session takes a broad look at delivering the best possible experience to users of your website or application. Covering experience strategy, usability, design, features, visitor patterns, information architecture, email marketing - this session is ideal for anyone who wants to optimise their site for increased user happiness, which in turn will lead to more sales! Read more.

What is happening on the social side of social media? The now established model of blogging is not keeping pace with the explosion of social applications, and while there are a variety of new tools out there to do more on your blog, nothing seems to be dominant. What is a blogger to do? How should a blogger respond to these changes? What will be the impact on how people experience blogs? Read more.

What is the "feel" of your user interface? Is it consistent or jagged? See how an audit of interactions can reveal whether your site delivers a clean, simple, easy-to-operate experience to your users. Read more.

Traditional user testing of products often does not take place until the prototype phase and is expensive and time consuming. Conceptual studies involve the end-user earlier and leads to better products and technological solutions. We show our efforts to capture user insights for this purpose in a Web 2.0 community-like environment. Read more.

This talk explains how no company can afford being ignorant of the user experiences they are providing for their users, and why user experience is a great differentiator in business. The second half of the talk explores how user experiences could be quantified, and goes through a list of thought provoking statements for evaluating various experiences. Read more.

Applications have always been traditionally static. Recent improvements in computer performance have allowed applications to be more dynamic, with smooth transitions between states. Flow is not only important for responsiveness but also for subtle visual feedback on what the application is doing. This talk presents some important considerations and examples for when designing for flow. Read more.

In 1925, Thor Bjørklund was having a user-interface problem -- the inability to properly cut cheese with his knife, so he went away and invented the cheese slicer. As we begin using our mobile devices in new ways, we are faced with new problems: size, speed, functionality, and connectedness. We need to learn how to design specialized UI designed for the fast mobile life-style. Read more.

This talk will focus on a number of design directions for new physical interfaces. We will discuss various ideas around presence, location, context awareness, peripheral interaction as well as haptics and tangible interfaces. How do these interactions work with the web? What are the potentials and problems, and what kinds of design approaches are needed? Read more.

There's something that takes that extra step, that goes beyond user interface (form) and user experience (function)... And it is that moment that each company with online presence wants its target user to reach: the click-moment Read more.