Design has been clamoring for a seat at the table for ages. And, all of the sudden it’s happening. Designers at startups and big companies alike are increasingly being brought into leadership discussions. In my job at GV, I see designers across a broad range of companies and I’m very worried that many designers are […]
Read moreEngineering a website is equal parts vision and adaptation, responding both to how users navigate the site and what new goals of the organization have emerged. Rochelle King, the senior designer at Spotify, walks us through the process of redesigning a major website, revealing best practices for navigating the relationship between designers, data, and the […]
Read moreShowing a series of inspiring, unusual and playful products, British branding and design expert Paul Bennett explains that design doesn’t have to be about grand gestures, but can solve small, universal and overlooked problems.
Read moreYou can study all the methods of UX design, but what do you bring to your work? Adaptive Path Co-Founder Jesse James Garrett has spent more than 15 years working alongside some of the most talented designers in the world. In this talk, he shares the personal qualities that he’s seen make them successful and […]
Read moreJulie Zhuo, vice president of product design at Facebook, describes how the development of new features starts with three questions: What people problem are we solving? How do we know it’s a real problem? And how will we know if we’ve solved it? Zhuo explains how answering those fundamental questions at the outset reveals the […]
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Vitaly Friedman was hosted by UX Lausanne 2017. —- Jane will draw on her experiences from across her career, focusing specifically on The Telegraph and MOO. She will present four case studies from The Telegraph, each one emphasizing a particular aspect of design methodology. They will exemplify how her processes evolved to allow her team […]
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Adrian Franks is a design director and creative strategist at IBM. At IBM he worked to design and develop the Creative Toolbox, which helps designers and product managers familiarize themselves with the various tools available to prototype and create new products.
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Adrian Westaway: Magic and Design – Using the Thought Process of Magicians to Design New Experiences
In addition to be being cofounder of design and invention studio, Special Projects, Adrian is also a magician and a full member of the magic circle. In this talk he reveals how the process magicians use when designing new illusions can be applied to design. This talk offers a unique perspective on designing magical user experiences which surprise and delight […]
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Businesses need to figure out how to get more of the right things to market faster. Having got lean and agile, maximised their marketing spend and digitally transformed, what holds businesses back is their ability to agree what to do, and change. Having worked with billion dollar businesses, Engine has learned a lot about what works […]
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The 20th century challenge was to design a world of useful new machines. Form Followed Function. The rise of consumer culture introduced empathy and user-centric design. Form Followed Emotion. We are now entering an era of quantification and automation. Every person, place, and thing is being written about, annotated, digitised, and automated. Machines and services […]
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