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Storyboarding 101: From Ideas to Narratives

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Kay Carmichael, Storyboard Artist and Teacher

Storyboarding is the hidden language behind filmmaking and animation. It’s more than just figuring out how to shoot the shot—it’s the skeleton structure of the visual story you’re trying to tell. Storyboarding uses design, writing and visual storytelling principles that can be applied to any field requiring an audience to buy into your story.

In this Master Class webinar, Storyboard Artist Kay Carmichael will take you through storyboarding as a writers tool, and how you can use this powerful artform as a writer, marketer, designer, creative-manager or director with minimal actual drawing knowledge. You’ll even learn how to deal with perspective like a pro boarder.

You'll learn:

  • Cinematography and how to choose shots.

  • Simple drawing tricks to get you to making worlds of your own.

  • The design languages of distance, scale and main characters.

  • How to make meaning and how to create narrative sequences with impact.

This Master Class is for anyone who wants to learn the ins and outs of storyboarding and would like to develop their own enaging narratives, whether for design, film, virtual reality and more.

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How to Fix UX Fails with Object-Oriented UX

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Sophia Prater, Lead UX Designer and Founder

Masking. Isolating. Breaking. Shapeshifting.

These UX mistakes lead to unnecessary complexity and user frustration, yet they're ubiquitous and insidious. You'll see these mistakes in products created by Google, Apple, Instagram, Airbnb and some of the biggest most "design-friendly" companies in the world. And if you are not paying attention, they are likely creeping into your design work, too.

Here’s the good news, they are super easy to fix—as long as you know how to recognize them! Join Lead UX Designer and OOUX Evangelist, Sophia Prater, to unpack several examples of masked, isolated, broken, and shapeshifting digital objects and how to make sure they are clear, connected, actionable, and recognizable. You will learn create systems that are easier to design, easier to build, and easier to use.

You'll learn

  • The basics of Object-Oriented UX through these four main principles, each one helping you prevent and fix these UX fails.
  • The cognitive science behind these fails.
  • How to spot and fix each of them.
  • The main ideas behind the ORCA framework—a process to synthesize research into a solid structure.

This Master Class is for:

  • UXers and digital product pros at all levels: newbie to UX Director. (If you are new to OOUX, there’s a 99% chance that the four UX principles taught in this session are going to be completely new to you, no matter your experience level.)
  • Anyone looking to save time and money while designing digital products.
  • Anyone looking to create more naturally intuitive and elegant digital products.

This session aims to be 100% actionable—you'll be able to put what you learn to use immediately, improving your design work today.

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Accessible and Inclusive Design Patterns

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Vitaly Friedman, Senior UX consultant, European Parliament, and creative lead, Smashing Magazine

When we contemplate accessibility, our minds often gravitate toward familiar considerations—such as color contrast, legible font sizes, and mobile tap targets. However, inclusive design transcends these apparent essentials, aspiring to craft accessible and inclusive experiences for all. Navigating the intricacies of inclusive design poses challenges, and it is crucial to discern and implement the right design choices early on to avert potential issues down the line.

How would you design for young children and older adults? What about users with dyslexia, color blindness or autism? How about left-handed users? And what do we need to keep in mind when designing mental health applications or LGBTQI-friendly forms?

In this practical Master Class webinar, Vitaly Friedman will take a deep dive into design guidelines, numerous real-life examples, best practices, and guidelines for truly inclusive, universal and accessible design.

You’ll learn:

  • How to design for children and older adults.
  • How to consider neurodiversity and autism.
  • How to design for people with dyslexia or dyscalculia.
  • How to design with left-handed users in mind.
  • Design patterns for inclusive forms.

Join this webinar to add new practical techniques to your design toolbox that you can apply to any project.

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The Importance of Emotional Intelligence in UX

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Darren Hood, UX Designer, Author, Speaker and Podcaster

For years the field of UX has focused on methods, methodologies, techniques, artifacts, and deliverables. We have learned, however, that truly successful UX is not just about the work. The ability to interact, relate, and exchange with team members, stakeholders, clients, and leadership has proven to be even more important in some cases. For these reasons, the importance of soft skills (and more specifically, emotional intelligence or EQ) has become increasingly critical.

You'll learn:

  • The challenges and issues EQ can help you overcome as a UX professional.
  • How EQ can impact your projects.
  • How EQ helps optimize relationships with stakeholders and teammates.
  • The benefits EQ in personal and professional growth.
  • Key EQ red flags that serve as identifiers for self growth or in one's teams.

You’ll leave this Master Class with a sound understanding of EQ, its role in UX and and its importance to practitioners and the discipline-at-large.

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Design Patterns for AI UX

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Vitaly Friedman, Senior UX consultant, European Parliament, and creative lead, Smashing Magazine

When we think of AI products, we often think of text prompts. We envision a single text box, which we populate with context, keywords, pointers, guidelines, modes and references. However, a text box isn’t an effective design pattern for complex input. How can we elevate the UX of AI? Which design patterns can expedite users toward their objectives more efficiently?

In this session with Vitaly Friedman, creative lead and UX designer working with the European Parliament, we’ll look into design patterns for a better AI user experience. You’ll learn:

  • AI presets
  • Contextual suggestions
  • Temperature knobs
  • Invisible clustering
  • and much more!

Join this Master Class webinar to learn design patterns for AI that you can apply to your work right away.

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Job opportunities for people with design skills are increasing like never before (an estimated 13% increase from 2010 to 2020). And UX designer salaries are soaring—upwards of $110K in cities like San Francisco and New York.

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