Web apps are considered to work online only. When the Internet connection drops, the app usually stops functioning. Although in such situations we cannot enable the whole functionality, we can still let our users continue their work and thus give them good user experience. In this talk I will share design principles and implementation strategies […]

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Closing Keynote at World IA Day Zürich, 18. Februar 2017 Abstract: The products we create can make someone’s day—or leave them feeling alienated, marginalized, hurt, or angry. It all depends on whether we design for real life: for people with complex emotions, stressed-out scenarios, or simply identities that are different from our own. In this […]

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Didier Hilhorst, Design Director at Uber, shares how his graduate degree in economics helps mold him as a designer and, in turn, shape how he and his team redesigned Uber from the ground up. FOLLOW US Twitter: http://twitter.com/highrespodcast Facebook: http://facebook.com/highrespodcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/highresitunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/highresgoogle

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Katie Dill, Director of Experience Design at Airbnb, channels her inner “Steve Jobs” to explain how design at Airbnb is not just how it looks, but how it works, both in the workplace and on the screen. Twitter: http://twitter.com/highrespodcast Facebook: http://facebook.com/highrespodcast iTunes: http://bit.ly/highresitunes Google Play: http://bit.ly/highresgoogle

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Bret Victor invents tools that enable people to understand and create. He has designed experimental UI concepts at Apple, interactive data graphics for Al Gore, and musical instruments at Alesis. For more on Bret, see worrydream.com. This talk was given at CUSEC 2012 (2012.cusec.net).

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What is creative leadership? A Creative Director, dressed in black turtleneck, dictating every single detail? Cool! Would you work for that person? Creative leadership is more than finding a perfect form, much more than arriving at perfect concept. It is about creating a space and culture for creativity to happen. It is about fostering growth. […]

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Space matters. We read space like we read people’s faces. Space is an instrument of collaboration and innovation. At the University of Michigan’s Institute for Clinical & Health Research (MICHR), a team was created to creatively and economically enhance our operating space into a flexible workspace that supports privacy, innovation, creativity, and – most importantly […]

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Through designers’ quest to optimize user experience, we have reached a plateau in site design experimentation. Whether in UX or visual design, most of the solutions have been narrowed down to minimalistic approaches. It seems like we have successfully simplified interactions to the extent of minimalism. Designs and interactions have fallen flat, minimal and somewhat […]

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Luke inspires with this session on designing for mobile in 2015. In today’s world, not all screens are equal, and Luke talks about the key themes you need to remember when designing your website.

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