In this talk, Yesenia will discuss how we can make smarter design decisions, from the beginning of a project, to ensure that our sites perform well. Some topics she’ll discuss are optimizing typography and UI, responsive images, and how to get clients on board.

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Every designer has had to justify their designs to a non-designer, yet most lack the ability to convince people they’re right. The ability to effectively articulate your decisions is critical to the success of a project, because the most articulate person usually wins. In this session, you’ll learn practical tips for talking about your designs […]

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Skip Allums’ new book for O’Reilly Media, Designing Mobile Payment Experiences, provides on the ground insights into the user experience challenges inherent in building mobile commerce interactions. This session will cover emerging best patterns in payments design, as well as ways to address consumer security concerns with UX best practices. Warning: some NSFW language is […]

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Vijay Kumar presents an overview of some of the key principles that drive “Design Innovation.” He follows this with a broad look at the design innovation process and various tools, methods, and frameworks. An innovation process model that Prof. Kumar developed over many years and published in the book, “101 Design Methods: A Structured Approach […]

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Speaker(s): Christian Robertson, Jon Wiley, Jonathan Lee, Matias Duarte, Nicholas Jitkoff

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If you want to create a UX experience that anyone will be able to use, start by thinking, “could my mom use this?” No offense to the moms! But as Andi Galpern points out, excellent UX design means an experience that anyone, even someone who might be a little less tech-savvy, can understand and navigate […]

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Design deliverables can be challenging in a multi-device world. Front-end developers have had their day playing with fluid grids, flexible content, and media queries. Now it’s time to let the rest of the team in on the job. In this session, we’ll investigate how to get design approval in the context of a responsive process. […]

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Touch interfaces are no longer the domain of science fiction. Today touch not only powers smartphones and tablets but laptops, tables, and more. This transition is an opportunity to rethink how people interact with our software and build new simplified services driven by touch. Sounds great, but how? In this session, Luke Wroblewski, author of […]

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