UI / UX events of 2017 that will not tire you for sure

What designer does not want to be the best in his field? And the best way to learn something really cool is to communicate with people who ate on this dog. Therefore, today we bring to your attention a list of all sorts of interesting events (primarily on the topic of UI / UX) both for beginning designers and advanced ones that you may want to add to your diary.

Russia

Moscow

What: Report “Service design in theory and practice. 7 reasons why it is so difficult to build a customer-oriented company "

The meeting will be led by guest - Artemy Malkov (Artemy Malkov), the founder of Flexis, Data Monsters (California, USA). The report is intended for service designers who face difficulties when working with large customers. The presentation is based on the company's eight years of experience in Silicon Valley. Interaction with the user in the sales funnel will be considered both at electronic points of contact (website, application), and through other channels (for example, through contact with the seller, marketing communications, etc.). The discussion will also touch on new formats, such as chatbots and voice interfaces, for which the best UX practices are only being formed.

Where: Office Mail.ru Group, Leningradsky Avenue 39, p. 79
When: January 17, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free, registration required

What: Master Course "Service UX-design" from the Russian School of Service Design

The course is designed for professionals and managers involved in analysis and engineering design, UI design, service design and digital product development, design management, as well as research activities in the area of ​​User & Customer Experience, design staff selection and project / product management with a high emphasis on customer focus values.
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The course consists of 3 blocks:

January 25-27: the Seminars block, which, in the format of day-to-day intensive seminars, will tell about the secrets of the methodology for designing products and services based on customer-oriented values.
February 3 - March 3: The Practitioner block, which in the format of evening workshops will allow consolidating the passed UX-methodology, solving real problems on the design of WEB-sites and applications.
February 1-18: Master block, where the most prominent industry experts will perform with their specialized master classes, which will allow you to study in more detail the specific types and stages of UX works.

Where: Ul. Brothers Fonchenko, d.10 / 1
When: January 25 - March 3, 2017
The terms of participation:
Master course "Service UX-design"
Seminars block
block "Practitioner"
block "Master"
from 45 000 rub.
Master course "Service UX-design". Block "Seminars"
Master course Roman Black
from 30 000 rub.



What: UX Research Meetup 6. Field Studies

The list of speakers and topics of reports so far are consistent. Registration is not open yet. Follow the news.

Where: Moscow, office Mail.ru Group, Leningradsky Prospect 39, p. 79.
When: January 26, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free, registration is required.

What: Course “Design of digital products”

Intensive will teach you to create not layouts and prototypes, but working applications for the categories web and mobile - what is necessary for specific end users. During the course, students will learn how to shift the focus from processes and tools to results, as well as ways to solve product problems in different companies. Intensive is designed for designers who understand the differences between UX and UI and want to figure out how to make great digital products. The course is necessary for those who want to fully control the result of their work until the final launch, and is designed for designers in companies that are engaged in internal development.

Where: st. Lower Syromyatnicheskaya, house 10, p. 3
When: January 27-30, 2017
Conditions of participation: 25 000 rubles.

What: Master class of the leading interactive designer IDEO Katerina Zorina

An event for everyone who wants to get acquainted with the design thinking method “first hand”, to master the basic tools of this approach to develop new products and services, and also to learn how to use this kind of thinking to change business processes. Within one day, the participants will go through all stages from Empathy to Testing and creating a story about a new solution under the guidance of Ekaterina Zorina from IDEO and with the help of experts from the Wonderfull laboratory.

Where: Perevedenovskiy per., 188, 3rd floor, 8-32
When: January 28, 2017
Participation conditions: 15 000 rub.

What: The basic course of designing interfaces Alina Zotova

Module 1. Review of the process and preparation for design
Module 2. User research
Module 3. Creating an interface concept
Module 4. Creating User Interface Prototypes
Module 5. Testing Prototypes
Course format: practical interactive.

