Pixel Up! UX Conference
For UX and UI designers PIXEL UP! is Africa's premier international UX and digital product design conference. With speakers from Facebook, Twitter and Dropbox, it takes place on September 12-14 at the Turbine Hall in Johannesburg.
PIXEL UP! has 12 speakers who have designed at companies including Apple, Twitter, Facebook, Motorola, Nokia, and Dropbox. The speakers will give talks and workshops on emerging topics in User Experience and digital product design.
The speaker roster draws from thinkers and designers who work on digital products used by hundreds of millions of people every day. This is a first for design in Africa.
Key speakers include:
- Martin Pedrick, Design Lead, Dropbox NYC
- Brad Frost, Web developer
- Jon Bell, Product Designer, Twitter
- William van Hecke, Product Designer, Facebook
- Jina Bolton, Design Lead, SalesforceUX
Monday 12 and Tuesday 13 September are conference days filled with inspirational talks. Wednesday 14th September has 3 parallel full day, hands-on workshop.
The internet has transformative potential in Africa. Hundreds of millions of internet-capable devices are in use here every day. To harness that potential, designers must understand how to deliver brilliant products and services to those millions of screens. This, according to Farai Madzima, a PIXEL UP! organiser.
"Its seems obvious that mobile and web apps will transform retail, education, health and even government." Madzima said. "But what's less obvious is how to create products that customers will love. Apps like WhatsApp have succeeded because of many small deliberate product design and management decisions. These decisions took WhatsApp from just another chat app, to becoming a critical part of daily life for 990 million people. The time is ripe to gather professionals in the digital product space to better understand what tools, processes and skills lead to digital products that customers will love."
Delivered by Ampli5yd and sponsored by FreeThinking, PIXEL UP! brings together local and international product designers, developers and managers from Financial Services, Retail, Health, Education and more.
Registration is open and tickets are on-sale now on the PIXEL UP! website http://pixelup.co.za/tickets.
For all enquiries, please contact
Calton Nhando
Email: calton@ampli5yd.com
Date: September 12-14, 2016
Venue: Turbine Hall, Newtown, Johannesburg
More info:
65 Ntemi Piliso St,
Johannesburg,
2001,
South Africa
Ampli5yd Product Management Firm - www.ampli5yd.com
FreeThinking Business Consultants - freethinking.co.za
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Venue: Turbine Hall, Johannesburg
Cost: Super Early Bird Tickets - R4,750