Daniël is Creative Director at Achtung! and Kraftwerk in Amsterdam. Driven by the power of design, as a solution to small and big problems, he believes that honest and well crafted experiences have the power to create lasting relationships with consumers.
At Achtung! and Kraftwerk he works on the intersection of advertising and design. He leads a team of designers, creatives, strategists & coders to create innovative work for Volkswagen, Vodafone & Philips.
Daniël is an advocate of digital design in the Netherlands, as speaker, jury member and teacher. His work has been recognised at the Cannes Lions, Webby Awards, Red Dot, Eurobest, Art Directors Club, FWA and Awwwards. In 2015 he was named Design Professional of the Year.
Sadly, Daniël doesn’t have any hobbies.
Founded in the age of the web, Achtung creates and craft ideas for brands. They know how to balance between pushing and pulling branded messages, with tools varying from television to Internet and from paper to tablet. They have a reputation for delivering creative concepts, with a high focus on execution down to the very last detail. Their client list is a mixture of respected Dutch and global brands such as Volkswagen, O'Neill, 3FM and Vodafone. They’ve been recognized and awarded at Cannes, The Webby Awards, The FWA, The SpinAwards, ADCN and Eurobest.
Christian Etter was born in the mountains of Switzerland. He studied typography in Zurich. Christian has worked as Art Director for Saatchi&Saatchi in Milan, as well as Consultant for Fabrica, United Colors of Benetton’s research center near Venice. In between he worked as a Counsellor for children at the skateboard recreation centre in Lausanne, then continued counselling sexually exploited children in Bogota, Colombia.
While working as Director for UNIT9 he is also heading Etter Studio, a small interdisciplinary design company based in Zurich. Simultaneously he's the Co-Director of the Museum of Digital Art (MuDA) in Zurich. He is member of the Advisory Board of UNESCO’s Design21 Association (New York), European member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences (New York), as well as chairman of the Digital Arts Association (Zurich).
I'm Kris and I contribute to, and lead Resn’s creative vision through: creative direction, creative ideation, experience design, game design, pitch writing, pitch presentation, copywriting, speaking, and representing the Resn creative team at parties and such.
I’m Simon, I’ve been part of Resn’s creative team since 2011. Focusing on: Interactive direction, creative ideation, digital animation and creative development.
Resn is a creative agency with a digital obsession. Their singular vision is to infect minds with gooey interactive experiences that amaze and stupefy.
Since 2004, Resn has worked at the frontier of interactive development and design. Their highly-skilled team has the expertise to take on complex technical challenges and fulfill creative dreams. From early insights and strategy to premium design and development, they collaborate with their clients at every stage, to deliver valuable engagement with their brand. They call this the Resn Effect.
Oliver Reichenstein studied philosophy in Basel and Paris. In 2003, he moved to Tokyo where he founded iA in 2005.
Today, iA runs offices in Zurich, Tokyo and Berlin, offering digital strategy and interaction design to international clients such as Red Bull, Monotype, KPMG, NHK, The Guardian, Holtzbrinck, UBS, Swatch, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Ringier, Freitag, and Swisscom. iA offers client services and builds its own products. With over 1,000,000 apps sold, iA Writer has become the best selling plain text editor for iOS, Mac, and Android.
Yifei Chai’s work uses innovation to architect experiences through the notion of Digital Empathy. His projects at UNIT9 has included specialising in the human/emotive factor of technology and psychology. He holds a particular fascination with the Man-Machine interface, investigating problems that bridge the immersive technologies with physical product design and hardware extensions.
His experimental project during his studies at the Royal College of Art enabling a telepresence from a muscular stimulation level combined with vision synchronisation so that others can inhibit your physical body. Which since then has received government funding for research and development in collaboration with UNIT9. Recently invited as a guest speaker at FITC Amsterdam 2016, his work has also been featured on Sky News, London Design Festival and New Scientist Magazine.
Magnus Lowing Swahn is currently living and working in Amsterdam, originating from the primeval forests of Sweden. Prior to being knighted into the ranks at Your Majesty he worked for DNA studio, Gsus, Muse and Ice Mobile. Although mostly self-taught he studied Design and communication in Sweden before attending the now famed Hyper Island school of design more than a decade ago. Today he operates as a Design Director at Your Majesty and is a co-founder of Binory.
