Sessions at Web 2.0 Expo 2011 SF about Design on Tuesday 29th March

As a developer in the RIA and User Experience field, it's important to be armed with some design basics in order to effectively communicate with designers and give sound suggestions for UX improvements on the applications you’re building. This session covers basic design principles and techniques that will help developers understand a designer’s intent and maximize time and energy in the process.

Great design ideas rarely spring fully formed from our brains. They are usually a result of ideas from many people, iterated over time. This session looks at the ways we can use collaboration to harness great ideas and then develop them into breakthrough designs.

The gap between physical and digital has blurred: we use Wiis to get in shape, computers to order a pizza, or phones to find hot dates. Design is becoming more demanding - we can’t stop at digital. The future of design is everywhere the customer touches our product or service, digital or physical. Learn this future and avoid going the way of the dodo, dinosaurs, and disco.

Have you been struggling to incorporate great design and user research into your startup's every day life? Do you know the best way to make sure every product you release is a fantastic user experience? Come share your ideas, suggestions, stories, and questions about how to improve the design and research process for startups.