Half Day Workshop (Morning)

ImprovUX is a series of fun and INTERACTIVE talks and workshops that apply the skills of Improvisation (listening, acceptance, support, collaboration, letting go of judgment, etc.) to the world of User Experience. User Experience relies on gathering qualitative data from our potential users through interviews, surveys, and other methods. In order to connect with users, we need to build trust and empathy as quickly and strongly as possible. During the…

In today's world, we’re dealing with ever expanding multi-device multi-screen multi-service ecosystems across multiple channels. Most of these ecosystem profiles have their own user behaviours, user needs, interaction models and design patterns. Amongst all that, we need to move away from our traditional methods, and learn new ones that enable us to better understand the big picture. In this half day workshop you’ll learn about the importance of initially focusing…

IA experience is wonderful preparation for product management, but the role of a product manager involves mastering additional skills related to software development, engineering, technical architecture, finding product-market fit, going to market, funnel optimization, revenue modeling, experimenting with hypotheses, managing products through lifecycles, sunsetting features, saying no to stakeholders, getting teams into alignment, and more. In this workshop, Christian will explain how IA skills provide a great foundation for product…

Taxonomy is one of those words we hear all the time in our work as experience designers. But what exactly is it? If you have little or no knowledge of taxonomy, this workshop is for you. This introductory workshop will explain what taxonomy is (and isn’t) and what role it plays in creating interactive experiences. We will start by reviewing taxonomy from the perspective of information science and then translate…