Workshops

Hillel Cooperman

SVP, Oracle Design

How can we make sure we get to just the right amount of UI, no more and no less? This all-hands workshop is for everyone.

Description

This all-hands workshop will attempt to answer the following questions:

• How do we decide on an approach for the design of every interaction our users have?
• How do we start?
• How do we learn?
• And how do we make sure we get to just the right amount of UI, no more and no less?

Required tools
None

Session capacity
Everyone

Live session date and time

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
9 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.

No registration required

Jenny Lam

SVP, Oracle Design

Explore how to build on design fundamentals while creating radiant, expressive visuals that harmonize with interaction design.
This all-hands workshop is for everyone.

Description

In this all-hands workshop, we’ll discuss:

• How do we approach visual design that has a point of view?
• Where do we start?
• How do we build on the fundamentals but make it harmonize with the interaction design?
• How do we create visual design that has integrity?
• How do we create radiance?

Required tools
None

Session capacity
Everyone

Live session date and time

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:45 a.m. – 8:45 a.m.

No registration required

Liza Lyons

VP, Cross-Platform Experience, Application Development Platform

Build a simple Redwood application with Visual Builder Studio, JET, and the latest SpectraUI templates.

Description

Are you curious to see what it takes to build a Redwood application using the same tools that developers work with every day? Would you like to explore what happens after a design is published?

Come build a simple Redwood application with Visual Builder Studio, JET, and the latest SpectraUI templates.

This workshop is for beginners. We’ll provide step-by-step instructions and expert assistance to answer all of your questions.

Required tools

• Visual Builder account, provided to attendees in advance

Session capacity
200

Live session dates and times

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Parker Kuncl

Design Director, Oracle Design

Learn how, by combining tools like Marvel, PowerPoint and Figma with Wizard of Oz techniques, you can take an idea from concept to prototype in 30-60 minutes.

Description

This workshop will teach you how to use Wizard of Oz (WOZ) prototyping techniques to tell a story, pitch an idea, and mock up a product design concept within an hour.

By combining tools like Marvel, PowerPoint and Figma with WOZ techniques, we’ll take an idea from concept to prototype in 30-60 minutes. We’ll share examples across wearables, TV, phone, and other IoT devices.

At the end of this workshop, you’ll be able to prototype nearly anything in 60 minutes or less—without any design or engineering skills—and pitch your idea.

Required Tools and Materials

• Scrap cardboard or foam core
• Hot glue gun or Scotch tape
• Blank paper and pen
• X-Acto knife or scissors
• Any other arts and crafts materials, including plastic cups or paper plates, you have on hand
• A large, flat work surface

Session capacity
500

Live session dates and times

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Michael Connors

Creative Director, Brand Program Office

Candy Chan

Sr. UX Designer, Oracle Design

Learn how to use Redwood illustrations to express abstract concepts, inform processes, and distinguish our products in unexpected and inspired ways.

Description

You’ve loved illustration since before you could read, and today you can use illustrations to express abstract concepts, inform processes, and distinguish our products in unexpected and inspired ways.

Illustrations and data textures are some of the key design elements that bring Redwood to life. Where do they come from, how do you use them, and where are they going from here?

This workshop will be a fun and informative chance to learn about illustration and how to use it to engage audiences and make our work more memorable.

Required tools

• Figma
• Adobe CC
• Attendees must have a license and experience using these tools to participate in this workshop.

Session capacity
50

Live session dates and times:

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Forrest Elliott

Creative Director, Oracle Design

Adan Ronzon

Sr. UX Designer, Oracle Design

Theron Benson

Sr. UX Designer, Oracle Design

Motion informs everything we do—it shows where we’ve been and where we’re going. Learn how motion can support, direct, and elevate your UX Design.

Description

Motion has been part of our lives since we first opened our eyes. It informs everything we do and shows where we’ve been and where we’re going.

Join us to learn why we use motion, how it affects design, informs the customer, and improves products. You’ll create your own motion study to fully understand all that goes into UX Motion Design. We’ll share more details in advance with registered participants.

You’ll learn:

• How motion can support, direct and elevate your UX Design
• How we use motion, how we create it, and what it adds to UX Design
• Interactive exercise participants will get a render of the motion they create

Required tools

• Figma
• Adobe CC
• Attendees must have a license and experience using these tools to participate in this workshop.

Session capacity
30

Live session dates and times:

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Devesh Desai

Director, Design Research, Oracle Design

Joanne Tallant

Senior Principal User Experience Researcher, Netsuite

How many biases influence us? 10? 20? 40? How about more than 160? Join us to find out how to curb your biases and truly listen to customers.

Description

Interviewing, the most celebrated technique to connect with our end users and customers, is a mindset more than a method. It takes training both your mind and ears to truly listen and maximize your limited, precious time with your users.

In this workshop, you’ll learn the cardinal rules of a good interview, how to check your biases, and identify your blind spots. You’ll also learn some techniques to mine beyond the surface of what people say to discover the real gems.

What you’ll get:

• A basic framework for how to conduct a semi-structured interview in 60 minutes
• A cheat-sheet with sample formats for framing questions in a non-leading way

Required materials

• Pen and paper
• Open heart and mind

Session capacity
75

Live session dates and times

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Andrew Galperin

Quantitative User Researcher, Oracle Design

Michael Vendetti

Quantitative User Researcher, Oracle Design

Learn how to get over your fear of a blinking cursor on a blank screen and start using Python to analyze data and produce basic data visualizations.

Description

This workshop is for researchers, designers, and anyone else who wants to:

• Organize quantitative data.
• Analyze and produce findings.
• Produce deliverables in a systematic and reproducible fashion.

We’ll introduce you to basic data analysis and visualizations in Python and get you familiar enough with the tools you need to start learning more about this powerful programming language.

Required tools
Python cloud access, links and instructions will be provided in advance

Session capacity
25

Live session dates and times

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

Carolyn Wong

Senior Principal UX Researcher, Brand Program Office

Lila Rubenstein

Design Researcher, Oracle Design

Are you looking for new ways to simplify presenting complex ideas, make your point memorable, and inspire action? Visual storytelling can help you break down complexity and humanize your output using simple illustrations, metaphors, and symbolism.

Description

Visual storytelling is one of the oldest methods of communication. It fires up the brain and lights up our memory centers. It’s sticky because we can visualize ourselves in the protagonist's shoes. And it can motivate us to action.

Whether you’re a researcher sharing insights, a designer justifying your design rationale, or a PM communicating a common customer issue, visual storytelling can help you:

• Build empathy with your audiences and users
• Engage your audiences' senses and make your message sticky
• Align stakeholders around a common understanding of your users’ needs
• Compel a team to take action

In this workshop, you’ll get:

• A brief history of visual storytelling and the science of what makes it effective
• An effective storytelling framework you can apply to elements of your communications
• Easy techniques to communicate more visually—and get over the scary hump of going visual

Required materials

• Several sheets of blank paper
• Regular point Sharpie marker

Session capacity
50

Live session dates and times

Tuesday
October 27, 2020
10:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.

Wednesday
October 28, 2020
7:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.