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Mobile-First Lean UX Design Academy
Design training that works: Actionable UX Methodology. Tangible design deliverables. Immediate Impact.
Not only is Greg a really good guy, with an easy smile, a great laugh, and keen sense of humor, he is one of the most talented UX designers I have had the pleasure of working with. He’s a real design master- deeply experienced in the art and science of human-computer interaction. It was a pleasure working with Greg at Ketera and I highly recommend him to anyone in need of thorough, thoughtful application design solutions.
Greg’s workshop at the O’Reilly Design Conference 2016, “Practical Lean UX for Wearables,” was a valuable, hands-on class on prototyping. I learned concepts and techniques I’ll apply to designing for more than wearables. Greg’s communication skills and passion made the class enjoyable as well as valuable. I recommend his workshops and classes to all UX and UI designers.
Greg is a master of mobile interaction design. Even though we knew what we wanted in our mobile solution, his seminar… brought to our attention certain aspects of the interaction and testing we didn’t consider. I highly recommend Greg to anybody who is working on a mobile solution.
I had a chance to take Greg’s Mobile Agile UX workshop recently. As a world-class subject matter expert and author in Mobile UX design, Greg’s knowledge of the subject is profound and his ability to explain complex concepts is outstanding. Greg is very hands-on in his approach and was able to help significantly enhance my knowledge about the Agile approach to UX design. I strongly recommend Greg’s book and his workshop to those that seek to become proficient in the area.
Greg was the right person at the right time for us this summer for our iOS7 design recommendations and especially Android UI compliance. He worked seamlessly and independently with various teams and projects across Intuit: TaxCaster iOS7, GoPayment Android, Mint, TaxCaster Android, Tax Online Accountant for Mobile (TOM), SnapTax, Weave Android – many of which were featured on the iTunes App Store and GooglePlay. Working directly through our Core Technology Office, Greg’s design direction was timely, efficient, clear, and spot-on. I look forward to working more with Greg in the future as UI requirements and needs are constantly changing in the fast-paced smartphone and tablet market. Thanks, Greg for all the hard work!
Greg is an experienced, hard-working design researcher. He is a “big picture†person, with a great passion for design process and a sincere eagerness to learn from people. His kindness, honesty and empathy make him the right person to lead insightful participatory design sessions and to have findings communicated in a tangible and consumable way. Perhaps the only thing that surpasses his professionalism is his passion for great literature and knowledge about the most diverse topics. I always look forward to a mind-opening conversation with him.
Greg worked on our initial design for the site. I found him to be professional, insightful and easy to work with. He was very attentive to our needs and requirements and produced quality results. I recommend Greg for his expertise in UI and for his diligent work.
My experience with working with Greg was extremely positive. Not only is he the Yoda of design, he also is an all around great guy. Kind, helpful, reliable- you name it! I’m sure Greg will continue to excel and push his boundaries of excellence in all his future UI endeavors.
Greg is an extremely passionate professional, with great UX-UI background. I had the pleasure to work with him at BHGE and I mostly appreciated the speed and effectiveness of his idea generation process. Designing use cases with Greg was an amazing and re-assuring experience for his capability to listen, execute and get results.
Greg worked with me during my time at BHGE on our emerging Predix Asset Performance Monitoring applications for offshore facilities. He was a keystone in helping us figure out how to take very complex, high volume data, and present this in a way which was both meaningful and familiar to offshore operators. Greg’s sense for user needs and UX flow is world class, for many diverse applications!
Greg worked with the Wells Fargo CX Mobile team on a variety of projects for our Mobile app. It was clear from his first days the value he brings to the table. Just looking at his accomplishments, leadership in the design community and publications, it is clear that he has deep expertise on mobile interaction design and design patterns. But when you combine that with his inquisitive nature, approachable personality and desire to collaborate, he is a force to be reckoned with. Greg is one of those rare designers who is both an effective specialist as well as a generalist. I would highly recommend Greg and Design Caffeine for any mobile strategy, training and execution needs.
