UX Design Workshop with Niyam Bhushan

Good design is not about how it looks. Or even about how it works. Good design is about how playful it is. You take the ordinary. And make it extraordinary

You can make the world • more beautiful • more intelligent • more user-friendly • more creative • more delightful.

You don’t need any prior artistic or technical qualifications to dive into User-Experience (UX) Design. Learn how to make UX Design for: 

• Mobile app

• Web-design

• Enterprise software

• Internet of Things (IoT)

 Inspired participants at the UX Design workshop in Bangalore

Define the creative vision and direction of your products’ UX if you are a:

• Founder or a Co-founder
• CEO, CTO, CIO
• Vice-President or Senior VP
• Product Manager
  
  

Upgrade your career to the next level if you are a:

• Designer from any discipline
• Front-end Developer

Learn a new skill which is in much-demand, if you are an:

• Under-graduate or graduate from any discipline

Hands-On in Hyderabad as participants sketch mock-ups

Topics Covered in the UX Design Workshop:

Insights  into: 

• Design Workflows

• Latest Design Trends
  
  
• User-Experience (UX)

• Emotion Design

• User-Interface Design (UI)
  
  
• UX Persona
  
  
• User-Research and Use-Case Scenarios

• UX Journey

• User-Interaction Design

• Icon and Ideogram Design

• Tools. Techniques

• User-Testing 

In the picture: Director, Co-founder, CEO, CTO, Vice-President, Project Head, Sofware Developer, UI Designer, Front-end Developer, Manager, and some other diverse people from across IT, media, and design. From the UX Design workshop conducted in Gurgaon

Audience Profile:

1. Disposition: Must be comfortable with using a pencil and paper for drawing simple things like flow-charts, simple charts, boxes, arrows, lines, etc.
   
   
2. Comfortable with the English language.
   
   
3. Nope, skills in HTML, web-development, or app-development, or software engineering, are not required for this workshop. Good if you have them, but we will strictly focus on 'design' per se, and not on 'development'. Let's please finally put the horse before the cart.
   
   

 Resources:

Each participant will receive:

1. User-Interface design sketchpad
   
   

2. UI template files by e-mail after the workshop
   
   
3. A massive and comprehensive reference of all things user-experience (UX) design
   
   
4. Subcription to an exclusive e-mail newsletter that keeps you inspired and diving deeper, week after week, long after the workshop is over
   
   
5. Free wi-fi will be provided. Would be nice if participants bring along their laptops, tablets, smartphones. Helpful to have these handy to understand a few topics more deeply
   
   

Participants in Mumbai to the UX Design workshop

Suggested Course Content:

Notes:

1. This course guideline is indicative, and may be tweaked further.

2. The workshop does not cover corporate or product branding. However, many participants have also been able to gain a solid understanding of branding through the fundamental principles of Design explained here.

Course Deliverable:

• Monday Morning: You get back to work fueled with knowledge and insights to revolutionize the way you think and work on projects
  
  
• You will be able to handle user-experience (UX) design and user-interface for projects far more professionally. And with simplicity and world-class sophistication.
  
  
• Even a newbie will be able to dive in immediately into his or her first UX Design project and handle it competently

• Many participants experience a breakthrough in thinking and find their approach has become more thoughtful, meaningful, and even more playful

• You come to grips with the tools and techniques required

• You understand how to stay ahead of the competition through 2.5X Design

   

Certification:

Yes. Certification of participation, co-branded with NASSCOM Design4India 10000Startups and SHEREOS.in will be awarded to those who attend the full workshop sessions.

Design Ecosystem Partner: NASSCOM Design4India

Don't you wish software and tech products from India were world-class in their design? NASSCOM's Design4India initiative connects tech startups to the world of Design-Thinking, User Experience, Human Centered Design and all other aspects of Design. As our design ecosystem partner they're helping us all get on to the magical mystery of Design. We're so proud of them

Powered by NASSCOM 10000Startups

A tip-o'-the-turban to NASSCOM for helping us get there! Backed by Google, Microsoft, Intel, Kotak and Verisign, NASSCOM's 10,000 Startups is literally on a mission to impact 10,000 startups by the year 2023.

Nurtured by SHEROES.in

The UX Design workshop especially focusses on women professionals and entrepreneurs into the fold. That includes fleximoms, mompreneurs, work-at-homes, career women, and even those who wish to chuck a boring corporate job and explore their creative side.

Making this possible is SHEROES.in, a hugely-successful initiative from India committed towards opportunities for women and in investing in women professionals.

