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UX Magic: Achieve 10X Better Designs Through Semantic Interaction Design

Webinar with Daniel Rosenberg, UX Professor, Designer, Executive and Early Innovator in HCI
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Do you know how much cognitive load your design ideas will place on the user even before you sketch out the first screen? If the cognitive load of your design is too high, users will find your product difficult and unpleasant to use.

It's possible to measure cognitive load in a usability lab, but by then it is usually too late and too expensive to fix the underlying problems. The solution? You need to know how much cognitive load your users will face and mitigate it at the beginning of your design projects. In other words, the intent to minimize cognitive load should guide your design practice from the very start.

In this Master Class, Daniel Rosenberg introduces Semantic Interaction Design, a revolutionary method that spans all the way from core conceptual models to the deployment of applied game theory techniques to create optimal experiences for users. You'll learn:

  • How cognitive science lends itself to Semantic Interaction Design
  • Real examples of the benefits and success of this new approach
  • How to convert product requirements into initial UX designs 10X faster
  • How to design with higher initial quality
  • The 4-layer UX framework that unifies UX grammar, presentation, flow and game theory
  • How this method incorporates data driven business decisions to guide product success

This Master Class is based on Daniel Rosenberg's book UX Magic, which explores how designers can transform product requirements into rich experiences. You'll learn how to maximize the efficacy of your design using the smallest number of screens and flow steps. The result? You'll design experiences that are intuitive and enjoyable for the user, resulting in sustained success for your product.

Forget the “fail early, fail often” myth of trial and error UX design. Professor Rosenberg will show you a proven recipe for getting it right on the first try!

Speaker

Daniel Rosenberg
Daniel Rosenberg, UX Professor, Designer, Executive and Early Innovator in HCI

Daniel Rosenberg is the 2019 recipient of the SigCHI Lifetime Practice Award for his combinations of technical and leadership contributions to the field over the past 40+ years.

Currently, he is a UX consultant and an adjunct professor of HCI at San Jose State University. He serves on the advisory board of the Interaction Design Foundation and for 5 years edited the “Business of UX” Forum in ACM Interactions magazine.

Dan invented many of the standard GUI design patterns we use today during the early days of the software industry, when he worked as a User Interface Architect for Ashton-Tate & Borland. These include the first GUI Integrated Development Environment, defining the workspace style UX for programming and creative tools. He invented Tabs as a UI mechanism and also designed the first GUI administration UX while he was the UX VP at Oracle.

Over the course of his career, Dan has introduced many UX methods that are now common practice. Documented examples include coauthoring the Rapid Prototyping chapter in the first Handbook of HCI (Elsevier 1988). At a CHI1988 special session he introduced the UX community to the concept of GUI look and feel as an integral part of corporate branding. During this same period, he coauthored Human Factors in Product Design (Elsevier 1991), the first consumer product focused HF textbook which revolutionized both design education and practice for over a decade.

With his book UX Magic, published by IxDF, Dan shares his cumulative knowledge of IxD science, theory and practice in a comprehensive new method that he hopes will once again propel the whole HCI field to greater success.

To learn more about Dan or contact him, visit rCDOUX.com


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