What is KRUPA conference?

KRUPA is the biggest interface design conference in Eastern Europe. The event is held on April 6, 2019, in Kyiv. It gathers global design stars, UX leaders, aspiring designers, and UX teams, developing networking opportunities and raising design industry in Ukraine to a new level.

• 13 fantastic speakers are coming to the event from all over the world to share their real-life experience.
• 3000 attendees. KRUPA attendees are driven and focused interface designers, product managers, and design directors. It’s the biggest interface design related gathering in Eastern Europe.
• Cool venue. The conference is held in Sports Palace—a sports and concert complex located in the center of Kyiv, within walking distance from the subway station with the same name. Its capacity will allow comfortably accommodate spectators, food courts and entertainment. Indoor sports games, concerts, major exhibitions, and fairs are held in this hall.

Here’s a quick glance at the previous conference in 2018 whose keynote speaker was famous UX design guru Alan Cooper.

Reasons to attend Krupa in 2019

Touch the legend: for the first time in Ukraine, Don Norman, a design legend and the author of the term User Experience, co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and author of The Design of Everyday Things.

Get global insights with speakers from the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, Israel, and Ukraine. Join the experience of various participants in the global UX world.

Join a powerful community of specialists. Meet designers from Smashing Magazine, Airbnb, Figma, Wix, Mozilla, Soundcloud, Tubik Studio, Lun.ua, The23.design, and CloudMade.

Feel the creative drive at the largest conference on design interfaces in Eastern Europe.

Try the big platform of networking with other designers and specialists from various companies.

Speakers in 2019

Don Norman, Nielsen Norman Group Partner

Vitaly Friedman, Smashing Magazine editor-in-chief

Cole Mercer, ex-product manager at Soundcloud.com

Guillermo Torres, Airbnb Product Designer, ex-Google, Adobe

Zach Grosser, designer educator at Figma, ex-Square, Apple

Lior Pinco, Design director for Wix.com

Max Shirko, The23 creative director, curator at Projector

Alexander Ivanov, Head of Product at ЛУН and Flatfy, curator at Projector

Takeshi Horiuchi, UX Director for Age of Learning

Dmitry Starkov, senior UX designer at CloudMade

Sergey Valiukh, Tubik Studio creative director

Anna Kuntsman Rozenberg Creative Director Wix.com

Amin Al Hazwani, User Experience Designer at Mozilla Firefox

What does it feel like?

To get more insights into the atmosphere of the upcoming conference, let us share some photos from KRUPA 2018.

More information about speakers and the overall agenda can be found on the conference website. Join in!

Don’t miss the collection of inspiring TED-talks for designers and the list of handy tools for the UI/UX design process. 

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Today’s post presents the collection of videos featuring informative speeches from recognized experts in the sphere of creating digital products. They are devoted to different aspects of design for users and will definitely bring helpful and useful professional tips to UI/UX designers working over websites and mobile applications. So, enjoy watching, absorb knowledge, and get inspired!

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

Designing Meaningful Animation

by Val Head

The Top 10 Things You Need to Know about Perception

by Susan Weinschenk

Designing Emotional Experiences

by Aarron Walter

Mind tricks & 7 Secrets of Behavioural Economics for UX Designer

by Lanny Geffen

How product design can change the world

by Christiaan Maats

How to manage for collective creativity

by Linda Hill

The complex relationship between data and design in UX

by Rochelle King

The art of innovation

by Guy Kawasaki

Why UX is not only the Responsibility of the UX’er

by Janne Jul Jensen

The Cognitive Abilities of Human Beings – Why Some Things are so Darn Hard!

by Janne Jul Jensen

Building a Winning UX Strategy Using the Kano Model

by Jared Spool

User eXperience

by Jesse James Garrett

Designing Better Conversations

by Justin Davis

Empathy: your secret weapon in designing for the web

by Nathalie Nahai

Welcome to check out 20 TED-talks for Designers

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One of the productive and highly professional ways to inspiration is TED. Perhaps you remember the collections we have already suggested watching: 20 TED talks for designers about diverse design issues and 10 TED-talks for creatives from different spheres. Today we’re going to recommend you a new set of informative and insightful TED and TEDx-talks presented by recognized international experts.

Here is the collection of 10 TED-talks all with the descriptions given on the TED website or YouTube presentations. This time they are focused on the issues of graphic design. Most of them are already classic, sometimes even could be called legendary, and that makes them even more precious as they have been successfully checked with time and practice. The ability to analyze take the best from the past usually broadens the creative horizons and becomes a solid foundation for innovative thinking. So, enjoy watching and feel the energy of great masters!

My life in typefaces by Matthew Carter

Pick up a book, magazine or screen, and more than likely you’ll come across some typography designed by Matthew Carter. In this charming talk, the man behind typefaces such as Verdana, Georgia and Bell Centennial (designed just for phone books — remember them?), takes us on a spin through a career focused on the very last pixel of each letter of a font.

Intricate beauty by design by Marian Bantjes

In graphic design, Marian Bantjes says, throwing your individuality into a project is heresy. She explains how she built her career doing just that, bringing her signature delicate illustrations to storefronts, valentines and even genetic diagrams.

