A UX Conference Unlike Any Other Returning in 2017

Designing the Critical Details using Microinteractions

Dan Saffer · Monday, April 18 · 8:30am – 5:30pm

Design those often-overlooked UX elements—like microcopy, controls, settings and defaults—to increase your user engagement. See how delightful these details can be.

Plus, microinteractions help users remember your brand. So get the methodology, language, and techniques you’ll need to make yours memorable for all the right reasons.

Dan goes right to the heart of challenging design problems, delivering astonishingly elegant solutions.

The Day’s Agenda

Morning

Triggers to start a microinteraction

  • How to identify microinteractions, and why they’re critical to the feeling of a product
  • The system and manual events that users do on their own
  • When to use different types of triggers and how data influences that choice

Set realistic rules

  • The Do’s and Don’ts of crafting rules to govern microinteractions
  • Constraints that prevent or eliminate human error
  • Ways to reduce choice to make a more efficient experience

Afternoon

Design using feedback

  • How to use visual and sound feedback to convey the right message
  • Ways to convey feedback by using things already on the screen
  • Tips to craft strong microcopy that users will understand and appreciate

Experiment with loops and modes

  • What happens when a user returns to your microinteraction
  • The difference between modes that are spring-loaded or one-off
  • How your microinteraction changes over time

You’ll dig into designing delightful details

Discover why your users are bored

If you’re designing dull microinteractions, why wouldn’t your users feel bored? See real-world examples of brand-building experiences, then decide how you want to design for your users.

Follow a repeatable methodology

It’s hard to ask for time to polish the details, but your product is only as good as its worst microinteraction. Learn to make them more engaging without derailing deadlines.

Design cross-platform interactions

A truly delightful microinteraction follows a user from device to device. Create a holistic ecosystem that represents your organization in unique, compelling ways.

You’ll see how to:

  • Surprise users (in a good way!) with different kinds of feedback
  • Choose the “right” microinteraction based on context and device
  • Write microcopy that humans can read and understand
  • Identify elements to spend time on—and which to ignore
  • Integrate microinteraction design in your existing process
  • Not start from “zero” when designing your product

Use Microinteractions to Improve Your Design

Signature moments make your organization look awesome

Get a new model to address small details in your products and easily diagnose usability issues.

A repeatable model to evaluate your existing products

Identify and improve the often-overlooked areas where you can build in user delight.

Microinteractions that feel responsive to users, no matter which device they’re using

Know when and where to use different triggers and how to prevent errors from occurring.

A fresh perspective on your existing design

Enhance microinteractions that are already there and bring your data forward.

Heavy on practicing new techniques, light on lecture

You’ll dig into tons of exercises that span desktop and enterprise-level experiences. Prepare to experiment with a variety of controls, triggers, and feedback types. You’ll then work individually and in groups to put it all together by designing a device-specific microinteraction that uses all of the elements discussed in the workshop.

Dan Saffer Expert, Advanced Microinteraction Design

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Here’s what Jared says about why he chose Dan for UX Immersion: Interactions…

I’ve long believed Dan is one of the design community’s hidden gems. He’s a brilliant designer, with an uncanny ability to see directly into any challenge. He’ll get right to the heart of the problem, unpack it, then present solutions that seem obvious in retrospect. It doesn’t hurt that he’s funny on top of that. Or that he wrote a bestselling book on the topic, curiously named Microinteractions.

I’ve been following Dan’s career since he received his Masters in Interaction Design from Carnegie Mellon, and quickly became one of Adaptive Path’s shining stars. After the founding of Kicker Studios, he became a Director of Interaction Design at Smart Design. Dan is now the VP of Product for Mayfield Robotics, where he’s leading the design of a new line of adorable home robots. Holder of several interaction design patents, and recipient of several design awards, Dan is definitely one of the leading interaction designers in the world.

This is the guy you need to learn from to ensure you get the details right in your design. We’re pleased to bring him back with a workshop that has pleased crowds around the world.