UX-Medium Open Micro-Conference # 15

On February 27, the fifteenth open UX-Wednesday micro-conference took place at the Mail.Ru office. During the day, specialists in design and design of interfaces from different departments of the company, as well as invited guests made a series of presentations about their work experience and participated in its discussion. This time we had Alexey Rytov (Digital Design), Alexey Markin and Alexey Kulakov (JetStyle) and Nikolay Zayarny and Phil Akhnazarov (Eviterra), as well as Alexey Kopylov (UI Design Group).




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Aleksey Rytov started the program from the Digital Design office in St. Petersburg, who talked about building the process of designing and designing interfaces in a large company. In a little over a year he managed to build a series of key procedures that ensure the good user qualities of the company's own products and custom projects. Interestingly, in Digital Design there is no centralized design department and specialists are in specific projects. In addition, a workable and efficient system of selection of trainees has been built, which makes it possible to find quite a few good designers and designers. Presentation and video presentations:





The following were Alexey Markin and Alexey Kulakov from Yekaterinburg JetStyle . They shared their experience with smart TV and interfaces for television applications. The first part told about the nuances of the platforms, their capabilities and limitations. The second talked about trends and future interactions with televisions and related devices. The result was an excellent discussion on the “second screen”, family use of interfaces, new management methods, modern tasks of the designer and designer.





The third was the history of the creation and development of the Eviterra online booking service from Nikolai Zayarny and Phil Akhnazarov. They devote a lot of time to interesting interface solutions and their effectiveness, so the product is convenient in terms of use and interesting in terms of design. Nikolay told about the evolution of the main screens and their elements, what solutions appeared and changed, how it influenced the key metrics.



The program was closed by Alexey Kopylov, who returned from the World of Tanks interface team to Moscow. He spoke about his experience of playing UX, which he amassed during the year of working in a team. Game interfaces are very different from those that Alexey encountered when working in UI Design - classic desktop, web and mobile products. This was the first version of the presentation, which he will develop and show at the next events.





The event is open - we invite not only speakers, but also listeners from other companies. Our colleagues from Yandex, Rambler, UI Design, UsabilityLab, IT-Online and other companies regularly come to us. The premises and the UX-Environment format itself can accommodate 30-40 people, so we will be happy to see speakers and listeners from other companies. Write to me at y.vetrov@corp.mail.ru and we will choose an interesting topic of the story and a convenient date for it. You can find out the schedule and program of future events, as well as sign up for them on the micro-conference Facebook page .

Photos from UX-Environment # 15 are available , as well as Twitter feed announcements . Read also reports about previous events .