Digitized Digital Design Conference 2016

The first 100 tickets of Digitized 2016 are available at this amazing Super Early Bird rate. First come first served basis. Grab them as soon as you can, because they always sell out in no time.

Phase 1 of the early bird tickets (33% discount) will commence as soon as the Super Early Bird tickets sell out and will be valid for 100 tickets, on a first come - first served basis

Phase 2 of the early bird tickets (18% discount) will commence as soon as the Early Bird Ticket / phase 1 tickets sell out and will be valid until Suptember 15th.

Students, the unemployed and members of EDEE and GDA are entitled to a 25% discount. Please send proof of the relevant document (student id, membership no, etc) by email to: mail@graphopress.com

Full-price Conference Tickets will be available from September 15th onwards.

Matina Dimitriadou, Kimon Karavas
Human Robot Interfaces Workshop

Undergoing the 4th industrial revolution - the rise of cognitive machines (sic) – individuals are getting familiar with user interfaces that allow them to interact with artificial intelligence in various screen form factors. From chatbot agents to humanoid robots our interaction with AI is becoming more and more immersive.
In this scope, we will follow the evolution of human computer interfaces from command line, to graphical and eventually to physical world UIs. Furthermore, we will explain how messaging and low graphics communication that started from mobile consumed the world and turned into a global platform in the scale of billions. Voice communication, messaging, humanoid robots, haptics, gestures, biometrics, context, location and many other emerging technologies that put together a sci-fi ecosystem of unlimited ways of information consumption.

Join the Human Robot Interfaces Workshop by the Warply Design Team and learn how to build interfaces that will hands down pass any Turing test our there!

Workshop day includes:
1. Evolution of human computer interfaces
2. Introduction to immersive interfaces and humanoids (Messaging, Voice, Gestures,
3. AR, VR, agents, robotics, humanoids)
4. Live demo of AI interfaces
5. Designing workshop on 3 creative briefs for travel, banking and CPGs industry
6. Projects presentations, evaluation and feedback

Matina Dimitriadou:

Matina is an award winning designer, currently working as a Lead UI/UX designer at Warply. She is a highly creative designer, who delivers innovative and effective design solutions. Her skills cover many aspects of graphic design, while she specializes in Web/UI Design. Her studies on Graphic Design at Vakalo Art & Design and Business Administration at University of Macedonia helps her deeply understand the needs and purpose of each brand and transform ideas and words into inspiring and engaging experiences, that captivates users. A passionate digital designer, Matina has created cool digital stuff for important accounts such as Eurobank, Nestlé Hellas, AB Vassilopoulos, Municipality of Athens, NBG Insurance, etc.

Kimon Karavas:

Kimon is a creative thinker, an innovative designer and visual artist and he is passionately dedicated to the field of UX/UI design. Thanks to his artistic nature and his academic and professional experience, he has raised a strong passion for the field of web and graphic arts that truly inspires him. He is a lover of simplicity and he always try to accomplish and deliver innovative and effective solutions in any project. His academic experience (BA Fine Arts & Art Sciences – University of Ioannina, MA Design Arts – Uclan University of London) makes him passionate both for Web and Mobile and always eager to deliver innovative and engaging digital solutions.

Kimon is currently working at Warply and has formed numerus mobile applications, websites, campaigns and logos for major clients, such as Nestlé Hellas, Nobacco, National Bank of Greece, Heineken, CNN, Adidas, etc.

Warply:

Warply is a leading European company in Mobile Marketing, multi - awarded for its innovative solutions and projects. Always striving for perfection, Warply aims to offer technology, innovation and profound mobile knowledge, to bring advanced omni-channel digital experiences! Clients and projects including Nestlé Hellas, Heineken, Delhaize, Unilever, National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, CNN, Athinorama, Vivartia, NBG Insuranse, AT&T, Cosmote, Germanos Stores, Adidas and many more.

During the last 4 years, Warply has won numerous awards proving the team’s passion and dedication to create unique and innovative loyalty mobile applications and mobile solutions.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens

Gert Tzafa,
Multidisciplinary Design Workshop

What does the term “multidisciplinary design” mean and how it applies on a 360° ad campaign? A multidisciplinary designer is the designer that leads all the campaign’s visual design process, from the landing page’s web design and banners till the smallest icon.

