Schedule: Design and User Experience sessions

User interfaces for Web 2.0, whether on desktop or mobile platforms, reach across culturally diverse user communities, sometimes within a single country/language group, and certainly across the globe. If user interfaces are to be usable, useful, and appealing to such a wide range of users, if social networks are to produce the hoped for communities and revenues, Read more.

Based on a new O'Reilly book by the strategy and design experts at Adaptive Path, this workshop will help you learn how to make user experience a strategic advantage. As the factors affecting our business get more complex, we must deal with greater and greater uncertainty. Read more.

A sneak peak at “Thermo” (code name), the new design tool from Adobe that will enable designer and developer collaboration throughout the process of creating engaging web applications. Read more.

There's an explosion in "personal informatics:" services that surface information about you and your network to your advantage. Matt Jones will examine how great UX design can maximize the benefits to all. Read more.

The presenters on this panel are each working to integrate video games into online life. Points, levels, distributed persistent social play: metrics for cooperation and competition borrowed from video games and woven into the web. Learn how video game mechanics can create social cohesion and promote participation in innovative web services. Read more.

Effective language is essential to a usable, appealing, platform-independent interface. Read more.

How do you make it easy to look bigger and more global than you are? How do you create a maintainable yet personal experience for users around the world? Hear about practices and the trade-offs multinational companies make to incorporate cultural diversity in user interface design. Read more.

Design patterns for brochureware and editorial sites are well-established. In fact, they're so simple and formulaic that even waterfall development processes can churn them out. But what happens when you're pushing into web apps or social media? Read more.

What happens when average consumers use Web 2.0 sites to share and find and communicate? This will be a presentation of Web 2.0 user research and live consumer interviews demonstrating good, bad, and ugly. Read more.

Kakul Srivastava, director of product management of the popular photo-sharing community Flickr, will discuss enhancing the user experience through tagging and geotagging. Read more.

There's a lot to learn from how other industries manage creative professionals. Stage managers, editors, conductors, and others can teach us how to build environments that are creative and effective. Read more.

Explore a new era of mobile UI with industry pioneer Dr. Ben Bederson. Bederson will speak on how Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) research is reshaping how consumers interact with their mobile phones. 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.

In this case study, we show how research inspired the design of a system that harnesses the best of Web 2.0 concepts to allow architects to collaborate on humanitarian projects around the world. Read more.

The new web has become more than interaction; more than design. In this rapid-paced environment, companies and teams need to rethink their process and methodologies to keep up to the pace. Workflow veteran Kelly Goto combines both Agile and User Centered Design (UCD) methodologies to provide you with a new arsenal of best practices to align your design and development processes. Read more.