1-Hour Talks

Creating strong intranet content is dependent on audits and assessments of current content, coordination with and support of content authors and managers, and ongoing maintenance and governance. Team members from 2 Intranet Design Annual winning organizations, Enbridge Inc. and Tourism New Zealand, will share their experiences, tips and lessons learned. 

Trying to appeal to Millennial users? Many UX professionals make the mistake of basing their design decisions on popular misconceptions about this young user group. This research-based seminar separates the hard facts about the Millennial generation from the myths, equipping you to make data-driven decisions to appeal to your specific Millennial audience. 

What happens when Design Thinking meets Agile? The smart people at Google Labs came up with Design Sprints and the smart people at IBM Design came up with Design Loop. Two different ways of applying Design Thinking to Agile, both with the goal of solving and testing design problems while keeping users' needs in mind.

With the depth and breadth of information available on intranets, how can we help users find the right information quickly and easily? Team members from IBM Corporation and Goodwill Industries International, 2 of our 2017 Intranet Design Annual winning organizations, will share their experiences, insights, and what they've learned about organizing information for their audiences' varying needs on their award-winning sites. 

Google’s algorithm factors in ‘real-time’ considerations when determining what information to rank organically. Therefore it is as important as ever to understand the latest ranking factors and how to stay up-to-date on SEO best practices.

Learn how to execute an SEO program that is prepared to deal with industry changes.

Learn about the unique challenges designers face when creating user interfaces and user experiences for AR. This online seminar will walk you through the design and development process for AR technologies. You will discover successful design approaches and learn from the failures of typical design assumptions while discussing effective UI/UX tips you can use rightaway.

Usually people talk about their successes. But in this session we'll share some of our favorite failures in order to explain how to identify and overcome real-world obstacles. Because designing for the user is important, and the challenges we face are real. Whether you’re a one-person show working at a startup or advocating from within a larger corporate team, we’ll provide relevant case studies and strategies for gaining and maintaining stakeholder buy-in, leveraging limited resources, and cultivating a user-centered design process that benefits everybody.

Every use of your website is a conversation that the site visitor starts. Today, more than ever, those conversations are on a tablet or smartphone. And your site visitor is busy and impatient.

Learn how to write clear, compelling, conversational copy (and microcopy) for those busy people on their small screens: Practical guidelines. Great examples. 

An introduction to help you incorporate drawings and diagrams in your technology projects. We may not all be trained artists but we are visual beings. Informal drawing techniques can help you understand complex challenges, reduce risk and align teams around shared goals. An introduction to learn how to put this accessible and powerful practice to use. 

Learn how Yahoo’s UX Research team created a company wide user first culture, directed product strategy to align with real user needs, and improved usability on all mobile and web products. We will describe the UX Research team, its organization and role, and specific ways we conduct research to positively impact product development for this global company with a billion monthly users. We will provide deep insight about the role of UX Research at scale and the best ways to organize and deliver that research for maximum effect.