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Mastering the User Experience

Tuesday 23 March 2010
Amsterdam

Creating a predictable repeatable user experience process.

Mastering the User Experience (UX) is a unique seminar offering dedicated to helping you create outstanding User Experiences. The seminar sessions teach you a design process independent of development methodology but will deliver consistent quality results.
Mastering UX will teach you how to:

  • understand what UX means
  • gain control of the UX process
  • enable you to find your own workable end to end UX solution

These sessions meet head on the toughest barrier to creating successful user experience challenges.

Over the course of three days we look at:

  1. UX Strategy
    how can you determine the best UX strategy for your company or organization
  2. UX Design Processes
    creating a repeatable, manageable and predictable design process regardless of medium.
  3. Design Practice
    demystify the design and prototyping tools and methods into a manageable and dependable tactic.

Each Day follows the same two session format:

  1. Morning session: theory and tactics;
  2. Afternoon session: Master Class from attendee’s own work.
    • An intensive interactive session that focuses on cases brought by the attendees where lessons learned from the morning get applied to real life situations.
    • The Master classes may have separate sessions per interest group depending on the make up of the attendees;

Each session follows these quality standards:

  • Taught by domain specialists with a proven track record;
  • Concrete with real live examples;
  • Practical take always and immediately applicable to your daily work;
  • Development process independent (RUP, waterfall, agile or any other process);
  • Though each stand on their own, the sessions form an integrated whole.

The sessions are targeted to all involved in the development and design of software solutions from strategy to design to deployment. Software is interpreted broadly as any digital product or service on any platform (desktop, web, mobile, etc.) and irrespective of programming languages.

Overview
In this seminar you will learn how to:

  • Day one: create your own UX design strategy (What and Why)
  • Day two: create your own UX design process (How)
  • Day three: create your own effective prototyping practice (the means)

In short, by the end of this seminar you will have a solid foundation when it comes to User Experience Design. You will have concrete take always to turn the theory and ideas expressed into applicable actions and practices.

The seminar is divided in sessions that may stand on themselves but that form an integrated whole. They are designed so that people can get just the information they need. You can attend one two or all three days. Likewise you can attend either a full day or a half day.
The morning session includes all the material of the day, but the afternoon session is where for many the real benefit lies: the Master Class. Participants bring their own work, or issues and the course instructors discuss how to apply the morning theory into practice, emphasizing concrete steps. Everyone paying as a participant for the Master Class will get chance to have their situation discussed. This is the best and most direct way to gain the benefits and really learn by applying the lessons from the morning session directly to your work.