July 2, 2016 — Emotional design isn’t just about cute mascots and animated showcases. Real connections happen when you look at even the smallest interaction.

From an impatient button to a eager input field, emotion is a powerful thing we can use to connect to users.

In this talk I’ll explore why emotion is important in every part of the experience and how you can create emotional interfaces.

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January 22, 2016 — Powszechność smartfonów sprawia, że responsywna wersja strony to już nie ukłon w stronę użytkownika, a zwyczajna konieczność. Blogi zyskują na popularności, konkurencja rośnie, a czytelnicy robią się coraz bardziej wygodni – dlatego warto o nich zadbać, a wtedy spędzą na naszym blogu więcej czasu i chętniej będą pisali komentarze.
W każdej chwili jesteśmy w stanie sprawdzić co nowego na Facebooku, Instagramie czy przeczytać nowego posta na blogu, który śledzimy. Dlatego ważne jest by szablon bloga tego czytania nie utrudniał.
W swojej prezentacji na podstawie analizy blogów takich jak JasonHunt.pl, Segritta.pl, Fashionelka.pl Ewa wskazuje kilka kluczowych z punktu widzenia UX elementów, których prawidłowe działanie może zadecydować o zachowaniu czytelnika na stronie.
Dzięki prezentacji uczestnik wie na co zwrócić uwagę przy wyborze nowego szablonu, jest w stanie ocenić czy jego obecny szablon dobrze wyświetla się na telefonie.

Tags: blog, responsive web design, responsive sites, mobile, UX, common mistakes in responsive blog

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January 17, 2016 — Education, Media, and Public Service are having their business and service delivery models disrupted. Sometimes, they haven’t fully internalized customer, student, or patient-centric business drivers, and sometimes they can’t justify budget line items related to user-centered design in this fiscally constrained environment.

The result is that designers may need to “disguise” user-centered design methods behind other processes, and play it fast and loose with research methodologies to get the job done, while speaking to clients in a language they can both understand and get behind.

In this session, Christine will illustrate how she has enlisted scenario planning, a facilitation methodology used in strategic business planning, as a tool to effectively create user personas and journey maps with simple and clear implications for adaptive content delivery. She will walk through how a traditional sales and marketing funnel became a powerful model to structure just-in-time content delivery for a healthcare client to progressively disclose information at exactly the right level of complexity for the user. And how she has used process design exercises to enlist active participation of clients in the UX design process that has helped them improve their service delivery.

When we mashup user experience design practices with strategic planning and other, sometimes non-traditional business processes, we add value to organizations that goes well beyond the user experience. It helps them to be better at doing what they do.

This session will be of interest to project leaders who want to better understand how to “sell” user experience design, as well as user experience designers who want to learn about new ways of approaching clients who may not understand what they do. Knowledge of standard user experience design methodologies is a must, as is a desire to learn about new ways to work with business leaders to help them derive more business value from their website or app design.

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December 14, 2015 — We often forget when designing and developing websites that there are actual users on the other side of the screen. Whether through ability, age or cultural differences, there are a lot of ways that we can inadvertently alienate users. We sometimes forget that we’re making websites for our clients and customers, not ourselves.

In this presentation, I’ll give a brief rundown of considerations that should be given to make your website as effective to as wide a range of users as possible. Accessibility, internationalization, UX and UI changes will be covered, as well as some tips on how to determine your goal, and make your website work toward that goal for you.

December 9, 2015 — We’re going to explore a few methods of learning – focusing on the practice of copying. Code, design, & user experience can all be improved when we take a deeper look into successful implementations. We’ll analyze methods and steal a few things along the way, learning how to truly make them our own.

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October 7, 2015 — An American turns 50 every 7 seconds. Those aged 50 and older represent 45% of the U.S. population. One-third of the internet users in the U.S., are adults aged 50+ representing the Web’s largest constituency. WordPress sites must be designed with this in mind. You will learn how to meet seniors’ needs from one of their own.

September 6, 2015 — Based on usability research and UX principles, we discuss what we know about users in terms of both big-picture concepts and nitty-gritty details. For example, learn how people interact with photography on websites and what kinds of ideas they have in their head when they arrive at your homepage.

By looking at website examples, we uncover common problems that website designers and owners make often (but can be avoided). You’ll walk out with practical tips that you can immediately use to make your website visitors happier.

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July 5, 2015 — This talk covers how to use Stories, WordPress, and Experience Design to help you connect with your audience. There are some simple techniques that will help you connect the dots and create a better relationship with your audience.

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June 20, 2015 — This talk is about bringing the principles of user experience design together with the development team to build a stronger and better solution.

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May 23, 2015 — This session introduces a framework for approaching your WordPress project’s situational analysis from many perspectives, to create success goals that resonate with everyone on your team—including your client’s wallet-bearers.

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