Par Michael Rawling, Senior UX designer chez Unruly Media (http://twitter.com/hedshot)
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Design is not a skin to be added later or a flat image to be imagined in to a fully fledged product. 'Traditional' software ux design is broken: here I propose a new way taking a leaf out of the eXtreme Programming methodology and making it our own...
Michael Rawling will investigate Continuous Creative Integration from a UX & Product Design perspective.
As the whole industry runs after the latest buzz words and 'methodologies' in a quest to improve delivery and collaboration, UX & Design is often struggling to find its place in an Agile/Lean world. Clashing theories, dual tracking & mini waterfalls, lack of true cross-functional integration are some of the challenges Agile agencies are facing, with the added complexity of having much of the Product function sitting with the client.
Michael will facilitate a hands on workshop, working in a number of small groups, where you will be encouraged to bring, share and discuss your own ideas and challenges.
Presented in this version at the meetup: http://www.meetup.com/agile4agencies/
Here are the slides from the UX Portfolio Workshop I did at exploreUX on 4/22/14. The workshop was part presentation and part activities to get participants in the right mindset for creating their UX portfolios.
The slides go into the specifics on:
• What to put in your UX portfolio
• How to figure out what (of your stuff) to include
• How to add what you’re missing
• What tools and resources to use in building it
• What’s a good (and bad) portfolio
In this course i present an overview of Axure and what you can do with it.
The most important, i try to point you in the right direction to become an expert by yourself.
In this presentation i cover the following subjects:
- Basic widgets for wireframing
- Prototyping: Events, Interactions and Conditionals
- Exporting for devices (mobile and desktop)
- Documentation and Notes
- Tips, a lot of them
- Connect Axure prototypes with third party services
This workshop happened on Monday, 2 March, 6:30 – 8 pm at WeWork Seattle with General Assembly and Design Thinking Boutique. The workshop was run by Ashley Karr.
She gives a practical and simple overview of wireframing and teaches an easy yet powerful whiteboarding technique that Ashley calls, "Masters & Modules," that everyone can use right away to get their ideas out of their heads and into the real world. In the last section, we explain what annotations are and how they can be added to wireframes. There are exercises peppered throughout the lecture, so we recommend you have drawing tools with you - and it would be particularly useful to have a whiteboard, dry erase markers, and a whiteboard eraser handy.
A good beginners overview of wireframes.
• Why wireframe?
• Types of wireframes
• Where do you start?
• Interactive wireframes/ Prototyping
• Tools
• Wireframe workshop
Design is not a skin to be added later or a flat image to be imagined in to a fully fledged product. 'Traditional' software ux design is broken: here I propose a new way taking a leaf out of the eXtreme Programming methodology and making it our own...
Michael Rawling will investigate Continuous Creative Integration from a UX & Product Design perspective.
As the whole industry runs after the latest buzz words and 'methodologies' in a quest to improve delivery and collaboration, UX & Design is often struggling to find its place in an Agile/Lean world. Clashing theories, dual tracking & mini waterfalls, lack of true cross-functional integration are some of the challenges Agile agencies are facing, with the added complexity of having much of the Product function sitting with the client.
Michael will facilitate a hands on workshop, working in a number of small groups, where you will be encouraged to bring, share and discuss your own ideas and challenges.
Presented in this version at the meetup: http://www.meetup.com/agile4agencies/
Here are the slides from the UX Portfolio Workshop I did at exploreUX on 4/22/14. The workshop was part presentation and part activities to get participants in the right mindset for creating their UX portfolios.
The slides go into the specifics on:
• What to put in your UX portfolio
• How to figure out what (of your stuff) to include
• How to add what you’re missing
• What tools and resources to use in building it
• What’s a good (and bad) portfolio
In this course i present an overview of Axure and what you can do with it.
The most important, i try to point you in the right direction to become an expert by yourself.
In this presentation i cover the following subjects:
- Basic widgets for wireframing
- Prototyping: Events, Interactions and Conditionals
- Exporting for devices (mobile and desktop)
- Documentation and Notes
- Tips, a lot of them
- Connect Axure prototypes with third party services
This workshop happened on Monday, 2 March, 6:30 – 8 pm at WeWork Seattle with General Assembly and Design Thinking Boutique. The workshop was run by Ashley Karr.
She gives a practical and simple overview of wireframing and teaches an easy yet powerful whiteboarding technique that Ashley calls, "Masters & Modules," that everyone can use right away to get their ideas out of their heads and into the real world. In the last section, we explain what annotations are and how they can be added to wireframes. There are exercises peppered throughout the lecture, so we recommend you have drawing tools with you - and it would be particularly useful to have a whiteboard, dry erase markers, and a whiteboard eraser handy.
A good beginners overview of wireframes.
• Why wireframe?
• Types of wireframes
• Where do you start?
• Interactive wireframes/ Prototyping
• Tools
• Wireframe workshop
Wireframing Basics - UX and the Design Process by Amber VasquezMightybytes
Join Mightybytes Experience Director Amber Vasquez for a workshop explaining the basics of wireframing. You'll gain a basic understanding of the tools and techniques you'll need to incorporate wireframing into your everyday design work. And you'll get a complimentary UX sketchbook to work with!
This workshop is recommended for design professionals looking to integrate wireframing into their process, or anyone strengthening their full-stack design skills.
Presentation held for Microsoft Norway 11.12.2007.
- Who am I?
- What is design?
- Design is not...
- Bad design
- Tips how to talk better to your designer
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Is it really Microsoft?!
Choose SketchApp over Photoshop for UI/UXJens Hoffmann
Presentation at the UXcamp Europe 2017 - About choose Sketch App over Photoshop for UI/UX tasks. Comparison with Nokia, Review of Designer Skills, List of Benefits, Review of a Design Workflow and short dive into Plugins. #uxce17 #sketchapp
This last Wednesday, we hosted a webinar called Intro to Sketching Prototypes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMMn88sP2NQ). These are the slides from that presentation.
You can download the prototyping tool shown in the presentation here:
http://www.infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio
Webinar Description: Sketching prototypes? Yep, you heard that right—you'll have to watch to learn what it means! :) This webinar tangos with the theory behind effective prototyping, illustrates some of the tools at our disposal, and demonstrates how to effectively leverage a new software prototyping tool that tackles this practice head on--Indigo Studio. You'll come away more empowered to design software that exceeds expectations.
With the popularity of responsive design, it seems like the process and tools that have been used in the past are certainly not ideal for the present. So what is the best solution?
Lets explore the available options and discuss how we communicate with our client as well as our developers in this ever changing world of web design.
Taken from Future of Web Design (#FOWD), London 2015 Conference. http://futureofwebdesign.com/london-2015
Reports are in from Twitter, Medium, and the like; we can’t make full comps, use Photoshop, or even utter the phrase 'visual design' anymore. What’s a designer to do? Has our role evaporated? Fear not! Dan Mall will help redefine the tasks of the modern day designer in light of the multi -device world that snuck up on us.
Supercharge your application with the best UX practicesGercek Karakus
I've given this talk as a guest lecturer at Bogazici University Software Design Process graduate class (SWE530) in Spring 2015.
This talk introduces key concepts of user experience design to software engineering graduate students and outlines the process of integrating design and engineering. Starting from ideation, it goes through all the steps including but not limited to user research, sketching, prototyping, user testing, design validation and iteration.
Hand on best practices are also shared as case studies part of this presenation.
Stay Lean - Your Startup Toolkit (2013 short edition)Paul Walsh
CogniDox have curated a collection of links to over 450 business tools and organized them into a Mind-map for easy browsing. We'd like to share this with you, in the hope that you will find it as useful as we do.
Präsentation zum ersten SketchApp Meetup in Deutschland.
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/SketchApp/events/236118657/
1. Welcome & die Agentur SYZYGY - Jens Hoffmann
2. Warum Sketch die richtig Antwort ist! - Jens Hoffmann
3. Gratis Sketch Einsteiger-Fortgeschrittenen Tutorial - Lionel Wittstock, Christina Rupp
4. Unser Workflow rund um Sketch - Martin Engel
5. Next Meetup - Jens Hoffmann
Wireframes beyond the basics, not for the weak at heart. In this panel, three experienced designers will share their tried and true tips for making wireframes really work. We'll talk about how to sketch a wireframe on the fly to demonstrate an idea and how to create a standalone wireframe deliverable; when to show a concept and when to describe nitty-gritty detail; how to make a narrative wireframe and how to make a specification wireframe. And best of all, we'll show you plenty of examples.
Wireframing Workshop - TiE Women Create-a-ThonKristine Howard
A talk given at the TiE Sydney Create-a-Thon on July 18, 2015 on what wireframing is, the benefits, what fidelity means, and tools and techniques to get started.
We've focused on designing Web pages for long time. Pixel perfection & designing the same experience for all devices is not possible. Instead of page-based designs. We need design systems. Atomic design allows us to traverse from abstract to concrete. Creators can focus on the atoms and molecules and Clients can focus on pages and templates.
In this presentation you will see a short retrospective of the past TYPO3 versions. Followed up by a status quo of the current TYPO3 CMS version which lead to some UX suggestion. And than our Vision via some detailed layouts by the "TYPO3 CMS Usability Team" for a possible future major release of the TYPO3 CMS.
Try the simple interactive prototype: http://j.mp/T37-vision-proto
And watch the full Talk at T3CON13: http://j.mp/T37-vision-talk
Your constructive feedback is very welcome!
Open up a issue at http://j.mp/T3cmsUX or mail me.
What Front-End Developers (FED's) Need to Know to Be the Modern Day SuperheroJoshua Northcott
With the increasing demand for mobile sites, fresher designs, changing coding practices, new libraries, frameworks, and a plethora of other issues arising daily, it’s difficult for mere mortals to keep up with the demands. In this presentation, we will tell our story and introduce solutions, practices, approaches, and some tools that we found work the best for us. This presentation is the church of front-end development. If you're passionate about building memorable experiences on the web, the information in this presentation is for you.
Wireframing Basics - UX and the Design Process by Amber VasquezMightybytes
Join Mightybytes Experience Director Amber Vasquez for a workshop explaining the basics of wireframing. You'll gain a basic understanding of the tools and techniques you'll need to incorporate wireframing into your everyday design work. And you'll get a complimentary UX sketchbook to work with!
This workshop is recommended for design professionals looking to integrate wireframing into their process, or anyone strengthening their full-stack design skills.
Presentation held for Microsoft Norway 11.12.2007.
- Who am I?
- What is design?
- Design is not...
- Bad design
- Tips how to talk better to your designer
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Is it really Microsoft?!
Choose SketchApp over Photoshop for UI/UXJens Hoffmann
Presentation at the UXcamp Europe 2017 - About choose Sketch App over Photoshop for UI/UX tasks. Comparison with Nokia, Review of Designer Skills, List of Benefits, Review of a Design Workflow and short dive into Plugins. #uxce17 #sketchapp
This last Wednesday, we hosted a webinar called Intro to Sketching Prototypes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMMn88sP2NQ). These are the slides from that presentation.
You can download the prototyping tool shown in the presentation here:
http://www.infragistics.com/products/indigo-studio
Webinar Description: Sketching prototypes? Yep, you heard that right—you'll have to watch to learn what it means! :) This webinar tangos with the theory behind effective prototyping, illustrates some of the tools at our disposal, and demonstrates how to effectively leverage a new software prototyping tool that tackles this practice head on--Indigo Studio. You'll come away more empowered to design software that exceeds expectations.
With the popularity of responsive design, it seems like the process and tools that have been used in the past are certainly not ideal for the present. So what is the best solution?
Lets explore the available options and discuss how we communicate with our client as well as our developers in this ever changing world of web design.
Taken from Future of Web Design (#FOWD), London 2015 Conference. http://futureofwebdesign.com/london-2015
Reports are in from Twitter, Medium, and the like; we can’t make full comps, use Photoshop, or even utter the phrase 'visual design' anymore. What’s a designer to do? Has our role evaporated? Fear not! Dan Mall will help redefine the tasks of the modern day designer in light of the multi -device world that snuck up on us.
Supercharge your application with the best UX practicesGercek Karakus
I've given this talk as a guest lecturer at Bogazici University Software Design Process graduate class (SWE530) in Spring 2015.
This talk introduces key concepts of user experience design to software engineering graduate students and outlines the process of integrating design and engineering. Starting from ideation, it goes through all the steps including but not limited to user research, sketching, prototyping, user testing, design validation and iteration.
Hand on best practices are also shared as case studies part of this presenation.