The art of first impressions — in design and life by Chip Kidd

Book designer Chip Kidd knows all too well how often we judge things by first appearances. In this hilarious, fast-paced talk, he explains the two techniques designers use to communicate instantly — clarity and mystery — and when, why and how they work. He celebrates beautiful, useful pieces of design, skewers less successful work, and shares the thinking behind some of his own iconic book covers.

Designing books is no laughing matter. OK, it is. by Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd doesn’t judge books by their cover, he creates covers that embody the book — and he does it with a wicked sense of humor. In one of the funniest talks from TED2012, he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs. This talk is from The Design Studio session at TED2012, guest-curated by Chee Pearlman and David Rockwell.

Can design save newspapers? by Jacek Utko

Jacek Utko is an extraordinary Polish newspaper designer whose redesigns for papers in Eastern Europe not only win awards, but increase circulation by up to 100%. Can good design save the newspaper? It just might.

Why write? Penmanship for the 21st Century by Jake Weidmann

What is the future of writing in the digital age, and why does it matter? In this surprising talk, Master Penman Jake Weidmann explores the connections between the pen and how we learn, think, and carry our cultural heritage at a time when the very act of writing is being dropped from school curricula across the country.

Jake Weidmann became the youngest person to receive his Master Penman certificate in July 2011. He works across several mediums including drawing in pencil and charcoal; pen and ink; painting in acrylic, airbrush, oil and gouache; sculpting in wood, bone, antler and clay; and is versed in numerous forms of calligraphy. He is best known for the integration of flourishing and hand- lettering in his art. Jake also designs his own hand-made pens. He, like his pens, travels the globe, reintroducing this Old World art form and cultivating its relevance in the world of today, of tomorrow, and forevermore.

The beauty of data visualization by David McCandless

David McCandless turns complex data sets (like worldwide military spending, media buzz, Facebook status updates) into beautiful, simple diagrams that tease out unseen patterns and connections. Good design, he suggests, is the best way to navigate information glut — and it may just change the way we see the world.

Wake up & smell the fonts by Sarah Hyndman

Sarah shares with us a story of type and invites us to consider our emotional response to the printed word. Each font/typeface has a personality that influences our interpretation of the words we read by evoking our emotions and setting the scene. We all understand this instinctively but it happens on a subconscious level. Sarah shows us that conscious awareness of the emotional life of fonts can be entertaining and ultimately give us more control over the decisions we make.

Designer Sarah Hyndman explores typography as we experience it in our every day lives under the banner of Type Tasting. Since the launch in 2013 she’s curated an exhibition at the V&A for the London Design Festival, been interviewed on Radio 4’s Today, taken Type Tasting to South by Southwest in Austin, Texas and has been commissioned to write a book.

Sarah has been a graphic designer for over 15 years, working in agencies before setting up design company With Relish. After studying an MA in Typo/Graphics at the London College of Communication she was invited back as a guest tutor.

Typography – now you see it by Shelley Gruendler

Dr Shelley Gruendler is a typographer, designer, and educator who teaches, lectures, and publishes internationally on typography and design. When she is not traveling the world as the founding director of Type Camp International, she is proud to live in the Canadian Typographic Archipelago.

The art of kinetic typography by Dan Boyarski

Dan Boyarski is professor and former head of the School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, where he has been for thirty-two years. His interests lie in visualizing complex information, interface and interaction design, and how word, image, sound, and movement may be combined for effective communication. In the spring of 1999, the Design Management Institute awarded Dan the Muriel Cooper Prize for “outstanding achievement in advancing design, technology, and communications in the digital environment.”

Check out the updates here, new collections of wise creative thoughts are already around the corner!

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Welcome to check 20 TED-talks for designers, video speeches for product designers, and a set of books for designers

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To support this idea, here at Design4Users, we launched a new section called “D4U Expertise“. It will collect diverse ideas, talks, cases, and tips from expert designers presenting various directions of design to help users. Ultimately, we are going to have here the set of materials that will be helpful and inspiring both for experienced professionals and for those who only start their path in any of the design directions.

This post aims to draw your attention to a worldwide known and recognized graphic designer, Chip Kidd, a person of great talent and amazing humor.

Biography

According to his personal website presenting the incredible variety of his works, Chip Kidd is an award-winning graphic designer and writer in New York. His groundbreaking book jacket designs for Alfred A. Knopf have elevated the form for close to three decades. He’s worked with hundreds of writers, including John Updike, Katharine Hepburn, Cormac McCarthy, Henry Louis Gates Jr., James Ellroy, Karen Russell, Michael Crichton, David Sedaris, Sharon Olds, Orhan Pamuk, Paul Simon, Neil Gaiman, and Haruki Murakami. His first novel, The Cheese Monkeys, was a national bestseller. His most recent book, Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design, is the first book to teach graphic design to children and has over 60,000 copies in print.