Lotte is an Art Director at Your Majesty Amsterdam. Her biggest accomplishment outside of work is keeping her newly bought plants alive for 2 months and counting. Originally coming from a branding and print background, she quickly fell in love with the pace of the digital world at Hyper Island. After that, she continued to develop this interest at different agencies around the world. At YM Lotte does what Art Directors do best: designing, directing and presenting.
Your Majesty was founded in 2007 with the conviction to create exceptional experiences through the inventive and skilful application of design and technology. This is their art and their craft. In the service of their people, clients, and partners, they create products, platforms, experiences, and content that people love and desire.
They are honoured to serve some of the world’s leading fashion, lifestyle, automotive, food & beverage, entertainment, event, and hospitality brands, including Red Bull, Samsung, BMW, Amazon, and Adidas.
Vasilis was born and raised in Germany and he holds a degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technological University of Athens. In 2005, he co-founded Skroutz S.A. which employs more than 130 people and operates www.skroutz.gr, the leading price comparison engine in Greece and the subsidiary websites www.alve.com in Turkey and www.scrooge.co.uk in the UK.
His role has changed over the years from Full-Stack developer to Frontend engineer to Head of the Design and UX Team. Previously, he had co-created Fortytwo.gr -the first Ruby on Rails (RoR) company in Greece- working with high traffic blogs like Smashingmagazine.com. He is a big believer in standards and passionate about inspiring web design. He enjoys teasing his colleagues and his favorite saying is: "You can't fix the system, if you don't break the system".
Spiros is a UI-UΧ designer who served a bunch of years in branding & advertising before falling in love with new media, marketing and startups. As a co-founder of allcancode, he mostly deals with complex usability problems but often his hands are getting dirty in other areas.
A team of seven sharing the same vision: teachers and kids having fun with simple, engaging and creative coding games. Their first development “Run Marco!”, is an epic around-the-world adventure that has gained more than 600.000 global learners.
Recently, they joined forces with BrainPop and Code.org, two popular learning platforms, and Imagine K12, an EdTech accelerator program supported by the Y Combinator in Silicon Valley.
Aramique is a director and installation artist focused on immersive media, interactive installations and experimental storytelling. His work brings a lyrical and human-centered approach to technology and storytelling and has been celebrated by publications ranging from The Guardian to Time magazine. His installation-based public experiences have been featured at festivals including SXSW, Art Basel, TED and Moogfest, and institutions like Palais de Tokyo, The New Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, Arsenal Contemporary and Mobile World Congress.
He continues to create experimental storytelling, art, and technology projects with brands, institutions, record labels and non-profits as a director with Tool both in North America and Europe. He is an alumni of the New Museum Incubator for Art and Technology in New York and founder of the non-profit Reality Research Lab in France. He collaborates regularly with artists from diverse fields to achieve otherwise impossible ideas. Select clients include Samsung, Adidas, Nike, Sonos, Intel, IBM, BitTorrent, Delta, USA Network, Puma, Acer, Moogfest, XL Recordings, and Loma Vista Recordings.
Tool is an integrated production company that boasts a best-in-class roster of directors and digital artists with offices in LA and France. Tool creates award-winning commercial, VR, experiential, and digital work that is powered by their approach to storytelling at the pace of culture and innovation. In addition to producing hundreds of television commercials and digital campaigns annually, Tool collaborates directly with top brands like Airbnb, Netflix, and Facebook.
Tool has been honored at the Emmys, Webbys, DGA Awards, Oscars, SXSW, AICP, One Show, D&AD, and with Cannes Lions. Tool is ranked as one of Creativity Magazine's A-List Production Companies, CSS Design’s USA Design Agency Of The Year and and named to FWA Hall of Fame.
Jane is Director, Design and User Experience at MOO and her particular interest is the design of design teams. She specialises in creating and leading happy design teams that build brilliant products.
She also loves speaking and sharing knowledge. She has had fifteen years experience, working at The Daily Telegraph, The Government Digital Service and in an online trading company.
