Design Camp: how it was

In the middle of December last year, we organized our first Design Camp - a special conference for designers and about the design of modern applications. Today we want to take the first results and tell how it was for those who missed everything.



And, first of all, I want to say a big thank you to all those who helped to make our idea a reality: first of all, the British Higher School of Design and all of our magnificent speakers.

Records and materials

Let's start with the most important: recordings of speeches. In principle, entries were made available on the conference website immediately after its completion. However, as for our other conferences, we made cutting of individual reports and uploaded them to TechDays.ru , so that it was more convenient for you to watch exactly what you are interested in and also to download the necessary videos for viewing in offline mode:

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Big workshop

• Opening Conference Design Camp
• Key report: Design integration. Every pixel matters
• From Gutenberg to Metro. Geometric module as an inspiration and tool in classic and new media
• Swiss Typography: Phenomenon and Stereotype
• Animation interface language
• DEMATERIALIZATION: the death of product design, the rebirth of creativity
• Windows 8 Design Case: the story of one conference

Small workshop

• Service Design. Expanding boundaries
• Microsoft Design - Q & A Session
• Search big and small
• Gamification: a fresh look at user motivation?
• Grid in the design of interfaces for Windows Phone: a strict teacher or a kind helper?

Third workshop

• Design for Windows Phone and Windows 8: the Mail.ru Group experience
• Branding vs. Guidelines: Cross-Platform Design Experience - Part 1 and Part 2
• Why didn't my application pass moderation?
• About hatred of fish ... and love of meaningful text

We are also planning to soon add to the records of the presentation and we are almost ready transcripts / articles with pictures for those who prefer the printed version. In total, the proceedings of the conference are being pulled over a whole large book (over 250 Word pages - and this is without pictures!), We will consistently publish all this here, in Habré.

How it was

It all starts with a hanger and registration.









The participants pull out and look around, in the meantime, they are already preparing fresh coffee with Windows.





Misha Chernomordikov came to check how we organized everything :)









During the whole day there was a photo-zone where participants could take pictures with letters.





A team of speakers from the UIDesign Group (Nikolai Makarov, Vladimir Zimin and Olga Berdnikova) and Elena Borodina from QUELLE.









The opening of the conference - we tell why we are holding it and the background to the organization of our design activities in Russia. We remember Bill Buxton and Megan Donahoe.





The keynote speech, Evgeny Gavrilov, from the Windows Phone design integration team, tells how and why their team works.





Eugene talks about Harley ...





... and why the final design often turns out to be different.





And what to do with it and how they solved this task in their team. Some participants finally found out who they really are - design integrators.





During breaks, sweet muffins with Windows 8 and other activities are waiting for participants.





At the Nokia booth, you can live to feel the new phone numbers.











On a stand, everyone could learn to paint mice.





Near the magic counter from the Studio Lebedev.











And devices with Windows 8 from different manufacturers.





Unusual devices: a large touch panel and ...





... mapping and steaming (displair).



After the break, we return to the reports (also with interruptions) ...





Dmitry Karpov talks about patterns in nature and design.





And that Windows 8 is great ... until everyone spoils applications with terrible design.





Members are spellbound





Dmitry Chernogaev talks about the Swiss typography.





On the reports of the British full room! :)





On the coffee breaks of the audience waiting for " yumka ".





Artem Kurenkov talks about the use of animation in interfaces.





Umberto Giraudo shows how the industry is changing and industrial design is mixed with digital.





Interested participants take notes.



By the way, some viewers do it like this:







I am talking about the experience of designing conference applications.



In parallel, we have two more tracks.



In the small workshop, the above mentioned guys from UI Desgin talk about service design.







Then Evgeny Gavrilov, in a separate session, continues to talk about the integration of design, answering my questions and questions from the audience.









Nastya Larkina and Sergey Tomilov from Yandex talk about designing search for different platforms.





Vladimir Zimin, with a small addition from Denis Kotlyarov of Microsoft, tells about gamification.



Finally, Egor Gilev from Parcsis spoke about the experience of designing under Windows Phone and the intricacies of using the grid. Unfortunately, I did not find the photos, but I strongly recommend the report (like all the others).





Meanwhile, Lizaveta Romantsova from Lebedev’s studio clearly shows how to paint mice using the example of Moose 3.



In the third workshop are the reports of colleagues from Mail.Ru Group, Usabilitylab and JetStyle.















Yuri Vetrov, Alexander Kirov and Dmitry Kulagin talk about the Mail.Ru experience in developing applications for various platforms, including Windows Phone and Windows 8.







Participants carefully study the program and think about who to listen to next.











Dmitry Satin and Vyacheslav Ivanov from UsabilityLab talk about typical design errors and how to conduct testing.





Alexey Kulakov from JetStyle talks about his hatred for fish.





With them the participants have taken invaluable knowledge.



All photos can be viewed in our group on Facebook: www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.507441672611801.107091.229989210357050&type=3