Speaker: Rasmus Andersson – Software Painter, Playbit Did you ever notice your cursor is solid when you’re typing but blinking when you’re not, and that is true in every text editor? There are hundreds of primitives in UI design that started small—little choices made by designers—and later turned into norms used by the industry. But […]
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Speakers: Noah Levin – VP of Design, Figma Jordan Singer – Founder & CEO, Diagram Andrew Pouliot – ML Engineer, Diagram Vincent van der Meulen – Design Engineer, Diagram As an industry we’re in a transformative moment: how will AI shape our future and our work? That is exactly what we are tackling on the […]
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Everything you need to know about exponential growth presented candidly by two experts on the subject. Alex Chung, Founder of GIPHY, and Paul Murphy, Partner at Northzone and Founding Investor of GIPHY, tell how to 10x every aspect of a startup, and handle all the ups and downs along the way. Slush is a global […]
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Want to learn how to hack user perception to make websites and apps feel faster? Google Senior UX designer Mustafa Kurtuldu shares reseach on how to to increase perceived performance, and gives UX examples and technical tricks to improve the speed of your site, at Awwwards Conference Amsterdam. “There’s an issue in Silicon Valley and […]
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Pablo Stanley, Design Lead at InvisionApp gave an awesome talk to the backdrop of his own animations. His entertaining and refreshing presentation revealed the dos and don’t to becoming a successful designer, at Awwwards Conference San Francisco. Pablo Stanley is a Mexican designer based in San Francisco. He is the lead designer for the InVision […]
Read moreIn this bluntly honest presentation—named 2014 Talk of the Year by Net Magazine, and captured live at An Event Apart Orlando Special Edition—Mike Monteiro invites you to consider your responsibilities as a designer and embrace your role as gatekeeper. — Designers have a responsibility, not only to themselves and to their clients, but also to […]
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Let’s talk about shipping quality design work and communicating with your team when stakes are high, people have opinions, and you’re not even sure you’ve found the best answers. We’ll start with how designers can be most valuable to their team, and cover with how managing communication with your team can help you incorporate feedback […]
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UX practitioners can improve what is designed by adopting a participatory design research mindset. Often UX designers and researchers operate in an expert-mindset; and engage end-users as reactive informers within the design process. UX practitioners can improve the user experience of what is designed by inviting end-users to participate throughout the design process as active […]
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