Where: Ul. Lesnaya, 43 (m. Belarusian). Custis office
When: February 9-11, 2017
Participation conditions: from 25,000 rubles. / $ 390 for individuals
from 33 000 rub. / $ 500 for companies

What: Workshop "Prototyping user interaction: Axure"

Anton Grigoriev is a co-founder of the Proekt site design and application and Samplar production bureau, a teacher at Epic Skills Internet technologies school, the author of UX Designer Notes, Axure tutorials and UX and UI translations. Anton has been working with Axure software since 2008. The master class will be useful for diverse professionals who wish to acquire the skills of prototyping in one of the most powerful tools, which is the "gold standard" for designers around the world:
Service designers - to be able to test their design hypotheses in simulated experiments on real users.
Project managers - to receive quickly created artifacts of the "form" of the product for communication with the customer and developers.
Interface designers - for the “lively” visualization of their ideas and illustration of the interactive properties of the product being created
UX researchers - to understand the existing mechanics and confidence levels of the interactive service model being created
Prototypists UI - to obtain new knowledge, optimization techniques and life hacking, allowing to significantly increase the productivity of their work and increase the degree of realism of the created service prototypes.

Where: st. Brothers Fonchenko, d.10 / 1
When: February 11, 2017
Participation conditions: from 7000 rub.

What: Workshop "Usability-research"

Master class by Maria Kocharova and Olga Altabaeva, leading UX researchers at UsabilityLab, who have extensive research experience with projects in the field of telecom, banking, government service systems, mobile and e-commerce, media and others. Theory + practice. The master class will be of interest to those who want to gain experience in organizing and conducting usability testing, learn how to properly use various testing methods and what to do with its results. The lesson tells about the methods of testing products for usability, searching for barriers and interaction drivers, identifying the causes of the emerging effects and ways of obtaining information useful for improving them.

Where: ul.Godovikova, 9 with 12, USABILITYLAB
When: February 18, 2017
Conditions of participation: From 7000 rub.

What: UX-Wednesday

Open micro-conference Mail.Ru, dedicated to the design and design of interfaces. Specialists from different departments of the company (communication services, Odnoklassniki, AstrumNival), as well as invited guests, including Yandex, Rambler, UI Design Group, UsabilityLab and other teams, speak at the event. UX-Wednesday runs every last Wednesday of the month at the Mail.Ru office from 3:00 to 8:00.

Where: Leningradsky pr. 39, p. 79
When: The date is consistent, stay tuned.
Conditions of participation: Free, registration required



What: An Express Interface Design Method by Phil Smirnov

Module 1: Design Preparation
Module 2: Audience Description and Interaction Design (UX)
Module 3: Prototyping

Where: The venue is specified individually.
When: By appointment.
Participation conditions: Determined individually.

What: Intensive course "Service UX-design"

The course will significantly deepen the possibilities of analyzing the company's business goals and tasks of its clients, learn how to analyze user activity, better provide this activity with functional design and user interface design, properly organize your UX-work and work of your colleagues and avoid production conflicts to the maximum.

Where: St. Brothers Fonchenko, d.10 / 1
When: April 26-28, 2017
Participation conditions: Pre-order is available, it is necessary to clarify with the organizers.

What: Dribbble Russia

Annual Moscow Dribbble Meetup. Traditionally, only practical cases sound at the event: participants talk about how to create spectacular modern websites, icons, illustrations, web services and mobile applications. A detailed announcement will appear in the spring.

Where: Moscow, office Mail.ru Group, Leningradsky 39, p. 79
When: June 3, 2017 (approximately)
Conditions of participation: Registration is not open yet, stay tuned.



What: MBLTdev Mobile Developer Conference

The annual international conference of mobile developers MBLTdev. The MBLTdev program covers all topics relevant to mobile development. Designers may be interested in the UX / UI conference track with case studies for designing interfaces, current trends in design, working with guidelines and styling of the application in the store.

Where: Venue is specified.
When: October 2017
Conditions of participation: Will be announced later, stay tuned.

