Danny Bluestone from Cyber-Duck held workshops educating pupils and young students in Hackney, London during the summer of 2013 on how to design for websites and apps.
How Lean, UCD and Agile can propel designers into the futureCyber-Duck
In this talk, Danny demonstrates why the future is already here and how it poses challenges to todays agencies, CMOs and designers. The internet permeates everything from websites, wearables, ‘nearables’ (low powered IoT devices that connect with our online world) and apps. Users are accustomed to getting ‘pulled’ to different destinations (such as apps or websites) but more and more forwarding thinking brands are ‘pushing’ relevant content and alerts to either the OS level of devices or other app like aggregators, allowing the user to interact with both features and content without leaving notification centres or dashboards. Due to this, the Web is becoming a habitat where users will spend less time downloading, opening and engaging with apps. As such, it’s important that designers move towards dreaming of a world that is both ‘pulling’ users towards personalised experiences within apps and websites and also ‘pushing’ highly relevant data to users to enhance the experience. In order to facilitate this, agencies, marketers and designers need to be designing holistic systems (over-arching engagement platforms to facilitate cross-channel interactions) and not only destinations (a singular native app or website). The slides expand on what sort of approach we can use to aid our strategy, design, development and project management methodologies by exploring frameworks such as User Centred Design (UCD), Lean and Agile.
Radisson Hotel Whittier Feb2010 Powerpointststyoung
Welcome to the Radisson Hotel Whittier located in the historical Uptown Whittier district. We are within driving distance of Disneyland/Orange County, Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and shopping in Beverly Hills! Nestled in the lush area of Whittier we are close to the following freeways I-605, I-60 and I-5. Our guests enjoy our work and play destination for business travelers, family vacations, meetings and special events. Our humble destination includes comfortable and spacious hotel rooms, heated outdoor pool and Jacuzzi, on-site restaurant, on-site fitness center, newly renovated business center and meeting room accommodations to accommodate up to 440 guests in banquet rounds.
Sometime in early 2005, Danny Bluestone saw the potential in creating a digital agency that bridges the gap between usability, visual design, project management, marketing and programming. At the time he had no funding.
A brief description of the Kennedy Creek Dispersal in March 2015. Further information available at www.sheepgenetics.org.au and www.auctionsplus.com.au
Design Thinking Introduction & Workshop - NoVA UXJohn Whalen
What's Design Thinking, you ask? Design Thinking is a collaborative, human-centered approach to solving a wide range of complex problems. This one-hour, hands-on workshop will rapidly go through each stage of the design thinking process: understanding user's needs, framing the problem for creative solutions, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
This was a hands-on workshop in Design Thinking, where we'll roll up our sleeves and tackle some design problem-solving in groups.
How Lean, UCD and Agile can propel designers into the futureCyber-Duck
In this talk, Danny demonstrates why the future is already here and how it poses challenges to todays agencies, CMOs and designers. The internet permeates everything from websites, wearables, ‘nearables’ (low powered IoT devices that connect with our online world) and apps. Users are accustomed to getting ‘pulled’ to different destinations (such as apps or websites) but more and more forwarding thinking brands are ‘pushing’ relevant content and alerts to either the OS level of devices or other app like aggregators, allowing the user to interact with both features and content without leaving notification centres or dashboards. Due to this, the Web is becoming a habitat where users will spend less time downloading, opening and engaging with apps. As such, it’s important that designers move towards dreaming of a world that is both ‘pulling’ users towards personalised experiences within apps and websites and also ‘pushing’ highly relevant data to users to enhance the experience. In order to facilitate this, agencies, marketers and designers need to be designing holistic systems (over-arching engagement platforms to facilitate cross-channel interactions) and not only destinations (a singular native app or website). The slides expand on what sort of approach we can use to aid our strategy, design, development and project management methodologies by exploring frameworks such as User Centred Design (UCD), Lean and Agile.
