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WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Google is blind. It doesn't see beautiful layouts, engaging carousels, attractive illustrations, and photos. The same is true for many other users who visit our site and may not necessarily rely on the culturally dominant sense of sight. The use of storytelling principles in coding comes to the rescue, changing the optics from v...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! If you listen to the hype, everything is moving to the "edge!" First we started deploying our apps and assets there and now our functions are moving there and even our data is migrating there. If you're wondering how the edge applies to you and your app, this session will break it down. We'll cover what we mean by...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Digital Accessibility from the Ground Up: Integrating Design Principles into Organizational Processes. In the current digital environment, it is essential for organizations to prioritize accessibility to promote inclusivity and ensure equal access to information and services for all users. To achieve this, organizations need to embe...

WaysConf 2024 com soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! API-based solutions are becoming a critical building block of modern digital products. What are they? How can they impact your design process? Finally, how to evaluate them without bothering your software team (too much)?

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Flutter, React Native, native... or something else? In this talk I will dive into the current state of mobile cross-platform development, highlighting the latest frameworks, methodologies and industry standards. I will discuss performance of every major framework - not limited to technical performance, but developer experience as we...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Never urgent, rarely important: how to find and elevate the value of visual (UI) design for different types of project. Consult The Eisenhower Matrix, and most visual (UI) design tasks will fall under the delete (distraction and unnecessary) quadrant. Ask your product manager if you can work on improving the curvatures of the icon s...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! When we talk about high-loaded interfaces, internal portals and so on, we always imagine graphs, tables, timelines, kanbans and similar interface elements. When working on such projects, you realise that most of the elements don't fit the tasks users need to complete, or they fit, but they could be made even better. There are 10...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Is UX still a creative field? What down to earth designers should know about speculative design. Creativity is considered a crucial characteristic of successful UX designers. However, more often than not, we rely on established patterns and frameworks to find practical, tried-and-true solutions instead of exploring new frontiers. Wh...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Implementing an AI-based solution is primarily a technological challenge. Meanwhile, concepts for new products or functionalities are often born in the heads of designers. Is it possible to provide designers with a workshop that allows them to take a realistic look at the possibilities of Machine Learning? Or should we instead provi...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! I’m currently working on a tool that aims to automate the repetitive tasks of user research. I would like to talk about the process that I used to build such a tool, what it’s capable of, why designers should embrace AI, and my prediction for the impact of AI on UX in general. I’m working as a Product Designer for AI tools since 201...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! In today’s ever-changing business environment, an effective teamwork has become a crucial factor in achieving success. Cross-functional teamwork is the process of bringing together individuals with diverse skill sets and perspectives to work towards a common goal. This can be a challenge, but when done effectively, it can lead to a...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! In this talk, participants will learn about the power of mentorship and support in shaping the next generation of UX designers. As a UX/UI designer trainer and UX/UI Designer, I will share personal experiences and practical tips for becoming a successful mentor and building a culture of support within cross-functional teams. They wi...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! As a DesignOps practitioner, you are responsible for getting DesignOps initiatives executed in an orderly fashion. In Peter Boersma’s view, this means that you should maintain a roadmap for DesignOps, and work with others to get the initiatives on it done. The maintenance part already consists of at least five different activities,...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Everyone can become a webflow expert (the truth about mindset, skillset, and how to become webflow master) Webflow is a hot topic nowadays, although its marketing is pretty misleading (same as other no-code tools). It's not about web design, or rather, not design-only. It's about development. As long as we can use Webflow fo...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Neurodiversity, what UX should know to design (even better) accessibility solutions Temat, jaki chciałabym poruszyć to krótkie 20 min dotyczące autyzmu wśród kobiet i w związku z tym anxiety disorder i jaki to ma wpływ na projektowanie obecnie. Dotyczy to projektowania świata cyfrowego, który jest nieodłącznie powiązany ze światem r...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! The voice of the customer - about the shortcomings of declarative research in product discovery Voice of the Customer - easy to get and analyze, hard to conclude from. Organizations have fallen in love with automatic techniques for tracking feedback from their customers. They eagerly reach for reviews, opinions, helpline reports and...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Making a mountain out of a molehill. Designing an application accessible to seniors I will share how I transformed a project aimed at adding a dark mode in the interface of an application for registering car entries in logistics parks into designing a solution accessible to seniors. The users of the application are security guards w...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! As front-end developers writing modern web applications, we often forget that a deep knowledge of HTML is a skill to be honed. The result is that the huge majority of digital products have invalid HTML, which results in accessibility issues. In her talk, Marta will show you how to start taking HTML seriously by showcasing how to imp...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Discover highly recommended techniques for optimizing web performance, including JS, INP metrics, style recalculation and optimization for JS frameworks.

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! In the current information age, data visualizations need accessibility just as any other content type. Whilst we rave over supplying images with alternative text and providing closed captions or audio descriptions for multimedia, barely anyone seems to consider the accessibility of the ever-growing mound of data visualizations in ou...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! From irrationality to user engagement - how behavioral economics can improve UX design? What factors influence user decisions, and how can they be used to increase engagement? I will discuss examples of how behavioral economics techniques can be applied to web design and mobile applications.

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Whether it's a morning routine, a historical tradition, or a religious ceremony, rituals play an essential role in shaping our identity and connecting us with others. Likewise, rituals can serve as a powerful tool for building a strong design culture, promoting collaboration, and unlocking the team's potential to achieve bet...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! Most current UI libraries provide great user experience with a vast number of components. But when it comes to heavy customization and non-standard scenarios, especially for E-Commerce, they become hard to manage, scale or even slow down performance. How to create a UI library that provides users the most possible freedom in customi...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! About the impact of ChatGPT and other AI tools on UX writing Generative AI is revolutionizing the way writers in the tech industry create content. With the help of AI tools like ChatGPT and Midjourney, writers, designers, researchers and any person on earth basically can generate high-quality, original content faster and more effici...

WaysConf 2024 coming soon! Don't miss anything and follow us! The voice of the customer - about the shortcomings of declarative research in product discovery Voice of the Customer - easy to get and analyze, hard to conclude from. Organizations have fallen in love with automatic techniques for tracking feedback from their customers. They eagerly reach for reviews, opinions, helpline reports and...