St. Petersburg

What: Workshop "Tools for Designer: PhotoShop vs Sketch, Invison vs Axure"

Dmitry Dombrov will hold a workshop on tools for designers, tell you how Sketch differs from Photoshop, Invure from Axure, how and what tool to use the designer to improve your work, improve speed and quality, avoid typical mistakes in a new team or at the start of a project.

Where: Chkalovsky Ave. 15, BC "Printing House"
When: January 26, 2017
Conditions of participation: 2000 rubles.

What: World Information Architecture Day (WIAD - World Information Architecture Day)

Once a year, professionals from 34 countries and 68 cities gather to discuss the architecture of software products in all its manifestations. Information architects, designers, designers, programmers, testers - on this day they have a common topic of conversation. Registration will be open soon, the program will be updated.

Where: st. Anchor, 7
When: February 18, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free, registration required



What: ProfsoYuks (ProfsoUX 17)

Conference №1 for UX-pro, project and product managers, analysts, testers, programmers.

The conference will allow you to get acquainted with colleagues from the industry, learn a lot of interesting cases, form tactics of your own development and development of an organization / business, as well as get acquainted with the experience of leading European companies.

Where: Venue is specified.
When: April 15, 2017
Participation conditions: Pre-registration is open, preferential registration is possible - check with the organizers for details.

Online

What: Online training on design-thinking tools in the design of digital products for web designers Alexander Voloshin

Today, to be a successful designer, it is not enough just to draw a set of beautiful product images. First of all, it is necessary to identify the business objectives and problems of the user, and by identifying them, to propose a solution that will bring profit to the business and meet the needs of the user.

The most important thing is to be able to direct your thinking in the right direction to get the desired result. To do this, you need to properly collect information, analyze it, draw conclusions and choose the right direction for further action. This training is about right thinking.

When: January-February 2017; applicants will be informed of the exact date of commencement of classes.
Participation conditions: $ 200 (about 12,000 rubles)

What: Adobe Photoshop: Basics for a Web Designer

A two-week free course on Photoshop gives you a rich world of web design. You will perform 3 real tasks where you need knowledge of Photoshop, independently or with the support of experienced teachers. You will also receive knowledge of how the graphic component of the site is arranged.

When: January 16-30, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free, need to register.

What: Free design intensive

Intensive program:

- Self-presentation and design portfolio;
- Promotional graphics: the 3 most important elements;
- The future of interface design. Hot topic from art director of design studio # 1.
You will also get access to 20 lesson records on a variety of topics, including the main trends of 2017.

When: January 17-19, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free, registration required

What: UX DESIGN 2.0: a ticket to the profession from Igor Jazov

The course is suitable for both novice and experienced designer. During the course you will learn:

- Work effectively with the customer;
- Design user-friendly interfaces;
- Develop ideas for interfaces;
- Analyze users;
- Develop an information architecture;
- Prototype in the program Axure and Marvel;
- Create selling presentations for online products;
- Test solution design;
- Earn more.

When: January 17, 2017
The terms of participation:
Tariff "Mentor" - $ 185
Rate "Sam" - $ 112
Action: Brought a friend - 50% discount, led 2 friends - classes are free.

What: UX in E-commerce - the online conference UX-Marathon

This is an educational online conference focused on designers and UX-designers, e-commerce professionals, owners of online stores.
How to buy online? What mistakes make online stores? What you need to know about the psychology of the consumer to sell on the Internet? Leading experts from the UX and E-commerce industries will help deal with these and other issues.

UX Marathon program:
Block №1 Consumer psychology
Unit 2 Research
Block 3 Practices

When: January 26, 2017
Conditions of participation: Until January 16 - 1300 rubles. January 17 - 23 - 1,500 rubles. January 24 - 26 - 1700 rubles.

What: Online course of Ekaterina Khramkova on desk and field design research methods

The course “Key Design Research Methods” consists of 4 streams, corresponding to groups of desk and field design research methods: Preparation, Structuring, Ethnography & Autoethnography, Contextual interviews.

