Digitized Digital Design Conference 2018

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 November 1st.

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

Full-price Conference Tickets will be available on Thursday, November 1st onwards.

About the workshop:
Designing a good digital product or experience is not as hard as it seems. The key to its success is to use modern methodologies and tools to help you along the way. Our workshop is divided into three sections, which represent three key disciplines of the digital design space: business, UX and branding.

About the hands-on exercise:
Improve the home experience! We will have fun discussing and working on a “better home experience” app.
We are going to start by understanding how business objectives can be aligned with design thinking to define a strategy that will allow an idea to become a successful product or service. We are going to create innovative concepts that address the end user’s needs and goals following a user-centered approach. And finally, we are going to bring our ideas to life with beautiful design solutions with a strong branding background.

About the team

ignota.io is a newly founded Service Design team based in Athens. We blend strategy, research, creativity and technology to create digital customer experiences that build on real business objectives and make users’ lives better. We are a multitalented, multidiscipline team of thinkers, designers, project managers and UX specialists, each of us expert in their field, passionate about everything new and curious by nature.

Important: You must purchase separate tickets if you want to attend a workshop and our main conference.

Agile Actors
UX Design in Agile Workshop

Integrating Agile and UX design

How can a UXer nowadays work his/her way into the Agile world?

As things move forward in product development, Agile has become the most popular software-development methodology. In this workshop, we will learn how to integrate Agile and UX design, by evolving the process of digital product creation.

But first things first; what is Agile methodology and what’s in it for us?

We will understand the Agile world (scrum, MVP, product backlog, user stories, sprints, scrum events, roles, etc) and deconstruct its principles in order to embrace what lies beneath. Lampros, one of our most experienced Delivery Leads, will join us for hands on agile practices and fruitful debates.

And what about User Experience Design (UXD)?

How can we use UX tools & methods optimised for Agile development? There is no playbook, but what we have in our Sport Billy bag is a set of tools, artefacts and practices that will help us integrate UX into the Agile world.

And then there is also Business.

You will learn how to excel in whiteboarding (not sketching, we’ll explain) and product envisioning before user stories, while being open to different perspectives and iterative problem-solving. We will also identify all these external factors - mainly strategic and organisational - that a UXer can moderately control and we will brainstorm together on an action plan through a group coaching session.

And when it’s time to call it a day, you will be in the position of feeling confident when being part of a Scrum team or interacting from various roles within an organisation applying Agile practices.

So, get ready for hands-on experience through co-working, interesting debates with the “dark side” and a little bit of coaching.

About Alicia, Konstantina and Lampros

Alicia is a Design Engineer, currently working for Piraeus Bank as UX/UI Lead. She is also UX/UI Chapter’s Leader and an active coach for 5 professionals. She considers herself an advocate of user needs towards providing genuinely usable UIs, while working on achieving business goals. Specializing in Banking, Travel and eCommerce, she has worked on numerous web and mobile projects. Over the past 4 years, she practices Agile from different roles.

Konstantina is a Design Engineer, currently working for Piraeus Bank as a UX Designer. Over the past 4 years she has worked with co-located and distributed agile teams, designing applications for Banking, Insurance and Social Networking. She loves exploring how UX processes may adapt in different environments. She is a nerd who enjoys mighty brain teasers and loves spending time on well-thought artefacts or evolving team’s tools and processes.

Lampros is a senior member of the Agile Coaches’ Chapter, carrying several years of experience in Agile and non-agile environments. His primary focus is helping people, teams and organizations achieve Business Agility with high performing results, one step at a time. He tries to continuously experiment using various processes and practices. His previous experience is mostly on the Financial industry having delivered many IT projects, from the early stages of the Inception phase down to final Project Delivery and maintenance.

About Agile Actors #experience

Agile Actors is an ecosystem for the ambitious and talented tech professional. From setting meaningful personal goals to getting personal coaching, it helps the “actor” find his/her next career dot and deliver value to the real world. Agile Actors’ teams of engineers offer state-of-the-art software development services to clients from all over the world. 

Agile Actors’ UX/UI Chapter consists of 17 multi-disciplinary professionals; UX & UI Designers, UX Analysts, UX Researchers, UX Writers, etc. Constituting the largest UX/UI team in Greece, our chapter’s professionals work in cross-functional teams for different clients, bringing knowledge from/to different industries, i.e. Banking, Travel, Insurance, Gaming, Retail, etc. Our team involves in the product development process from early stages (product envisioning) to after-launch (optimisation and iterative shipping of new features).

Workshop language: Greek
Date:Sunday, November 25th, 2018
Time: 10:00 to 17:00

Welcome to a new era of design tools, where you the designer, can work and collaborate seamlessly for a faster product delivery.

In your quest for a more efficient workflow, Sketch will help you by giving you the power, flexibility and speed you always wanted in a lightweight and easy-to-use package. With useful features, an intuitive interface and powerful plugins built by a community of developers, it helps you focus on what you do best.

What will you learn in the workshop?

Our biggest task for this workshop is to build a complete iPhone app. During this process we will cover the following topics
* Basic Sketch UI and tools
* What Symbols are and how to use them
* How to use Libraries
* Basic prototyping within Sketch
* How we can use plugins to speed up our workflow
* How to export our work
* Developer handoff with Zeplin

As Sketch is exclusive for macOS, you need to bring your own MacBook and have installed the free trial beforehand from sketchapp.com.

About Lamprini, Katerina and Pavlos

Photoshop, Illustrator, Sketch, HTML, InVision -- a designer can select one of many tools and technologies to visualise ideas and concepts and hand-off mockups with more ease and speed than in the past. The design industry is evolving and new tools are being launched every day changing the setups of traditional design.

Where do designers stand in this landscape of toolset novelty? Should design be related to the certain skill of a utility or is it something else?

In these changing times, it's reasonable to say that design is further associated with thinking, system modelling, and architecture -- principles which differentiate future designers and creatives from today’s practitioners. Moreover, by establishing design as a process to address complex problems a designer can work freely, outside the constraints of a software and application.

In this workshop, we will design of course but without Photoshop, Illustrator or Sketch (it won’t hurt if you have any of that pre-installed). Alternately we will explore the privilege of using a modest spreadsheet and some paper to investigate, document, and -- yes actually -- design and iterate the onboarding flow of a mobile application.

With these primitive tools -- a simple spreadsheet that is not designated for visual design and some pieces of paper -- we’ll have the chance to stimulate our design thinking, creativity and adaptiveness and take a step back from visual representation to design intention and modelling. We’ll apply some popular design methods along the way, and see what can one do differently depending on factors such as company structure, agile methodology, team size, and resources.

By the end of the workshop, you’ll be able to apply various tactics to better synthesise solutions that can adapt any stack, scale in any infrastructure, drawn by any software, and most significantly understood by your team, manager, and clients.

About George

George is a product designer and UX architect leading the design team at Transifex. He holds a BA in Graphic Design and Diploma in Mass Media Communication and for years worked in all stages of design and visual communication, from advertising, print & digital design and frontend development.

His design philosophy empathises with users perception and emotions and in his work, he systematically uses diagrams, data models, user scenarios and stories, visual prototypes, documentation, and many other techniques in order to investigate problems and use cases and synthesise solutions. He is an advocator of simplicity, visual balance, and inventiveness and believes that it’s time to inject some wit and humour into the creative industry because as he says “we’re tending to become too rigid and cumbersome which leads to nowhere”.