This workshop is now sold-out. To join the waiting list, cancellations, please email info@digitized.gr.
What is the ideal workflow for designing a mobile app? For as many designers as there are in the world, there are as many answers to this question.
This is even more profound now than ever when apps are designed for numerous platforms and devices, using an increasing variety of tools and processes. Seemingly simple questions like the following ones can sometimes become daunting for many of us, and - when we don’t work alone - they can lead to some intense conversations with our colleagues. Where should we start a project? Which programs and services should we use for each phase of the process? How do we collaborate with our team? What should our deliverables look like? How do we test and evaluate our designs?
This workshop hopes to bring some peace of mind to its open-minded participants. We will not provide definitive answers that supposedly work for everyone in every case. However, we will critically examine the most popular tools and processes out there. We’ll discuss what has worked for us in terms of productivity, efficiency and teamwork. And through a series of carefully selected practical examples, we intent for each one to create, compare and refine their own personal workflows. And above all, keep their sanity!
Giorgos is a coder & technologist who constantly chases & learns new skills, experimenting and finding cool digital solutions for his projects. He loves transforming beautiful designs to pixel perfect applications.
Over the last 10 years, Giorgos has worked for digital studios, advertising agencies and various startups, both in London & Athens, either as a full time team member or as a contractor.
Spending most of his days researching, prototyping and crafting solutions for cool digital ideas, he is now Tech Lead & Lead Mobile Engineer at Interweave, an Interactive Marketing Agency that works for brands and companies worldwide, such as METAXA, Horio, Marina Abramovic Institute (MAI), Minerva, TOP, Grecotel Hotels & Resorts, SETE, MetLife, Western Union etc. Having already created and been awarded for exceptional digital user-centric experiences, Interweave believes that the key to great work is creative innovation combined with brilliant teamwork. So does Giorgos - that's the main reason for him being part of its super-talented team!
twitter facebook Linkedin interweave websiteHarris spends most of his days staring at screens. As a designer he specialises in user experience and interactive design for the last 8 years. He has worked in the advertising industry for popular brands like Aegean, Wind and Redbull. At present, he focuses on helping ambitious startups in Greece and abroad turn their ideas into products, bring them to the market and make people’s lives a little better.
website twitter facebookWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
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Understanding the value and limitations of the design process is key to changing the way that a designer brings solutions and ideas to life.
Digital product design may vary from web sites to applications and e-shops as well as software and digital installations. The ability of the designer to grasp the "big picture", to understand user behaviour, be aware of the technology and ask the necessary questions, can be the deal maker -or breaker - in most cases as to whether a product succeeds or not. Within a design-centric organisation or a small start-up, designers often are brought in from the early stages of a product development or can in some cases own the original concept.
The workshop demonstrates the role of a designer from the birth of an idea to its transformation to either a service, software or product. Through various exercises and by using a lot of imagination, we will enable you to understand the big picture and how strategy, user personas, research, interaction, usability and motion come together to create passionate users. Hard topics with respect to defining the minimum viable product, living with imperfections and sticking to deadlines will also be at the centre of this workshop.
Chryssa is a Greek award-winning designer, always looking for the next project that will provoke her to be better, to know more and to work with new people. With more than 15 years of experience in various fields of digital design, she had the privilege of working with amazing companies like Unilever, Kit Kat, L'Oreal, Wind, Nestle, Philips, Perrier, Bacardi, OPAP, Crunch, Opel, Cosmote, Village, Siemens, Power Health and for some unique and upcoming start-ups.
Currently B.A. Digital Design Pathway Leader at Vakalo Art & Design College teaching Digital Design, UX|UI & New Software, Creative Director at "The Flying Pot" agency and serving her peers as a jury member at awwwards.
website twitter facebook LinkedinWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
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What does the term “multidisciplinary design” mean and how it applies on a 360° ad campaign? A multidisciplinary designer is the designer that leads all the campaign’s visual design process, from the landing page’s web design and banners till the smallest icon.
Most designers out there already work across multiple disciplines, such as UI/UX design, web design, print, brand design, video etc.
But how do we start working on the design of a campaign’s assets? How do we approach each platform (desktop, mobile, print, TV etc.)?