Greg is an excellent technologist. Besides delivering top quality applications, he showed leadership in the areas of user interface research and design as well as release process design.
Upcoming videoconference: “Designing Conversational Interfacesâ€, November 14th, 11am ET
Greg hosts the discussion of key aspects of the conversational bot experience and conversational UI best practices. You’ll learn: how to pick the right bot framework, how to use basic building blocks of bot dialog (Intents, Entities, Dialogs) to create conversational UIs, and the key importance of context and channels (Mobile, Wearables, etc.) for shaping the conversational experience. We’ll spend the bulk of time on what is “right around the bend†in the near-future of conversational UIs. From practical tips you can put to work immediately, to inspiration for your next project, be prepared to come away saying “Bot Future so Bright, Gotta Wear Ear-Muffs!â€
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Featured Events and Videos
12 Tips: “Code Smarter with UX” #DigitalIndustrial #IIoT
Video: 2-hr Sioux keynote in Eindhoven, Netherlands. Create the superior Digital Industrial UX with a Digital Twin, sparklines, applied Gestalt principles, “working graphs” with direct UI manipulation, metrics correlation for…
Lean UX Playbook: 10 Practical Tips #DesignOps
Video: 30-min TED-style talk at the sold-out UX New Zealand conference. Practical Tips for successfully applying #LeanUX #DesignOps techniques in large, complex organizations traditionally dominated by engineering.
How to create a Lean UX Wearable Smart Watch Prototype
Video: How to design wearables like Tony Stark — in 3 minutes. Answering the phone while driving with 2 wearable interface designs: 1) Existing Apple Watch UX & 2) New…
$1 Prototype: 8 #LeanMobileUX Lessons Learned
Video: 20-min TED-style talk at the sold-out From Business to Buttons Conference in Stockholm, Sweden.
Sketching Parallel Architecture Mobile Design Pattern
Video: 7-min excerpt from SXSW (South by South-West) Agile Mobile Design Workshop
SXSW Lean UX Mobile Design Workshop
Video: 4-min testimonials from Greg’s workshop at SXSW (South by Southwest).
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11/14/19 Rosenfeld Media Enterprise Experience Community * Designing Conversational Interfaces (Videoconference)
06/01/19 DesignOps Conference * Manchester, UK – #DesignOps Deep Dive (full-day workshop)
05/31/19 DesignOps Conference * Manchester, UK – 12 Tips for Better #DesignOps
02/20/19 Sioux * Eindhoven, Netherlands – UX Design #DigitalIndustrial #IIoT Strategy Leadership Breakfast (Strategy Discussion & Q&A)
02/19/19 Sioux * Eindhoven, Netherlands – #DigitalIndustrial #IIoT UX Design Deep Dive Workshop (full-day workshop)
02/18/19 Sioux Hot-or-Not * Eindhoven, Netherlands – 12 Tips: “Code Smarter with UX” #DigitalIndustrial #IIoT (2-hr Keynote)
10/01/18 San Jose State University * San Jose, CA – Digital Assistants, Bots, and AI UX Best Practices (3-hr Guest Lecture)
08/29/18 Global Big Data Conference * Santa Clara, CA – AI of UX
04/02/18 Global IoT Conference * Santa Clara, CA – UX Best Practices for #IIoT and #DigitalIndustrial
10/18/17 Latinoware * Foz Iguazu, Brazil – Data Visualization in the Age of Mobile and Wearables
