Dublin UX - The Business of Design

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Join Dublin UX on Wednesday Oct 25th for an evening of UX Talks and networking around the central topic of "The Business of Design". Travelport Digital are kindly sponsoring and hosting our October event, including refreshments beforehand.

We have strict limitations on numbers on the night. Please arrive early to avoid disappointment. Once we hit capacity we will have to turn away. Please ensure we have your full name, and the names of any guests. These are needed by building security.

Agenda for the event:

6:00pm - Doors open and networking begins. Food and refreshments are provided by Travelport Digital 6:40pm - Opening remarks 6:45pm - Talk 1: Designing for Business Value with David Kearny 7:30pm - Talk 2: Evolving Design Maturity with Matthew Ovington 8:00pm - Roundtable Q&A 8:15pm - Final networking 8:30pm - Close ---

Designing for Business Value
A talk by David Kearny, Founder/CEO FluidUI.com

Dave is the founder and CEO of FluidUI.com, a web and mobile prototyping tool user by over 2000 customers around the world. Passionate about creating new products with new technologies, he can often be found writing at blog.fluidui.com.

Dave speaks about his experiences founding and growing a design lead startup, what he has learned along the way and how designers can contribute in unexpected ways to building successful companies.

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Evolving Design Maturity
A talk by Matthew Ovington, Director of User Experience at Travelport Digital

Matthew is Director of User Experience at Travelport Digital. He was formerly Director of Product Design at Paddy Power. Before that he founded Open Interface, an agency specialising in usability and accessibility in 2002. Matthew started his career as a usability engineer in 2000 at Nua, a digital consultancy. He has worked in many different areas in the UX field for a variety of public and private sector organisations - primarily in user research and information architecture. He has over 15 years' experience leading design teams.

Organisations that get design are more successful than those that don’t. Their customers spend more and stay loyal. Yet there are lots of successful organisations that have been successful without “getting” design but still want to reap the benefits. These organisations are growing up in a world where user experience is becoming the competitive differentiator. How can designers who find themselves working in these organisations help evolve design maturity? Where should they start? And should designers be expected to lead this change? In this talk Matthew will speak about his experiences raising design maturity, what works and what doesn’t how designers can go about changing their environment for the better.

This talk is aimed at any designer interested in influencing the level of design maturity within their organisation.