Advancing your UX Career / Design Partnerships

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AGENDA

6:30 - 7:00 Food and drinks / Meet some peeps

7:00 - 7:10 A Shoutout from our sponsor: Nedbank Digital Fastlane

7:10 - 7:30 Guest Speaker (TBC)

7:30 - 7:50 Design Partnerships: Better design with the buddy system

Graham Fenn and Jacqueline Fouche

Design is a team effort and the relationships we form directly shape the work we produce as well as our careers. We’ll discuss how the support we receive from each other and our teams makes our work better and how inclusive design is baked into our design process.

7:50 - 8:30 Advancing your UX career in South Africa

Farai Madzima

User Experience (UX) is one of the fastest growing trades in South Africa. In this session you’ll learn, among other things:- What careers prospects exist (beyond the obvious)- What you can expect in different industries (projects, roles, salaries etc.)- How you can develop yourself and move up the ladder 8:20 - 9:00 More drinks / Networking / Some tunes

ABOUT OUR SPONSORS (Who are hiring UX designers) — Nedbank Digital Fastlane

Nedbank has launched a disruptive innovation team that will be bringing exciting new products to new markets in the coming year. The focus is to leap outside of the ordinary and make real tangible difference to the lives of people across South Africa… We are made up of some of the most talented creative people in the industry and are building a culture-busting start up environment and are looking for brave, like minded world class CX, UX and UI people to join us.

SECURE PARKING & ACCESS

Parking is under the EY building is at 102 Rivonia Road. Parking is available through Service Road ( https://goo.gl/maps/4ErUmwEFmCs ), a little street between the EY and Alexander Forbes buildings.

ABOUT THE SPEAKERS

Graham Fenn — Like most of the most of my colleagues I became a UX though a series of fortunate events. After studying Multimedia I went on to become a Motion Graphic Designer, Flash Programmer and finally a UX designer. Luckily enough I've worked with some good people who have helped guide me and get to where I am. The external factors of my career development have been so helpful to me in my career, which is why I feel it's so important to pass the skills I've learned on to others.In Johannesburg we have a vibrant and unique city with a whole lot of interesting design problems. I'm interested to see what role digital design will plan in in an often not so digital city.When I'm not at work I enjoy spending time with my growing family, reading, jogging and shouting at the TV during Liverpool games.

Jacqueline Fouche — I’m an idea person and maker. I make things in leather, metal, wood and clay. I used to sell some of those things. My day job and passion is user experience design. Where I make digital things. My favourite research method is contextual enquiry. While designing I love sketching user flows best. I believe I'm good at seeing multiple perspectives - both human and system. I like to think I help humans and what they're trying to do on the systems we design, hang together. Better.

Farai Madzima — Farai was going to be doctor but didn’t get the grades, so now he’s a designer. Using scribbles and pixels he’s spent the last 10 years trying to convince businesses that people on the other side of the screen should be treated as humans. For 7 years he did this kind of stuff for clients like BBC, Audi and Telefonica in UK. These days he’s grappling with even more interesting design challenges in South Africa, where screens are small but more important, bandwidth is low but precious, and businesses are just starting to understand that UX is not UI.