When you go to the Big Design Conference 2012, the 10AM hour is your first “power hour” of speakers. Yes, you have to choose to between a seasoned UX professional, a panel of experts, a typeface historian, and an author. The topics include managing design(ers), lessons from a design library, web typography, and UX principles of Jim Henson. Managers, nerds, design snobs, and puppet lovers have something to see. Details are below.
Choice #1: Lessons from the DELL Design Pattern Library
Join members of Dell’s Global Site Design team in a frank discussion about the highs and lows of building out a design library. The team will detail out how and why they built the library and give real world examples about what works, and more importantly, what doesn’t.
What You Will Learn:
- How to build a design library.
- How to scale a design system across a HUGE enterprise.
- What makes a good design library.
- How a library saves time and resources.
- How a design library supports a global team.
- Questions and Answers with the people who created and maintain the library.
Choice #2: Managing UX Design(ers)
In this presentation I’ll start with tips to help you decide whether you should – or should not – consider a UX management path, and share some general leadership observations. Then we’ll get into the good stuff, digging into what makes leading UX and UX designers such a unique and fascinating way to spend your days and nights.
You’ve probably already had (or will soon get) general management and leadership training, so this session will not include a personality type assessment, manager-employee role playing games, or trust exercises. We’ll focus on the things that make UX leadership different from other leadership roles, and prepare you to be successful as a leader in the field you learned to love as a practitioner.
Choice #3: CSS Web Typography Changes Everything
What You Will Learn
- How @font-face server-based web fonts work, and what options they replace
- Your choices for enabling @font-face, from self-hosting to web font services
- Learn about the state and near future of advanced typography support in browsers
- See how OpenType can make text more sophisticated
- Examine the “correct” typographic use of all these new features
- Review OpenType features in action on web pages, from workhorse everyday typography to the surprising and bizarre, via fonts created by Phinney and friends
Choice #4: From Muppets to Mastery–Core UX Principles of Jim Henson
And yes, there will be muppets.
So many choices, you will want to register today!