When: January 30 - March 12, 2017
Participation conditions: 24 000 rub. for the full course. Perhaps training in flows (6,000 rubles. Per flow).

CIS countries

Belarus

What: Ciklum Speakers' Corner: "Gaming Industry UX Insights for Business Application Developers"

The meeting will allow you to understand how the experience of the gaming industry can be useful for developers of business applications of the b2c segment.

Where: Minsk, st. Kalvariyskaya, 42, business center "Cascade Alpha", 4th floor, office Ciklum
When: January 26, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free.

What: United Dev Conf

United Dev Confit by IT Event is the first international project for developers in Belarus.
Advantages of United Dev Conf: high-quality content, the ability to arrange an exchange of experience between developers of different directions and teams. United Dev Conf will bring together 3 conferences: Highload Dev Conf, Frontend Dev Conf, Mobicode.

In two streams - frontend development and mobile, several UI / UX reports are also expected.

Where: Minsk
When: April 6-7, 2017
Participation conditions: From 60-90 € (about 3800 -5700 rubles), for students - 50 € (about 3200 rubles)

What: UXPeople

Annual conference on design, usability, User Experience, interfaces and interaction design.

Of greatest interest are case studies (research, interface solutions, their impact on KPI), organization of the design process in companies (participants, interaction, results), personal experience and thoughts of industry practitioners.

Where: Minsk (location to be determined)
When: Spring 2017 (approximately May).
Conditions of participation: Price will be announced later.

Ukraine

What: UX / UI design professional course

This course for beginners involves immersion in the workflow UX / UI designer. Students in practice learn to solve complex design problems, apply design methods and tools, work out techniques, learn and understand solutions to the best UX / UI practices.

Where: Kiev, m. Golden Gate
When: January 18 - March 18, 2017
Participation conditions: 4000 UAH

What: Lecture "Adobe XD vs Sketch"

All the main features, chips and nuances and pitfalls of these tools will be considered. The purpose of the speakers is to share with the audience the most important conclusions they made during their work with Adobe XD and Sketch.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 20, 2017
Participation conditions 150 UAH

What: Vitaly Friedman’s Lecture “Smart Responsive Design Patterns”

A whole generation of interactive designers has grown up with Smashing Magazine. We took knowledge and inspiration from it. It was great to be on the same wavelength with designers around the world at a time when no one yet knew exactly how to make websites and mobile apps. Over the years, Smashing Magazine is still cool.

For the first time in Kiev, his co-founder and editor-in-chief Vitaly Friedman (Freiburg) will give a lecture.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 21, 2017
Participation conditions: 1500 UAH

What: Vitaly Friedman Lecture "Designing Delightful Responsive Ecommerce UX"

Vitaly Friedman - chief editor of Smashing Magazine.
The lecture will focus on practical methods and strategies for increasing conversion from forms.
The speaker is based on practical examples and data obtained in studies of existing projects: no tinsel, no theory, only what works (and also why it does not work) in real cases.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 22, 2017
Participation conditions: 1500 UAH

What: Front-end: Advanced Course

The most advanced front-end techniques and a complete set of tools for working at the middle level. Effects, animation, work automation.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 23 - April 23, 2017
Participation conditions: 4500 UAH / month

What: Lecture by Ekaterina Korovkina “Product design for enterprise”

The meeting will consider the features of product design for the enterprise and b2b on the example of mobile CRM. It will talk about what a business needs, and what the user needs and how to find a balance between it, and also what is important to consider and what will be faced when designing a quality product for a large company.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 24, 2017
Participation conditions: 150 UAH

What: Lecture "UX design process. Meeting with reality "

UX-design process in large outsourcing companies: how to make a product successful and to be effective.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: January 27, 2017
Participation conditions: 150 UAH

What: Lecture by Nikolai Grachev "How to know that the design will work"

Nikolay Grachev - lidogeneration consultant, former head of product management in the global global. The lecture will be devoted to design pragmatism.

What will be discussed:
- design "works" - what it means and how to define;
- 5 second test, "Zhmak" -test, polls, A / B test, usability testing and other tools.

