TechTalks Edinburgh #4

Why you'll want to join us:

• UX Without Rituals: Building Human-First Digital Support with Zero BS by Dr Ziwei Wang - learn why “best practice” in UX isn’t always best. This talk shows how to build impactful, user-centred products without the usual rituals, templates, or big budgets — drawing on the real story of designing Pathlight, a grief-support platform for young people.
• Teaching (Yourself and Others) with Claude: Experiments and Reflections by Jon Minton - learn how Claude and Claude Code can accelerate your own learning while helping you build clear, engaging teaching materials for others. From prompting Claude to take evidence-based stances on complex topics, to co-designing visual guides, generating statistical animations, and even creating full simulated codebases for training, this talk offers a practical look at AI-assisted learning in action.
• Pizza, pints & people – free pizza, beer, tech talks, networking - as always :)

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Agenda:

• 5:45pm - 6:30pm - Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat
• 6:30pm- 7:15pm - Dr Ziwei Wang – UX Without Rituals: Building Human-First Digital Support with Zero BS
• 7:15pm-7:30pm - q&a • chat break
• 7:30pm-8:15pm - Jon Minton – Teaching (Yourself and Others) with Claude: Experiments and Reflections
• 8:15pm onwards - q&a • beverages • networking

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Speaker Spotlight:

Dr Ziwei Wang – Strategic insights lead / product manager - https://www.linkedin.com/in/drziweiwang/
Specialises in turning complex user needs into decision-ready frameworks and building digital support tools under real-world constraints. With a background in behavioural science, combines evidence rigour with inventive delivery — from research galleries to journey systems — to align user insight with product strategy and organisational mission. Advocates for contextual, purpose-driven design that challenges standard UX rituals and delivers impact where it matters.

Jon Minton – Senior Statistician - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-minton-09480b13a/
Senior biostatistician with a very eclectic background and interests. He turned from AI sceptic to believer after watching The Thinking Game and seeing AIs evolve from playing Atari games to winning a Nobel prize in under a decade, and when Claude started arguing against him. See also his GitHub and Blog.
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Partners:

• Dougray
• Clockwise

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Previous events:
TechTalks # 3 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/311636014/
TechTalks # 2 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/311002306/
TechTalks # 1 - https://www.meetup.com/techtalks-edinburgh/events/310199227/