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Why it's awesome

Often conference workshops are inspiring in the moment, but when Monday rolls around and co-workers ask, "So what did you learn?" — that question is hard to answer. Designers find themselves wondering how to apply exercises that were designed for a workshop setting, but not necessarily the real world.

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OOUX workshops are different. They are visual, engaging, collaborative, and often "mind-bending" in the moment. But when it comes time to use OOUX principles on a current project, participants will experience new confidence in tackling complexity and breaking down a problem. The OOUX process is a repeatable formula for creating elegantly simple and intuitive UX. And after a half-day workshop with Sophia, your conference attendees will be set up with incredibly valuable tools to do just that.

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If your conference attracts UXers, developers, and digital product professionals that deal with:

organizing massive amounts of information,
synthesizing research into clean structured content,
facilitating a more collaborative team environment,
or working within complex enterprise environments...

then this popular half-day workshop will be a perfect addition for your event's schedule.

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The Agenda

Introduction to Object-Oriented UX, an Interactive Lecture

two hours, one 5-minute break

🤓 Invite the whole company! Sophia Prater will lead the group through an introduction to OOUX and the ORCA process that will engage your product and design team, your developers, the C-suite, marketing, project management and everyone in-between. This interactive lecture features plenty of exercises, participation, and real-world examples.

Explore the cognitive science that backs up OOUX.
Get a tour of the ORCA process of defining objects, relationships, calls-to-action, and attributes.
Learn about the four types of unintuitive objects that can easily creep into your designs without the help of OOUX.

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Agenda

Hour 1: Introducing Object-Oriented UX

(quick 5 minutes break)

Hour 2: An overview of the ORCA process. For each pillar of ORCA (objects, relationships, calls-to-action, and attributes) will will review important terms, the cognitive psychology, the UX fail associated with ignoring it, and the methodologies used by OOUXers.

We will have about 10-15 minutes for discussion and questions at the end!

Workshop: ORCA Discovery

four hours, two 15-minute breaks

Up to 40 participants. Bring in a cross-functional group of UXers, Product Owners, Developers.

In this workshop, we will dive into Discovery, OOUX-style. The first round of ORCA helps us begin to transform research/goals into structure. Teams uncover complexity EARLY and come up with more questions than answers—questions that should be tackled by additional research.

find and define objects from a custom design challenge, created just for your organization.
map object relationships using a system model and a nested-object matrix
brainstorm CTAs by user role
Depending on time, we might get started on the process of structuring objects with attributes.

More Details

Our half-day workshops can be scaled to 3 to 4 hours. If you event has a theme, we'll create a design challenge that aligns to the conference theme.

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How does a half-day workshop compare to a full day workshop?

During the full-day workshops we will use a more complex design challenge and have more time in each activity. The Half-day workshop is a whirlwind, while the full-day workshop allows participants to dig deeper into the methodology. We also take more time for questions and discussion during the full-day workshop.