August 24–26th — Chicago, IL

Schedule

The conference opens with amazing workshops and continues with two days of incredible talks and keynotes, all of which are facilitated by industry-leading experts.

Workshops August 24th
8:30 AM Registration
9:00 AM

Adam Connor

Lights! Camera! Interaction! Design Inspiration from Filmmakers

Jennifer Jones

What Designers Can Learn from Parenting

12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM

Tessa Harmon

Crafty Coding: Generating Knitting Patterns

Russ Unger

From Muppets to Mastery: Core UX Principles from Mr. Jim Henson

Conference August 25th
8:30 AM Registration
9:00 AM

Aaron Irizarry

Designing a Culture of Design

10:00 AM Morning Break
10:30 AM

Shay Howe

Less is More: How Constraints Cultivate Growth

Jenn Downs

What’s Stopping You?

11:30 AM

Carolyn Chandler

The Business of Play

Chris Mills

Heavy Metal Coding

12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM

Zoe Mickley Gillenwater

Leveling Up with Flexbox

Darby Frey

Building a Mobile Layout

3:00 PM

Brad Smith

What Designers and Strategists Can Learn from Dick Fosbury

Erica Decker

What Disney Can Teach You about User Experience Design

4:00 PM Afternoon Break
3:00 PM

Estelle Weyl

Select This!

Conference August 26th
8:30 AM Registration
9:00 AM

Aaron Irizarry

Designing a Culture of Design

10:00 AM Morning Break
10:30 AM

Jen Myers

Teaching Our CSS to Play Nice

AJ Self

(You Should Be) Testing Your JavaScript

11:30 AM

Dan Denney

Creating HTML Emails Can Be Fun

Maya Bruck

So You Want to Be a Unicorn

12:30 PM Lunch
2:00 PM

Victoria Pater

Excellent Tacos Are Not Created in a Vacuum

Arman Ghoshk

Designing Deals: How Good Design Drives Sales

3:00 PM

Bermon Painter

Death to Wireframes: Long Live Rapid Prototyping

Candi Lemoinek

Making Remote Development Works

4:00 PM Afternoon Break
4:30 PM

Dr. Leslie Jensen-Inman

Designing to Learn