Design tools are constantly evolving, with new ones poping-up and old ones going out of style at an impressive rate. It can be hard to keep track of what’s with trying out, and which ones to skip. To this end, I would like to present you to a new tool that I’ve been playing around with recently, and I absolutely think is worth a try: ProtoPie.
ProtoPie is a tool for creating high-fidelity prototypes. Feature that really make this tool unique are the ability to have several prototypes interact with each other, the ability to prototypes voice interfaces and the possibility to integrate hardware. During this session, I would like to show you the basic workflow in Protopie, as well as showcase some of it’s more advanced features so you can decide for yourself if it’s a tool worth trying for your next project.

Hi, I’m Laszlo! I’m a designer with a strong passion for experimenting, building, hacking and testing to find practical solutions to problems, small or big. After graduating with a degree in Industrial Design & Technology, I found myself working in the field of Digital Fabrication and Rapid Prototyping (super fun!). Eventually I found my way into UX/UI design by becoming the resident designer of the Innovation Lab at Zalando, a German e-commerce company. Then, I decided that Germany was too cold and moved to Lisbon, where I have happily been designing infotainment systems for BMW and MINI vehicles for about 2 years now.

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Artificial intelligence (AI) holds great potential to empower us, humans, with knowledge and optimized performance. To improve the progress of AI systems, we must ensure that we design solutions that fulfill the success criteria required for a good experience.
This session will introduce some topics related with human factors in order to guide the creation of AI systems that are adoptable, intelligible, usable, trustable and valuable.

Sandra Mouta is the Head of Training of Tangível Academy, trainer of the UX-PM international certification and integrated researcher at CINTESIS - Center for Research in Health Technologies and Services. She holds a PhD in Experimental Psychology and Cognitive Sciences and a specialization in Human Engineering. Her research interests and professional experience are focused on the application of Human Factors knowledge and User-Centered methodologies in the development of interfaces, products and systems, especially for the domains of transportation, health and digital services.

João Rui Peixoto and Luís Ferreira, Scrum Master and UX designer at Critical TechWorks will share their experience as members of an Agile Team that works with BMW shopfloor.

They will share their experience on an Agile project from the BMW shopfloor, and some stories that could help you in the future because we believe, that we only grow if we share it (and it can be a weiss beer).

The Designathon was based on the Design Sprint method and the goal was to have the participants prototype a design solution for a Firefighters' Unit to manage resources during the missions. The theme is very close to our hearts as we undergo many forest fires in the summer every year, being that in 2017 many people died trying to espace a fire but didn't manage to do it because of a communication problem between the devices of the various entities involved (SIRESP). We believe design can change lives and we have a fun weekend to prove it together with solutions that can help minimize human action and maximize the decision making and management.

António Silva is a Collaborator and Consultant for issues of accessibility and usability at the University of Porto's Student Support Office with Special Educational Needs.

Bruno Giesteira is a Professor at the University of Porto's Department of Design, with the main research interests in Cognitive Ergonomics and Human Factors; UX. Senior Researcher at INESC TEC: "Systems Center for Information and Computer Graphics".

This session stems from the presentation on World Usability Day titled: "The Evilness of The Design of Everyday Things" - http://wud.eventos.ccg.pt/.

At a time when concepts as "Internet of Things" become more widespread we ask ourselves what is the current reality of traditional devices for worldly use? Being connected and sharing information between devices and humans, how are the interfaces being treated in an accessibility point of view? Are we not overly dazzled by technology at the expense of a more inclusive and user-centered design?

Sónia is a Product Design Team Lead at Prozis. She has been passionately designing with awesome people at awesome companies like Betfair, Blip, Tigerspike and Net-A-Porter. Currently, at Prozis, she is looking after the product design team aiming to influence and scale the design culture. She focuses on implementing and spreading a DesignOps mindset. Sónia is also trainer at Edit and mentor at The New Digital School. She is a member of the Design Leadership Forum by InVision.

Sónia will share her perspective around the impact of a design system when scaling product design and some tips on how designers can find a balance between consistency and creativity.

Can you spot usability amazing feats or humongous problems?

To celebrate the World Usability Day, PortoUX and CCG - Centro de Computação Gráfica - are joining forces and invited Beth Goldman from Feedzai and Maggie Law from Okta to share with us their great experiences regarding designing for good or evil. Beth will be with us at UPTEC Porto and Maggie will join us remotely from San Francisco.

Let's Celebrate Usability! Join us!

Founder of uiux.pt, a Portuguese Blog dedicated to Digital Design and Web & Mobile Interfaces with the goal to create Portuguese written content.

João is sharing with us his experience as a UXD: UX in agency vs UX in product, the Human being as a user, and emotions as allies of Experience and Usability.