User Experience is now one of the fastest growing segments in software and web development, but what does that mean for you if you're a developer and why all the fuss? This interactive session will help you better understand Design and User Experience and will give you some easy skills to help you practice on your own. It will also help you to get more out of the working relationship between engineers and designers to ultimately help you to create better products. If you've ever really wondered what UX is all about or want a deeper understanding of how it's done, skills to learn or are thinking about moving in to User Experience from development this will be perfect for you.

Agile software development is a powerful tool for developing software that meets the customer's wants (not needs!). It doesn't help define what those want's should be. For an startup this is particularly challenging as very often the customers don't exist, or cannot express their desires. Lean Startup is a way of applying agile principles to new Startups and Innovative products. This talk shows how these principles can be applied to the whole company not just the Software Development Team.