6 & 7 March 2015
Speakers
Get inspired by experienced international speakers and local professionals.
SPEAKERS | COMPANY |
Jared M. Spool | UIE |
Dana Chisnell | Usabilityworks |
Matt Nish-Lapidus | Normative |
Davide Casali | Automattic |
Andrew Mayfield | Optimal Workshop |
Ted Kilian | Brilliant Basics |
Jennifer Fabrizi | Slalom Consulting |
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Program
Day 1 – Presentations & Discussions
Friday 6 March 2015
1pm – 8am
1:00pm | Registration opens at reception |
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2:00pm | Welcome & PresentationsKeynote (60 mins)
10 minutes talks
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When intention isn’t enough to delight usersDana ChisnellThis team wanted to do the right thing. They thought they were doing the right thing the right way. They tried to make planning for retirement simple and friendly. Visually, their app was inviting and warm. Navigating forward was simple and engaging. But the pleasures quickly faded as the flow was broken and the meaning was lost. Hear the story of this well-intentioned team and how they got close but not close enough to delighting their customers in their attempt to make saving for retirement fun. |
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Design foundations for the 21st centuryMatt Nish-LapidusAmazing design results start with a solid design practice. Over the last hundred or so years designers and design educators have established a foundation of skills, theory, and principles that give us a way of thinking about, talking about, and doing design. What are design foundations? How can we apply them? And where are they going in the 21st century? |
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Grow your personal leadership by understanding your hybrid traitsDavide CasaliThe knowledge of craft and processes does little to help in the day-to-day relationship with teams and clients. That’s because the actual practical skills are just part of the game: there are competences that go beyond that: soft skills, sensibility, empathy, relational abilities, proactivity, etc. All of these are rarely highlighted or taught, and even less often they are used in specific tasks such as team growth or hiring. The Hybrid Traits is an effective model to frame these additional skills, allowing us to focus on them and embed them in our professional life. It’s not easy however, because everything starts from the individual’s desire to practice introspection. |
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Being a successful user-centred product managerAndrew MayfieldDiscuss insights and techniques for building a nimble, effective and user-centred product team-a team that designs and builds great products for a global audience. We’ll take you behind the scenes at Optimal Workshop to discuss what a Minimal Viable Product really is, and-the hard part-what to do once you’ve got one. |
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The art of the start: producing the right context for designTed KilianDesigners have the difficult job of bringing meaningful and valuable products/services to life within a complex environment of competing needs, constraints, and expectations. Those contextual factors, more than probably anything else, drive the success or failure of a design project, but they are often treated as irrelevant to the designer’s role. How can we as designers and design leaders create the space where great design can flourish? As a way of exploring this question, we will zoom in on that moment at the beginning of a project when direction is established and the tone is set. |
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Creativity, imagination and innovationJennifer FabriziThe time for technology-lead, business-focused innovation is past. The cultures of Six Sigma and process optimization will only give us incremental improvements, not break-through disruptions that will be needed to sustain our companies and our work. It’s time to disrupt our work practices and design ourselves anew. In this presentation, we will explore some of the specific ingredients in the broad landscape of innovation necessary for creative problem solving. We will go on a journey to play with our roles as facilitators and participants in collaborative innovation. We will use what we know from human-centered design, as well as new findings from neuroscience, to understand a new context for designing mind spaces for creativity by focusing on people rather than processes and practices. |
Panel
Future of workby Heathwallace – Matt Webb, Calvin Yau and Keilin OlsenCenturies of industrialisation have given shape to what an efficient organisation should look and work like. Today, we are living with that legacy, organisational silos divided by function or skill along with defined processes designed to maximise efficiency and scale. As an industry, we need to question what needs to evolve to enable people to work more collaboratively across different disciplines, divisions and organisations. To start defining and shaping the Future of Work, HeathWallace’s global panel will discuss how we can revisit our current approach to work and how we can break down barriers that are stopping us from creating more value. |
Drinks, fun, networking at reception
End of day 1
Day 2 – Half day Workshops
Saturday 7 March 2015
9am – 7pm (Lunch 1 – 2:30pm)
Morning (AM) Workshops |
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Workshop 1Deconstructing delightDana ChisnellYou will learn simple approaches to:
But wait, there’s more! Dana’s workshop features a special guest appearance from Jared Spool. |
Workshop 2Design foundations for the 21st centuryMatt Nish-LapidusYou will:
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Workshop 3Grow your personal leadership by understanding your hybrid traitsDavide CasaliYou will:
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Lunch (1:00pm – 2:30pm) |
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Afternoon (PM) Workshops |
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Workshop 4Being a successful user-centred product managerAndrew MayfieldYou will:
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Workshop 5The art of the startTed KilianYou will:
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Workshop 6Creativity, imagination and innovationJennifer FabriziYou will:
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Who
Speakers
Jared M. Spool
UIE
Twitter: @jmspool
Jared M. Spool is the founder of User Interface Engineering and a co-founder of Center Centre.
If you’ve ever seen Jared speak about user experience design, you know that he’s probably the most effective and knowledgeable communicator on the subject today. He’s been working in the field of usability and experience design since 1978, before the term “usability” was ever associated with computers…View Bio
Dana Chisnell
Usabilityworks
Twitter: @danachis
Dana strives to counter bad data every day. She’s a research nerd (her words) who just loves methodology, collaborating, and data – especially data she can help teams use to make design decisions. In fact, Dana loves applied research so much that just for fun, she sometimes organizes clients, friends, and other nerds to do flash research on the weekends…View Bio
Matt Nish-Lapidus
Normative
Twitter: @emenel
Matt Nish-Lapidus holds a degree in new media art, and has a rich background as a practicing musician and designer. His work has included everything from the digital library catalog in use by the New York Public Library, enterprise software for hospitals, video games, and large-scale public installations…View Bio
Davide Casali
Automattic
Twitter: @Folletto
Davide is an experience director and startup advisor with 11+ years of experience and a hybrid background in design, psychology and technology. He led cross-disciplinary teams of designers and developers, created and advised successfully funded startups and has done coaching and training for global and local organizations (DHL, EY, Atos)…View Bio
Andrew Mayfield
Optimal Workshop
Twitter: @andrewfantastic
Andrew is the CEO and Product Manager of online user research software provider Optimal Workshop. Their tools are used and loved by information architects, designers and user experience consultants around the world. Andrew’s background is in software design and development…View Bio
Ted Kilian
Brilliant Basics
Twitter: @EncouragingBhvr
Ted heads up the Asia Pacific arm of Brilliant Basics where he tries to make product and service experiences better for customers, brands and bottom lines. With over 15 years experience in UX strategy and design, his working approach combines curious observation, playful ideation and conceptual structure…View Bio
Jennifer Fabrizi
Slalom Consulting
Twitter: @jenniferfabrizi
Jennifer Fabrizi is Design Thinker with more than 15 years’ experience beginning with usability and progressing through contextual user research, human-centered design, conceptual and interaction design, and innovation. As an innovation catalyst, she makes mind-spaces in which co-creation can occur, transforming teams on their journey to becoming collaborative innovators.View Bio
72, Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon Tong
Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.innocentre.org.hkSubway MTR Kowloon Tong Station, Exit C2
Where
InnoCentre
72, Tat Chee Avenue,
Kowloon Tong
Kowloon, Hong Kong
http://www.innocentre.org.hkSubway MTR Kowloon Tong Station, Exit C2