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Every session is different! Here’s what we’re up to every week:
Weekly overview
Week
Session Location
Activities Master
Description
Type
Week 1
7
Friday, October 14th, 11am-1pm - Building 026, Room 104
4
Bad UI Battles
There’s some real crappo designs floating around out there. Let’s have a laugh together and dissect.
Activity
First off, Zander Whitehurst appreciation
A quick word about the king of UX resources and tutorials. SUPAFAST!
How-to
Components Crash Course
Components make your life easier. But don’t just take our word for it. (Actually, yes take our word for it) We’ll teach you what, where, why, how— all of the question words!
How-to
A small button for a huge thing
A payment service in Ukraine wants to make a universal, recognizable, multi-language button for customers to donate money while making a purchase.
Design Challenge
Sunday, October 16th, 3pm-5pm - Building 03 (College of Business), Room 111
3
Design Debates
Once and for all, we’ll decide: Chrome or Safari? Lyft or Uber? iOS or Android? Fight it out, designers! (not to the death, we hope)
Activity
Crazy 8’s
Quick! Make 8 versions of a design in 8 minutes.
Activity
I’m more than just a pretty face
Create the “first encounter” card state for a dating app that wants to de-emphasize profile pictures and instead their personalities. Create multiple examples of one version with components.
Design Challenge
Week 2
8
Friday, October 21st, 11am-1pm - Building 034, Room 227
6
UX Designers are dangerous. (Ethics in UX)
Yep, we said it. We’ll give you the report on what ethics in UX is all about, show you some evidence, and you’ll decide if the UX designer is a danger to society...
Activity
Happy (UX) Pride / Story iterations
Channel your inner comedy writer by building on each other’s story ideas, using post-it notes (rainbow style).
Activity
Brand theft Auto
The old owner of a driving school died in a car accident with a wayward student. Now the new owners of the driving school wants to rebrand, emphasising its safety and that nobody, I mean nobody, has died before… Re-structure the existing boring home page copy of a driving school, introduce new copy, emphasising its new message.
Design Challenge
Sunday, October 23rd, 3pm-5pm - Building 03 (College of Business), Room 111
2
Playing with Design Systems
Ever played with Legos? Well we’ve got something better— and free! We’ll take you through what design systems are, how to work with them, while having a ton of fun!
How-to
Paint me like one of your French girls
Design the sign up flow for a voice-based translation app with a visual personality using a design system.
Design Challenge
Week 3
6
Friday, October 28th, 11am-1pm - Building 026, Room 104
3
Deconstructing constructive feedback
We want to make good designs while avoiding hurting anybody’s feelings. Let’s deconstruct and discuss.
Activity
Auto-layout is your friend
We’re teaching you everything you need to know about auto-layout, and we’ll give you some space to play around!
How-to
Dancing in the Dark
Make a playlist screen for a web-based music app. Set up a mini-design system in dark mode and use auto-layout for everything!
Design Challenge
Sunday, October 30th - Building 03 (College of Business), Room 111
3
The Animations Zoo
Advanced animations! Every cool thing you want on your portfolio!
How-to
Prototype and Animate
A comprehensive lesson on how to link your designs and make them move!
How-to
Skip, skip, SKIP
Design a “currently playing” screen, with lyrics animations, for a karaoke music app, but with ads.
Design Challenge
Week 4
5
Friday, November 4th, 11am-1pm - Building 026, Room 104
2
Pro Panel: Cross-functional
A cross-functional function: we’ve gathered a user researcher, product designer, software engineer, AND product manager to tell us why they (sometimes) don’t like working with each other, and how they can make it better.
Activity
Where’s my hair?
Users are having trouble finding their hairstlyes when they book hair appointments using a salon’s appointment booking platform. Create a feature that makes this part of the user journey accessible for everyone.
Design Challenge
Sunday, November 6th, 3pm-5pm - Building 03 (College of Business), Room 111
3
Plugin Pow-wow
Showcasing a bunch’a plugins that will save your life!
How-to
Portfolio roast and toast
We’ll be roastin’ and toastin’ portfolios from Iter8, and around the world!
Activity
Franken-design
(+Double Diamond lecture) Sometimes designers come up with great things at random. We will use to randomly generate a design prompt!
Design Challenge
Week 5
5
Friday, November 11th, 11am-1pm TBD location (Veterans holiday)
4
Pro Panel: Case Studies
Case studies. Such a broad concept. Our panelists, each from different sectors of the UX world, will guide us through how to make your UX case study more you.
Activity
How to date coders 101 (Communicating with your career spouses, the coders)
UX Designers and coders should have a healthy relationship. How do you communicate your needs to coders? How do we use Figma to make everyone’s lives easier? Let’s find out.
How-to
UX is truly everywhere, even in IKEA
Using IKEA’s existing brand guidelines, make multiple versions of a price tag that also includes an image and a QR code for AR.
Design Challenge
Sunday, November 13th, 3pm-5pm - Building 03 (College of Business), Room 111
1
A special surprise...
For now, we’re calling it the UX Fest x Iter8 Happy Hour... but we can’t spoil the surprise just yet ;)
Activity
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