UX
This is about User eXperience
These are the sessions tagged with UX at Øredev 2012:
Monday
8.30-16.30
Creating User Experiences: An Entry Point for Developers
A new generation of personal devices has changed what users expect from technology. Users now expect better experiences in all the software they use. But great user experiences don’t just happen – they are designed. Most developers are very weak in the areas needed for that: fundamental design principles, the design and prototyping process, and user experience patterns. But there is nothing magical about design, and it is well within the capabilities of most developers to learn the basics.
Billy Hollis
Billy Hollis is a software generalist, an author and a well known speaker. He has been in the software industry for over 30 years and currently he runs his own consulting practice in Nashville, Tennessee USA, focusing on advanced user interface design and development, rules–based architectures, and healthcare systems.
Wednesday
10.00-10.50
Asynchronous User Interfaces - the future of Web UIs
Asynchronous UIs are a complete revolution in the way programmers are creating interfaces for the web, with an emphasis on speed and client-side state.
This talk will take you through all the steps needed to implement an asynchronous UI, from serving up JSON to rendering everything client side with frameworks like Backbone and Spine.
Tags: Front end Javascript UX Web
Alex MacCaw
I work at Twitter. Ruby/JavaScript developer, O'Reilly author and entrepreneur.
16.45-17.35
Git on Android: Spreading Rebellion
A distributed version control system lets projects spread like fire in dry grass- and if the aim is to make the flame spread, it should be able to reach even the device resting in your pocket. Developing a Git client for Android threw up a bunch of interesting challenges; from low-level bug-hunting in the source of Android to unusual UI tricks. This talk describes those challenges, the curious bugs found, and the resulting Grand Tour of open-source projects; patching Android and even Git itself.
Roberto Tyley
Roberto Tyley is the author of Agit (the Git client for Android devices), a software developer at The Guardian, and contributor to various open-source projects. He's worked at GitHub, 'invented' animated diffs, and loves explaining things.
Thursday
11.10-12.00
Scalable and Modular CSS FTW!
Scalable and modular CSS architectures and approaches are the new hotness and rightfully so. They provide sanity, predictably and scalability in a potentially crazy coding world. This session will give an overview of some the most popular approaches, including OOCSS, SMACSS, CSS for Grownups, and DRY CSS as well as discussing some general principles for keeping your CSS clean, optimized, and easy to maintain.
Denise Jacobs
Denise Jacobs adores being a Speaker, Author, Web Design Consultant and Creativity Evangelist. Most appreciated on Twitter as @denisejacobs for her “Great Resources”, she wrote The CSS Detective Guide, and contributed to InterAct with Web Standards and Smashing Book #3. Her articles encourage people to express their creativity as they Banish Their Inner Critic and Reignite Their Creative Spark. Her latest project encourages underrepresented groups to Rawk The Web by becoming visible web experts.
11.10-12.00
Quantum Leap: Being a Designer in the Year 2038
What will it be like to be a designer in the future? In this session we will explore projections of future technologies like genetics, nanotechnology, neuroscience and biology to gain insights on how to start acting today in the year 2012 to design for people with the help of science. By the end of the session we will have gained immediately applicable and practical methods to architect experiences and design user interfaces that speak to your users' brain(s).
Abdelmonaim Remani
A software developer and technology enthusiast at heart and by profession. Particularly interested in technology evangelism and enterprise software development and architecture. Experienced in Java Enterprise Applications and a wide range of related technologies. President and Founder of a number of organizations namely The NorCal Java User Group, The Silicon Valley Dart Meetup, and The Silicon Valley Spring User Group. Abdel is a frequent speaker at a number of developer conferences including JavaOne, JAX Conf, and OsCon, and many user groups and community events.
11.10-12.00
Design in the 21st Century: Skeumorphism, Modernism and Beyond
Design trends come and go, but some stay for longer or forever! Join us in this session where we will share with you some of the research and exploration we have done to understand the 3 key design paradigms exercised in planet Earth in this early 21st century: Skeumorphism, Digitalism, Modernism. You will learn the design principles behind these different paradigms and discover the specifics of each of the corresponding design languages. This should help you in your everyday design practice.
Tags: UX
Arturo Toledo
Arturo Toledo is an Architect. He runs a boutique design studio attending clients in the United States, Europe and Asia. His work explores the convergence of human arts and science to give shape to an ever evolving design practice. With a particular commitment towards design education, Arturo is permanently engaged with the international design and development communities and often travels the world to exchange ideas about design with other designers and developers.
Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo is an Experience Program Manager and Developer. He recently co-founded a boutique design studio along with his brother Arturo, providing experience architecture, user interface design and design education services. Alejandro is also a polyglot involved in an on going study of multiple languages spoken around the world. With an inquisitive mind Alejandro enjoys spending time with designers and developers helping them produce the best possible apps for Windows and Windows Phone. He gets inspiration and energy from his wife and little daughter.
13.00-13.50
Inside Information – How Visualizing the Human Body is Sparking a Revolution in Science Exhibits for Public Venues
Medical imaging techniques have advanced beyond recognition in the last few years. Ynnerman will explain how these systems, are now being adapted to provide public visitor venues, such as science centers and zoos with unique interactive experiences. Combining visualization techniques with interactive multi touch technology and intuitive UI, this is opening up new ways to interactively explore and learn about the inside workings of the human body, natural history subjects or even mummies.
Anders Ynnerman
Anders Ynnerman is the director of the Norrköping Visualization Center - C, which currently constitutes one of the main focal points for research and education in computer graphics and visualization in the Nordic region. He is also one of the co-founders of the Center for Medical Image Science and Visualization (CMIV) and he is serving as the chair of the scientific council for CMIV.
14.10-15.00
Touch it – don’t touch it
This lightning talk session will present you with cool and new technology. Flatfrog where already present at Øredev with a prototype 2011 and now they have the best multi touch screen ready for the market.
Tobii technology steer their screens by their eyes.
Perhaps some multinational company participates in this session and shows their latest technology too.
And perhaps we can get the first real look and feel of the Surface!
Not much more to say – if you like new technology you cannot afford to miss this one.
Tags: Creative Front end Fun Hands on Hard Core Rebel Tools UX
15.40-16.30
Interaction and Navigation Patterns for Modern User Experience
With modern UI stacks, it's much more practical to implement new and useful interaction patterns, such as viewports, timelines, dashboards, queues, and configurators. Even traditional patterns such as master-detail drilldown, wizards, and trees gain new capabilities. This session will summarize important and useful interaction patterns, show real-world examples, and suggest common use cases for them.
Billy Hollis
Billy Hollis is a software generalist, an author and a well known speaker. He has been in the software industry for over 30 years and currently he runs his own consulting practice in Nashville, Tennessee USA, focusing on advanced user interface design and development, rules–based architectures, and healthcare systems.
16.45-17.35
Prototypes, Prototypes and Prototypes - and the difference between them.
Scope creeping? Vision dissipating? Stakeholders disengaging? Team splintering? Specification ballooning? User experience rehashing?
Application prototyping can help with these ailments and more by creating a common vision for team members, stakeholders and customers.
Prototypes can be high fidelity or low fidelity, interactive or static, speculative or definitive. This session covers the role of prototypes to explore, evaluate and communicate your vision at each stage of the project lifecycle.
Shane Morris
Shane Morris is one of Australia's most respected user experience professionals. Through consulting, mentoring and training he has helped organisations create compelling digital experiences since 1991. In that time he has worked on desktop applications, internet applications, mobile user interfaces, physical devices and web sites. Shane has taught user experience topics around the world and is a key contributor to "101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School" at ixd101.com.
18.00-18.50
A Design eye for the Developer Person
A Paint by Numbers approach to UI development and design. In this session Scott will prove that Designers and Developers aren't separated at birth that deep within each developer is a designer waiting to claw its way out.
Scott Barnes
Scott Barnes (a.k.a @MossyBlog) formerly a Microsoft Rich Platform Product Manager (WPF & Silverlight). He has been working with Adobe & Microsoft technology for the past 15 years with a main focus specifically on Internet Applications (aka. RIA, Rich Client Technology etc).
18.00-18.50
Rocking the Enterprise with the Kinect Experience
Can you image playing Kinect at Work? During the last few years, Kinect has gained a space as one of the most innovative technologies in the entertainment industry. However, Kinect has the potential of extending way beyond the living room and completely revolutionize the way we build, think and interact with enterprise applications. Join me and see how… This session will take you on a journey to learn how to leverage the Kinect experience to build a new type of enterprise application. The session will dive deep into the best practice and techniques developers can use to leverage Kinect specific capabilities such as skeletal tracking, motion sensors, data visualization and speech recognition as part of traditional business applications. To keep things practical, we will highlight a series of reference applications that showcase how organizations are using Kinect to enable the next generation of enterprise applications.
