Gamestorming applies game thinking and game mechanics to these kinds of business challenges. Gamestorming can help you quickly form simple models of complex systems, so you can involve others in your thinking, explore systems, and experience them from within to gain new insights. Gamestorming is a holistic collaboration approach that will help you combine design practices like sketching, sorting, prototyping and role-play to gain meaningful insights and outcomes.

In this fun, interactive workshop, you'll learn the basics of designing for kids through hands-on activities, projects and collaborative activities. You will learn techniques for research and testing with kids as well as specific strategies for designing for kids of different ages. Finally, you'll learn how to apply these strategies and techniques to adult audiences as well.

This workshop will introduce both fundamental concepts of ubiquitous computing user experience design and specific techniques for designing services and interfaces.

This workshop will cover ways to introduce "Undercover UX" into your company. You'll find out why a big pitch to the CEO is a waste of time, and instead learn the value of the stealthy approach. You'll learn how culture makes a critical difference to the adoption of design, and the red flags to look out for in your role. You'll practice rapid iterative prototyping techniques and learn how to master critique sessions so that you retain control of the design process. Finally, you'll learn war stories and tricks to get developers, marketers, product owners and senior managers to support design efforts without the need for formal proposals.

In this workshop Joshua Porter will illustrate how to improve the overall effectiveness of your web application. You will learn the primary hurdles of the usage lifecycle and the major design challenges of each stage. Attendees of this workshop will come away with a clear picture of how to design for their own usage lifecycle and will have dozens of examples to implement immediately.

This workshop will outline why prototyping is an essential part of the emerging world of tablet and mobile experience design. You'll learn the underlying design principles and design conventions of Natural User Interfaces (NUIs), animated transitions and the interaction design language that is emerging as touchscreen devices become commonplace.

Ever wondered how you can make any single piece of your strategy, online and offline, contribute to making your users and customers feel at home? As the way we make sense of the world is largely dependent on the fact that we are embodied beings, with a physical body of a certain size, this workshop will introduce you to the world of place-making in cross-channel user experience design and pervasive information architectures.

Unlike use cases and agile user stories, scenarios rely on the generative and persuasive power of storytelling, which is perhaps the most natural creation and communication medium there is. Based on a deep understanding of what makes your "characters" tick, this workshop will show you how to develop compelling stories, then use those stories to visualize a new experience, from cross-channel interaction down to screen design.