A/B testing and beyond

Feb 2014

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12 Wed 09:30 AM – 05:00 PM IST

13 Thu 09:30 AM – 05:00 PM IST

14 Fri 08:30 AM – 05:45 PM IST

15 Sat 08:30 AM – 05:15 PM IST

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Criteria for proposing sessions: You must be a practising web designer/developer, and must be able to show how your own work has advanced the state of the web in the past year. You are expected to present original work that your peers — this event’s audience — recognise as being notable enough to deserve a stage.

About Meta Refresh: Meta Refresh is a conference where Design and UI development converge. A beautiful experience on the web is a result of a deep understanding of your user and the nuances of the medium. Meta Refresh aims to be the platform where designers and UI developers exchange ideas and skills and learn from each other.

Format: This year’s edition spans four days, with two days of workshops and two days of conference. All days feature a single track.

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Front-end implementations, mainly workflow, processes, tools and automation,
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Talks on implementation have to be about original work. While covering scalability and productivity aspects to explain implementation details, proposers must also explain who is the user and what is the context in which their product is being used. Therefore, how content and design were tailored in each specific instance.

We also invite workshop proposals on:

Build systems such as Grunt
CSS frameworks such as Bootstrap 3 and Foundation
MVC/JS frameworks such as Angular
Animations/UX

Workshops will be held on 12th and 13th February at the TERI auditorium in Domlur, Bangalore.

If you are excited about someone’s work and believe it deserves wider recognition, we recommend you contact them and ask them to submit a proposal.

Last date for submissions: 12 January 2014.
Confirmations: 15 January 2014 onwards.

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A/B testing and beyond

Submitted Dec 20, 2013

Section: Workshops Technical level: Intermediate

On one side UX Designers focus on usability testing to drive conversions, but they are skeptical about A/B testing for multiple reasons that they cannot capture user emotions, interactions, challenges, usability issues etc. Then why invest on A/B testing?

On the other hand we have Business Teams and Product Managers who dont feel usability testing feasbile for every small web element from time, planning, go to market and budgeting aspects. Then why invest on usability testing?

This is a topic which everyone should be aware of and also should know when to use which technique. In my hands-on workshop I will be focusing on

What is A/B testing
What is Usability Testing
Why A/B Testing
When to use A/B testing Vs Usability Testing
What can you A/B test?
Do’s and Dont’s of A/B Testing
A/B testing Techniques (Basic and Advanced)
Tools for A/B testing
Statistics, Funelling and Collecting Data from A/B testing

We’ll do a hands-on session by creating 2 versions of a webpage and will do a end to end A/B testing right from setting up your A/B test to gathering data, funneling and checking conversions.

Outline

A/B testing are a great way to help you drive more conversion on your website. A/B testing help you decide the best layout, headlines, images, message copy etc. that motivates the visitors to complete a transaction.

For many users A/B testing sounds like a “no-brainer”. You make two versions of a webpage (A and B), split traffic amongst those versions and choose the version that produces maximum conversions. That’s it! At the core, A/B testing is really as simple as I described.

Even if you are doing this kind of simple A/B testing, you are probably far ahead of your competition.But in order to truly boost your conversions, you need to know some of the advanced A/B testing tactics that only experienced practitioners currently use.

In this workshop I will walk you through the effective A/B testing tactics and tecnhiques from the basics to advance level.