The Conference Agenda
- Monday AM
- Monday PM
- Tuesday AM
- Tuesday PM
- Wednesday AM
- Wednesday PM
9:00 am ♦ Joe Welinske & Heather Gold ♦ Welcome to ConveyUX
A warm welcome to Seattle and a quick note about logistics from Joe.
Heather will help us get to know each other better and share some of her thought about about communicating better in a digital medium.
9:30 am ♦ Joe Welinske & Heather Gold ♦ Who Are We? An Interactive Mirror
We’ll present you with a series of questions about your background, interests, and thoughts on issues. Using your own interactive response device, you’ll beam your answers radio to the stage for an instant snapshot of our collective thinking.
10:30 am ♦ Erika Hall ♦ A Cross-disciplinary Approach to Content Clarity
See how a cross-disciplinary approach will help any user-experience team work with words to achieve greater clarity and avoid costly and frustrating misunderstandings and turf wars.
11:10 am ♦ Perspectives with Heather and Erika
The first of a series of interviews with our presenters. Heather will be talking to Erika Hall to dig a bit deeper about her background and interests.
11:50 am ♦ Nick Finck ♦ Big Picture UX
Nick goes back to the roots of what UX means and how we should approach UX challenges.
12:30 pm ♦ Networking Lunch with Heather
First you’ll enjoy a great lunch while finding out more about your table mates. Heather Gold will introduce you to tummeling, the practice of social engagement. She’ll “work the room” and help us find out more about each other and make connections.
1:45 pm ♦ Charlie Claxton ♦ The Rhetoric of Design
A keen understanding of the cognitive biases individuals have lurking in their subconscious minds can mean the difference between success and failure in the things you design. This presentation will delve into biases such as Authority and trust, Framing, and Operant conditioning.
2:25 pm ♦ Perspectives with Heather and Elisabeth
Heather’s afternoon guest will be Seattle native and technical book author and publisher Elisabeth Robson.
3:05 pm ♦ Breakout Sessions with Erika, Elisabeth, John, Jeremy, & Ted
Choose from one of the following 90-minute, in-depth workshops:
- Erika Hall, Creating Effective Interface Language
- Elisabeth Robson, Creating Instructional Content that is Brain-friendly + Ted Woodbery, UX for Connected Screens
- John Dirks, Optimizing Initial UX: Kinect for Xbox 360 + Jeremy Foster, Introduction to Windows 8 App Design and Tools
4:55 pm ♦ Mobile Scavenger Hunt
After hours takes us on an unusual tour of downtown Seattle. You’ll split into roving bands of searchers with mobile text messaging as your compass. You might have to choose between stopping for a beer at one of the check-ins or pushing forward for a chance at valuable prizes. In the end, we’ll all end up at the same place.
9:00 am ♦ Joe Welinske ♦ Welcome to Tuesday
Joe will give a short preview of the day’s activities.
9:10 am ♦ Carol Barnum ♦ Communicating with Users Around the World
This session explores some of the big ideas you will want to be aware of related to international communication, along with what we know about differences in users’ search patterns, Internet characteristics, and information architecture preferences.
9:50 am ♦ Perspectives with Joe and Carol
In this episode of Perspectives, Joe Welinske gets a chance to chat with Carol Barnum. We’ll find out about the changes she has seen in user experience and what she thinks we might be charged with doing in the coming years.
10:30 am ♦ Break-out Sessions with Carol, Vijay Kumar, John Nelson, and Luke
Choose from one of the following 90-minute, in-depth workshops:
- Carol Barnum, Content Strategy: How to Get It, How to Test It
- Vijay Kumar, Design Innovation Process and Methods
- John Nelson, A Platform Primer for Apps + Luke Adamson, Exploring the Design Tools for Apple’s iOS
1:15 pm ♦ Case Studies with Carol, Steve, and Huatong
Choose from one of the following 40-minute sessions:
- Carol Taylor, Cross-Platform Product Design – Rhapsody
- Steve Stegelin, A Graphical Approach to Help Info in a Mobile App – Blackbaud
- Huatong Sun, Integrating Action and Meaning through a Culturally Localized UX
2:25 pm ♦ Peter Lubbers ♦ HTML5 for a Better UX
This session takes us on a field trip to the Seattle Central Library auditorium. Peter will highlight the exciting developments with HTML5 that are improving the fidelity and capabilities of web apps, like touch interactions, drag and drop, offline activity, storage, geolocation, and more.
3:05 pm ♦ Seattle Central Library Tour
After Peter’s presentation, you have the option of taking an informative tour of the modern design of the Seattle Central Library. You can choose a guided tour or just explore on your own. You’re also welcome to just take some time for yourself to explore downtown Seattle before heading over to the lab tour and reception at Blink on the waterfront.
4:05 pm ♦ Usability Lab Tour at Blink
The staff at Blink welcome us to their waterfront office and take us on a tour of their usability labs. This is also the location for our reception.
5:00 pm ♦ Reception at Blink
Blink is generously hosting us at their waterfront office. Enjoy great views of Puget Sound, drinks, appetizers, and prize give-aways.
8:30 am ♦ Matthew Ellison ♦ Welcome to Wednesday
Matthew will provides us with his thoughts about what’s happened so far and ideas about way to keep the discussion going after we head for home.
8:50 am ♦ Luke Wroblewski ♦ Designing for Touch
In this session, Luke Wroblewski, author of Mobile First, will walk through the principles of designing for touch and how our applications need to adapt to a world of direct manipulation and touch input.
9:30 am ♦ Perspectives with Matthew and Luke
Matthew Ellison helps us find out a bit more about Luke Wroblewski’s current activities and interests.
10:10 am ♦ Dana Chisnell ♦ Rethinking User Research and Usability Testing for the Social Web
While the Web has evolved from flat documents to being fluidly ambient, we’re using user research methods from 1994. In this session, Dana presents 5 major issues confronting UXers working in the social web, challenges you to creative solutions, and shares experiences from pioneering researchers.
10:50 am ♦ Perspectives with Joe and Dana
Dana Chisnell’s ongoing work with the design of voting systems will be one of the topics Joe Welinske will ask about in this interview.
11:30 am ♦ Jared Spool ♦ The Curious Properties of Intuitive Web Pages
Jared will show you, in that entertaining way he has, how you can merge interaction design, visual design, information architecture, and other skills together to assemble pages that delight your users.
12:30 pm ♦ Networking Lunch
You’ll enjoy another networking lunch – this one with table topics of specific interest areas.
1:35 pm ♦ Workshops with Luke, Dana, and Joyce
Choose from one of the following 90-minute, in-depth workshops:
- Luke Wroblewski, Organizing Mobile Web Experiences
- Dana Chisnell, Persona Modeler: Revealing Who is Coming to Your Site
- Joyce Chou, Sensory Deprivation for Breakthrough Innovation
3:20 pm ♦ Joe Welinske and Matthew Ellison ♦ The Prediction Show
You’ll use the interactive responseware to vote on predictions for the future submitted by your peers. Prizes will be awarded for the predictions receiving the highest amount of support.
4:00 pm ♦ Joe Welinske ♦ Closing Comments and Prizes
Joe will wrap things up by awarding some final prizes, randomly selected. You must be present to win.