Radisson Hotel Whittier Feb2010 Powerpointststyoung
Welcome to the Radisson Hotel Whittier located in the historical Uptown Whittier district. We are within driving distance of Disneyland/Orange County, Downtown Los Angeles, Hollywood and shopping in Beverly Hills! Nestled in the lush area of Whittier we are close to the following freeways I-605, I-60 and I-5. Our guests enjoy our work and play destination for business travelers, family vacations, meetings and special events. Our humble destination includes comfortable and spacious hotel rooms, heated outdoor pool and Jacuzzi, on-site restaurant, on-site fitness center, newly renovated business center and meeting room accommodations to accommodate up to 440 guests in banquet rounds.
Sometime in early 2005, Danny Bluestone saw the potential in creating a digital agency that bridges the gap between usability, visual design, project management, marketing and programming. At the time he had no funding.
A brief description of the Kennedy Creek Dispersal in March 2015. Further information available at www.sheepgenetics.org.au and www.auctionsplus.com.au
Design Thinking Introduction & Workshop - NoVA UXJohn Whalen
What's Design Thinking, you ask? Design Thinking is a collaborative, human-centered approach to solving a wide range of complex problems. This one-hour, hands-on workshop will rapidly go through each stage of the design thinking process: understanding user's needs, framing the problem for creative solutions, ideating, prototyping, and testing.
This was a hands-on workshop in Design Thinking, where we'll roll up our sleeves and tackle some design problem-solving in groups.
This slideshow, presented in July 2013 at #ASNEKent13, shows digital storytelling tools high school journalists can incorporate in their media programs. The presentation also explains how using interactive tools addresses 21st Century Skills and includes some simple suggestions for how advisers can introduce these tools. *I tried to remove all animations and it turns out that the slide headers are still animated — my apologies!
SMAC (Social, Mobile, Analytic and Cloud) Inflection: Technology's Long Promi...Jay Jakosky
In a word… Agility.
*Fluid social communication. Take immediate action.
*Powerful mobile devices. Always connected.
*Business insight & exploration. Automated intelligence.
*Reliable global infrastructure, available instantly.
*Rapid PoC. Rapid time-to-value. Rapid failure.
Business X Design - People, Planet & ProductCyber-Duck
A talk about intersectional design and how accessibility and sustainable overlap to create better products and experiences for both people and businesses
Scaling our digital agency during the 2020 pandemic - Imperial College lectureCyber-Duck
In this talk, Danny Bluestone talks about levers he used during the COVID-19 pandemic to grow Cyber-Duck by 53% and hire over 35 staff. The core pillars are: Stability, Growth and Togetherness.
Fixing user experience (UX) through trust - SXSW keynoteCyber-Duck
After two decades of digital, trust in digital is broken. The centralisation of the Web within silos, walled gardens and controlling parties has ended up defying the spirit of the original web. On top of this numerous data scandals, hacking and online fraud has pushed customer trust to new lows. To share his ideas on how brands can try to earn user trust back, our CEO & Founder Danny Bluestone is heading to SXSW in March 2019. These slides are a summary of his keynote.
How to use ux thinking to generate meaningful marketing insights v0101dCyber-Duck
The most stellar B2B companies offer a personalised, mobile-first user experience that’s built upon an integrated, automated and insightful tech-stack. Beginning with the end in mind and through UX thinking, Danny from Cyber-Duck, the leading digital transformation agency explores how marketers can use service design generate data driven products and insights that improve the customer experience (CX) whilst leverage new tech like AI, automation and personalisation.
This presentation explores how brands can improve their proposition and become more relevant through embedding user experience (UX) and innovation within their vision and culture.
Designing products and services with GDPRCyber-Duck
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is hitting organisations that deals with EU citizens in 2018. In this deck, Danny informs organisations, designers and developers on how to use the three pillars of Transparency, Privacy and Controls on their quest towards GDPR compliancy. As well as providing examples of brands that are doing things right and wrong (from a GDPR perspective), the presentation provides practical examples of techniques such as consent, privacy by design (PbD) and the right of individuals to update their details at all times. Designers can use these techniques across their products and services to ensure that their marketing efforts are prepared.
