Schedule

Wednesday, May 21st

18:00 – 20:00

Party: Opening Drinks

La suite

If you are already in town, join us to share some drinks. Come over and meet the speakers as well as your fellow attendees.

You can get your badge there between 18:00 to 19:45 if you want to avoid the morning rush.

Opening Drinks

Thursday, May 22nd

08:00 – 09:30
Breakfast
Le Foyer

09:30 – 09:45
Opening Remarks
Salle 2

09:45 – 10:30

Talk: Delight and innovation

Salle 2

Delight and innovation are powerful words. Discover what hides behind it.

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Giles Colborne
Giles Colborne

@gilescolborne


10:30 – 10:50
Coffee break
Le Foyer

10:50 – 11:30

Talk: UX sells, but not by itself

Salle 2

A deep exploration on the mechanism of selling UX.

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Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma
Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma

@uxteamoftwo


11:35 – 12:15

Talk: Mind the gap

Salle 2

The story of three brilliant designers and what we can learn from them.

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Simon Raess
Simon Raess

@simonraess


12:15 – 13:30
Lunch
Le foyer

13:30 – 17:00

Workshops

The selection of workshops is done on a first in, first served basis. 40 seats per workshop. There is no prebooking available.
Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma
Do The Right Thing
Studio 1

Learn how to make your design accepted by building a better understanding of the design process and the people you will interact with.


Birgit Geiberger & Peter Boersma

@uxteamoftwo

Indi Young
Empathy Is Not An Interview
Studio 2

What it takes to run a user resarch that makes sense.


Indi Young

@indiyoung‎

Ryan Rumsey
Let's get selfish.
Labo

Assessment as a means to drive your UX career.


Ryan Rumsey

@ryanrumsey

Nicolas Nova
Design Ethnography and User-Centered Design : The missing link
Mini-Labo

How to make your user research actionable.


Nicolas Nova

@nicolasnova


17:00 – 17:20
Afternoon break
Le Foyer

17:20 – 18:00

Talk: Bodily Experiences of the Digital

Salle 2

How our body treats digital information like physical stuff, information consumption like food consumption, and technical devices like social, living beings.

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Fabian Hemmert
Fabian Hemmert

@fabianhemmert


18:00 – 19:00
Chill & Drinks
Le Foyer

Enjoy a few drinks at the venue with your fellow conference attendees. This place is ours until 7pm.


19:00 – 20:00

Party: Twerk

Salle 1

Twerk. A modern dance perfomance inspired by electronic music will take place in l'Arsenic. A limited amount of tickets are available for the attendees - Register upon arrival.

Twerk

Friday, May 23rd

08:00 – 09:00
Breakfast
Le Foyer

09:00 – 12:30

Workshops

The selection of workshops is done on a first in, first served basis. 40 seats per workshop. There is no prebooking available.
Anna Dahlström
Device Agnostic Design
Studio 1

how to get your content to go anywhere.


Anna Dahlström

@annadahlstrom

Giles Colborne
Simplicity / Efficiency
Studio 2

Why was it worth one company spending $350,000 to shave a second off an interaction? Should you do the same?


Giles Colborne

@gilescolborne

Romina Kavcic
From Scratch to Visual Design
Labo

Understand and master the UX process.


Romina Kavcic

@rominadesigner

Bonny Colville-Hyde
UX Comics: Storytelling & Empathy in action
Mini-Labo

Learn how to make UX comics from scratch.


Bonny Colville-Hyde

@almostexact


12:30 – 14:00
Lunch
Le foyer

14:00 – 14:40

Talk: On distraction-free reading experiences

Salle 2

Creating focussed reading experiences in a world full of distractions.

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Adrian Zumbrunnen
Adrian Zumbrunnen

@azumbrunnen_


14:45 – 15:25

Talk: Practical Empathy

Salle 2

Get into the depth of the empathy and its use.

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Indi Young
Indi Young

@indiyoung‎


15:25 – 16:00
Afternoon break
Le Foyer

16:00 – 16:40

Talk: The Virtual Reality Experience

Salle 2

An interactive overview of current state of the virtual reality interactions.

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Janina Woods
Janina Woods

@Kaori_Ino


16:45 – 17:25

Talk: Information ↔ Entropy

Salle 2

Will information technology affect our minds the same way the environment was affected by our analogue technology?

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Oliver Reichenstein
Oliver Reichenstein

@reichenstein


17:25 – 17:40
Closing Remarks
Salle 2

19:00 – 22:00

Party: Liip apéro

Bourg Plage
Liip

Sponsored by:
Liip
Agile Web development


3 reasons to attend

1
Improve and develop your skills, attending human-sized workshops, blending together creativity and pragmatism. Get a chance to turn theory into practice and to ask questions about your own projects and endeavours.
2
Share moments and ideas with the UX community, as well as connecting and amplifying your network and its impact. Meet innovators and people sharing your interests from all across Switzerland and Europe, discuss your projects and get a whiff of the new trends.
3
Learn from the best and take a dip in the creative world. Benefit from emulation and collective learning, working with set purposes and increasing your scope on Design, Interaction and User Experience.
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Local chapter of IxDA (Interaction Design Association), we organize monthly events to try restoring meaningful relationships between people and the products & services they use.

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