In this workshop we’ll work through various exercises and awarded 360° campaigns case studies to understand the meaning of multidisciplinary designer (no, he is not the guy for all the jobs) and the importance of his role in an agency. Will learn why nowadays a designer must have a strategic thinking as well as the importance of visual usability; not only in a website, but in each platform we use in a 360° campaign.


Gert Tzafa:

Gert is an award winning Art Director based in Athens, currently working at OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens. Over the past 10 years, he had the privilege to work for clients such as Mondelez, Aegean Airlines, OPAP, Vodafone, BMW and Cosmote.

He is passionate about his work and he is always trying to bring to life a good idea with design that people will love to interact with.


OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens:

OgilvyOne Athens brings together big ideas and data insights to create compelling personal experiences that help clients win more customers and make them more valuable. OgilvyOne Athens is the most awarded agency in Greece having won international recognition at the Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards, the One Show, the London International Awards, the New York Festivals, the Webby Awards and the International IAB MIXX Awards.

During the last 8 years, it has won more than 300 Ermis Awards in Greece's annual advertising festival, including 23 Grand Ermis and has been named both Digital and Direct Agency of the year in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens

Giorgos Ampavis, Harris Rodis,
Mobile Design Workshop

What is the ideal workflow for designing a mobile app? For as many designers as there are in the world, there are as many answers to this question.

This is even more profound now than ever when apps are designed for numerous platforms and devices, using an increasing variety of tools and processes. Seemingly simple questions like the following ones can sometimes become daunting for many of us, and - when we don’t work alone - they can lead to some intense conversations with our colleagues. Where should we start a project? Which programs and services should we use for each phase of the process? How do we collaborate with our team? What should our deliverables look like? How do we test and evaluate our designs?

This workshop hopes to bring some peace of mind to its open-minded participants. We will not provide definitive answers that supposedly work for everyone in every case. However, we will critically examine the most popular tools and processes out there. We’ll discuss what has worked for us in terms of productivity, efficiency and teamwork. And through a series of carefully selected practical examples, we intent for each one to create, compare and refine their own personal workflows. And above all, keep their sanity!


Giorgos Ampavis:

Giorgos is a geek by nature, a coder and a technologist. He is passionate about technology, coding, mobile applications and lean startups and he is always keen on learning new technologies, experimenting and finding cool solutions for his projects. A huge supporter of clean and well-designed code and an admirer of beautiful design that complements it, he is always striving to create pixel perfect interfaces.

Harris Rodis:

Harris spends most of his days staring at screens. As a designer he specialises in user experience and interactive design for the last 8 years. He has worked in the advertising industry for popular brands like Aegean, Wind and Redbull. At present, he focuses on helping ambitious startups in Greece and abroad turn their ideas into products, bring them to the market and make people’s lives a little better.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens

Chryssa Gagosi,
Digital Product Design Workshop

Understanding the value and limitations of the design process is key to changing the way that a designer brings solutions and ideas to life.

Digital product design may vary from web sites to applications and e-shops as well as software and digital installations. The ability of the designer to grasp the "big picture", to understand user behaviour, be aware of the technology and ask the necessary questions, can be the deal maker -or breaker - in most cases as to whether a product succeeds or not. Within a design-centric organisation or a small start-up, designers often are brought in from the early stages of a product development or can in some cases own the original concept.

The workshop demonstrates the role of a designer from the birth of an idea to its transformation to either a service, software or product. Through various exercises and by using a lot of imagination, we will enable you to understand the big picture and how strategy, user personas, research, interaction, usability and motion come together to create passionate users. Hard topics with respect to defining the minimum viable product, living with imperfections and sticking to deadlines will also be at the centre of this workshop.


Chryssa Gagosi:

Chryssa is a Greek award-winning designer, always looking for the next project that will provoke her to be better, to know more and to work with new people. With more than 15 years of experience in various fields of digital design, she had the privilege of working with amazing companies like Unilever, Kit Kat, L'Oreal, Wind, Nestle, Philips, Perrier, Bacardi, OPAP, Crunch, Opel, Cosmote, Village, Siemens, Power Health and for some unique and upcoming start-ups.