Stay Lean - Your Startup Toolkit (2013 short edition)Paul Walsh
CogniDox have curated a collection of links to over 450 business tools and organized them into a Mind-map for easy browsing. We'd like to share this with you, in the hope that you will find it as useful as we do.
Präsentation zum ersten SketchApp Meetup in Deutschland.
https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/SketchApp/events/236118657/
1. Welcome & die Agentur SYZYGY - Jens Hoffmann
2. Warum Sketch die richtig Antwort ist! - Jens Hoffmann
3. Gratis Sketch Einsteiger-Fortgeschrittenen Tutorial - Lionel Wittstock, Christina Rupp
4. Unser Workflow rund um Sketch - Martin Engel
5. Next Meetup - Jens Hoffmann
Wireframes beyond the basics, not for the weak at heart. In this panel, three experienced designers will share their tried and true tips for making wireframes really work. We'll talk about how to sketch a wireframe on the fly to demonstrate an idea and how to create a standalone wireframe deliverable; when to show a concept and when to describe nitty-gritty detail; how to make a narrative wireframe and how to make a specification wireframe. And best of all, we'll show you plenty of examples.
Wireframing Workshop - TiE Women Create-a-ThonKristine Howard
A talk given at the TiE Sydney Create-a-Thon on July 18, 2015 on what wireframing is, the benefits, what fidelity means, and tools and techniques to get started.
We've focused on designing Web pages for long time. Pixel perfection & designing the same experience for all devices is not possible. Instead of page-based designs. We need design systems. Atomic design allows us to traverse from abstract to concrete. Creators can focus on the atoms and molecules and Clients can focus on pages and templates.
In this presentation you will see a short retrospective of the past TYPO3 versions. Followed up by a status quo of the current TYPO3 CMS version which lead to some UX suggestion. And than our Vision via some detailed layouts by the "TYPO3 CMS Usability Team" for a possible future major release of the TYPO3 CMS.
Try the simple interactive prototype: http://j.mp/T37-vision-proto
And watch the full Talk at T3CON13: http://j.mp/T37-vision-talk
Your constructive feedback is very welcome!
Open up a issue at http://j.mp/T3cmsUX or mail me.
What Front-End Developers (FED's) Need to Know to Be the Modern Day SuperheroJoshua Northcott
With the increasing demand for mobile sites, fresher designs, changing coding practices, new libraries, frameworks, and a plethora of other issues arising daily, it’s difficult for mere mortals to keep up with the demands. In this presentation, we will tell our story and introduce solutions, practices, approaches, and some tools that we found work the best for us. This presentation is the church of front-end development. If you're passionate about building memorable experiences on the web, the information in this presentation is for you.
Brad Frost
Web designer
Style Guide Best Practices
We’re tasked with creating experiences that look and function beautifully across a dizzying array of devices and environments. That’s a tall order in and of itself, but once you factor in other team members, clients, stakeholders, and organizational quirks, things start looking downright intimidating. With so many variables to consider, we need solid ground to stand on. Style guides are quickly proving to be foundational tools for tackling this increasingly-diverse web landscape while still maintaining your sanity. Style guides promote consistency, establish a shared vocabulary, make testing easier, and lay a future-friendly foundation. This session will detail best practices and considerations for creating and maintaining style guides, so you can set up your organization for success.
400% growth in 3 years - How we built a high powered saas content marketplace...saastr
In 2016, SaaS content marketplace company Verblio was stalled at $2M ARR. Since then, they’ve grown 400% without taking a dime in funding. CEO Steve Pockross and Sr. Director of Operations Zoe Treeson will discuss how they sparked that growth through key strategic decisions like putting people & culture first (and what that really means), prioritizing product over sales & marketing, and even the SaaS-sacrilegious decision to invest in professional services to support their core offering.
Your Code Is A Waste Of Time (if you don't ask why you are writing it in the ...Amber Matthews
Talk about Lean UX given at Hong Kong Codeaholics #codeconf 2014.
30 minute overview of the foundations of UX, design thinking, agile methodology, lean startup. Looking at assumptions, hypothesis statements, personas, journey maps, measurement and UX ≠ UI.
This presentation focuses on how to seek, recruit and retain good talent for your software development team. It also examines external human resource factors such as the job market, the competition and software trends.
