Posts tagged ‘ux’
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“Performance as User Experience” by Aaron Gustafson—An Event Apart video
Design is problem solving. Each and every day, we are tasked with finding ways to reduce the friction our users experience on the Web. That means streamlining flows, reducing cognitive load, and writing more appropriate copy, but user experience goes far beyond the interface. Our users’ experiences begin with their first request to our servers.
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The Art and Soul of Selling by Jaimee Newberry—An Event Apart video
Jaimee uses stories of client interactions and learning experiences to share her two rules of design, and describe how her “Check Yourself Checkpoints” have helped her sell design and close millions of dollars in deals.
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New Users Matter, Too! Designing Better Onboarding Experiences by Krystal Higgins
VIDEO: A good first-time user experience establishes a foundation for future engagement, while a bad one can mean abandonment. What kind of first impression is your product giving?
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Resilience: Building a Robust Web That Lasts by Jeremy Keith—An Event Apart video
In this free 60-minute video, captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition, developer Jeremy Keith shares tried and tested (as well as new) approaches to web building that will result in experiences which are robust, flexible, and resilient.
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Top Task Management: Making it Easier to Prioritize by Gerry McGovern—An Event Apart video
Top Tasks Management is a method, developed over ten years of research, that helps you focus on what really matters in your projects, giving you the evidence to remove that which doesn’t. It’s been used to great effect by organizations such as Cisco, Microsoft, Lenovo, Google, IBM, VMWare, and the European Commission.
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Unified UX by Cameron Moll—An Event Apart video
With multi-screen use progressively increasing among web users, creating a unified user experience across screens is imperative to our work. In this 60-minute presentation captured live at An Event Apart Austin, designer and Authentic Jobs founder Cameron Moll examines what's required to deliver a unified, consistent user experience regardless of where the digital experience begins, continues, or ends.
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Design for Real Life
The latest title from our sister company, A Book Apart, is a challenging and essential look at how to make your designs more empathetic and compassionate from AEA speakers Sara Wachter-Boettcher and Eric Meyer.
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Sketching a New User Experience: An Interview with Krystal Higgins
Krystal Higgins is a user experience designer specializing in the onboarding and education of new users. She has worked at companies such as NVIDIA, eBay, and most recently, Google designing all sorts of experiences for web, mobile, and wearable products. We caught up with Krystal shortly before AEA Nashville.
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Co-Design, Not Redesign, by Kevin M. Hoffman – An Event Apart Video
In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition, Kevin M. Hoffman explains how service design thinking, lean approaches to user experience, and co-design processes offer an alternative to the money pit, and deliver experiences that delight your users.
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Just Enough Research by Erika Hall—An Event Apart Video
In this 60-minute video, Erika Hall presents practical, effective, efficient techniques that work within any design and development process to give you invaluable insight into your users and what they need and value.
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Screen Time: An Event Apart Video by Luke Wroblewski
In this 60-minute video captured live at An Event Apart Orlando: Special Edition, designer, entrepreneur, and author Luke Wroblewski takes us deep into what today's world of multiple, simultaneous screen use means for web and interaction designers.
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Designing Using Data by Sarah Parmenter – An AEA Video
In this 60-minute video, caught live at An Event Apart Orlando 2014, Sarah Parmenter says it's time to stop slavishly aping the latest UI trend. Instead, let's design with data, producing designs and systems that yield predictable and desired results.