Vancouver, Canada

5-6 June 2013

Interlink Conference is a small hand-crafted event created for all types of creative web professionals. Explore the intersection of web design, code, and content during 2 empowering days of curated talks and workshops in Vancouver. (Plus, there’s dodgeball.)

Website: http://interlinkconference.com/

UX Sofia 2013

Sofia, Bulgaria

5-7 June 2013

UX design and usability conference

• June 5, 6th – Four interactive workshops
• June 7th – Seminar: presentations and panel discussion
• June 8-9th – An optional 2-day tour around Bulgaria

Website: http://www.uxsofia.com/

Go Beyond Pixels 2013

St. John’s, Canada

7 June 2013

Learn to design and develop brilliantly. HTML5, CSS3, Javascript, Mobile & App Development, UI, UX, Design, and More.

Website: http://gobeyondpixels.com/

Cooper’s UX Boot Camp: Marketplace Money

San Francisco, United States

11-14 June 2013

This UX Boot Camp will give you the chance to work with Marketplace Money, a division of American Public Media. In this UX Boot Camp, you will be challenged to design the future of radio. What does a radio show’s website look like? Where do they gather stories? And how can they open this process to listeners?

Website: http://uxbootcamp0613.eventbrite.com/

UX Scotland 2013

Edinburgh, Scotland

20-21 June 2013

A community-driven practical User Experience Conference in the ♥ of Edinburgh.

Website: http://uxscotland.net/

UXcamp Europe 2013

Berlin, Germany

22-23 June 2013

UXcamp Europe 2013 is already sold out.

The focus of the event will be on:

• Information Architecture
• Interaction Design
• Usability Engineering
• Visual Design
• Prototype Engineering
• UI Development

In addition, there is space for other topics like Research, Product Design or Marketing in relation to User Experience.

Website: http://www.uxcampeurope.org/

An Event Apart Boston 2013

Boston, United States

24-26 June 2013

An Event Apart Boston is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for. Join us for twelve great speakers and sessions, plus an optional day-long workshop on multi-device web design.

Website: http://aneventapart.com/event/boston-2013?/2013/boston/

Responsive Design Studio

United States, New York

29th April to 1st May 2013

Responsive and adaptive design is about more than making sites look good on mobile. It’s about creating a web that’s flexible, accessible, and usable – and to do it right, you’ve got to work together:

• Design must account for the realities of complex content
• Writing must be trim and clear to work across many layouts
• Code must consider performance and accessibility while maintaining your design system and messaging

Website: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/events/responsive-design-studio/

Society for Technical Communication

United States, Atlanta

5th–8th May 2013

The Summit consists of two important parts. The first part is the over 80 education sessions, organized in seven tracks, which begin Monday morning, 6 May, and continue until mid-day on 8 May. All sessions will be 60 minutes long. The second important part is the Expo, with more than 50 companies represented; this will open on Sunday evening, 5 May, and run through 5:00 PM on Tuesday, 7 May.

Additional education opportunities are also available on Saturday and Sunday, 4-5 May, in the form of preconference certificate sessions and preconference workshops/tutorials.

Networking opportunities include not only the receptions but the Honors Banquet and Closing Lunch. Both events require a separate ticket. In addition, most of STC’s Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have networking events and meetings.

Website: http://summit.stc.org/

MoDevUX 2013

United States, Mclean

9th–11th May 2013

• WORKSHOPS: UX masters lead a full day of in-depth hands of training.
• CONFERENCE: Must hear talks from global brands and UX pioneers
• UX HACKATHON: A special focus on user experience and over $10,000 in prizes

Website: http://modevux2013.gomodev.com/

Future of Web Design London 2013

England, London

13th–15th May 2013

Three days of cutting-edge web design learning and intimate, expert-led workshops. Give your design team the edge, with sessions from the industry’s leading speakers, the hottest topics, and world-class networking opportunities. You’ll learn: Web Typography, UX Psychology, CSS3, Javascript, Responsive Web design, Interface Documentation and more.