10 Things Designers Do That Piss Developers Off (And Vice Versa)Mindy Wagner
This talk was originally going to be called “Effective Collaboration Between Designers & Developers,” but when they sat down to create their slides, David (developer) and Mindy (designer) realized they had deeper issues to resolve: he wanted to generate them with a custom templating engine; she wanted drop shadows and vector images of Che Guevara. Instead, they made a list of all the things they just can’t stand about their web counterparts. You’ll be enlightened as to why your co-worker glares at you when you walk in the door and come away with a few good ideas on how to communicate, empathize and avoid bloodshed.
Great UX talent is hard to identify and even harder to recruit. As the industry embraces the importance of the user experience, masters of the craft can take their pick of jobs at companies ranging from Google and Facebook all the way down to tomorrow’s most world-changing startups. As if hiring wasn’t hard enough, making the wrong hire carries a huge cost in both money and time.
As the principal UX architect at Slide UX, Erin manages a team of designers who have worked and hired on both the client & agency sides. Leave this session with practical guidelines for when to hire in-house vs outsource, how to identify the type(s) of designers you need, and where to find them.
Fail Fast, Learn Fast, Move Fast: My UX journey to move fasterJeremy Johnson
We've all heard about the Lean Startup, and now Lean UX. This is a intro into how I've been using these methods to speed up the UX process, and work better within product teams.
(PROJEKTURA) lean and agile for corporation @Cotrugli MBARatko Mutavdzic
Great time and hopefully presentation on COTRUGLI MBA @Zagreb about Lean and Agile to packed crowd of MBA students. As you can imagine, number of questions later :)
If you’re building Oracle APEX applications, there’s a good chance that they are business-centric applications that will mostly be used by employees of your organization. The main goal of the user interface of these applications is to be functional and intuitive, not flashy and eccentric. Throw in the challenges of cross-browser compatibility and mobile support, and designing a user interface gets pretty complex. This session will outline some techniques and tools that can be applied when designing user interfaces for these business-centric applications. All solutions will be presented in a format that does not require advanced graphics design experience.
UX, Front-end and Back-end: How front-end can help these guys?Diego Eis
How front-end can help UX and Back-end guys? How they interact? I tell a little about it in this slides, showing how the front-end can help the back-end and UX.
Software Developer Career Unplugged - GeeCon 2013Wojciech Seliga
This is my quite subjective take on various less technical aspects of a software developer career. I delivered this presentation and GeeCon 2013 (video hopefully coming soon) and quite compressed/abridged version at InfoSHARE.
By Alison Eastaway, Head of People at Sqreen
Alison is a startup culture boss! She perfectly knows her way around implementing a culture & taking care of people especially in tech teams.
By Pierre-Camille Hamana (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pchamana/), CEO at Smartbnb (https://www.smartbnb.io/)
It’s fascinating watching Smartbnb grow. This solution for guests is a recipe for success: A fully remote team, with great culture & processes, extremely focused & super in terms of execution. What else? Oh yes, a super friendly & kind CEO, Pierre-Camille, who will be with us to describe the way they manage their team remotely. Good practices & learnings to expect from this one!
By Mathias Pastor (https://twitter.com/pastormhm), Director at The Family
Roch Delsalle, CTO at Proprioo (https://www.proprioo.fr/)
Jade Francine, Cofounder & COO at WeMaintain (https://wemaintain.com/)
Marc Lebel, CEO at LouerAgile (https://www.loueragile.fr/)
Real estate is everywhere. It’s part of our daily lives, of who we are and how we live, move, work - a pretty broad category. And it’s the kind of sector that can easily be termed “slow.” Slow in adapting to new technology, slow in responsiveness to customers…. Some people think having a spreadsheet is already a win
By Gil Dibner (twitter.com/gdibner), General Partner & Founder at Angular Ventures (www.angularventures.com)
Gil has backed several enterprise-oriented companies, including Front and Vault. Tips to understand how to absolutely nail Enterprise Sales.
By Alice Zagury (https://twitter.com/alice_zag), CEO at The Family
During The Family Begins, our open-door to The Family, we met 20 ambitious entrepreneurs and spend 2 amazing days with them.
Brand, identity, style, swag... Many words for similar things: The emotions people will feel when they're coming across your company. Alice, our CEO, shared her best tips to create a coherent identity.