As an editor and art director for Pantheon Graphic novels, he’s worked with and published some of the very best cartoonists in the world, including Chris Ware, Art Spiegelman, Dan Clowes, David Mazzucchelli, Charles Burns, Michael Cho, and Alex Ross. He is the recipient of the National Design Award for Communications, and his TED Talk has been viewed over 1.3 million times.

He has produced so many recognizable graphic design ideas for book covers that plenty of people worldwide know those images, although they have never heard the name of their creator. he deeply believes that the cover is a piece of functional art, the chance to attract readers with a memorable first impression given to the book by the designer. Even more, the book cover should give a mental and emotional message from the very first seconds of its meeting with a reader via its title and cover.

Let’s take a look at some of these famous covers that have become a great blend of art traditions, careful analysis of the book itself, and creative experiments that brought the world new “Kidd’s philosophy” of book cover design.

Book covers by Chip Kidd

The designs, featuring some of the huge collections accomplished by the designer over the years, are presented in random, non-chronological order.

Ted-talks

Ted-talks by Chip Kidd inspire a huge number of artists transferring precious practical tips and personal experience. They definitely differ from usual lectures or public speeches by means of his humor and non-standard performance. However, with him this trick works and the jokes create a good contrast to highly serious messages he transfers to the audience.

This is one of the funniest talks from TED2012, where he shows the art and deep thought of his cover designs and also makes you smile and laugh all the time.

The stories can be anything, and some of them are actually true. But they all have one thing in common: They all need to look like something. They all need a face. Why? To give you a first impression of what you are about to get into. A book designer gives form to content but also manages a very careful balance between the two. (Chip Kidd)

So even though we love publishing as an art, we very much know it’s a business too, and that if we do our jobs right and get a little lucky, that great art can be great business. (Chip Kidd)

In this hilarious, fast-paced talk, he explains the two techniques designers use to communicate instantly — clarity and mystery — and when, why and how they work. He celebrates beautiful, useful pieces of design, skewers less successful work, and shares the thinking behind some of his own iconic book covers.

Clarity or mystery? I’m balancing these two things in my daily work as a graphic designer, as well as my daily life as a New Yorker every day, and there are two elements that absolutely fascinate me. (Chip Kidd)

Lectures and interviews

Here we have also collected several videos giving more insights of Chip Kidds life and professional path and containing a great deal of useful tips for designers based on extensive practice. Enjoy!

Lecture at Hammer Museum

Chip Kidd interview: What the Stories Look Like – Conversations from Penn State

Chip Kidd Insights Lecture

Chip Kidd’s speech at OFFSET 2009

Shelf Life 2: Chip Kidd

Image Credit: Hammer Museum

Get inspired, stay tuned, don’t miss new stories about inspiring experts!

Recommended links:

Chip Kidd’s official website
Chip Kidd: Go Ahead and “Judge This” (interview)
Chip Kidd on Twitter

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Ten wise tips by Steve Krug

If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can’t see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it. (Steve Krug)

Designers love subtle cues, because subtlety is one of the traits of sophisticated design. But Web users are generally in such a hurry that they routinely miss subtle cues. (Steve Krug)

The problem is there are no simple “right” answers for most Web design questions (at least not for the important ones). What works is good, integrated design that fills a need—carefully thought out, well executed, and tested. (Steve Krug)

Experts are rarely insulted by something that is clear enough for beginners. Everybody appreciates clarity. (Steve Krug)

If something requires a large investment of time—or looks like it will—it’s less likely to be used. (Steve Krug)

Your primary role should be to share what you know, not to tell people how things should be done. (Steve Krug)

Another needless source of question marks over people’s heads is links and buttons that aren’t obviously clickable. As a user, I should never have to devote a millisecond of thought to whether things are clickable—or not. (Steve Krug)

Making every page or screen self-evident is like having good lighting in a store: it just makes everything seem better. (Steve Krug)

Nothing important should ever be more than two clicks away. (Steve Krug)

…usability is about people and how they understand and use things, not about technology. (Steve Krug)

Ten wise tips by Donald Norman

What makes something simple or complex? It’s not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has. It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates. (Donald Norman)

It’s the total experience that matters. And that starts from when you first hear about a product… experience is more based upon memory than reality. If your memory of the product is wonderful, you will excuse all sorts of incidental things. (Donald Norman)

The whole point of human-centered design is to tame complexity, to turn what would appear to be a complicated tool into one that fits the task, that is understandable, usable, enjoyable. (Donald Norman)

Attractive things work better… When you wash and wax a car, it drives better, doesn’t it? Or at least feels like it does. (Donald Norman)

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions. (Donald Norman)

Design is really an act of communication, which means having a deep understanding of the person with whom the designer is communicating. (Donald Norman)

Everything has a personality: everything sends an emotional signal. Even where this was not the intention of the designer, the people who view the website infer personalities and experience emotions. (Donald Norman)

Designers know too much about their product to be objective judges: the features they have come to love and prefer may not be understood or preferred by the future customers. (Donald Norman)

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible. (Donald Norman)

Engineers and designers simultaneously know too much and too little. They know too much about the technology and too little about how other people live their lives and do their activities. (Donald Norman)

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