Website: http://futureofwebdesign.com/london-2013/

UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon 2013

Portugal, Lisbon

15th–17th May 2013

Why you can’t miss UX Lx:

• UXLx is a premier User Experience Conference, and the speaker lineup is really the cream of the crop in the industry worldwide.
• UX Lx believes in promoting new talent, that’s why they open up 16 talk slots for anyone to apply for. They also host meetups everyday so you can get to know fellow peeps from all over the world.
• Set in beautiful sunny Lisbon, Portugal, UXLx will offer a great range of side-activities, all designed to immerse you in the Portuguese culture: Music, Food and People.

Website: https://www.ux-lx.com/

FileSquare sponsored UX Lx: User Experience Lisbon 2013!

Know more about the happy partnership.

An Event Apart San Diego 2013

United States, San Diego

20th–22nd May 2013

An Event Apart San Diego is an intensely educational learning session for passionate practitioners of standards-based web design. If you care about code as well as content, usability as well as design, An Event Apart is the conference you’ve been waiting for. Join us for twelve great speakers and sessions, plus an optional day-long workshop on multi-device web design.

Website: http://aneventapart.com/event/san-diego-2013

AnDevCon Boston 2013

United States, Boston

28th–31st May 2013

AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building Android apps. Offering mobile app development training and Android app development tutorials, AnDevCon is the biggest, most info-packed,most practical Android conference in the world. Choose from more than 75 app developmentclasses and in-depth Android development tutorials designed to take your Android development skills to the next level!

Website: http://www.andevcon.com/AndevCon_boston/

31 Awesomely Practical UX Tips

Online conference

29th May 2013

The online conference has asked six of the smartest people in the UX industry to share the most essential tips that designers and researchers need to know. They came up with 31 incredibly valuable pieces of advice that will dramatically improve and strengthen your UX practice.

They’ll help you:

• Get fresh and practical information that will make a difference in your work
• Be surprised, as some of your assumptions will be challenged
• Have a better understanding of the “state of the art” when it comes to the industry’s best practices

Website: http://rosenfeldmedia.com/events/practical-ux-tips/

Compare the two forms of annotation

1. Click and drag

2. Single Click

Why use spot comment?

The new spot comment is better when you want to point to a tiny spot instead of a big area. Single spot can also avoid being overlapped by each other if more than one comment is made on the same place.

Try it by yourself

Open one of your projects and leave your first comment with spot, feel any difference?

Feature

• The kit is carefully handcrafted in vector, hence scalable.
• There’s a phone sized grid paper for you to arrange your elements.
• With 3 hand gesture illustrations, you can enhance your mockups.

Preview

Download

Please visit http://blog.filesq.com/spoon/ and click “Free Download”. Your email is required for receiving the zipped file.

About the author

Frank Lam is a freelance designer and now working on FileSquare web and iOS app. He enjoys beautiful and polished wireframes, mockups and apps thus he designs and shares this set of UI kit to improve the quality of wireframing. FileSquare is also aiming at making amazing prototypes and apps to impress clients and get approval easier.

An Event Apart Seattle 2013

United States, Seattle

1st–3rd April 2013

Products Are Hard 2013

United States, San Francisco

2nd April 2013

IA Summit 2013

United States, Baltimore

3rd–7th April 2013

LeanUX NYC

United States, New York

11th–13th April 2013

UX Camp CPH 2013

Denmark, Copenhagen

12th–13th April 2013

University of Illinois Web Conference

United States, Champaign

15th–16th April 2013

MinneWebCon 2013

United States, Minneapolis

15th–16th April 2013

UXOXFORD

England, Oxford

17th April 2013

Gel 2013

United States, New York

17th–19th April 2013

Mobile Camp Chicago

United States, Chicago

20th April 2013

Industry Web Design & Development Conference

England, Newcastle upon Tyne

24th April 2013

Front-Trends 2013

Poland, Warsaw

24th–26th April 2013

Df|Experience Cologne 2013

Germany, Cologne

25th–26th April 2013

RE:DESIGN/UXD 2013

United States, Menlo Park

29th–30th April 2013

1. Invite testing user by email

If you are the owner of one project, you’ll see a new button called “Usability test” at the upper right corner. You can invite users to test your prototype by emails.