In this workshop, we will learn how to “jump” from a print/identity or UI/UX designer to a multi-disciplinary designer and why this skill will help you become a lead designer in an agency or studio.
Gert is an award winning Art Director based in Athens, currently working at OgilvyOne Worldwide Athens. Over the past 10 years, he had the privilege to work for clients such as Mondelez, Aegean Airlines, OPAP, Vodafone, BMW and Cosmote.
He is passionate about his work and he is always trying to bring to life a good idea with design that people will love to interact with.
website twitter facebook LinkedinOgilvyOne Athens brings together big ideas and data insights to create compelling personal experiences that help clients win more customers and make them more valuable. OgilvyOne Athens is the most awarded agency in Greece having won international recognition at the Cannes Lions, the Clio Awards, the One Show, the London International Awards, the New York Festivals, the Webby Awards and the International IAB MIXX Awards.
During the last 8 years, it has won more than 300 Ermis Awards in Greece's annual advertising festival, including 23 Grand Ermis and has been named both Digital and Direct Agency of the year in 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015.
website twitter facebookWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
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Your favourite CMS will never create the best HTML & CSS code. You will.
While it is easy to let things flow and depend on pre-written code you must be able to know the ins and outs of HTML & CSS because this will be the backbone of your project. And it is equally crucial to learn how to sustain the health of your codebase.
This workshop will cover the core principles of HTML & CSS and not only. It will touch areas such as Web Standards, Semantics, and Accessibility. Furthermore, it will guide you through the best CSS practices for desktop and mobile and emerging layout modes such as Flexbox. Last but not least, it will help you define the tools and resources that work best for you.
This workshop will be focused on quality, not on quantity. By the end of it you will be a more efficient, agile and independent front-end developer armed with a certain philosophy guiding your projects.
Yiannis is a UI & UX designer and front-end developer for many many years now. He was one the core members of ILG, a part of The Web Standards Project which aimed to promote the global use of standards to ensure an equitable Web. Though a frivolous writer, his articles have been published in books and Web magazines, such as Smashing Magazine.
A rationalist by nature, he remains an avid learner and strives to meet people smarter than him, which between you and me, is not that hard. He controls entropy via typography and colors, tunes and morning running.
website twitter facebook LinkedinWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
This workshop is now sold-out. To join the waiting list, cancellations, please email info@digitized.gr.
The UX methods workshop will shed light on the most important methods and techniques that are available to UX specialists, designers or project managers looking to understand how users interact with their site or app.
Improving the user experience is a long and ongoing process, but fortunately we have a range of methods, techniques and tools to help us gain real user insight that will inform our design decisions. It can get confusing though... How many users do you need for user testing? What’s the difference between card sorting and tree testing? Why don’t we just run a focus group? How do we create the right personas? Why do we need wireframes? What’s an ethnography study?
All the above and many more questions will be answered through the presentation of the full spectrum of available methods, the differences between them and the pros and cons of each. We will then dive into the most popular methods (focusing on Persona Development, Wireframing, User Testing, Tree Testing) with in-depth explanation of the methodology used for each, with video and live demonstrations, as well as group exercises for participants to apply their newfound skills.
At the end of the workshop participants will fully understand the available methods, when to select each one, and will be perfectly capable of applying the most important ones themselves.
Bring your own laptop if you want to demo some of the methods on the spot!
Katerina is a Usability geek and founder and Director of UXlab. In 2008, along with her two business partners, she co-founded Linkwise, the first Greek Affiliate Network, which has grown to become the leading performance marketing network in the region.
She is a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars on all things UX and has served as Secretary General of GRECA, the Greek e-Commerce Association.
She is a graduate of the University of Athens Communications & Mass Media Department and holds a Master’s Degree in Advertising & Marketing from Leeds University Business School, from where her final dissertation was published in Public Relations Review.
blog LinkedinAlicia is a Design Engineer and an experienced UX professional with a multidisciplinary academic and working background. She considers herself an advocate of user needs towards providing genuinely usable UIs, while working on achieving business goals. Specializing in Travel and eCommerce, she has worked on numerous web and mobile projects from different roles.
