The UX Design Workshops You’ve Always Wanted — Announcing our Design Lineup at Front 2018
8–9 November 2018 • Salt Lake City, Utah
If you attended the Front Conference last June and found yourself wishing you could practice some of the methods shared in their case studies now is your chance. Come join us this November in a more intimate setting that allows you to interact in more detail with some of the top Design professionals in our industry.
In these industry leading workshops for user experience design you’ll learn how to create practical prototypes for qualitative research, how to build and scale your design systems, know when and at what fidelity is right to present your work, how to deputize members of the non-design business units into design champions and how to effectivey hold design critiques that provide the highest value.
Check out the workshops below and grab yourself a ticket.
Limited seats available.
Practical Prototyping for Qualitative Research
Thursday, 8 November 2018, at 8:30 AM
Joel will review some career examples from Netflix and Google and how he quickly created prototypes for research, with no code. He will walk through simple, practical, and effective ways to create simple prototypes in order to get conduct qualitative and usability research.
- Learn how to take an existing design, create an animated prototype, and script a qualitative study script/plan
- Intro overview of proper qualitative study methods and practices
- Learn what design tools are best used for a variety of prototypes
About Joel
Joel Beukelman is a Southern California native working as a Senior Interaction Designer on Chrome at Google. Over the past 7 years, he has had the opportunity to contribute to variety of products/apps from early-stage startups to global applications. Prior to Google (Chrome & Android), Joel helped start Design Inc. as the Head of Design, worked on mobile apps and the launch of Netflix Originals, as well as a number of other startups. Outside of his love for design and tech, Joel spends his free time enjoying being a family man, getting tattoos, listening all things punk/metal, and documenting life/work on YouTube.
Design Critiques Done Right
Thursday, 8 November 2018, at 1:30 PM
Showing our work at all different levels is a core part of being a designer. Running a critique with your team that’s effective and helpful all around for everyone isn’t an easy task when it comes to pushing everyone to be better but also being respectful. Come learn ways that you can improve these processes and make these gatherings enjoyable and exciting again.
About Ben
Ben comes from over a decade of design experience working with software companies that have partnered with brands such as Nike, The North Face, Oakley, Under Armour, and Sonos. Ben is focused on designing software and products to significantly impact the user experience needs in both consumer and enterprise industries. Ben is also the cofounder of the Front Conference, a product design and management conference held in Utah which is on it 4rd year, as well as the Director of Product Hive with over 3,000+ product designers and product managers.
Scaling Fidelity
Thursday, 8 November 2018, at 3:45 PM
Knowing when to use different levels of fidelity is just as important as knowing how to use them. We’ll cover the design fidelity gamut, from word lists to animated prototypes, and demonstrate why designing and communicating at a strictly relevant level of detail is becoming a mandatory skill for high performance product teams.
About Matt
Matt Bryan works for Workfront as a UX Manager, where he facilitates culture that moves designers out of the boxes of conventional thinking and approval seeking. He cares deeply about the team and works along side his direct reports to provide Workfront customers with work measurement solutions that are at once original and obvious. Before Workfront, Matt helped Adobe redefine digital analytics through design leadership that resulted in a net new flagship product called Analysis Workspace. He currently lives with his family in Pleasant Grove Utah where he enjoys riding motorcycles, designing and building furniture, and barbecuing delicious meats.
The building, scaling, and evolution of a Design System
Friday, 9 November 2018, at 8:30 AM
Product design over the last years has taken a substantial leap forward in progress. We now have multiple tools to choose from for executing our solutions, along with a collection of new responsibilities that each one of us needs to adapt to stay current.
In this Workshop, join Drew Bridewell, Senior Design Specialist from InVision, as he shares a wave of packaged up fresh design system content that you’ve never seen before. He’ll walk you through how you can elevate your thinking around design systems, as well as the practice that goes into successfully implementing one.
During the workshop Drew will provide take-home worksheets that can help you throughout the creation and governance process of building systems. He’ll finish by providing you the best-in-class habits to nurture your systems over time.
About Drew
Drew Bridewell collaborates, consults, and shares insights with companies across the world who are looking for best practices around tools, collaboration, and building design systems.
His goal is to empower designers, teams, and organizations across the world to build the worlds best digital experiences!
Drew also focuses on the people, the practice of User Experience Design, and the InVision platform.
Previously Drew was a design manager and lead designer at LinkedIn, where he focused on Learning Solutions like Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning.
He also teaches UX on Lynda.com and LinkedIn Learning through his weekly series Practical UX Weekly.
Deputizing with Design: A Murder Mystery
Friday, 9 November 2018, at 1:30 PM
We’ll experience together how Adobe Design has begun to deputize members of the non-design team and business units into design champions and leaders within Product Management, Engineering, Marketing, and Senior Leadership. We’ll also put those principles into practice to build something together.
About Kris
Kris Paries is a Senior Experience Designer at Adobe working on data privacy, analytics, educational initiatives, and the future of intelligent agents. He is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Utah’s Multi-Disciplinary Design Program and writes for Adobe’s Thinking Design by Adobe (https://medium.com/thinking-design) Medium publication.
Check out our highlight video from last year. We had 160+ attendees from 5 countries and 28 states across the US.
Don’t miss our team discounts: 10% off groups of 3–5, 15% off groups of 6–7, and 20% off 8 or more. These workshops are great for teams and we want as many team members to be able to attend.
