Women In Tech May 2019 - UX Clichés (and a new venue!)
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*** This Is Our First Month At Our New Venue, Antenna ***
This month we are really excited to welcome Samantha Cohen (https://twitter.com/SCohenUX) to speak at Women in Tech!
As always, there'll be free drinks and food for all thanks to our fantastic sponsors Commify and JH, and our new sponsors Capital One and MHR! Everyone is welcome and there are no tickets required. Just turn up - it's entirely free!
Full event details: https://www.technottingham.com/events/wit-may-2019
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UX Clichés: Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea, Is All Fair In Love And War?
by Samantha Cohen
We are all guilty of a good cliché, dropping them absentmindedly into everyday conversation. It is one thing that betrays the lack of original thought you can’t help but blurt out during any kind of project feedback session. In this talk we will look into the cringy world of UX clichés; what they really mean and how you should challenge and overcome them.
- About Sam -
Sam is Head of Product Design at Mitrefinch, a Nottingham and York based software company. She leads a team of 8 that include Product Owners, Business Analysts and UX Professionals. She spent the last 8 years in and around specific UX type roles, which curiously can date back to becoming a passion that was born out of designing Buffy the Vampire Slayer websites via GeoCities at the age of about 10.
Sam self-taught herself into a UX Consultant role at Ideagen back in 2012 and has progressed her career across design, research and UX rapidly ever since. Her proudest career moment so far was being nominated as a Nottingham Women in Business finalist in 2017 under the Digital Ambassador category while leading a research team at MHR.
In her spare time Sam loves to lose days watching real crime documentaries, researching and going on sunny holidays, replying to all messages via GIFs and emojis and spending all other hours spare with her Shih Tzu, The Womble (and the boyf of course!).
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- Facilitated Fun! -
At our last two retrospectives, you said you’d like some more networking/ice-breaker activities. As it’s our first event at our new venue, we’re going to be running some lighthearted games in the second half, with prizes - ‘facilitated fun’ if you will ;)
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- Win Free Stuff At WiT Notts! -
To celebrate moving to our new, bigger venue, this month at WiT we have a whole pile of goodies for you to win!
For all the prize details, head to https://www.technottingham.com/events/wit-may-2019 to find out more.
Attend and tweet on the #WiTNotts hashtag to be in with a chance of winning!
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Join In With The Nottingham Tech Community Online! http://technottingham.com/slack
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Women In Tech May 2019 - UX Clichés (and a new venue!)