Schedule

written by Jess McMullin

Like Barcamp, UX Camp is an open format.  We’ll have a schedule where you can sign up to present in a 20 minute slot about anything you like about user experience, design, and innovation. We’ve chosen to add some structure around the user experience cyle of U.S.E.

  • Understand
    How to your define the problem you face? How to you generate empathy and insight? How do you use tools like observation, interviews, and field research to inform design and strategy? How do you understand the hopes, needs, dreams and desires of people? (both users, and business stakeholders). Where are there opportunities for innovation? What will create value?
  • Solve
    Once you’ve defined a problem, how do you solve it? Lofi sketching & prototyping? Modeling? Flows? Wireframes? 37Signals Getting Real? Agile? Or does Agile suck? Let us know in a Solve Session.
  • Evaluate
    As you come up with solutions, how do you tell if you’re on track? Design Review & Critique? Usability testing? Web Analytics? ROI? Pure gut feel & intuition? How do you know your solution works? How do you know where you need to do better? Do you have a product or design you want evaluated or reviewed? This is the place for that (and we’ve got some ideas for providing UX feedback for more than just one or two products, too).

The day is roughly going to look like this, with breaks and lunch (lunch is on your own).

START END ACTIVITY
8:30 9:00 Registration
9:00 9:30 Introduction
9:30 10:00 Adding sessions
10:00 10:30 First Panel – Understand
10:20 Coffee Available
10:30 11:00 Open sessions
11:00 11:30 Second Panel – Solve
11:30 12:00 Open Sessions
12:00 1:00 Lunch
1:00 1:15 Prize Giveaways
1:15 1:45 Third Panel – Evaluate
1:45 2:15 Open Sessions
2:15 2:30 Session Wrap-up and Review
2:30 Coffee Available
2:30 3:00 Speed Geeking
3:00 4:00 Design Slam on Existing Apps
4:00 4:30 Review & Goodbye

As well as our breakout rooms, there are comfy couches and tables in the lobby where you can carry on a more personal conversation if none of the sessions right then are right for you.