What if you could learn in two days how to significantly improve the user experience of your apps? Not by becoming a visual designer who chooses cool colors – instead, by understanding users better, and crafting interactions, experiences, and visualizations that will make them faster and more satisfied with the software you build.

Almost all developers can learn the basics of designing good user interactions and data visualizations. Using the techniques and processes in this two-day workshop, you'll be on your way to designing clearly better applications than you do today. You won't become an award-winning designer, but you will see lots of ways to make apps more productive, with fewer errors, to require less training, and need less technical support. In short, you will see how even basic UX design can significantly increase the value of your apps. You'll see many of the scientific principles behind good design and learn a lightweight process for doing interaction design. You'll also experience several hands-on exercises to let you try out these techniques and processes, and learn from your own experience and the experience of other workshop attendees.

Plus, you'll have fun along the way. What other workshop will feature pink flamingos, Mr. Meeseeks, asteroids, moon-walking bears, Creepy Watson, and a developer snorting code off the screen? Come ready to learn the principles and processes of basic UX design and seal in those concepts with some hands-on exercises. You'll have some fun and walk away with some tangible ways to make your users' lives better.

Attendee Requirements:

Attendees will need blank paper (copier paper will do) and pencils for sketching. A pen will do in a pinch, but pencils are preferred. You will also need a device to take pictures of your work and forward them to the instructor during the workshop.