Jesus Rodriguez
Jesus is the Chief Architect of Tellago and CEO of Tellago Studios. He is also a Microsoft MVP, an Oracle ACE and one of a few Architects worldwide to be a member of the Microsoft Architect Advisory team. As a member, Jesus has been selected to participate in a variety of Software Design Reviews with Microsoft's Product Teams including Windows Communication Foundation, Windows Identity Framework, StreamInsight, AppFabric, .NET Software Design, Windows Workflow Foundation, SharePoint, and BizTalk Server. Jesus derived his extensive experience with business process integration and messaging through numerous implementations of disparate systems founded on the principles of SOA and BPM. Jesus is an active contributor to the .NET and J2EE communities and an internationally recognized speaker and author with contributions that include several articles for various publications including MSDN Magazine, Microsoft Architecture Journal, SOAWorld and Web Services Journal as well as speaking engagements at top industry conferences such as Microsoft TechEd, Microsoft DevDays, Software Architecture Conference, SOAWorld, Microsoft SOA and BPM Conference, Oracle Open World, Web Services Security Conference and the Microsoft MVP Summit. Additionally, Jesus has conducted a number of Web Casts on varying SOA technologies. Jesus is a prolific blogger on all subjects related to integration and has a true passion for technology. You can gain valuable insight on leading edge technologies through his blog at http://weblogs.asp.net/gsusx.
Friday
10.00-10.50
Studio in a Box: Sketching a User Experience
We are bringing to you our design studio, straight from Mexico City! In this session Alejandro and Arturo will conceptualize, sketch and paper-prototype a user experience. Be a part of the action and help decide what experience they will craft live on stage.
Tags: UX
Arturo Toledo
Arturo Toledo is an Architect. He runs a boutique design studio attending clients in the United States, Europe and Asia. His work explores the convergence of human arts and science to give shape to an ever evolving design practice. With a particular commitment towards design education, Arturo is permanently engaged with the international design and development communities and often travels the world to exchange ideas about design with other designers and developers.
Alejandro Toledo
Alejandro Toledo is an Experience Program Manager and Developer. He recently co-founded a boutique design studio along with his brother Arturo, providing experience architecture, user interface design and design education services. Alejandro is also a polyglot involved in an on going study of multiple languages spoken around the world. With an inquisitive mind Alejandro enjoys spending time with designers and developers helping them produce the best possible apps for Windows and Windows Phone. He gets inspiration and energy from his wife and little daughter.
11.10-12.00
Building Highly Successful Windows Phone Apps: a Recipe for Repeated Success
Standing out in the Windows Phone marketplace is getting more and more difficult, but is still achievable with high quality apps. In this session I'll be walking through the systematic approach our team followed when releasing apps that have all made it to the top 100 list as well as being among the highest rated on the platform. I'll be talking about our inspiration and will be covering our planning and design process and implementation decisions and issues faced.
Gergely Orosz
Gergely works for Skype in London. He has been working with Windows Phone since the first SDK release early 2010. He has been involved in developing some of the top rated and highly successful applications on the Marketplace like Cocktail Flow, AppFlow and Weather Flow.
14.10-15.00
API Usability: Think of the humans!
APIs are consumed by programs, but those programs are built by humans. A good API is one that both programs and humans enjoy using. That means the API not only has to be powerful and responsive, but usable, too. Using examples like Twilio, Twitter, and FourSquare, we'll discuss what makes an API usable or not. We'll talk about common usability traps and the bugs we make or prevent consuming applications. Finally, we'll discuss approaches to API development that improve usability.
Tags: Architecture Test UX
Catherine Powell
Catherine Powell is a principal at Abakas, a software consulting company. At Abakas, she provides engineering management, development, testing, and process consulting services. She has worked with a variety of software, from an enterprise storage system to mobile software to web applications. She is an author, speaker and a mentor to engineers and technical managers. Catherine focuses primarily on the realities of shipping software in small and mid-size companies.
15.20-16.10
Dynamically animating user interfaces and custom Android views
This presentation will present an easy technique for creating user interfaces that feel alive and incorporates "behaviors" rather than state transitions. This will be shared through code examples for Android where we'll see how this can be implemented into custom Android views.
Andreas Agvard
A software developer who has spent the last 3 years of his professional career working with Android. He has worked in several different layers of the Android platform, but has a particular fondness for things that look pretty on the screen. He is currently working in a UI software team at Sony Mobile.
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