Currently B.A. Digital Design Pathway Leader at Vakalo Art & Design College teaching Digital Design, UX|UI & New Software, Creative Director at "The Flying Pot" agency and serving her peers as a jury member at awwwards.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens

Yiannis Konstantakopoulos,
Front-end for Designers Workshop

Your favourite CMS will never create the best HTML & CSS code. You will.

While it is easy to let things flow and depend on pre-written code you must be able to know the ins and outs of HTML & CSS because this will be the backbone of your project. And it is equally crucial to learn how to sustain the health of your codebase.

This workshop will cover the core principles of HTML & CSS and not only. It will touch areas such as Web Standards, Semantics, and Accessibility. Furthermore, it will guide you through the best CSS practices for desktop and mobile and emerging layout modes such as Flexbox. Last but not least, it will help you define the tools and resources that work best for you.

This workshop will be focused on quality, not on quantity. By the end of it you will be a more efficient, agile and independent front-end developer armed with a certain philosophy guiding your projects.


Yiannis Konstantakopoulos:

Yiannis is a UI & UX designer and front-end developer for many many years now. He was one the core members of ILG, a part of The Web Standards Project which aimed to promote the global use of standards to ensure an equitable Web. Though a frivolous writer, his articles have been published in books and Web magazines, such as Smashing Magazine.

A rationalist by nature, he remains an avid learner and strives to meet people smarter than him, which between you and me, is not that hard. He controls entropy via typography and colors, tunes and morning running.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens

Katerina Karagianni, Alicia Konstantourou,
UX Methods Workshop

Understanding the value and limitations of the design process is key to changing the way that a designer brings solutions and ideas to life.

Digital product design may vary from web sites to applications and e-shops as well as software and digital installations. The ability of the designer to grasp the "big picture", to understand user behaviour, be aware of the technology and ask the necessary questions, can be the deal maker -or breaker - in most cases as to whether a product succeeds or not. Within a design-centric organisation or a small start-up, designers often are brought in from the early stages of a product development or can in some cases own the original concept.

The workshop demonstrates the role of a designer from the birth of an idea to its transformation to either a service, software or product. Through various exercises and by using a lot of imagination, we will enable you to understand the big picture and how strategy, user personas, research, interaction, usability and motion come together to create passionate users. Hard topics with respect to defining the minimum viable product, living with imperfections and sticking to deadlines will also be at the centre of this workshop.


Katerina Karagianni:

Katerina is a Usability geek and founder and Director of UXlab. In 2008, along with her two business partners, she co-founded Linkwise, the first Greek Affiliate Network, which has grown to become the leading performance marketing network in the region.

She is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on all things UX and has served as Secretary General of GRECA, the Greek e-Commerce Association.

She is a graduate of the University of Athens Communications & Mass Media Department and holds a Master’s Degree in Advertising & Marketing from Leeds University Business School, from where her final dissertation was published in Public Relations Review.


Alicia Konstantourou:

Alicia is a Design Engineer and an experienced UX professional with a multidisciplinary academic and working background. She considers herself an advocate of user needs towards providing genuinely usable UIs, while working on achieving business goals. Specializing in Travel and eCommerce, she has worked on numerous web and mobile projects from different roles.

Thinking UX for more than a decade, she is always eager to share her way of thinking and discuss her passion through talks, presentations, trainings and workshops.

She is a proud member of UXlab as a Senior UX Analyst.


UXlab:

UXlab is an Atcom Business Unit and is the only consultancy in Greece specializing exclusively in Usability and User Experience. We deliver strategy, research and testing across all aspects of the user experience, offering among other things: UX strategy, Conversion Rate Optimization, Persona Development, Wireframing, User Testing, Tree Testing, AB Testing, Card Sorting, Personalization Strategy and more.

Clients and projects include Aegean Airlines, OTE, Winbank, IKEA, Praktiker, Kotsovolos, This is Athens and many more.

Workshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens