Abstract makes it easy for teams of all sizes to collaborate on Sketch files, knowing their work will never get lost or overwritten. In this webinar, Abstract CEO Josh Brewer will share why version control is the basis for all communication, and how ultimate clarity and transparency opens the door to more creativity and productivity. You’ll learn: ▪ Why version control is communication, transparency, and consensus ▪ How version control enables design to scale ▪ What are the cultural implications of a version control system? ☛ We’ll end the presentation with a brief Q&A. Hosted by Josh Brewer, Abstract CEO Twitter: @jbrewer

Design Sprints with Jake Knapp - 

The biggest challenges of building the best digital products are the same regardless of industry: How can you reduce bias and get everyone on the same page to build products your users actually want, faster?

Learn from the master when we bring Jake Knapp, author of the best-seller Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days to New York for our interactive, hands-on Design Sprints workshop.

In this day-long session, Jake will lead you through the five-stage sprint process that will enable you and your team to conquer complex business challenges. You’ll walk away with the tools, techniques, and framework that Slack, Google Ventures, Uber, and more use to validate solutions and answer big questions. Bring the process back to your team, or bring your whole team, and change product design for the better at your company.

After the workshop, plan to join the Design+ Drinks networking happy hour. The first half hour is exclusively for workshop attendees and other VIPs to network and meet the InVision team.

 - Wednesday, September 26, 2018

DesignX August is happening on August 29th @ Datadog!

We’ll be talking all things collaboration  – learn how to bring teams together, engage key stakeholders, and help keep collaboration at the center of your design process. We have three stellar design leaders who share their insights on engaging stakeholders as well as team members for a truly collaborative design process

The kickass lineup of speakers for the evening:

Heather Phillips, Director of Design @ Abstract, Previously @ Designer Fund, Airbnb

Josh Brewer, CEO Abstract, Previously Principal Designer @ Twitter

Maggie Mckosky, Head of UX & Product Design, Shutterstock, Previously @ Fab

After the presentations, we have an hour carved out for more casual networking! Drinks & Food will be there to accompany you on the great conversations with your peers from NYC’s design community.

Abstract has offered to cover half of your ticket cost, so tickets are only $10!

Grab a spot now!

Want to learn more about UX process with a real-world startup as an example? Join this hybrid event we are running at eBay's NYC office.

The event will start with UX design process overview. In this interactive session (with occasional questions from the audience), the instructor will cover UX basics and explain how the process works using a real startup from the incubator as an example. The presentation will be followed by more formal Q&A.

Are you prepared to successfully solve a whiteboarding design challenge in your next UX or product design interview? Whiteboarding design exercises can be an excellent way for companies to assess potential UX hires and more and more companies use those during the interview process. Join this workshop to learn what those whiteboarding design challenges are, why they are used and how to solve them in order to pass the interview.

Tuesday, March 13, 6:30 - 9:00 PM

👇Details and registration

Sketch 49 brings quite a few improvements. Some obvious like prototyping within Sketch and some less obvious like easier-to-look-at override panels and find-and-replace colors.

Agenda:
– Prototyping in Sketch
– Shared Libraries on Sketch Cloud
Read more about both

– Improved Find And Replace Colors:
I wrote a quick Medium post about this

– ProtoWire Demo (Advanced, responsive prototyping within Sketch)

– The Sketch 49 workshop and Protowire demo will be held by me
https://freeandwilling.com/fbmore

– Other speakers TBD. Reach out if you'd like to present!

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As usual if you are a student or can’t afford the ticket let me know and I’d be more than happy to sponsor you. Reach out at francesco@freeandwilling.com See you soon!

Thu, April 5, 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM

Are you looking to find a new UX role or break into the field? Do you know how hiring managers really look for, evaluate and select candidates and what is going on in their mind during the hiring process? It is quite important to understand that to be able to prepare and have an edge over many other candidates in a competitive job market. We invited a seasoned UX leader from Idean (a global design firm that works with the world's leading companies like IBM, Volkswagen and Samsung) to share those insights in a talk that will be followed by an interactive fireside chat.

Details and registration 👇

As more and more services will be integrating data science, machine learning, and other AI techniques how do you know if you are building the right thing? Through prototyping, of course! During this meetup we will give people techniques on how to prototype and research these systems before investing months into collecting/cleaning data and training a model. This will include a short workshop on prototyping for AI systems.

With almost 90 meetup groups around the world, our fast growing Community is a huge part of what makes Sketch great. Here's a roundup of the more than 40 events that have happened this year, so far.

Full-day Workshops in New York, US. Learn the basic tools and advanced techniques.

4 great Workshops Taught by Meng To, creator of Design+Code:

- Sketch
- React
- Swift
- ARKit

In partnership with Francesco Bertocci and Design&Prototype.

A discussion around the latest trends in UX, with real-life examples of how it can drive business success.

Hello Everyone! Lots of news and exciting new tools. :)I'll be giving an overview of some more advanced Sketch features and...