All testing users invited will be listed. You can check if they have recorded any sessions under “Recorded Sessions”.

2. Emails for the testing users.

They will receive an email and the email will direct them to the project or app store to download the app if they haven’t done so already. Simple and clear.

3. Test usability on iPhone

Users can interact with the clickable mockups like using a real app, and FileSquare mobile app will record the process as a video.

Check the video from website

You can review all the videos by clicking “View all recorded sessions” on usability test tab.

This feature is ideal for conducting usability test before the app actually got built and learning how clients interact with the app prototype. You will improve your app design by understanding your interactive mockups better.

The Delight.io integration

The on-screen recording feature is powered by delight.io. It gives developers and designers insights on how users interact with their apps and helps to improve the user experience and avoid confusing controls.

Try it out

You can login and start exploring the new feature by yourself! If you don’t have an account yet, sign up or try our demo project. And don’t forget to let us know how you like the feature on our forum!

Time: 15 to 17 May 2013 | Location: Lisbon, Portugal

A UX Conference called UXLx is going to be held in Lisbon, and FileSquare is a partner with them and will be giving away 3 premium accounts there.

Famous speakers, new friends and a sunny city!

You’ll meet most renowned speakers and like-minded people all over the world in a beautiful city.

Programme and workshops are waiting for you

To know the details of programme and workshops, click the image below.

Happy partner and FileSquare’s Freelancer Plan

Thanks to UXLx User Experience Lisbon, three lifetime FileSquare Freelancer Plan accounts will be given away to the lucky draw winners during event! Wish all of you the best in your future endeavors with FileSquare.

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Discuss project without interrupting others

We can leave message to communicate at any time, so that we don’t have to schedule a meeting or interrupt others’ work.

As shown above, I use annotation, so everyone understands which area I am referring to.

Keep an eye on updates of project

When I have more than one project ongoing at the same time, I rely on email notifications to keep me in the loop.

I can keep track of my projects everywhere, because I take email inbox everywhere with mobile phone or tablet. It’s the key of being involved.

Connects designers and developers

In our team, FileSquare is a place connecting designers and developers. Designers can leave notes about color, size of text and so on, so it’s easy for developers to code the designs.

Show a previous project as sample to clients

A sample is worth 1000 words. If you worked on a similar project before, you can show either the flow or style to your clients, and let them get your idea quickly.

All the projects are here in FileSquare and sorted by time. I can quickly find the project I am working on currently, and with the thumbnails and titles, it’s also easy to find a project I used to work on before.

Enliven your design and present it to clients

Besides graphic design, we do a lot of interactive designs for web or mobile app. For instance, you can check our demo project VegMap, a mobile app for finding vegan restaurants. We’ve linked up the pages, you may enter the full screen mode and play around with the prototype.

Time to try it yourself

Hope that this article inspires you to use FileSquare in more ways. How do you use FileSquare? Do you have other ideas? Don’t hesitate to share with us!

What’s new?

Share a project that you own in FileSquare, and you’ll find a new tab called “Public Sharing”.

Click “Create new link”, copy the code generated, put it on your website, and you can show your prototype as a widget. You can control the size of widget; choose the first screen to show; and hide or show notes, link hotspots, previous and next arrows.

For example, below is a widget generated from FileSquare.

You can create more than one links or embed codes, so that you can share one project to several parties independently, and check how many times each links was viewed by different parties.

Ways to use this new feature?

As a designer, you may want to showcase your interactive works as portfolio, so that potential clients and employers can easily experience the flow of your prototypes and get a better understanding of your work.

You can also put your own UI designs or your favorite ones on blog, just like what we did here, and it’ll make your blog post more vivid.

And it’s a convenient way to let stakeholders view your prototype, because your prototype will be shown directly in a browser.

Last but not least, view count following each link can bring you more insight about the sharing.

Stay tuned

We are continuously improving the product! Take a tour and learn more on www.filesq.com, and stay tuned by subscribing to our blog!

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