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Sunday 9:00 AM
Design Fundamentals for Developers (and Other Non-Designers)
Design is all around us and whether you want to jumpstart a design career or just build a better design vocabulary, this workshop is the right place to start your design education. For designers and non-designers alike, we explore basics of design: principles like typography, layout, unity and color. We also take a tour of the design process, visiting fundamentals like wireframes, mood boards, and the process of finding inspiration. This workshop is tuned for technical folks who may be interested in design but haven't had any formal exposure to it as a discipline. For those who attended this workshop last year, expect some refreshed and revised content.
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Sunday 1:30 PM
Design Tools and Techniques
Building on the lessons learned in the "Design Fundamentals" workshop, this workshop drills into case studies and applied techniques for popular design tools. Whether using Photoshop, Illustrator, or Microsoft Expression Blend, you will want to learn the tips and tricks to get the most productivity as you apply the design principles.
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Monday 11:30 AM
Great User Experiences: Seamlessly Blending Technology and Design
The best solutions make maximum use of innovative technologies to achieve beautiful and unexpected results. However, they do not do this in an obvious and arbitrary way, with a big signpost attached saying "Look At This Great Technology" but by blending the technology in seamlessly with great design to create a single beautiful experience. If your audience can 'see the edges' then the magic is lost. In this session we present not only the most innovative technical solutions from AKQA in 2009 but focus on how this technology has been seamlessly integrated into the overall design, working hand-in-hand with that design to present a truly immersive experience, rather than merely …
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Monday 12:05 PM
Designing Rich Experiences for Data-Centric Applications
Come hear how to design better experiences for data-centric applications from someone that has designed and developed many successful business applications using an array of UX technologies. Learn some tips and tricks for creating better experiences including leveraging existing skills with Silverlight and XAML for use with rich, data-centric applications.
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Monday 2:00 PM
Building Pivot Collections
It was announced Monday morning that Pivot will be launched as a Silverlight 4 control this summer. This technology, designed to visualize large collections of information, will be embeddable on any web page thanks to advances in this new Silverlight platform. It is possible to begin creating these collections now to prototype scenarios that can be deployed and distributed once this control is finalized. This session focuses on the designer and the developer perspectives and best practices for creating compelling experiences using this breakthrough technology. Learn the dos and don'ts of creating collections and walk away with a deeper understanding of how to get started for yourself.
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Total Experience Design
Your Mission: We need great creative ideas, we need them implemented, and we need to make customers love them, all in the space of six months. You have zero budget. Go! Under huge pressure to innovate, how do you get people to buy in to your ideas and then actually get them done? How do you avoid getting side-tracked by blue-sky thinking whilst delivering a project to time and budget yet still realize the ambitions we set in that blue-sky thinking? How do you even justify doing 'something different' or focusing on Experience in the first place? See how to get Experience-based innovation going, how to get it to flourish, how to define its success factors and measure the …
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The Art, Technology and Science of Reading
Are serif fonts more readable than sans serif fonts? Does grey text on a grey background cause eye fatigue? Can you read jmubeld wodrs just as fast as regular words? Learn about the latest research for making readable on-screen text. Plus, see optical illusions in the ubiquitous font Georgia.
