Keynotes on the conferences that took place in the first part of April: Open Vis, Grow Conference, The Marketing Nation Summit, Converge SE, Lean UX , Generate
My brain just lit up with ideas from these conferences as they treat different problems, small and large business experiences.
April 6-7: Open Vis Conf
All sessions from the conference are available online, the videos and the slides – pretty cool, huh?
We liked the presentations on web and mobile from:
Jim Vallandingham – So you think you can scroll (scrollytelling)
Lena Groeger – That’s the power of loops
Presentation on visualisation tools – Jeffrey Heer (how might we create visualisations: Excel and other Doc Types, graphics with code in Java Script) and Adam Perer (What is the role of visualisation in prediction?)
Presentation on usablity
Ramik Sadana – A bit about touch
April 7-9: Grow Conference
The 2 speakers who garnered the most attention were Jessica Alba and Daymond John (with notes on his speech). Here you can access the talks from #GROWCO
Pricing is 20% strategy/numbers, 80% customer psychology. #GROWCO15#entrepreneurs#sales
— Christine, Ink. (@Christine_Ink) April 7, 2015
Best way to research for your biz: Ethnographic research….how are people actually using your service? @jgebbia@Airbnb#GROWCO15#incvets — TutorsbyBase (@TutorsbyBase) April 8, 2015
Top 15 takeways from Industry Experts via Spark Business IQ
April 13-15: The Marketing Nation Summit
From the more of 100 top sessions, we present you the top 10. Here are 5 inspiring lessons from day 2 of mktgnation Here are more presentations: Data Quality Bootcamp – Inga Romanoff How to create a brand persona on social media – Peg Fitzpatrick Keynotes on marketing trends from Matt Heinz Keynotes on the presentation Why modern marketing is like math – Sal Khan The top 6 takeaways from Arianna Huffington’s #MKTGNation Summit Keynote Create beautiful responsive emails and landing pages – Pierce Ujjainwalla 4 marketing themes that dominated the summit Takeways from Marketing Nations
April 15-18: Converge SE 2015
Some of our favourite presentations are: Beyond Static: Design Deliverables – Lea Alcantara CSS Lessons Learned the Hard Way – Zoe Gillenwater React.Js Basics – Robert Pearce Making Credit Card Forms Beautiful – Justin Woo We Will All Be Game Developers – Hunter Loftis Kill all passwords – Jonathan LeBlanc Desigining Today’s Web – Jeremy Loyd Element Queries – Patrick Fulton
April 15-19: LeanUX NYC 2015
John Shook on Learning Organizations An API between us – Presentation byJessica DeVita on rethinking email in your organization How to fuck up respect for people and really piss off your employees – Jez Humble The build trap – Mellisa Perri (see the best slide, 46-> If we launch this product, I expect KPI, to increase/decrease by X% in this amount of time) A really smart and useful bibliography from #leanux on power, syntax, systems and shetlets by Will Evans Important to keep in mind
I can’t emphasize enough how important this slide from @brantcooper is #LeanUX15pic.twitter.com/hyAoUp4irK — Jez Humble (@jezhumble) April 15, 2015
Building organizations that learn to learn – John Shook Flow of product quality – Matt Barcomb Unifying design and operations – Jeff Sussna Getting started with lean product development – Selena Hadzibabic Kanban for DevOps & the Value of Lean Flow – Dominica DeGrandis Keynotes on Jim Benson’s presentation – Trust is a platitude, Rapport is a system
April 16-18: LonestarPhp – Dallas, TX (PHP)
Some podcast recordings frm the conference and more here
April 17: Generate Conference – New York
Web Designer to Motion Designer – Val Head Designing for performance (good performance is good design) – Lara Hogan‘s presentation & great info on image formats Left To Their Own Devices: The Real Mobile Experience – Pamela Pavliskac On design
How do your design decisions affect users? 5mb can cost people in some countries 20% of their daily income – Katie Kolvacin, #generateconf — net magazine (@netmag) April 17, 2015
“A good designer who can sell work is more valuable than a great designer who can’t” – @monteiro #generateconf #hero pic.twitter.com/Wzgvjs6rTd — JSGD (@JSGD_) April 17, 2015
Users expect your site to load in 2 seconds or less. After 3 seconds, 40% will abandon your site. @lara_hogan #generateconf — Jessica DeJong (@jessdejong) April 17, 2015
“Users expect 2 seconds of load time. 3 seconds in and Etsy experienced 40% loss in traffic.” Performance 💯 #generateconf @lara_hogan — John Salmon (@johnmarksalmon) April 17, 2015
3 future-proof skills for designers: typography, RWD, UX. For devs: JS, CMS, REST. @jonathanstark#generateconf — Erica Heinz (@ericaheinz) April 17, 2015
On mobile …
The lack of back: people rely on #backbutton as a crutch. 78% use home button even if it doesn’t work that way. @paminthelab#generateconf — Jose Coronado (@jcoronado1) April 17, 2015
52% of users go to a competitor after a bad experience: lack of back button, lots of tying, unclear icons etc @paminthelab#generateconf — John Salmon (@johnmarksalmon) April 17, 2015
Web/UI animation resources + 2 others: easing.net and cubic-bezier.com
April 18: Bulgaria Web Summit
Check out the published videos from the summit Pssst! Keep calm and stay tuned for part 2 with keynotes from presentations of the worldwide events from April!