Thinking UX for more than a decade, she is always eager to share her way of thinking and discuss her passion through talks, presentations, trainings and workshops.
She is a proud member of UXlab as a Senior UX Analyst.
Linkedin TwitterUXlab is an Atcom Business Unit and is the only consultancy in Greece specializing exclusively in Usability and User Experience. We deliver strategy, research and testing across all aspects of the user experience, offering among other things: UX strategy, Conversion Rate Optimization, Persona Development, Wireframing, User Testing, Tree Testing, AB Testing, Card Sorting, Personalization Strategy and more.
Clients and projects include Aegean Airlines, OTE, Winbank, IKEA, Praktiker, Kotsovolos, This is Athens and many more.
Website Twitter LinkedinWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
This workshop is now sold-out. To join the waiting list, cancellations, please email info@digitized.gr.
Undergoing the 4th industrial revolution - the rise of cognitive machines (sic) – individuals are getting familiar with user interfaces that allow them to interact with artificial intelligence in various screen form factors. From chatbot agents to humanoid robots our interaction with AI is becoming more and more immersive.
In this scope, we will follow the evolution of human computer interfaces from command line, to graphical and eventually to physical world UIs. Furthermore, we will explain how messaging and low graphics communication that started from mobile consumed the world and turned into a global platform in the scale of billions.
Voice communication, messaging, humanoid robots, haptics, gestures, biometrics, context, location and many other emerging technologies that put together a sci-fi ecosystem of unlimited ways of information consumption.
Join the Human Robot Interfaces Workshop by the Warply Design Team and learn how to build interfaces that will hands down pass any Turing test our there!
Workshop day includes:
1. Evolution of human computer interfaces
2. Introduction to immersive interfaces and humanoids (Messaging, Voice, Gestures,
3. AR, VR, agents, robotics, humanoids)
4. Live demo of AI interfaces
5. Designing workshop on 3 creative briefs for travel, banking and CPGs industry
6. Projects presentations, evaluation and feedback
Matina is an award winning designer, currently working as a Lead UI/UX designer at Warply. She is a highly creative designer, who delivers innovative and effective design solutions. Her skills cover many aspects of graphic design, while she specializes in Web/UI Design. Her studies on Graphic Design at Vakalo Art & Design and Business Administration at University of Macedonia helps her deeply understand the needs and purpose of each brand and transform ideas and words into inspiring and engaging experiences, that captivates users.
A passionate digital designer, Matina has created cool digital stuff for important accounts such as Eurobank, Nestlé Hellas, AB Vassilopoulos, Municipality of Athens, NBG Insurance, etc.
WebsiteKimon is a creative thinker, an innovative designer and visual artist and he is passionately dedicated to the field of UX/UI design. Thanks to his artistic nature and his academic and professional experience, he has raised a strong passion for the field of web and graphic arts that truly inspires him. He is a lover of simplicity and he always try to accomplish and deliver innovative and effective solutions in any project. His academic experience (BA Fine Arts & Art Sciences – University of Ioannina, MA Design Arts – Uclan University of London) makes him passionate both for Web and Mobile and always eager to deliver innovative and engaging digital solutions.
Kimon is currently working at Warply and has formed numerus mobile applications, websites, campaigns and logos for major clients, such as Nestlé Hellas, Nobacco, National Bank of Greece, Heineken, CNN, Adidas, etc.
Linkedin BehanceWarply is a leading European company in Mobile Marketing, multi - awarded for its innovative solutions and projects. Always striving for perfection, Warply aims to offer technology, innovation and profound mobile knowledge, to bring advanced omni-channel digital experiences! Clients and projects including Nestlé Hellas, Heineken, Delhaize, Unilever, National Bank of Greece, Eurobank, CNN, Athinorama, Vivartia, NBG Insuranse, AT&T, Cosmote, Germanos Stores, Adidas and many more.
During the last 4 years, Warply has won numerous awards proving the team’s passion and dedication to create unique and innovative loyalty mobile applications and mobile solutions.
WebsiteWorkshop language: Greek
Date: Friday, September 23rd, 2016
Time: 10:00 to 17:00
Venue: Vakalo Art & Design College, Athens
