Creating Usability with Motion with Issara Willenskomer
Tuesday April 30, 2019 / 9:00AM - 5:00PM
The Assembly
San Francisco, CA
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“As a designer it is crucial to be able to pitch and sell your designs. Knowing the vocabulary and informed reasoning will help you get traction of your design by the stakeholders and team members. This workshop has helped on that.”
Mhung, UX Designer, Mindbody, San Luis Obispo
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“Our team learned how the language and vocabulary of motion in user experiences differs from classic motion design. These foundational elements help inform our decisions in regards to ongoing instruction from Issara.”
Christopher, Communication Designer, Slack, San Francisco
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“A solid workshop that explains the principles of motion in user experiences. This helps our developers, designers, and product managers develop vocabulary and mental models which will enhance our communication quality.”
Bruce, Software Developer, Kayak, Boston
Workshop outcomes
Expand CX solution space
Begin using motion as a problem solving tool to support mental models and manage cognitive load in users, while validating motion ideas through a usability framework geared to add tangible value to your product.
Acquire new design vocabulary for ideation and presentation of motion
Learn how to quickly ideate motion using affordances and signifiers while utilizing a shared linguistic framework to quickly pinpoint and solve UX challenges through motion based solutions.
Synergize collaboration between stakeholders, designers, and engineers
Meet core strategic product development objectives and minimize friction by aligning all parties through versatile low impact ideation and analytical conversation based tools.
Effectively communicate the value of motion
Learn an ROI and metrics based approach to clearly communicate the value of motion, in the language that stakeholders understand.
Accelerate timelines and conserve budget with paper prototyping
Downscale your reliance on engineers by shifting motion leadership back to designers and engaging in high ROI activities to quickly and effectively communicate concepts and vet ideas.
About the workshop
Join award-winning designer and UX motion expert Issara Willenskomer for a day-long workshop to learn project-based tools for ideating, analyzing, and presenting motion and usability concepts. You’ll walk away with a deep understanding of and language for how animation not only makes the user experience more delightful but is fundamental to a seamless product experience by solving usability problems.
Through a combination of lecture, drawing, and presentation exercises, you’ll dive deep into the methodology of motion innovation and analysis to develop a powerful context for understanding and communicating the value of motion, including how to use motion to solve design challenges, minimize the impact of context switching, and manage cognitive load. Issara will also teach you tactics to sell ROI-based motion ideas to stakeholders and team members.
Interested in learning more about Issara's approach? Check out his article Creating Usability with Motion: The UX in Motion Manifesto.
Plan to stick around after the workshop as we head to happy hour around the corner.
Workshop schedule
9:00am – 9:30am
9:30am – 10:00am
10:00am – 10:30am
10:30am – 10:40am
10:40pm – 12:30pm
12:30pm – 1:30pm
1:30pm – 3:30pm
3:30pm – 3:40pm
3:40pm – 4:45pm
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Introduction
Creating a motion library & Exercise #1
Paper prototyping motion
βοΈ Morning refreshments break
Ideation & Exercise #2
π Lunch
Mental models & Exercise #3
π₯ Afternoon refreshments break
How to sell motion & Exercise #4
Synthesis and recap
Who should attend
Designers
UX, UI, and Product Designers benefit from learning how to ideate and present motion.
Engineers
Engineers and developers acquire tools for collaborating and innovating better products.
Stakeholders
Stakeholders, product managers and team leaders will learn new ways to manage and deliver motion projects.
Issara Willenskomer
Instructor
Issara Willenskomer is an award-winning designer and educator. With over 15 years of interaction and motion design experience, Issara has worked with an impressive list of clients including Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Nordstrom, Amazon, HBO, MTV, AT&T, Motorola, T-Mobile, UNAIDS, HTC, Philips, and more. Issara has personally trained the design teams in the topic of motion and usability, at Dropbox, Slack, Airbnb, Salesforce, Oracle. Issara currently teaches motion innovation both online and in the real world.
FAQs
Are there team discounts?
Yes. Companies sending more than 4 people qualify for team discounts. Email [email protected] for details.
Are tickets transferable?
Once approved, yes. To request a ticket transfer, please email [email protected]. All requests must be made 72 hours prior to the event.
Should I bring anything?
You don't need a computer, supplies, or anything special for this session. We'll provide food and beverages all day. Just show up well rested!
What time should I plan on arriving?
Plan on arriving by 8:30AM to check in, enjoy breakfast, and mingle with fellow attendees. Workshop content begins promptly at 9:00AM.
Force Majeure
In the event UX in Motion is prevented from holding the workshop as a result of any cause beyond its control, such as but not limited to acts of God, war, acts of terrorism, airline flight cancellations, strikes, lock-outs, flood, commercially unfeasible or failure of third parties to deliver goods or services, InVision will refund the full cost of attendees’ tickets to the credit card used in the original transaction within 90 days. In the event InVision is prevented from holding the workshop as a result of any cause beyond its control, InVision is not responsible for any travel or accommodation expenses, fees, or penalties incurred by attendees.
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“This workshop made me notice the smaller details in transitions. As an app developer, applying the 12 Principles whenever appropriate will definitely make the customers of my app happy.”
Peeral, App developer at Lutron, Philadelphia
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“This workshop offers you a chance to quickly learn and discuss high level usability and motion examples in an open format. Wishing I could do this workshop weekly with my entire team!”
Andre, Visual Designer, Bank of America, Oakland
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“Very helpful in allowing me to ‘see’ motion. Before this workshop I glazed over the motion or saw it more as a delight element. Now I have the language and awareness to analyze motion effectiveness and the understanding to start designing supportive motion for UX.”
Cura, UX Designer, Cisco, San Jose
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“This has been a great learning experience with a lot of in-depth knowledge and real world examples to demonstrate all the talking points. The exercises are also a great learning tool for me to retain all the information from the workshop. Issara has a great personality when he teaches. Really enjoyed the workshop!”
Viet, Designer at Slack, San Francisco
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“Transitioning the language from ‘swoosh’ to ‘easing/offset and delay’ offers a different level of confidence when presenting and justifying solutions. Linguistics frameworks! Learning about easing curves was really helpful too!”
Mason, Lead UX Designer at Mindbody, San Luis Obispo
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"This workshop has been helpful in breaking down motion into talking points to be able to discuss why or why not something’s working. Running through examples also helps to see how one would critique motion, as well as dissect why it’s done that way and the meaning it was meant to convey. Overall, I think this course has helped to look at motion with a critical and dissecting eye to improve or recreate."
Jennifer, UX/UI Designer at Lutron, Coopersburg, PA
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“This workshop was great for understanding how motion can either help or hinder usability. We discussed both good and bad uses of motion in real-world products. This workshop also supplied us with a common vocabulary that facilitates discussion and idea exchange.”
Liliana, Engineering Manager, Kayak, Boston
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“I came to this workshop with no knowledge on motion and walked away with a really good perspective on principles on motion, and analyzing motion design examples to learn from them and when/where to add delight and value to the product.”
Angad, Interaction Designer, Cisco, San Jose
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“Having a standard/common language to share ideas about motion in UX is key to collaborating, and pitching motion design concepts. Also understanding the difference between motion for entertainment vs similar principles for UX goals.”
John, CTO/Developer, The Campfire Union, Winnipeg
