August design lab

Welcome to design lab London. A community of designers that get together each month to talk shop, share ideas and designs, and get to know one another. This month we are being hosted at WeWorks.

IMPORTANT: You will need an Eventbrite registration to enter this event.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/august-design-lab-london-tickets-48592895659

GIVEAWAYS: We will be giving away two FREE Sketch licenses in a raffle & some design lab swag on the night.

This month we welcome and thank Potato (https://p.ota.to/) who are supporting this event.

Schedule:

6:20- Open for arrivals & drinks
6:55 – Welcome& introduction
7:00 - Talk one
7:20 - Q&A
7:30 - Talk two
7:50 - Q&A
8:00 - Open Mic Session*
8:10 - Raffle & close event
8:15 Pizza and networking

Talk one: Creating animations in apps with no coding experience.

Meylin will give you an overview of how designers at Peak create wonderful animations in their app with the help of open source tool - Lottie. The talk will cover how the tool works and how the team applies it to both iOS and Android platforms by not wasting development time to create delightful user journeys. She will share the learnings of Peak's design team on their journey to exploring the tool, the collaboration between teams and the KPI for measuring animations in digital products.

Note: Lottie is an iOS, Android, and React Native library that renders After Effects animations in real time, allowing apps to use animations as easily as they use static images.

Speaker: Meylin Bayryamali

Meylin is a product designer for Peak – Brain Training, previously doing agency work for Loreal, Lacoste, Bafta, The Economist and more. She applies a combination of creativity and critical thinking to designing profitable and user-friendly products that people love. With a demonstrated history of working in the health wellness and self-improvement industry, skilled in UX, UI, animation and interaction design. Meylin strongly believes that "Good design is good business!".

Twitter: https://twitter.com/MBayryamali

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Talk two: Reducing risk with lean product development methodologies

How to get from a business problem to a testable solution. Best practices and examples of what works and what doesn’t, from a 5 week validation phase.

Speakers:

Aisling Foley
Aisling Foley is a senior product designer at Potato, a product development agency. She works alongside startups, scale ups and large corporations to create effective digital solutions through hypothesis development, lean experimentation and rapid validation.

She’s at her happiest taking complex problems and creating simple intuitive solutions by uncovering user needs and balancing these with business objectives.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/foleyaisling/

SimonAmor
Simon Amor is a product designer at Potato. He’s currently designing end-to-end digital products for some of the world’s largest companies. For fun he works on front end development projects using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

Twitter - @SimonRAmor
LinkedIn - www.linkedin.com/in/simon-amor

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