Virtual Seminars

Video games have emerged as a dominant entertainment medium among a vast worldwide player base. As more people spend more time interacting with game-based environments, the applicability of these experiences to everyday user interfaces and business applications will become impossible to ignore. And that's great news, because game-inspired user interfaces can create levels of engagement and interactivity unattainable in conventional software. Businesses embracing the game experience will position themselves at the leading edge of interactive convergence.

In this recorded webinar, James Kalbach shows you how to leverage principles in web navigation to deepen the quality of your site design. He focuses on three of the most advanced and misunderstood aspects of web navigation. For each, James provides an overview and take-aways that you can apply in your daily work.

In this webinar, Ginny Redish will help you shift your focus and understand the power of thinking about content as conversation. Bringing you the practical implications of linguistic research on conversation, Ginny helps you with your content strategy—what information to focus on, where it goes on the web site, how to decide how much to say about a particular web topic, how to organize it on the page, and how to write it.

In this hour-long live webinar recording, Kristina Halvorson offers step-by-step instructions on how to integrate content strategy into the website design process. She also helps you understand how a content strategist can bridge the gap between IA requirements and successful content creation. Finally, Kristina shares tactics to help you sell content strategy as a critical part of any website project.

In this webinar, Nathan Shedroff (bio) builds on topics with the highest priorities from his book, Design is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable. Nathan will quickly provide a thorough grounding into the breadth and depth of sustainability, its impact, and its importance. This will serve as a foundation for any designer in any domain to orient themselves and begin to prioritize more sustainable decisions in the products, services, events, and experiences they create.

Drawing from 25 years of experience in designing and engineering interface solutions as well as leading design and engineering organizations such as Yahoo! and Netflix, Bill provides a set of guiding principles as well as concrete, real world examples of what is now possible and what is still hard to do given the current technology landscape.

User Experience Leader Christian Rohrer provides a framework for understanding and explaining different user research methods, delves into details on a few of the lesser-known methods, such as desirability and true intent studies, and discusses key insights to succeed in modern-day corporate environments.

Indi Young introduces mental models, describes how they benefit tactical design projects, and shows how you can use them to manage strategic change.

In this recorded webinar, Luke Wroblewski (bio) builds on topics in his top-selling book, Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks. Luke walks you through the latest applications of rich Web form interactions (made possible by dynamic technologies like Ajax) including: flexible inputs, dynamic help systems, inline validation, selection dependent inputs, and more. He also outlines how gradual engagement approaches to form design can create compelling new user experiences for a wide variety of Web applications and services.