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User Interface 15
Your Next Stop on the Road to Creating Great Designs
Boston, MA — Nov. 8–10, 2010 — Renaissance Boston Waterfront Hotel
UI15 is an intense, inspiring 3-day event, masterfully crafted to bring out the best in today’s UX professionals. We’ve assembled an all-star team of design experts to share their latest techniques in interaction design, content strategy, design thinking, and visual communication.
Want to know more about patterns and components? Read Nathan Curtis’ article Components Versus Patterns.
Interaction Design, Patterns and Components, Visual Thinking, Visual Design, Three Days, Inspiring and Entertaining Experts, Full-day Workshops, Sketching Innovative Designs, Content Strategy, Web Forms, Effective Personas
Sneak Preview of the UI15 Workshops
We’re still nailing down details, but wanted you to have a sneak preview of the great program we’ve got coming your way.
UI15 is made of wholesome, natural ingredients: We only use the best experts delivering all-natural insights during intense full-day workshops. Just look at the awesome goodness we’ve put in this year’s program:
Good Design Faster: New Techniques for Creative Ideas
Last year’s top rated workshop on innovative design
Once you try Leah’s techniques for Design Sprints and Sketchboarding, nothing will hold you back. Your team will set time records for creating new, innovative ideas. Move from back-of-the-napkin sketching to mapping out your design’s interaction, flow, and form in just a few days.
Visual Thinking for User Experience
New workshop on effectively communicating design ideas
Wireframes don’t help us with the Why, only the What of our designs. Dave’s simple sketching techniques are powerful tools for communicating your design's rationale. You’ll learn solid strategies for visualizing your ideas, which will help you identify issues while creating great new experiences.
Building Effective Personas Quickly
Leverage powerful personas throughout your entire design process
When your team knows your users really well, it’s easier to create great designs. Tamara’s effective persona development techniques will get your entire team on the same page about who you’re designing for and why. You’ll love these easy-to-do methods that produce amazing results.
Designing with Scenarios: Putting Personas to Work
Scenarios remove the guesswork from your designs
Once you’ve created your personas, Kim’s laser-precise techniques will focus your team on exactly the right design, by employing four different scenario types: Context, Key Path, Validation, and Communication. Spur your team’s imagination, while creating the best interaction that works for your users.
Web Form Design and Beyond
Proven techniques that enhance how you engage with your users
Luke returns once again to share the latest on effective web form design. He'll walk you through research-informed best practices for taking advantage of rich interactions, instantaneous sign-up processes, gradual engagement, mobile devices and much more In your Web forms.
Visual Design Essentials for Web Designers
Overcome the mystique of good visual design with solid techniques
Great visual design helps users know what to do and feel great about doing it. Mastering Dan’s techniques for creating an integrated visual design system will simplify your job, while providing easy tools for selecting the right colors, fonts, and layouts.
Everything You Need to Create a Content Strategy
An effective strategy will get your site’s content under control
Bring order to your content chaos. Kristina’s workshop will give you a repeatable methodology that you can deploy inside your current web strategy processes. Her trailblazing techniques for content audits and structured documentations will help you bring out your content’s business value.
Standards, Reuse, Consistency, & Libraries
A proven approach to reusable design elements that speeds development
Style guides and page templates can only take you so far. Using Nathan’s techniques, you’ll quickly identify reusable components and build up a library. You’ll see how to leverage the patterns that are solutions to common problems, speeding your design process while reducing jarring inconsistencies.
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