Warm Gun Agenda

Time Session Speakers
8:00AM–9:00AM Badges, Bagels, & Caffeine
9:00AM–9:05AM The Warm Gun Warm-Up You!
9:05AM–9:25AM Designing for Emotion: Sex, Love, & Violence Dave Mcclure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
9:25AM–10:00AM Designing for Disaster :( Jeff Veen, CEO/Co-Founder, Typekit
10:00AM–10:20AM (More Coffee) Break
10:20AM–11:20AM Anatomy of a Design Decision Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
11:20AM–12:00PM Engineers are from Mars, Designers are from Venus: The Sequel
  • Jeff Veen, CEO/Co-Founder, Typekit (moderator)
  • Peter Vidani, Design Director, Tumblr
  • Luke Kanies, Founder & CEO, Puppet Labs
  • Mike Monteiro, Design Director, Mule Design
12:00PM–1:30pM Lunch
Designer Track
1:30PM–1:50PM Designers Are Founders too! The Future of Design Founders in Tech Enrique Allen, Founder, The Designer Fund
1:50PM–2:10PM But What about Latency: How to sell design to your engineering friends Rebecca Bortman, Visual Designer, YouTube
2:10PM–2:30PM Designing for Disruption: Changing User Behavior with Design Aza Raskin, Co-Founder & CPO, Massive Health
2:30PM–2:50PM Designing for Mobile Speed: Secrets to Lightning-Fast Mobile Design Mike Krieger, Co-Founder/Engineering, Instagram
2:50PM–3:10PM Break
3:10PM–3:30PM Designing for Mobile Iteration: Down the Rabbit Hole We Go TJ Zark, Co-Founder & Chief Design Officer, 955Dreams Inc.
3:30PM–3:50PM Designing with Content: Micro-Copy—Small but Powerful Copywriting for your Apps Joshua Porter, Director of UX, HubSpot
3:50PM–4:10PM Designing with Data: Using Visuals to Inform, Inspire, & Convert Stew Langille, Founder & CEO, Visual.ly
Developer Track
1:30PM–1:50PM Designing Happiness :) — Rethinking the Design/Happiness Equation Andy Smith, Author, The Dragonfly Effect
1:50PM–2:10PM The Developer’s Unicorn: Tactics for Recruiting (Good) Designers Jason Putorti, Co-Founder, Votizen
2:10PM–2:30PM Performance Anxiety: What “Designing for Conversion” Actually Means Hiten Shah, CEO/Co-Founder, KISSmetrics
2:30PM–2:50PM It’s a Surprise! Steven Walker, Design Manager, Groupon
2:50PM–3:10PM Break
3:10PM–3:30PM Speed Racer: A Design & Development Team-up Luke Wroblewski, Founder, LukeW Ideation & Design
3:30PM–3:50PM Design for Continuous Deployment. Hell Yes. Randy Hunt, Creative Director, Etsy
3:50PM–4:10PM Thematic Design: Finding the Soul of Your Product Todd Matthews, Designer, Heroku
4:10PM–4:45PM Warm Gun, Cold Beer: “Because You Deserve It!,” Hosted by Heroku
4:45PM–5:45PM Post-Beer Session—A Good Idea? The Live Design Review
  • Dave McClure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
  • Hiten Shah, CEO/Co-Founder, KISSmetrics
  • Jason Putorti, Co-Founder, Votizen
  • Steven Walker, Design Manager, Groupon
5:45PM–7:00PM Warm Guns in the Forrst: Drinks & Debauchery, hosted by Forrst