Warm Gun Agenda

2013 Agenda Coming Soon! Check out the 2012 agenda below:

Time Session Speakers
8:00AM–9:00AM Wake Up! Caffeine, Croissants, & Cool Cats
9:00AM–9:10AM Viva Comic Sans!: The History of Warm Gun Dave Mcclure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups
9:10AM–9:40AM Reality Bytes: Design Process vs. the Real World Startup—the Instagram Story Mike Krieger, Co-Founder/Engineering, Instagram
9:40AM–10:10AM Masters of Behavior Design: How to Win Users & Influence Behavior BJ Fogg, Director, Behavior Design Lab, Stanford
10:10AM–10:30AM Crocodoc’s HTML<High>5 Break
10:30AM–10:50AM Get Over Yourself: The Painful, Gut-Wrenching, and Absolutely Necessary Compromises of “Designing for Conversion” Marc Hemeon, Senior UX Designer, YouTube
10:50AM–11:10AM What’s Love Got to Do With It?: Wooing Your Customers & Keeping the Flame Alive Kevin Hale, Senior Product Manager, SurveyMonkey
11:10AM–12:00PM The Sequel to the Sequel: Designers are from Mars, Developers are from Venus
  • Jeff Veen, CEO/Co-Founder, Typekit (moderator)
  • Stephanie Hornung, UX Designer, Asana
  • Mark Kawano, User Experience Evangelist, Apple
  • John Michael, Senior Lead Designer, Amazon
12:00PM–1:30PM Lunch, Munch, & Recharge with Ford’s Electric Focus
Designer Track
1:30PM–1:50PM Design MythBusters: What No-one Tells You (but you Need to know) About Joining a Startup Josh Brewer, Principal Designer, Twitter
1:50PM–2:10PM The Designer Founder: Lessons from the Skool of Hard Knocks Enrique Allen, Founder, Designer Fund
2:10PM–2:30PM Designing for Multiple Screens: 1 Design to Rule Them All Luke Wroblewski, Founder, LukeW Ideation + Design
2:30PM–2:50PM Question → Invent → Defend → Iterate: The Designer’s Guide to Data Daniel Gatsby, Head of Brand and Product Marketing, Square
2:50PM–3:10PM Guns For Hire Break, Hosted by Amazon
3:10PM–3:30PM Designing for Complex Business Models: Online → Offline → Online → Conversion Tim Riley, Director of Online Experience, Warby Parker
3:30PM–3:50PM Designing for Scalability: From One to Many Andrew Crow, Experience Design Director, GE
3:50PM–4:10PM Designing for Mobile Commerce: The Science Behind Moving Targets Sam Shank, CEO & Co-Founder, Hotel Tonight
4:10PM–4:30PM Designing for Distribution: Info + Graphics ≠ Infographics Stew Langille, Founder & CEO, Visual.ly
Developer Track
1:30PM–1:50PM Designing Your Design Team: Tactics for Building (the most) Effective Culture Steve Johnson, Senior Director of User Experience, LinkedIn
1:50PM–2:10PM Designing for Engineering, Engineering for Design: Balancing Workflow in a Startup Didier Hilhorst, Product Design, Flipboard
2:10PM–2:30PM Designing for Discovery: Experiments in Marketplace UI @ Etsy Dan McKinley, Principal Engineer, Etsy
2:30PM–2:50PM Designing for Content: Engagement in an ADD World Andres Quesada, Art Director, Gannett
2:50PM–3:10PM Guns For Hire Break, Hosted by Amazon
3:10PM–3:30PM Designing 4 Inbox Love: The 7 Deadly Myths of Mobile Email Design Jenn Downs, Design Researcher, MailChimp
3:30PM–3:50PM Designing for Uncertainty: What I Wish I’d Known as a Startup Founder Harry Max, VP Experience Design, Rackspace
3:50PM–4:10PM Git with the Program: Fast Design-Decision Making 4 the Everyday Developer Julie Ann Horvath, Designer, GitHub
4:10PM–4:30PM Designing for Pirates: Hidden Treasures in the Purchase Funnel Melissa Cooper, Director of User Experience, Eventbrite
4:30PM–4:50PM “Monkey Around” Beer Break, Hosted by MailChimp (downstairs)
4:50PM–5:10PM Warm Gun Sharp Shooters: Startup Pitches
  • Damian Madray, Founder, Hunie
  • Kirill Zubovsky, Founder, Scoutzie
  • Joanne Chang, Head of Design, Cardinal Blue
  • Christofer Karltorp, Co-Founder, Zerply
  • Steffen Thilsted, CMO, Iconfinder
5:10PM–5:30PM Caterina Fake Does It Again: Dave McClure interviews the (amazing) Founder of Flickr, Hunch, and Findery on startups, design, and life
  • Caterina Fake, Founder, Findery
  • Dave McClure, Founding Partner, 500 Startups (interviewer)
5:30PM–7:30PM Warm Gun After Party, Hosted by Visual.ly