Aimed at the connected homes, this presentation aims to educate hackathon goers on where UX is framed within the context of product and technology and provide quicks tips and tools to get started with UX.
The term digital transformation has been bandied about too much, covering everything from business transformation, the creation of efficiencies and new websites to playing with new digital platforms. In reality, it’s business transformation – but with a focus on customers and stakeholders with digital technologies as the catalyst for change. Success is determined by an organisation’s ability to unite and empower their people, processes and products. Only this will generate customer-centric experiences that perform effectively. Danny’s talk explores Cyber-Duck’s top tips for successful digital transformations, drawing on his experience guiding clients through risks and opportunities.
In this presentation and workshop Cyber-Duck take delegates through building blocks of developing a user centric brand and marketing strategy and introduce exciting new marketing channels such as artificial intelligence, bots, micro-moments and SEO as well as virtual and augmented reality. The presentation is concluded by exploring the importance of data and analytics.
Cyber-Duck, a digital agency in London and Hertfordshire welcomed StartupBus in its office to present some principles behind user experience before their European tour
In today’s cross-channel world, brand experience has become intertwined with user experience. A brand identity that authentically underpins services, products and marketing is critical to generate new sales and loyalty.
The presentation will explore the core tenants you need to build a holistic brand system. We’ll examine how identity design, narrative creation, scalable infrastructure and a cohesive visual language can help to drive future innovation and customer satisfaction.
By putting infrastructure and the brand essence at the core of an organisation, brands can create a more sustainable future for their companies. Brands that follow these principles will spend fewer resources on advertising, whilst improving customer satisfaction.
Five Digital Marketing ingredients for 2016Cyber-Duck
Our creative, technology and marketing discuss key tactics that will help digital innovation for 2016 including website performance, search engine marketing, social, apps and ongoing analysis and personalisation.
At Startup Weekend (Fashion Technology) at WeWork in London, Danny from Cyber-Duck created a quick guide that explains how UX fits in to todays connected world and what UX's role is. The keynote focus on lean UX and also covers UX principles and tactics.
User centred design (UCD) and the connected homeCyber-Duck
This presentation is a summary of a workshop that was conducted at UX London and Mozfest by Cyber-Duck, an agency that merges lean and agile deliver with user centred design (UCD). The workshop was aimed at those wanting to apply UCD to futuristic technologies. The workshop explored the concepts and thinking of ‘how to design an Internet Connected Dishwasher app’ while considering a wider eco system. The workshop started by introducing IoT (and ‘nearables’), why its relevant now and how the UCD process can adapt to it. The workshop frames UCD in a wider product delivery context and is aimed at those wanting to learn on how UX tactics can be applied to successfully design IoT products and systems.
In this presentation Danny explains how Cyber-Duck merge lean and agile principles with user centred design (UCD) to deliver Cancer Research Technology's new portal - Ximbio. By taking a Scrum approach and blending strategic branding within the first sprint, Cyber-Duck managed to plan, design and launch the portal within 90 days. None of the above would be possible without having strong lean principles and this presentation explains how lean thinking underpins the essence of a digital agency.
This presentation covers how organisations should approach a new digital project such as a web portal, system or mobile app (or combination of all) while considering the brand strategy, marketing or growth hacking approach and technology. The keynote examines the principles of a strategy and different methodologies for the product/project production such as agile, sashimi waterfall, lean and user centred design (UCD). The deck then delves into how to write a concise brief, how to go about resourcing and pick a technology platform or framework (such as Laravel or Ruby on Rails). The presentation covers how great design and project management is fundamental to success and why the design heuristics are so important. Finally the presentation also mentions why PM tools like JIRA, basecamp and Trello are important.
