UX Master Classes

AI for Game UX: Speed Up Research, Ideas, and Prototypes

Webinar with Om Tandon, UX Design Leader, Nordeus/Zynga/Take-Two Interactive
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In this Master Class, you’ll:

  • Get excited about how AI is reshaping the future of game UX. You'll understand how to expand what you can accomplish and deliver even better outcomes. Discover how to integrate AI into your workflow to move faster, think bigger, and offer better player experiences.

  • Make yourself invaluable when you use AI to uncover player insights in record time, ideate more creatively, and test faster. Understand how AI can fuel concept development, support rapid prototyping, and give you a strategic edge in a highly competitive industry.

  • Gain confidence and credibility as you discover which AI tools fit each stage of the game UX process and how to use them responsibly, right away. You’ll see real-world game examples that show how AI can act as your creative assistant to streamline time-consuming tasks so you can concentrate on the design decisions that matter most.

You’ll learn from the best:

  • Om Tandon, UX Design Leader, Nordeus/Zynga/Take-Two Interactive

Can’t attend live? You can enjoy your Master Class anytime, anywhere. We’ll email you the recording so you can watch it as many times as you like.

Speaker

Om Tandon
Om Tandon, UX Design Leader, Nordeus/Zynga/Take-Two Interactive

Om Tandon has been working in the games industry for 16+ years in several leadership and UX roles, building teams, processes & pipelines. He has created massively entertaining & monetizing experiences for the world’s best-known IPs & brands including Star Trek, Disney, 20th Century Fox, Hasbro, Ice Age, My Little Pony, Wizard of OZ, Marvel and many more.

He has a bachelor's in Economics (Honours) and an advanced diploma in Advertising & Graphic Design. He is very passionate about innovation and he is a certified design thinking workshop facilitator with 70+ workshops under his belt. Om has worked across the globe in multicultural settings, from jobs in India and New Zealand to Ireland.

Om currently works as a Sr. Manager of UX and UI at Nordeus (Zynga/ Take Two Interactive) managing teams as well as contributing hands on to their genre leading sports games. His recent projects include Top Eleven, a real-time football manager simulation, and Golf Rival, a multiplayer online golf game.

To learn more about Om or contact him, visit his LinkedIn.


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For you personally, design skills are important because:

  • Salaries for people who learn design are soaring, surpassing $200K in cities like San Francisco, with global job growth rates at 13%.

  • Many of your job competitors already possess design skills. When you enhance your design skills you can significantly elevate your personal brand and make you a more attractive candidate.

  • You learn skills that protect you from losing your job to AI.

  • You can ignite your passion through design and leverage it to make a meaningful impact.

For your company, design skills are important because:

  • Your design skills can help increase sales, keep customers loyal, and turn them into powerful advocates of your company. That’s because design is all about helping people reach their goals and meet their needs. 

  • Companies that invest in design outperform the S&P 500 Index by a whopping 228%.

  • Design goes way beyond creating attractive visuals and aesthetics. When you possess design skills you’re equipped to revolutionize businesses, make technology more user-friendly, and innovate customer experiences and systems.

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