By Dimitri Farber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrifarber/), cofounder at Tiller Systems (https://www.tillersystems.com/en/)
Since Dimitri, Vincent & Josef founded Tiller, many things have changed: new products, new offices, a company acquisition & even the launch of an incubator for restaurateurs.
When people talk about them, they are still described as a cash register solution, just like back on the first day. And yet, Tiller is much more than that. They now define themselves as an ecosystem that brings together cash registration + delivery + reservation + pre-order + analysis + integrations. They are not only addressing shopkeepers, but also passionate local entrepreneurs.
By Hugo Michalski, CTPO at Side
D-code (https://www.d-code.thefamily.co/) is a media & series of events where the best startup CTOs & tech leaders talk about their entrepreneurial adventures: Tech challenges converted into clear stories.
Join our D-code private community of CTOs & future CTOs: https://thefamily.typeform.com/to/MpHmFQ
By by Steve Anavi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steveanavi/), cofounder at Qonto (https://qonto.eu/en/)
Qonto is our beloved bank for SMEs & freelancers. From day one their value proposal has been a no-brainer: simple UX, customization, reactivity, smooth financial management…
However, the new challenges they are facing now (after growing to a team of 150 people) is to create brand love. How they are dealing with that in a dusty industry where brand love is quite rare?
Building an insurance startup with Alan, Luko, Coverd & BaldertonTheFamily
Global overview of the sector & today’s insurance trends by Rob from Balderton
How to build insurance brand awareness
By Hugo Saias, CEO at Coverd
How to be an insurer without historical data & capital
By Léa Joussaume, Head of Marketing at Luko
Beyond product and coverage
By Mihaela Albu, Growth & Sales Strategy at Alan
Mixing Product & Tech by Jean Lebrument, CTO & CPO at BrigadTheFamily
Brigad connects hospitality businesses with qualified & flexible staff.
Jean is Brigad’s co-founder, CTO & CPO, managing four teams: Product, Engineering, Quality and Data. Yes, all at the same time :)
He will share both his experience from 3 years of handling these functions, what he learned in the process & his beliefs about the mix: Should all startups have a CPO & a CTO?
A new breed of CTO - Philippe Vimard, CTO & COO at DoctolibTheFamily
By Philippe Vimard (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philippev...), CTO & COO at Doctolib (https://www.doctolib.fr/)
There’s probably no need to introduce Doctolib, one of France’s newest unicorns after raising €150M a few months ago. Philippe has been their new COO & CTO for the past year after occupying a similar role at eDreams (GoVoyages, Opodo, Travellink, Liligo).
Get the maximum amount of knowledge out of this extremely experienced executive, who shared with us the why and how of mixing Tech & Ops! His approach is super business-centered, always looking for ways to be closer to other functions: A truly entrepreneurial & business CTO.
Building a logistics startup with Trusk, Totem & SpaceFillTheFamily
After a global overview of the sector & today’s logistics trends by Nicolas Colin (https://twitter.com/Nicolas_Colin), cofounder at The Family, we welcomed three startups on stage. Each one delivered a 15-min talk:
⛓️ (Re)designing the supply chain from scratch
By Maxime Huzar, CEO at SpaceFill (https://www.spacefill.fr/)
✅ Total quality & tracking from A to Z
By Julie Pathé, Head of Operations at Totem (https://thetotem.co/)
5 lessons from our journey to revolutionize last-mile delivery
By Sébastien Tronel, Cofounder at Trusk (https://trusk.com/)
Building an accounting startup with Fred de la compta, Acasi & ChaintrustTheFamily
Accounting changed the world forever both when it was “invented” in Mesopotamia & when it became a double-entry system 500 years ago. Today, the profession of accountant & the practice itself are again undergoing major revolutions - revolutions that startups are initiating ⏱️
Looking at what is currently happening in the accounting world, we may automatically think that the profession of “accountant” is dying: The number of accountants has decreased by 25% in just the last 15 years.
This “threat” is enabled by new technologies that are shifting everything within the space. Cloud, AI, blockchain & data are changing the game. But total automation is still very far away. And obviously, in such an ancient & symbolic sector, the opportunities are infinite. And we have a few examples of startups who are ready to seize them!