During August 2013, as part of an internal hackathon at Cyber-Duck, there were five teams that needed to produce products over 24 hours. Our team was tasked of developing an app to find Danny but the brief quickly changed into a staff (duck) finder app. The hack involved research, design and coding.
UX principles at Marketing Week Live London 2014Cyber-Duck
User Experience (UX) principles for marketing team as presented by Danny Bluestone at Marketing Week Live 2014 in London. The presentation touches on the importance of UX and how it has to be engrained into an organisation's culture as opposed to being a bolt-on.
UX is not a bolt-on but many agencies and founders approach it as the icing on the cake where really it is the cake itself. If you are in the process of planning, creating or improving your MVP this presentation will help you understand what UX is and how to go about making it happen for your product. The presentation will also help you understand how the UX process should happen correctly in your organisation and advises on different heuristics and models that can aid your team to ensure your product is produced correctly. The keynote was presented to the Founders Nation boot-camp by Danny Bluestone from Cyber-Duck at The Wayra Academy,Capper Street, WC1E 6JA London during March 2014.
Project management at a UX focused digital agencyCyber-Duck
Most digital agencies face numerous pressures to execute high quality fast. This keynote focused on how organisations can use lean, agile, ISO9001 and UCD methods to deliver multiple innovative projects with few resources.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Generating a custom Ruby SDK for your web service or Rails API using Smithyg2nightmarescribd
Have you ever wanted a Ruby client API to communicate with your web service? Smithy is a protocol-agnostic language for defining services and SDKs. Smithy Ruby is an implementation of Smithy that generates a Ruby SDK using a Smithy model. In this talk, we will explore Smithy and Smithy Ruby to learn how to generate custom feature-rich SDKs that can communicate with any web service, such as a Rails JSON API.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projects’ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, you’re in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part “Essentials of Automation” series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Here’s what you’ll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
We’ll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Don’t miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Elevating Tactical DDD Patterns Through Object CalisthenicsDorra BARTAGUIZ
After immersing yourself in the blue book and its red counterpart, attending DDD-focused conferences, and applying tactical patterns, you're left with a crucial question: How do I ensure my design is effective? Tactical patterns within Domain-Driven Design (DDD) serve as guiding principles for creating clear and manageable domain models. However, achieving success with these patterns requires additional guidance. Interestingly, we've observed that a set of constraints initially designed for training purposes remarkably aligns with effective pattern implementation, offering a more ‘mechanical’ approach. Let's explore together how Object Calisthenics can elevate the design of your tactical DDD patterns, offering concrete help for those venturing into DDD for the first time!
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
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...Everyone young person is going to be
inspired to be a maker from now on. Its
like how everyone used to want to become
a musician, actor or athlete but ‘maker’ is
what people are going to want to be.
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The power of being young
Nick D'Aloisio, sells his app for £19mil
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13. So how do you learn
to design websites
and apps?
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14. Lets pick a subject to
design for!
• The best way to learn web
design is through experience.
• Most successful designers
use a design process.
• In today’s workshop we will
design a homework web app.
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15. Here is a simple process
for web (or app) design
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20. Before we start
Please get into groups of 4.
Our home work tool will be a web
app, this means that it should work
on a PC and mobile phone.
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21. Personas
A persona is a typical
‘person’ that uses a
website or app.
Please create one
persona each. It can be
you, a friend or sibling.
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22. What’s out there?
Research allows you to
see what else is out there
and learn their strengths
and weaknesses.
Choose two or three
other methods of
how you deal with
homework.
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23. Site / app map
Think about the screens
you will need on your
web app and write any
‘functional’ notes on
them.
Normally there are a
maximum of 7 key
screens and lots of ‘sub’
screens.
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24. Prototyping
The best way to start a
design is pen and paper!
Try and design one of
the important screens
for the web app.
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25. Thank you, future designers!
Cyber-Duck welcomes interns of all
ages to come and learn with us.
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