UX Masterclass hosted by UXalliance is a biannual international conference. UIDG held it in Moscow last year and this time up to 100 UX-experts including Natalia Kirillova representing Russia (partner @UIDG) went to Madrid.
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CodeFest 2013 was held in Novosibirsk (30-31 March 2013) and had a design section together with traditional QA and Web. Platon did a keynote “A carrot in the front or in the back?” where he covered some motivational and gamification issues (apart from vegetables) related to businesses and their clients.
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We’ve been helping our clients with creating beautiful and useful interfaces as well as improving existing ones for 10 years. Thanks to them, their success and satisfied users we’re celebrating our first anniversary.
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As we all know the 404fest conferenceheld in Samara is a place to go for everybody interested in web-development, design and usability. This time it attracted about 800 participants from all over Russia as well as from Ukraine, England and US.
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The 6th International UX Masterclass Conference on usability and UX related topics was held in Moscow on 21 September 2012. It was hosted by UIDG supported by UXallianceand UXMarathon. that consolidates 25 leading user experience firms from all over the world. Here are more details on the conference.
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In the frame of World Usability Day 2011 UXalliance has prepared a report on cultural differences in usability testing around the globe and pitfalls to avoid when testing in a culture other than your own. UIDesign Group together with other partners from more than 20 countries took part in its preparation. The report is available for free download.
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This weekend (October 1–2) Alexey Kopylov will chair the track Usability on 404 fest in Samara. Apart from interesting presentations, attendees will have an opportunity to participate in 3 master classes.

Our company is once again organizing the UX Marathon, worldwide online conference, in October 2011. The topic for this year is UX Toolkit. Leading experts from around the globe will equip you with the latest knowledge about UX specialists' tools and techniques.
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Our technical director Alexey Kopylov participated as an invited expert in start-up contest Harvest which took place in Kazan on July 16-17. He has been also invited to chair usability section on 404 fest in Samara in October.
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Alexey Kopylov’s article “Can virtual buttons be better than hardware ones: iOS experience” has been published in UXalliance blog . The article is written following his presentation for Flash GAMM conference, which has been mentioned in our news earlier.
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‘User Experience Management’ by Arnie Lund is a new book on usability topic that has been recently published by Morgan Kaufmann. Natalia Kirilllova from UIDesign Group, contributed to 2 chapters of the book. She shared her experience in managing large international projects remotely and talked about how to find and educate talented team members.
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We carry on the tradition of sharing experience with other companies. Alisher Yakupov, the head of Design Department at Odnoklassniki, told us about the process of large-scale service redesign that they had undertaken.
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In May we volunteered to plant trees at two Moscow community hospitals within the frame of our social project, which we decided to conduct in order to help improve environmental conditions in the city and make it more pleasant and beautiful. Photos on Facebook and Flickr.
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User Centric (USA), our UXalliance partner, will host the 4th biannual conference UX Masterclass in Chicago on September 15-16. The presentations will focus on trending topics in healthcare, mobile, design and eye tracking. Early registration is open until August 15. More details in UXalliance press release.
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Alexey Kopylov will talk at the conference for games developers Flash GAMM about the examples of good and poor realization of virtual controls and define the guarantees of game’s success. His presentation “Can virtual buttons be better than hardware ones: iOS experience” will show that to a considerable extent the success of a game depends on the usability of game controls.
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Alexey Kopylov has recently participated in regular RADUG meeting, which was devoted to a comparison of development on two platforms — iOS and Android. For the meeting Alexey prepared the report “Differences of app design for iOS and Android”. After the meeting Alexey shared his impressions and noted that the movement of iOS developers is growing rapidly, and each new event gathers more and more interested persons.
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At the end of March two experts from UIDesign Group will take part in specialized conferences. Natalia Kirillova is a guest speaker at the international conference UX Masterclass (Copenhagen), and Alexey Kopylov – at CodeFest in Novosibirsk. Natalia with the experts from the USA, Canada, France, Ireland and Italy will conduct a special tutorial track, Design Around the World, which will feature local perspectives from different countries. In his turn, Alexey will highlight the peculiarities of prototyping for iOS and Android and share the difficulties which he was confronted with in his practice.

Alexey Kopylov, technical director, gave a qualified opinion on Touchless Control System for iPad which was published in the article.