10/12/17 UX New Zealand * Wellington, NZ – Lean UX Playbook: 10 Practical Tips #DesignOps
10/10/17 UX New Zealand * Wellington, NZ – #DesignOps Discussion Panel
11/19/16 UXPA China * Suzhou, China – Data Visualization for Mobile and Wearables (full-day workshop)
11/17/16 UXPA China * Suzhou, China – Lean UX Design for Mobile Success (full-day workshop)
10/26/16 Design for Action * Chicago, IL – 12 Tips for #LeanUX Success
09/01/16 Big Data Conference * Santa Clara, CA – Data Visualization for Mobile and Wearables
07/17/16 HCI International * Toronto, Canada – Lean UX Design for Mobile Success (half-day workshop)
05/11/16 UX Alive * Istanbul, Turkey – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation (1-day Workshop)
04/21/16 Data Visualization Summit * San Francisco, CA – Data Visualization in the Age of Mobile and Wearables
04/01/16 3-Week Online course on Wearable UX Design
03/11/16 SXSW 16 * Austin, TX – Data Visualization in the Age of Mobile and Wearables
01/25/16 BayCHI * San Francisco, CA – $1 Prototype for Wearables: Lean UX, Low-Fi Approach for Rapid Innovation (Keynote)
01/20/16 O’Reilly Design Conference * San Francisco, CA – $1 Prototype for Wearables: Lean UX, Low-Fi Approach for Rapid Innovation (1-day workshop, sold-out)
10/20/15 LeanUXAcademy Webinar – $1 Prototype for Wearables: Lean UX, Low-Fi Approach for Rapid Innovation
10/08/15 O’Reilly Media Lab * Sebastopol, CA – Sketching for UX (video course shooting session)
09/25/15 Agile Silicon Valley Conference * Santa Clara, CA – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation
09/22/15 Silicon Valley Innovation Center * San Mateo, CA – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation (1-day Workshop, sold-out)
09/17/15 BigDesign Conference * Addison, TX – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation Workshop (1-day workshop, sold-out)
05/07/15 Silicon Valley Innovation Center * San Mateo, CA – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation (Keynote)
04/21/15 Business to Buttons Conference * Stockholm – $1 Prototype: A Lean, Low-Fi Approach to Android Material Design and Rapid Innovation (TED-Style talk, sold-out)
03/17/15 SXSW15 * Austin, TX – $1 Prototype: Modern Methods for Mobile Design (half-day workshop, sold-out)
07/16/14 Multinational eCommerce Company * Buenos Aires, Argentina – Android L Material Design & RWD UX Design & Training Workshop (2-day Custom Workshop)
05/19/14 Sum of the Parts +++ Autodesk Speaker Series * San Francisco, CA $1 Prototype: A Modern Approach to Mobile UX Design and Rapid Innovation
05/02/14 Multinational Classifieds Company * Dubai, UAE – Android and Mobile Web UX Design & Training Workshop
03/10/14 SXSW14 * San Antonio, TX 10:00 am Book Signing: Android Design Patterns
03/09/14 SXSW14 * San Antonio, TX Advanced Agile Mobile Design Workshop: Android 4.x iOS 7 (1 Day)
02/27/14 Fortune 100 Financial Company * San Francisco, CA – 2-Day Mobile and Responsive Web Design Workshop
02/18/14 Bay Area Android Study Groups * Eventbrite, San Francisco Android Search and Refinement Design Patterns
02/12/14 Responsive Web Trends Conference * MoBoom, San Francisco Lean Mobile-First UX: Get Awesome Responsive Sites to Market Quickly
02/05/14 Bay Area UX/UI Mobile Design Meetup * Intuit HQ, Mountain View Designing Android 4 Apps for iOS Designers!
