November design lab
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🎟Ticket information
Get yourself an Eventbrite ticket and you'll be good to attend. Get yours here ➡️ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/berlin-design-lab-november-tickets-78607460029
🏆Raffle & Giveaways
Thanks to our sponsors at Sketch we will be giving away two FREE Sketch licenses. Show up, collect your raffle ticket and the winners will be announced at the end.
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🗓Schedule 🗓
6:30- Open for arrivals & drinks
6:55 – Welcome & introduction
7:00 - Talk one
7:20 - Q&A
7:30 - Talk two
8:00 - Q&A
8:10 - Open Mic Session*
8:20 - Raffle & close event
8:35 - Networking
9:00 - Event close
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⚡️Talk: Challenges in designing digital experiences for African market
Most of digital products built these days focus mostly on European and American markets. When designing them, we can often rely on well-known patterns. But are these patterns still relevant if we're building for other markets?
With booming economies in Asia and Africa, we will soon need to be able to design for them as well. During our talk we're going to share lessons learned from building a premium e-commerce and logistics platform for West-African markets.
We're going to cover major differences and challenges that we faced during the process. From payments to managing day-to-day interactions of customers on the platform, working on this project proved to be an opportunity to deploy carefully created custom user-experiences.
Speakers:
Jonathan Gall is a business-oriented designer passionate about helping entrepreneurs. He is a Product Designer with hands-on experience in both Product Management and Software Development. During his 15+ years of experience in the software industry, he has shipped hundreds of solutions to clients throughout the world. Before founding his Design Studio, he previously led Product Design at the Innovation department of Brown Brothers Harriman. Since he both launched and helped start-ups to ship their first products.
@odajay
Rafal Cymerys is a managing partner at a full-service digital agency Upside (https://upsidelab.io/) that focuses on connected customer experiences. With strong engineering background, Rafal helps his clients design and build solutions that leverage modern technologies. Prior to starting his own business he led multiple big-data projects for a global media company.
@rafalcymerys
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⚡️Talk: Designing for Chaos - A thing or two about building Design Systems in dynamic product environments
Abstract: Building a product design infrastructure is essential for any successful product, yet quite challenging. Specifically in dynamic product environments, where business, product, and tech are heavily focused on experimenting and iterating fast. In this talk, we will have a deeper look into how to efficiently build a proper design infrastructure or a Design System, in addition to exploring at what stage doing such a project would be actually beneficial for the product.
Speaker: Ahmed Ali
An award-winning Design Leader with over ten years of experience spearheading projects that leave a lasting, invaluable impact on digital products and brands. I’m a design enthusiast originally from Cairo. I believe Design is at the heart of everything we do in our everyday life. Previously, leading the UX Design team at Vodafone Egypt and Currently Head of Product Design at AirHelp, together with my team of Designers, Researchers, and Writers, we’re shaping the future and the culture of Design at AirHelp with Users at the Centre of our thinking process, and Business Goals in our minds.
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November design lab