Spend time with the speakers and gain knowledge straight from the source. As usual many of the speakers at From Business to Buttons will host workshops the days before the conference. These workshops are very popular each year, so this time we have more workshops than ever! Including two (!) with last year's runaway success: Jake Knapp.
Wednesday May 6
Jake Knapp: Design Sprint Bootcamp
In this fun, fast-paced, hands-on workshop, you’ll learn the Design Sprint directly from its inventor.
Mike Monteiro: Design Ethics
By choosing to be a designer you are choosing to affect the people who come in contact with your work. Learn how to tell if your work will hurt or help those people and how to measure social impact alongside shareholder value.
Peter Merholz: Design Your Design Organization
Peter Merholz shines a light on the unsung activities of actually running a design team, the organizational and operational challenges and considerations, and what works and what doesn’t.
Erika Hall: Research Together – Make Critical Research Decisions on Evidence, not Speculation
Is your team making critical product decisions based on evidence or speculation? Just talking to customers isn’t enough. You need to start with shared goals and a clear process in order to end up with useful insights. This workshop will be a great help in doing so.
Thursday May 7
Jake Knapp: Design Sprint Advanced
Take your Design Sprint practice deeper in this choose-your-own-adventure workshop and seminar.
Brad Frost: Making and Maintaining Successful Design Systems
Design systems and provide solid ground for us to stand on as we tackle the increasingly diverse and fast-moving digital landscape. All the insights and resources you need to create and maintain a successful UI design system.
Margot Bloomstein: Building a Brand-Driven Message Architecture
Complement your practice of user experience design with brand-driven content strategy and learn how to facilitate and create a message architecture.
Indi Young: Listening Deeply – Understand People Before Solving Problems
Indi will teach you empathic listening skills and how to build self-awareness and humility into the tools you need both as a foundation for understanding users, and to forge strong collaborative relationships.
Melissa Perri: Becoming the Product Leader – Getting to VP and CPO
This workshop will go over what it takes to move up the organization, from a team level Product Manager into the executive suite.
Tickets are limited, and in previous years several workshops have sold out months in advance. All workshops will be held in central Stockholm.