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Shane Morris (Automatic Studio, Melbourne)

Shane Morris is one of Australia’s most respected user experience professionals. Through consulting, mentoring and training he has helped organisations create compelling digital experiences since 1991. In that time he has worked on desktop applications, internet applications, mobile user interfaces, physical devices and web sites. Shane has taught user experience topics around the world and is a key contributor to “101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School” at ixd101.com.

Speaking On

All Aboard: The Metro Design Language and what it Means to you

With Windows Phone, then Xbox and soon Windows 8, Microsoft is “all in” with its new design language: “Metro”. However, despite general excitement within the Microsoft ecosystem, it’s not exactly clear what Metro is. There are no real standards available, yet we see ongoing ‘Metro-fication’, for better and worse, of various Microsoft and non-Microsoft properties. More...

Speaker Details

Shane has worked with companies like Microsoft, Lonely Planet, M&C Saatchi, Cochlear, Qantas and Tennis Australia - helping creative and technical professionals collaborate to create services that empower, inspire and reward. His passion is transforming the complex and constrained into the simple and powerful. Not just because it's valuable endeavour, but because it's hard - and therefore immensely rewarding.

Shane’s recent speaking engagements include TechEd Australia and New Zealand, TechDays South Africa, Remix Australia and UX Australia. He has spoken twice before at WebDu, plus a keynote guest appearance. 

Shane's experience includes: 

• Director of Automatic Studio (Formerly Echo Interaction Design).
• One of Microsoft's first User Experience Evangelists world-wide.
• General Manager and Principal Consultant at The Hiser Group.
• Awarded Microsoft Most Valuable Professional status 2010-12.

Has previously done talks on...

Multi-touch, Multi-user, Multi-challenge: How to Design Gestural User Interfaces.

Multi-touch user interfaces are moving off your phone and into computing devices, information displays and even the furniture. Designing multi-touch user interfaces presents its own challenges, but add to that multi-user and tangible UI considerations and you have the makings of an ‘interesting’ design challenge. Shane Morris will take us through considerations for designing gestural and tangible UI’s for devices, large format screens and augmented reality interfaces. Along the way he’ll use examples from his own work, including Australia’s first publically demonstrated Microsoft Surface application (for Lonely Planet) and Australia’s first deployed Surface application, for the ANZ bank. More...

Website to Webapp - Designing for Workflow

Web applications are much easier to design than traditional websites, right? I mean there's only one page in the site map! How hard could it be? Right? More...