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Warm Gun: Designing Happiness

Friday, October 8, 2010 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PT)

San Francisco, CA

Warm Gun: Designing Happiness

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
Limited Release - Student / Non-Profit Ended $135.00 $0.00
Limited Release - Startup / Independent Designer
"Startup" means you've raised less than $5M in capital. "Indie" means you are a designer/developer independent of a company or running a company with 5 employees or less.
Ended $235.00 $0.00
Limited Release - Business, Investor & Everyone Else Ended $335.00 $0.00

Event Details

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Brought to you by 500 Startups, Warm Gun is a new 1-day conference for designers & non-designers to learn about elegant, purposeful, and measurable online design.


SPEAKERS


  Geoffrey Miller, Author  



 
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Geoffrey Miller
Author


 
Spent: Sex, Evolution,
and Consumer Behavior

Spent
 
  The Mating Mind: How Sexual Choice Shaped the Evolution of Human Nature  The Mating Mind
Margaret Gould Stewart
Mark Skaggs Jeff Veen

NEW! Margaret Gould Stewart
UX Manager



NEW! Mark Skaggs
VP Product Development

NEW! Jeff Veen
Founder

YouTube
 
Zynga Typekit
Leland Rechis Irene Au Kate Aronowitz
NEW! Leland Rechis
Mobile UX Lead

Irene Au
Director, UX


Kate Aronowitz
Director of Design

Twitter
 
Google Facebook
Jared Spool Joshua Porter Luke Wroblewski
NEW! Jared Spool
CEO & Founding Principal, UIE
Joshua Porter
Author

Luke Wroblewski
Founder


UIE
 
Designing for the Social Web
LukeW Ideation & Design
Dave McClure Hiten Shah Jason Putorti
Dave McClure
Founder
Hiten Shah
Founder


Jason Putorti
Founder

500 Startups
 
Kiss metrics elegant.ly
Erika Hall Larry Cornett Michael Dearing
Erika Hall
Director of Strategy
Larry Cornett
Founder

Michael Dearing
Consulting Associate Professor


Mule Design

 
BrilliantFORGE Stanford Design School
 
Jennifer Aaker Ryan Freitas  
NEW! Jennifer Aaker
General Atlantic Professor of Marketing
NEW! Ryan Freitas
Founder & Principal Strategist

 

Stanford GSB

 
SecondVerse
 

 


About Warm Gun

From new startups like Mint.com to giant tech icons like Apple, design has become increasingly crucial for attracting, retaining, and converting users into happy customers. The Warm Gun conference uncovers the science behind the art of web design, and demystifies the process of designing for both conversion and happiness.

We'll cover topics like:

  • Pretty vs. $hitty: Design that Converts!
  • Engineers are from Mars, Designers are from Venus: How to Communicate & Work Together in Harmony
  • Form, Meet Function: Matching business goals with user behavior
  • Mobile First! 3 Reasons You Should Design For Mobile Before Web
  • 10 Things Startups Should Know About Design
  • 10 Things Designers Should Know About Startups
  • 5 Things to Do Before You Start Coding
  • Kill the Dinosaur - Sign-Up Forms Must Die!
  • Team Building & Organization: How to Hire the Right Mix of Engineers & Designers…& Keep Them Happy
  • The Psychology of Design: How Design Thinking Applies to Your Bottom Line
  • Usability testing
  • Agile development
  • Designing for social
  • Designing for conversion
  • Designing for scale
  • Designing for performance
  • Designing for real-time
  • Designing for SEO
  • Designing for video
  • Designing for mobile

For more information and speaker/sponsor inquiries, contact Christen O’Brien at rewiredevents at gmail dot com.