Presentations: Workshop

3-hour workshops dive deep into necessary skills and tools. Please note: there is an additional fee required to attend workshops at Web 2.0 Expo.

Workshops are being confirmed daily. Please check back often to see the latest program content.

Designing Social Interfaces

Erin Malone (Tangible UX), Christian Crumlish (Yahoo!)

Designing for social interaction is hard. People are unpredictable, consistency is a mixed blessing, and co-creation with your users requires a dizzying flirtation with loss of control. We will present the dos and don’ts of social web design using a sampling of interaction patterns, design principles and best practices to help you improve the design of your digital social environments.

Hands-on HTML 5

Dion Almaer (Palm)

The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels with HTML5. This workshop will go through the new capabilities in HTML5 and show you how to build amazing applications today.

Laws of User Experience (UX): Making it, or Breaking it, with the “UX Factor"

Kelly Goto (gotomedia, LLC), Anthony Franco (EffectiveUI)

The importance of (UX) is at the forefront of technology trends and applications. Users not only expect it, they demand it. The “UX factor” can make (or break) any software’s viability and appeal — whether it’s for the Web, mobile or desktop. In this workshop, experts Kelly Goto and Anthony Franco team-up to present design, research and process strategies to help you put UX theory into practice.

Persuasive Technology for Web and Mobile Developers

*Kendra Markle* (AlterActions.org / Stanford Persuasive Technology Lab / Kaiser Permanente)

This workshop teaches the principles of persuasive technology, the art and science of motivating and influencing users. We’ll cover recent brain science research and persuasive technology techniques (tailoring, surveillance, conditioning and more). We’ll break down examples, complete many small exercises and provide a design process and set of tools you can use to make your work more persuasive.

Tools for Data Visualization

Toby Segaran (Metaweb)

This workshop will cover free visualization tools such as R, processing, canvas, matplotlib, google widgets and many others to show you how to create great visualizations. It will also take you through the steps of getting and cleaning that data, and give you ideas of the best way to display all different kinds of information, be it numeric, geographic, temporal, topographic or networked.