Where: Kiev, st. Vozdvizhenskaya, 34A, Projector
When: February 15, 2017
Participation conditions: 150 UAH

What: User Interface (UI / UX) Course

The course is designed for beginners. Successful completion of the program will give the graduate a general understanding of the essence of the UX / UI Designer profession and the quality requirements for performing professional tasks. The graduate will gain experience in creating all sorts of prototypes, master the basics of mobile application design (iOS, Android) and create layouts for subsequent layout. The developed projects will qualitatively complement the professional portfolio of each graduate.

Where: Kiev, st. Gregory Skovorody, 2
When: March 27, 2017
Participation conditions: $ 185 (about 5050 UAH.)

Foreign countries

What: Uxinsight

Conference for UX professionals. The listeners are waiting for deep presentations on complex topics - from the peculiarities of our perception to the ethical problems that arise during the research.

Where: Netherlands, Utrecht
When: February 9, 2017
Conditions of participation: € 225 (about 14,200 rubles)

What: UXRiga'17

The largest UX conference of the Baltic countries. International event lasting 3 days. Suitable for digital product designers, UX, IT professionals and product managers, as well as developers and those who believe this exciting experience will help achieve outstanding business results.

Speakers who are known throughout the world or in their regions will hold hands-on workshops and share their research to give you inspiration, new ideas and skills needed to improve mobile and web applications, as well as other products.
For a fee, you can attend the workshops you need.

Where: Latvia, Riga
When: February 23, 2017
Conditions of participation: 149 € (about 9400 rub.)



What: UX Alive

The purpose of the conference is to bring together startups, digital agencies, design agencies, and UX professionals to discuss a wide range of issues. This year one day will be devoted to discussions and two to workshops.

Where: Turkey, Istanbul
When: May 3-5, 2017
Participation conditions: From 210 € (about 13 300 rub.)

What: UXLx

4 days of intensive training with more than 20 workshops and 10 lectures. A great opportunity to meet many like-minded people and make useful contacts.

Where: Portugal, Lisbon
When: May 23-26, 2017
Conditions of participation: From € 424 (about 26,900 rubles)

What: UXLondon

The conference will bring together leaders from around the world for inspiring conversations and unique workshops. Each conference day is dedicated to a specific area of ​​UX.

Where: England, London
When: May 24-26, 2017
Conditions of participation: From £ 875 (about 55,400 rubles) + VAT
One day - from £ 345 (about 21,850 rubles) + VAT

What: Uxamp'17

Annual Camp Conference gathering a fun company of professionals from all over Europe. The fundamentals of the industry and the latest trends are discussed, the speakers talk about their projects. A report on last year’s event can be found here .

Where: Germany, Berlin
When: June 3-4, 2017
Conditions of participation: Free



What: UX STRAT

The conference will suit specialists from various fields (UX, CX, product design and service design) who want to grow from a tactical level to a strategic one, learn about the latest trends, research, analytics from leaders, get to know like-minded people.

Where: Holland, Amsterdam
When: June 15-16, 2017
Conditions of participation: From 695 € (about 44,000 rubles)

What: UX Week 2017

Design professionals will come together from around the world to spend 4 days with like-minded people in an atmosphere of inspiration, enriching their skills. Jubilee 15th UX Week will delight guests with new tools that you can start using immediately.

Where: USA, San Francisco
When: August 29 - September 1, 2017
Conditions of participation: From $ 2.195 (about 130,200 rubles)

What: EuroIA

Collection of the most experienced European specialists in the field of information architecture and user interaction, 3 days of reports and workshops.

Where: Sweden, Stockholm
When: September 28-30, 2017
Conditions of participation: Last year's price - 750 € (about 47,500 rubles) for 3 days



It goes without saying that this is not a complete list of upcoming events and that over time new ones will be added.

We hope that you will find time and opportunity to get on any of the listed events. If you know about other planned events in the design world, please share with us in the comments.