UX Immersion Conference 2012

Featured Talk Descriptions

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Sunday \| On-site Registration, April 22
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Registration Open	Avoid the lines Monday morning and pick up your conference materials early. If you can’t make it, don’t worry. You can pickup your conference materials the next day.

Monday \| Full-Day Workshops, April 23
	Each day the registration desk will be open from 7:30 am-5:30 pm. Start your day off with a continental breakfast at 7:30 am. Throughout the day we’ll have beverage breaks with some snacks. Lunch is on your own. We’ll provide a list of near-by lunch spots.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Getting Started with UX Inside Agile Development Hugh Beyer - Incontext	Hugh applies his practical techniques to integrate proven UX processes through effective communication. Perfect if you’re new to Agile or still adapting to it.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Lean UX: A Seasoned Approach to Designing in Agile Jeff Gothelf - Proof	Experienced Agile warriors will instantly see the power and versatility that a lean design process delivers through shared understanding.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Mobile UX: From Principles to Prototypes Rachel Hinman - Nokia	Rachel gives you the fundamentals and practical techniques for delivering the best mobile experiences.

Tuesday \| Featured Talks, April 24
	We’ll kickoff the day with a continental breakfast at 7:30 am. Today’s 90-minute presentations are in 2 tracks. As you eat the amazing lunch we’ve prepared, join in on a roundtable discussion on today’s pressing topics. Close out the day at the networking reception.
8:30 am - 10:00 am	The Mobile Frontier Rachel Hinman - Nokia	Explore the emergent mobile UX themes that will become critical to mobile computing. You’ll learn how to take advantage of the changes in technology and interaction paradigms, to bring your designs up to modern day standards.
8:30 am - 10:00 am	What UX Designers Bring to Agile Development Hugh Beyer - Incontext	Take advantage of skills from UX designers and yourself to achieve Agile method goals. You’ll get insights on how to avoid the common clashes between the UX and Agile communities.
10:15 am - 11:45 am	Moving Beyond Staggered Sprints: How One Company Integrated UX & Agile Jeff Gothelf - Proof	Hear about a team’s three-year journey into Agile and Scrum. Jeff will describe the different methods and tactics they employed to reconcile the demands of an Agile organization with their traditional design practices.
10:15 am - 11:45 am	The Enterprise Mobility Revolution James Robertson - Step Two Designs	Learn how to increase workplace productivity and connectivity through mobile devices. You’ll learn from the mistakes of other organizations, while understanding how to cut through the hype to get to what really works well.
— Lunch Break, 11:45 am - 12:45 pm —
12:45 pm - 1:45 pm	Keynote Presentation - It’s a Great Time to Be a UX Designer Jared Spool - User Interface Engineering	The demand has never been greater for UX designers, thanks to the growing number of success stories due to great design. Now that everyone expects us to deliver great things, are we ready? Jared will delight and entertain you as he explores the vast opportunities and interesting challenges UX professionals are now facing.
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	Case Studies: Daniel Burka and Andrei Herasimchuk	Andrei Herasimchuk will discuss the secrets of successful design and development integration from Twitter.com and Yahoo!. Daniel Burka, co-founder of Milk and former lead designer of Digg.com, will share how he’s made the transition from desktop web design to the world of mobile apps.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Organizing Mobile Web Experiences Luke Wroblewski - LukeW Ideation + Design	Take a whirlwind tour of the best practices for organizing and laying out your mobile web pages. You’ll see how to make your design remain future friendly.
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm	Designing UIs with jQuery Dave McFarland - Sawyer McFarland Media	See how simple it is to make JavaScript and jQuery-based designs without previous programing experience. You’ll be blown away with how easy it is to get started.
— Networking Reception, 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm —

Wednesday \| Full-Day Workshops, April 25
	Grab some breakfast starting at 7:30 am before you settle down to your full-day workshop. Throughout the day we’ll have beverage breaks with some snacks. Lunch is on your own. We’ll provide a list of near-by lunch spots.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Demystifying jQuery for Agile Prototyping Dave McFarland - Sawyer McFarland Media	Agile designers have to code. Dave McFarland will show you how easy it is to create interactive prototypes in just minutes with jQuery.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	A Detailed Look at Designing Mobile Input Luke Wroblewski - LukeW Ideation + Design	Design intuitive mobile forms that help guide your users to put the right data in quickly. Luke will guide you through case studies of a variety of mobile input approaches.
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Mobile Design for Enterprise Intranets James Robertson - Step Two Designs	Learn about ground-breaking enterprise mobile applications that enhance employee productivity and corporate bottom lines.