UX and Service Design conference. Stockholm 27 April 2017.

Thank you for coming!

BEST CONFERENCE EVER! 850 people. Fantastic appearances by all the speakers. Great conversations. Sold out weeks before the event. Videos are available here, on Facebook, and on the inUse blog in the following weeks. We are happy, humbled, and already planning for next year. Sign up below if you’re interested in joining us in 2018!

From Business to Buttons is Scandinavia’s premier User Experience and Service Design conference, held every year in Stockholm, Sweden. It is the meeting place for everyone who wants inspiration, and hands-on advice, on how to generate business value by creating great user experiences.

About FBTB17: The things we create are everywhere. We make complex websites, apps, airplane cockpits, toasters and autonomous cars. Heck, some of us even design super complex ecosystems – like cities – to provide sustainable and pleasurable experiences for everyone.

Digitalization, UX and Service Design are now at the center of attention everywhere. As they should be. So, how do we leverage this interest and take our organizations to the next level?

Creating solutions that make everyday life easier and more fun requires a clear strategy, deep understanding of human behavior, extraordinary design skills, creative and efficient teams, great processes, and the endurance to push your team and organization forward.

We need to truly understand how to engage customers, users, and citizens; to know their deepest desires. We need to engage all the members of our teams to achieve great results together. And, we need to engage top management, to fundamentally change the organizations that we work for.

Ah… There it is. The key, and the focus for the next conference. Engagement.

Welcome to From Business to Buttons.

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Speakers

Katie Dill (US)

Director of Experience Design at Airbnb

As the Director of Experience Design, Katie leads the designers defining Airbnb’s digital products and services. She is responsible for the people, processes and structure to help the team craft high-quality experiences in the online and offline worlds. Katie has led the growing team through a global rebranding as well as the launch of new platforms and products. Previously Katie was a Partner at Greenstart Ventures, a Creative Director at Frog Design and an instructor in CCA’s Grad design program.

Alexander Osterwalder (CH)

Inventor of the Business Model Canvas

Alexander invented the “Business Model Canvas”, a strategic management tool to design, test, build and manage business models. The tool – successfully used by such leading organizations as Coca-Cola, GE, P&G, Mastercard, Ericsson, LEGO and 3M – is detailed in his first book, international best-seller “Business Model Generation” (Wiley, 2010). It was named among the 12 best business books of all time by USA Today. More recently, Osterwalder published “Value Proposition Design: How to Create Products and Services Customers Want” (Wiley, 2015), which explains how to gain greater fit between a product and its intended market. Alexander provides a framework for large companies and startups to innovate by rapidly experimenting with new business models and value propositions. He is also co-founder of Strategyzer.

Jaime Levy (US)

Digital pioneer and author of "UX Strategy"

Jaime Levy is the author of the best-selling O’Reilly Media book “UX Strategy: How to Devise Innovative Digital Products that People Want”. She has been a pioneer in the creation of innovative digital products and services for over 25 years, working with clients like City National Bank, Disney, HBO and South Park Studios. Jaime is here to tell us about lightweight tactics for pushing cross-functional teams toward digital solutions that customers want, and her work with defining the UX Strategy for the futuristic transportation system called Hyperloop.

Mike Monteiro (US)

Co-founder and Design Director at Mule Design

Mike is probably the most outspoken man in design today. He prefers elegant, simple sites with clear language that serve a real need. He also prefers that designers have strong spines. Mike writes and speaks frequently about the craft and business of design. He loves client services so much he wrote two books on the topic, “Design is a Job” and “You’re My Favorite Client”. Mike is one of the most appreciated speakers in the history of From Business to Buttons, and in 2017 he returns, this time to challenge the companies promising to change the world.

Danielle Ehrlich (ZA)

Design Thinking and Social Innovation

Danielle is an award winning creator, innovator, trendsetter, collaborator, brand builder and founder of True Story Studio. She works with design that is environmentally, culturally and socially sensitive. Her Product Design Company LIV Design was featured at the Rockefeller Center in New York, and in the Cape Town Laneway Project she is re-imagining the unused spaces in the city, one lane at a time, re-purposing them into useful engaging, citizen led hubs of activity. Contact her here!

Alan Cooper (US)

The mind that shaped interaction design

Alan co-founded Cooper in 1992. He is widely known for his role in humanizing technology through his groundbreaking work in software design. He is also the author of the books About Face: The Essentials of Interaction Design and The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity. Widely recognized as the “Father of Visual Basic”. Alan also created the goal-directed design methodology and invented personas as practical interaction design tools to create high-tech products that delight user’s sensibilities. “The future,” Alan reminds us, “is right in front of us, unobscured by anything other than our inability to recognize it”. Alan will hold his talk via live video link due to him receiving the Fellow Award 2017 of the Computer History Museum, California, and therefore he needs to be present for the Award ceremony in the US.

Donna Lichaw (US)

Story First – Crafting Products That Engage

Donna Lichaw is the author of The User’s Journey: Storymapping Products That People Love. Through her writing, speaking, and much loved Storymapping Workshop, Donna guides startups, non-profits, and global brands in optimizing their digital products and services by providing them with a simplified way to drive user engagement. Utilizing her ”story first” approach, she helps organizations define and refine their value proposition, transform their thinking, and better engage with their core customers. Prior to her career in technology, she refined her talent for storytelling and narrative development as an award-winning documentary filmmaker.

Eric A. Meyer (US)

Web legend and author of "Design for Real Life"

Eric A. Meyer is an author, speaker, blogger, sometimes teacher and consultant, and technical lead at Rebecca’s Gift. In his most recent book, “Design for Real Life”, Eric teaches us how to build a business case for making decisions through a lens of kindness, and how to design with not just empathy, but compassion. This will also be the focus of his talk. He’s been working on the Web since 1993 and still finds it deeply compelling. Eric also happens to be one of the world’s greatest CSS experts, and co-founder of An Event Apart. You can reach Eric at @meyerweb.

Dawn Ressel (US)

Evolving design systems for flexibility and scale

Dawn Ressel is Design Strategist for the Intuit Design System. She leads her company’s initiative to create cohesive end-to-end experiences, across all products, for all of Intuit’s users: consumers, small business owners and accountants. Dawn often speaks on the topic of design systems. She is interested in expanding the definition of design systems and pushing the boundaries of execution.

Emma Estborn (SE)

Host

Emma, from inUse Experience, has organized “The Conference” in Malmö for many years and is a brilliant moderator and host. She is also a strategist, concept & business developer, facilitator, implementer and change maker. Shortly? A digital transformation ace.

David de Léon (SE)

Host

David de Léon, from inUse Experience, is director of design and innovation. He has held numerous conference keynotes, hosted the inUse Award ceremony, and he also performs as a user experience illusionist!

Andreas Tilliander (SE)

Music producer

Andreas will perform live during the conference day and will also compose a theme song for the FBTB17! He creates music, betatest synths, tours the world, hosts Elektroniskt at Sveriges Radio and is known from Familjen and has worked with Joakim Berg, (Arlanda) and Kent. Listen to Andreas on Spotify!

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