By Robin Choy (https://twitter.com/robin_choy), CEO at HireSweet (https://www.hiresweet.com/)
This is definitely one of the biggest challenges any startup faces. Having high quality engineers who join your company in the early days, taking a risk on you while more mature companies are also chasing them can truly be game-changer.
Robin is the co-founder of HireSweet, a team helping startups recruit Software Engineers by developing cutting-edge AI tools. 700+ startups have scaled their teams with their help, often from 10 to 100+ people. The knowledge Robin has acquired about the process is pure gold. Join us to discover how to set up a super efficient process to build the best possible tech team for each stage (0 to 3 people in the tech team, 3 to 8 people, 8 to 20 people).
Onboarding developers and setting them up for successTheFamily
By Jean-Baptiste Aviat (https://twitter.com/jbaviat), CTO at Sqreen (https://www.sqreen.com/)
Hiring developers is definitely hard, but that's only the beginning of the journey - you’re far from being done. Your next job as an employer is to make sure they have all the keys in hand to make the most out of their jobs.
Jean-Baptiste knows this topic particularly well as his company, Sqreen, the tool democratizing security and making it easier to implement & use for developers, has a large tech team that represents a big part of Sqreen’s workforce. Let's find out together how to build that within a fast-moving organisation, with constantly evolving teams and complex technical products at stake!
Workshop animé par Maud Camus (https://twitter.com/maudcamus)
Vous voulez découvrir les astuces clés pour être au top de sa PR-forme ?! C'est par ici ☝️
Journalistes, storytelling, interviews, media : apprendre à naviguer ce milieu n'est pas forcément chose facile donc Maud a décidé de venir nous livrer ses meilleurs tips pour savoir comment raconter et sublimer son histoire entrepreneuriale sans non plus entrer dans le royaume du bullshit
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
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Your title sit over itYOUR HOST TODAY…
MIKE RAWLING
LEAD UX AT UNRULY.CO, LONDON:
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INTERACTION DESIGNER, UI ENGINEER, UI DESIGNER, UX RESEARCH,
USER RESEARCH, TEST PARTICIPANT RECRUITER, USABILITY TESTER,
MICRO-COPY WRITER, TRAINER, MENTOR ETC…
UX history dating back to ’98 – pre “UX”!!!
Consulted, designed, engineered, leader of, coached, trained big & small teams and initiatives for:..
Tesco, Wiley Publishing, Camelot, Konami, LoveFilm and Granada Television, ITV and Unruly.co…
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WARNING - MAY CONTAIN
UNRULY CULTURE…
...and of course, err, creative cultural appropriation and mixing…;)
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• THE PROBLEM WITH PRODUCT DESIGN
• A SOLUTION
• SOME TECHNIQUES TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN
The details are not the details.
They make the design.
C.Eames
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PRODUCT DESIGN & DEV IS BROKEN…
{NOTES}:
• AGENCY DESIGN PROCESS SEPARATE FROM
• TECH AND DESIGN TEAMS SPEAK DIFFERENT LANGUAGES
• SOMETIMES PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CAN’T DELIVER WHAT 3RD PARTY DESIGN AGENCIES PROVIDE THAT’S BEEN
SIGNED OFF WITH CLIENT
• WE DESIGN AND BUILD THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING THAT CLIENT WANTS, USERS DON’T WANT IT AFTER ALL…
• TECHNICALLY ORIENTATED COMPANIES ( - START-UPS - ) BUILT PRODUCT AND THEN GET ‘DESIGN’ IN TO POLISH IT
• PRODUCT DESIGN IS CONTINUOUS AND MORE LIKE FARMING THAN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
• I HAVE HEARD *DESIGNERS* USE THE METAPHOR OF DESIGN AS THE INTERIOR DECORATION IS HOW DESIGN
RELATES TO THE REST OF THE PRODUCT – THIS IS VASTLY INCORRECT – AND MORE AKIN TO BUILDING
ARCHITECT!
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THE PROBLEM
Fails with modern software products that:
• immediately updateable client<>server applications, like SAAS,
• regularly updated model, like Apps or phone OS software
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THE PROBLEM
Worst case, teams often have to…
• Design first:
gain client sign-off then pass an PSD ‘spec’ to ‘dev’ then leave…
• Build/dev first:
get in design to ‘skin’ the product after it’s essentially finished…
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A SOLUTION
But we can learn some things from product and industrial design of complex products
like automotive design where successful exterior body designers also work closely with
handling, engine, fluid and air dynamics and NVH teams:
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It goes both ways –
• ‘Design’ can’t be just an afterthought of engineering team but equally,
• Design can’t work in a vacuum, leaving engineers unable to fulfil the
designers visions…
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https://www.linkedin.com/groups/Pair-design-3315113.S.5968946180594364420
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Set Vision in text and general design feel - at most!!
