WebVisions is excited to announce that Luke Williams of frog design will deliver our opening keynote address on “Thinking the Unthinkable: How To Spark Disruptive Innovation.” Luke is a leading consultant, speaker, and educator in the area of innovation strategy and disruptive thinking. For more than a decade, he has worked internationally with industry leaders like Microsoft, American Express, Sony, Virgin, Disney, and Hewlett-Packard, to develop new products, services, brands, and business models.
Williams is a Fellow at frog design—one of the most influential innovation companies in the world—and an Adjunct Professor of innovation at NYU Stern School of Business. He speaks throughout the international community, and his opinions have been featured in BusinessWeek, Fast Company, and The Wall Street Journal. He is the author of the forthcoming book Disrupt! A Step-by-Step Guide to Transforming Your Business (FT Press, 2010).
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In her half-day workshop on “Design Strategy in a Nutshell: Connecting Design with Business Value,” Kate Rutter examines how good design alone isn’t enough to get great experiences out into the world. You need to be smart about how you start and finish as well. That’s where design strategy comes into play—ensuring that the design of products and services meets business needs, leverages your design opportunities (and abilities) and delivers real customer value.
The problem? Most businesses don’t have full-time design strategists waiting in the wings to pounce on problems as they arise. So as designers, we’re positioned to create the plans that connect user and business value. Designers are asked to bridge that gap almost every day, but knowing where to start when putting together a strategy can be tough, especially with all the other things competing for your time. The good news is that putting together a quick strategy on a shoestring isn’t as hard or complex as you may think.
Familiar with programming, but looking to make the jump into or get serious about iPhone development? In his half-day workshop on “Real World iPhone Development,” full time iPhone developer Collin Donnell will give tips, tricks, and share real world experiences on a wide variety of iPhone related development topics including app architecture, data persistence, creating custom controls, and more.
The workshop will also cover how to make best use of Apple’s development tools such as Xcode, Interface Builder, and Instruments. Attendees will also learn how to actually get your app ready for submission through iTunes Connect.
Do you have a great idea for an iPhone app with no idea how to make it a reality?
In their “iPhone Apps: From Concept to Launch” workshop, Small Society’s iPhone experts Raven Zachary and James Keller will walk you through the process of bringing your iPhone application to market—from the initial concept all the way through launch.
While the workshop does not cover iPhone programming, it will appeal to anyone with a good app idea, whether you’re an entrepreneur, web designer, developer, or just a passionate iPhone user.
iPhone developers will benefit from this workshop as Raven and James share best practices learned in the process of launching over a dozen iPhone apps ranging from some of the world’s biggest brands to the smallest startups.
The world of photography is changing at a rapid pace. Our traditional skills are no longer making the most sense because our format has begun to shift from print to online. In his half day workshop “Photography Tips from the New School“, fashion and music photographer Kris Krüg will provide practical insight on how to navigate in this online landscape.
Kris will discuss creating your own style through photo manipulation, publishing on multiple online channels, the changing faces of photography equipment and software, in addition to setting up the composition of a shoot and lighting techniques.
In a few hours, photographers of all levels will have the knowledge to navigate the online world with confidence! This workshop will also include a photowalk with Kris!
BTW, Kris is a fervent evangelist for open culture and creative commons licensing and frequently speaks at conferences and the media about the blurring lines between pro and amateur, shifting copyright standards and using technology to promote and share artistic work. Kris realizes art isn’t created in a vacuum and a vibrant community is key for culture to flourish – with this in mind, he organizes photowalks and workshops for newbies and veterans alike to encourage knowledge sharing and collaboration.
Web APIs are the building blocks of powerful social applications, and sites like Flickr and Twitter have created a real demand for them. All of the cool kids are using them, and you can learn Web API tips, tricks and secrets from Tom Hughes-Croucher, Senior Developer in Yahoo’s Open Strategy Group, for a half-day workshop on Mix-n-Match Web APIs.
Okay, here’s the scoop: Tom’s workshop will explores some core tools, such as the Twitter API, Google Maps, and YQL to create some amazing social experiences. After this workshop, participants will have knowledge to quickly build entire applications using only web services to prototype ideas, employing the vast range of web APIs available.
Tom will be a busy guy at WebVisions with sessions on “Let’s Run JavaScript Everywhere” and “Cloud Peering” with co-presenter Carlos Bueno.
Erin Malone is the founder of Tangible UX and has over 20 years of experience leading design teams and developing social experiences for the web. Prior to Tangible, she spent four years at Yahoo! where she founded the Yahoo! Pattern Library, and we’re excited that Erin will present a workshop on “Designing Social Interfaces” with her cohort, Christian Crumlish.
In their three-hour workshop, they’ll explore the landscape of social user experience design patterns and anti-patterns, focusing on the contexts in which specific interface designs work well and the unintended consequences that make some UI ideas seem like a good idea until they turn around and bite you in your app.
So, in brief: take their workshop, look smart and do great work.
The WebVisions team has been working mighty hard to assemble a great collection of half-day and full-day workshops with the likes of Erin Malone and Christian Crumlish, Christopher Schmitt and Kimberly Blessing, Kris Krug, David McFarland and more. And new for 2010, the workshops are available as package deals, all at exceptional prices.
Can you believe it’s December already? The program committee has started reviewing speaker submissions for WebVisions 2010 but you still have a few more weeks to send us your idea. Our emphasis this year is on Design, Technology, Business Strategy, and Innovation. This is a time for pragmatism as well as vision, so the presentation ideas that stand out include best practices and practical ideas that attendees can immediately integrate into their work. We’re also looking for big ideas that will guide the Web as we move rapidly into the future.
We’re pretty excited about new ideas in Web design, augmented reality, cloud computing, new ideas and practices in Web development and application development. Remember, this is not a social media conference. If you have a social media idea to submit, it had better tie directly to the four areas of emphasis above. WebVisions is a Web conference by Web people for Web people.
We are also accepting workshop proposals. These are half-day teaching opportunities in addition to the regular conference program. If you have an individual session, panel or workshop idea, submit it here and we will get back to you. The deadline is December 31st. We look forward to reviewing all of the good ideas out there and will bring the best of the best to Portland in May 2010.
