User Experience (UX) Event

If you are interested in User Experience (UX) topics, this event is for you.

We will be organising a UX clinic during the breaks, so you can bring your website or software link along you and will have the opportunity to discuss with our UX experts how you might improve it from a usability perspective. Even better... discussions will be had over free beer and pizza, courtesy of The Technology Studio (http://www.thetechnologystudio.co.uk/).

Moving from user-centred thinking to system thinking

User-centred thinking has done the design community proud. However, whilst its laser beam focus on the user is an undoubted strength, it does sometimes mean that the wider user eco-system is not always considered. I’m going to introduce system thinking (also known as service design). System thinking is a way to not only consider the user but the wider system in which a user interacts with a service or product. Think of it as user-centred design 2.0!

A former techy turned UX Jedi Neil is a freelance UX designer, researcher and trainer. He’s previously worked for a top travel website, international exams group, industry leading UX consultancy, full service digital agency and top ecommerce website. He likes to share UX ideas, tips, tools and techniques that everyone can use to design a better user experience at his blog – www.uxforthemasses.com (http://www.uxforthemasses.com/).

6 problems, and 6 solutions!

Talk based on Smashing Magazine article :

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2014/05/07/6-common-problems-ux-process-6-solutions/

Chris is the founder of Daymedia, a digital agency that has welcomed a variety of challenges for companies such as Volvo, Jet2, and Onzo. He has been working as a designer and developer since 2005, having started his career at Xerox Global Services. He is passionate about design, jaffa cakes, and helping local charities via CodeRaiser.