At the historic UX-Design Workshop for Women only, conducted in New Delhi

IoT Industry Outreach Partner: ProfitFromIoT

Excited! We've got a new pardner in town: ProfitFromIoT is our IOT Industry Outreach partner. #Design and innovation in software is riding the dragon also known as InternetOfThings (IoT). Leading to new and sometimes breakthrough opportunities across diverse verticals. ProfitFromIoT is a platform for enablers, creators, and providers of #IoT solutions. The real challenge is in Design: How do you design a whole new world with sensors and interaction, for a new set of users? The fundamentals are the same. ProfitFromIot and DesignRev are excited to come together like John Lennon and Paul McCartney to sing this beat. Tip your cowboy hat at our new pardner at ProfitFromIoT.com

Community Outreach Partner: 91springboard

First came the community that 91springboard has been nurturing even before the 4 years since which they've been supporting DesignRev. 91springboard has always stood apart for its immense community-nurturing mojo, its goodwill with the industry, and comprehensive ecosystem it taps into to support its growing tribe.

Ignited by: DesignRev.in

The Design Revolution from India is all about #PureDoing.

Faculty Background:

Design With Emptiness | Niyam Bhushan | TEDx MVSR

Niyam Bhushan is one of India's leading design professional with over 35 years of both national and international experience in his areas of specialization in UX Design, Design-Thinking, Brand Design, and digital creativity.

• TEDx speaker on Design
  
• Jury-Member, NASSCOM Design4India Awards.
  
• Mentored over 200 startups in UX Design and through Design-Thinking

• He works in various areas of design including:
  
  

  • Enterprise software interface design
  • Web-design
  • Mobile-app design
  • Event design
  • Print design
  • Brand design
  • Sound design
  • and more

 Consultant

• As a consultant, He has trained highly-skilled teams of developers, and quality-assurance teams, in the field of digital design and production at Apple, Adobe, Xerox, DK, iFast, IVP. You could view more photos on http://flickr.com/niyam from a few such professional workshops.

Group photo from the workshop titled: 'Digital Color Theory Workshop by Niyam for Xerox'

• As an approved vendor to Google, Niyam consulted Google on the design and technical specifications for Indian font design, and in the process solved various challenges that confront Indic font design and computing.

•  He conducted several design and production workshops for design professionals at • Living Media for their international projects • Dorling Kindersley, the world's largest publishing house • Thompson Press • as well as for leading ad agencies and publishing houses across India.

•  He has worked on user-interface projects for clients as diverse as European Union (EU), various United Nations agencies, social development agencies, a few Fortune 100 companies; Osho Nisarga; and more.

•  He frequently advises the Government of India on guidelines and recommendations for user-interface design, and also frequently consults with C-DAC (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing)  on various other areas of his specialization as well.

•  His diverse projects include user-interface design for

  • Knowledge-harvesting for European Union using learning systems
  • Wealth management
  • Fintech
  • Telecom
  • Parenting
  • Education
  • Health & Medical
  • Enterprise software design solutions
  • Mobile services and payment systems
  • Legal services organization
  • UI design solutions for sustainable development organizations
  • Motor sports
  • Travel industry
  • Fashion industry
  • And more

 Design-Mentor for Startups

• More than 200 startups mentored. Niyam also consults and is a design-mentor for several IT startups across diverse disciplines, both in design, and in design-think: fintech, health, travel, parenting, education, social-commerce, e-commerce, telecom, food-delivery, and more. If you're from one of them, get in touch.

Trainer

• As a trainer, he has taught over 10,000 people since 1996 in his various fields of expertise. Please check out his http://flickr.com/niyam account for photos from some of his workshops and public seminars.

• He has been a visiting faculty, teaching graphic-design, photography, image-editing, illustration, typography, design-thinking, at:

  • National Institute of Fashion Technology (NIFT)
  • School of Convergence
  • Vedica Scholars

• Invited to deliver talks across colleges and academia across India including:
  
  

  • Sristhi Institute of Art, Design, and Technology, Bengaluru
  • NITC Calicut
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi
  • Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Delhi
  • Thapar University, Patiala
  • Punjabi University, Patiala
  • Pune University, Pune
  • SLIET, Longowal
  • Delhi University
  • Asian Academy of Film & Television, Noida, UP
  • Asian School of Media Studies, Noida, UP
  • Engineering College of Bikaner, Rajasthan
  • Centre-Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), Mohali
  • Homi Baba Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Mumbai
  • RKG Engineering College, Ghaziabad, UP
  • And several dozen more
    
    

Journalist and Editor

• As a journalist and editor he has also been the

  • Editor of PCWorld Magazine
  • Editor and CEO of Chip Magazine
  • Contributing Editor to Hindustan Times
  • Contributing Editor to Mint newspaper
  • Contributing Editor and Columnist to Linux For You
  • Contributing Editor to Computer Arts Special magazine
  • Check out the vast archive of his technology articles and columns on http://www.niyam.com

And More

He has also frequently been interviewed on Gadgets Guru show on NDTV, and earlier, was often featured on BBC television's 'Click' show from 2000 to 2001.

As a creative professional, Niyam is also a musician and has composed and produced music for a documentary as well as a short film. Find music by 'Niyam Bhushan' on SoundCloud.

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The exciting world of UX Design has come.

It can not be taught.

It can only be caught.

By you.