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Just a quick note since I haven't written a blog post here in a while. I decided to stop creating new posts for each conference; all of my slide decks should be available on SlideShare:

• Andrew Malek UX presentations on SlideShare

Also note that I have updated my conference speaking schedule; please be sure to check it out or subscribe to my Twitter feed for more information on where I'll be talking about UX next!

Welcome, DevNexus 2018 Visitors! Form UI Slides Are Online

Welcome, DevNexus 2018 visitors!

Thanks for coming to my speech, "Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms Part 2: Electric Boogalo"!

Still having difficulty encouraging people to fill out web forms to sign up for newsletters, apply for jobs, or complete their online shopping orders? Find out even more tips to help keep people from abandoning early, such as making form field widths more convenient, easing credit card entry, grouping related fields into sections to promote scanning, and styling buttons and controls so your webpage does not look like it was written in 2000.

The slides can be found here.

Welcome, All Things Open 2017 Visitors! Form UI Slides Are Online

Welcome, All Things Open 2017 Visitors!

Thanks for coming to my speech, "Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms"!

Has your web form conversion rate hit a wall? Are users not receiving confirmation e-mails, getting pestered with password or data format warnings *after* they finish entering their information, or bailing after being asked the same questions multiple ways? Find out why not enough people are filling out your web forms, and learn suggestions of A/B tests you can try to help encourage more people to interact.

The updated slides can be found here.

Welcome, DevSpace 2017 Visitors! UI Presentation Slides Are Online

Welcome, DevSpace 2017 Visitors!

Thanks for coming to my two speeches!

Developers: Why Care About the User?

As developers, we deal with technologies, frameworks, and data, making it very easy to forget that what we create is meant for real people to use. 

While designers and UI specialists should handle most decisions about how a product or service looks and feels, we should all be on the same page to make better solutions. Whether we are building an interface for a desktop website, mobile application, or chatbot, what are some basic design concepts that we as developers can pick up, allowing us to be on the same page with designers and product owners during product meetings and discussions?

The updated slides can be found here.

Why Nobody Fills Out My Forms

Has your web form conversion rate hit a wall? Are users not receiving confirmation e-mails, getting pestered with password or data format warnings *after* they finish entering their information, or bailing after being asked the same questions multiple ways? Find out why not enough people are filling out your web forms, and learn suggestions of A/B tests you can try to help encourage more people to interact.

The updated slides can be found here.

Welcome, CONNECT.TECH Visitors! Icons Behaving Badly Slides

Welcome, CONNECT.TECH 2017 visitors!

Thanks for coming to my speech, Icons Behaving Badly!

The design behind adding interactivity to an application or website seems trivial; download a free icon collection from sites such as Flaticon, Font Awesome, or iconmonstr, pick an appropriate icon, and add the image to your work. However, should there be more to this process, especially if you are concerned about people understanding how to use what you develop? Learn why the "5-second rule" doesn't apply just to picking food off the floor, how the wrong icon can show cultural insensitivity, why the manner icons are placed in a website or app may be as important as the images themselves, and how to perform icon usability tests. You may be surprised which icons users find to be generally instantly recognizable as to what functions they relate, and which others not so much.

The slideshow is now online, and can be found here.