Partnering with push conference 2018 Munich – discount and goodies!

We are happy to announce that we are partners for the push conference 2018, taking place in Munich in October. We will therefore be giving away a discount for everyone who wants to attend.

Use the code push18oykFjSHuxvienna when ordering a ticket and get 10% off the regular price!

We will also give away the following goodies at our next meetup on September 11th at A1 (watch uxvienna.at for an announcement during the next days):

push conference 2018

For the 7th time now, more than 600 experience designers and creative technologists will meet this October in Munich at push conference to take a close look at all things interactive. As always, there will not just be talks and workshops but also a hands-on exhibition showcasing interactive projects from graduates and design studios all the way to companies like Bosch and BMW. And to continue the conversations during break time, there will be plenty easy going networking and side activities including a free Warmup night, Failure Slam and some more!

Highlights of this year

   

From Beautiful Maps to Actionable Insights

Shan He, who is a Senior Data Visualization Engineer at Uber, gives a glance at how her team creates live 3D data visualisation tools for the browser, that also help them understand their users and their business better.

Design in the Era of the Algorithm

What’s next is always the big question. Josh Clark will explore some of the possibilities to use machine-generated content, insight, and interaction as design material in everyday work. The challenges and opportunities of machine learning are plenty; learn to handle this powerful new design material with care and respect.

Creating a movement – How to make sure your ideas don’t die

As Design Tinkerer at Google, Adrian has experienced many times that good design and ideas don’t happen naturally. Adrian will share his recipe for how to transform the fragile idea of one person into a vision and a movement that unites and inspires a whole group to actually make things happen.

Experiment to innovate

Anders, Head of UX at Danish Broadcasting service, will show you how to escape tunnel vision and start focusing on building the right thing. The silver bullet is systematic and constant product testing. Anders will take the boring part out of testing and show you how easy it can be. He will reveal his playbook of cleverly thought out product experiments used by product builders at companies like Spotify, Booking.com, Facebook, Amazon, and Google and recommended by top universities like Havard, MIT, and Stanford.
Besides the talk you can also explore this topic deeper in his workshop on Oct. 18th.

And more

These talks are just a few of our 18 relevant and inspiring talks also covering

  • Making Research Usable
  • Embracing Friction
  • Designing Anticipatory Experiences
  • UI design outside the box automotive and physical interfaces
  • Animation in UI

A complete look at interactive design in 2018, really.

Munich calling

Join push conference on October 19–20 to connect to a keen and like-minded crowd of UX and IxD professionals from product teams like Mozilla, BMW or Bosch to visionary consultancies like frog, icon incar and IDEO as well as from aspiring startups.

Learn from a wide range of applied and visionary talks, acquire core skills in workshops and get inspired by a hands-on interactive exhibition while making new friends over delicious Bavarian beer and pretzels. Check out all the details at push-conference.com

 

164. UXvienna evening meetup (formerly interaction design stammtisch)

we meet at TourRadar this time!

tuesday, 14th of august 2018, 7pm
at tourradar, kärntner ring 5 (top 201-203), 1010 wien

due to limited seats, registration via meetup.com/UXvienna is required — and don’t forget to change your RSVP if you can no longer make it: people on the waitlist will thank you!

getting there:

we will continue with the new format:
7pm–9pm: short slots (30 min) for each topic
from 9pm: open discussions, get-together, focusing on previous topics

mini-talks for this meeting:

  1. agnes scherzer on “lean experiments: how to cheaply de-risk your product idea”
  2. nathan guo (@yellingbytes) on “UX landscape in China”

we are always looking foward to welcoming new people at the stammtisch … so: looking forward to seeing you on tuesday

Upcoming conference: WebExpo 2018 – September 21-23, Prague, Czechia

We are media partners of the Web Event of the year in the Czech Republic. WebExpo will bring this year 63 international and local experts from well-known companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Google or IBM among others, to share solutions on UX and Design Thinking, Web Development, AI & Machine Learning and AR/VR that you can learn through practical talks and 7 hands on workshops. Learn more in its program.

Some interesting speakers for us:

  • Dan Saffer – how do you find the best design opportunities the future of your organization? At Twitter, they’ve been using a combination of methods to plot out a set of possible futures for themselves, looking a few years into the future for product opportunities. He will explain their methodology and process so that we can use it in your work.
  • Val Head – 2018 is the year of Machine Learning. But, how does it affect the role of web designer and developer? Val will show to build AI-Driven features.
  • Douglas Powell He is a Distinguished Designer at IBM, directing the program to scale design and design thinking across the global tech company. He will present a discussion about how to measure the value of design for an organization.
  • Diamond Ho – Ever wonder how a designer at Facebook designs for 2 billion people around the world? It’s all about using design thinking methodology and working cross-functionally. In her session, she’ll make a (hypothetical) case study to learn about how they design product experience at Facebook.
  • Pamela Pavliscak Workshop – Emotionally intelligent design: If your smartphone could recognize when you have a bad day, wouldn’t use it? Pamela Pavliscak will teach at WebExpo how to prototype emotionally intelligent technology.

The organization informs that they will have different activities to encourage the networking such as workshops, meetings with speakers after each talk and meeting areas.

Thanks to this cooperation, we are going to give away one FREE Conference ticket to attend this event and provide a code with 10% off specially created for us: uxvienna (must be inserted in lowercase).

How to get a free ticket

At our August meetup we will give away the ticket to somebody who can answer the following question: Which speaker from WebExpo is the author of the book “Microinteractions”? (The answer is available on the conference website)

Hope to see you there.

Clive K. Lavery festival

for all viennese die-hard Clive K. Lavery-fans out there: he will soon be in town for 1 gratuitous talk and 2 valuable workshops!