01/22/14 Mobile Payments and Value Added Services Summit * New York, NY Mobile Payment Technology Panel (with Dell and MasterCard) CANCELLED DUE TO STORM
12/07/13 General Assembly * San Francisco, CA Lean Mobile Design Workshop (1 Day)
11/08/13 San Francisco State University * San Francisco, CA Mobile UX/UI Design Intensive Certificate (3 CEU)
10/22/13 On Android Conf * San Francisco, CA Experimental Android UX Design Patterns
10/16/13 Latinoware * Iguassu, Brasil Keynote: Experimental Android Design Patterns
09/25/13 BayCHI * Yahoo! Sunnyvale, CA Designing Android 4 Apps for iOS Designers
09/12/13 The Mobile UX Summit * Rosenfeld Media Android 4.x Design: 5 Tips and a Case Study
08/22/13 UserTesting * Interview Celebrate Fragmentation, Search is Dead & When to Not Build Apps
08/20/13 UserTesting * Webinar Secrets of Mobile Success
08/19/13 Silicon Valley iOS Developers Meetup * San Francisco, CA Designing in Android 4.x for iOS folks
07/30/13 NoPanels * Mountain View, CA Mobile UX for Startups
07/20/13 Mobilek.it * Los Angeles, CA Agile Mobile Design Workshop
06/29/13 General Assembly * San Francisco, CA Agile Mobile Design Workshop 2-Day Series
06/11/13 USAA Bank * San Antonio, TX * Mobile Design Workshop (through Rosenfeld Media)
05/10/13 Oracle * Redwood Shores, CA Responsive Design Workshop (through Rosenfeld Media)
04/20/13 Mobile Camp Chicago * Chicago, IL Designing Mobile Magic Moments
03/12/13 South by Southwest * San Antonio, CA Agile Mobile Design Workshop Testimonials (4 min) | Video Sample (7 min)
02/09/13 World IA Day * Los Angeles, CA Designing Mobile Magic Moments Full Video (44 min)
02/17/13 UXI Studio * Tel-Aviv, Israel Keynote
02/19/13 UXI Studio * Tel-Aviv, Israel Agile Mobile Design Workshop
12/12/12 General Assembly UX Course by Christina Wodtke * San Francisco, CA Guest Lecture on Mobile Design
11/16/12 MobX * Berlin, Germany Keynote
11/15/12 MobX * Berlin, Germany Agile Mobile Design Workshop
08/23/12 Adaptive Path UXWeek * San Francisco, CA Practical Agile Mobile Design Workshop
07/16/12 Silicon Valley iOS Developers Meetup * StackMob, San Francisco, CA Designing Mobile Magic Moments
07/02/12 HULT University * San Francisco, CA Graduate Course: Advanced User Experience
06/19/12 eConsultancy Digital Cream * San Jose, CA Panel Discussion: Mobile UX Design
05/16/12 DesignCaffeine Virtual Seminar Cross Channel Design: Magic Mobile Moments
04/06/12 DesignCaffeine Virtual Seminar QR Codes That Convert: Mobile UX Strategies for Success
03/21/12 Information Architecture Summit * New Orleans, LA Cross-Channel Search: Design Approaches for Mobile and Tablet
03/05/12 DesignCaffeine Virtual Seminar How to make Agile work for your Mobile Design project
11/14/11 Search Engine Summit (SES) * Chicago, IL Panda vs. Human: Advanced eCommerce SEO & UX (with Jaimie Sirovich) Interview | Review
11/01/11 Enterprise Search Summit Fall * Washington, DC Ubiquitous Enterprise Search: New Design Approaches for Mobile and Tablet
10/23/11 GOLD SPONSOR: DrawCamp * Milwaukee, WI Agile Mobile Prototyping with Post-It Notes
10/22/11 SketchCamp Chi * Chicago, IL Agile Mobile Design Sketching
10/21/11 Marquette University * Milwaukee, WI Designing for Mobile & Tablet Workshop
05/28/11 SILVER SPONSOR: UX SketchCamp * San Francisco, CA Storyboarding iPad Transitions
05/25/11 WebVisions * Portland, OR Designing Effective Mobile Ecommerce Search
05/10/11 Enterprise Search Summit * New York, NY Designing Mobile Enterprise Search – Lessons From Mobile Ecommerce
01/19/11 Silicon Valley iOS Developers’ Meetup * LinkedIn HQ, Mountain View, CA Designing a Resourceful Mobile Search Experience
09/20/10 Design4Mobile * Chicago, IL Designing Resourceful Mobile E-Commerce Search
06/12/10 DrawCamp * Milwaukee, WI Storyboarding iPad Transitions
04/07/10 Information Architecture Summit * Phoenix, AZ Design Caffeine for Search and Browse UI
05/01/09 Net Squared Non-Profit Conference * San Jose, CA Experience Design for a Viral Mobile Community
04/13/08 Information Architecture Summit * Miami, FL How to set up and run participatory design sessions, analyze data and present results effectively