•Understand Audience
•Identify core principles and guidelines
•Start a list of potential features.
•That’s it..
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UX COACH
UX Coach: mentor, train and coach to help the team to help themselves – so
they themselves are immersed in user intelligence and knowledge
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UX COACHING
UX Coach: Most difficult skill is to give away knowledge in this context but…
Don’t worry, no one else can do your job (however much they think they can)
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Don’t be a Lone Ranger – Seek to
marinade the whole team in user intel
Do deputise team members in research
activities:
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USER INTEL
UX or product designers present always to marinade the team in user intel
throughout
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CAN’T DRAW WON’T DRAW
(PROGRAMMER:…)
• “I CAN’T DRAW – LET ALONE ‘DESIGN’!”
• “DESIGN IS FLUFFY!”
• “DESIGNERS DON’T KNOW SH*T”
• “I’M NOT A DESIGNER”
• “WTF?”
LATER…
• “…BUT THAT’S NOT THE BEST DESIGN”
• “..I WON’T DO IT LIKE THAT…”
• “THAT’S JUST TOO WACKY/UNUSABLE/UNUSUAL/
CUSTOM/ETC…”
• “I COULD DO BETTER…”
“I CAN’T DRAW”
OK, SO HOW?
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ENTER: DESIGN CHARRETTES*!!
• ALLEGEDLY BASED REGULAR CRITIQUES AT AN ART ACADEMY IN
PARIS – POSSIBLY BEAUX ARTS
(ALSO CALLED ‘DESIGN STUDIO’)
• ABOUT REGULAR ‘CRITIQUES’
• STUDENTS RACE TO FINISH…
• USEFUL AND EFFECT URGENCY IN THE PROCESS!
*SINCE THEN DOCUMENTED IN LEAN UX,
BY JEFF GOTTHELF
OK, SO HOW?
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Goodbye Design Phase!
Static design and doesn’t cut it: design straight into prototypes Axure or
HTML or POP or whatever tool.. #nopsd
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PROTOTYPES
Prototypes become testable living breathing document for:
•usability/ux testing
and user validation
AND….
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PROTOTYPES
Prototypes become testable living breathing document for:
•usability/ux testing
and user validation
And Client sign off!!
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SET OUT GUIDELINES
…Branding Guidelines? Interaction guidelines like the BBC’s…??
http://www.bbc.co.uk/gel
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BEYOND BRANDING GUIDELINES, BEYOND INTERACTION GUIDELINES: LIVE UX GUIDELINES
SET OUT GUIDELINES
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Actually sit with engineers to actually code this with them…
SET OUT GUIDELINES
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OK, SO HOW?
Many people show *clients*:
…the results of testing or design but
involving them in it is critical AND…
Many people show their team of:
*Devs, engineers, testers, product owner..
….the results of testing or design but
actually involving them in it is critical
too…
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DO THIS EVERY DAY OR WEEK
• Colocation in time and space
• - with close collaboration!
• UX Coach
• Communicate:
• Drafting Together: in charrettes
• Prototype the product itself
• Beyond brand guidelines: live ux guidelines
• Test Together
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PROPS!
Orange bus
seniorgif.com
Team unicorn
Dark parodies
Umbrella corporation
Memegenerator.net
Carter reid
Bodies in the crawlspace
Hollywood
Meme Center
destroyer.tumbler.com
Someecards
SHIELD
Star Trek
Elvis.ro
Gliphy
Gifsoup.com
The department of homeland security
Lolcats everywhere
Random Kittens
Ghosthunters
The Muppets
icanhascheeseburger.com
soundbible.com
Marvel
Anyone else I forgot!!
Sony
Playstation
The NY transit auth.
The Wachowskis
Jeff Gothelf
Jon Innes
Thoughtworks
Manalo Blahnik
Jaguar
Disney
Bentley
Ryan Gosling
Clint Eastward
Etc…