UXPA UK August 2021 – The Practice of UX
26
Aug
2021
18:30 - 20:00
Online Event - Zoom
As the old saying goes, “practice makes perfect”, right? UX is an ever changing and challenging profession. Practitioners need to adapt and continue to develop their practice to embrace challenges and develop new skills. As the very profession of UX is in constant flux, what do we need to consider as professionals and can we ever really keep pace with change?
Our two talks will examine the practice of UX and how it is evolving. We will look at how those working in UX can develop both personally and professionally and explore the skills and perspectives that UX professionals need to thrive. Each session will include the opportunity for audience questions.
Schedule:
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- 18:30 – 18:40: Welcome and Introductions
- 18:40 – 19:15: Joe Knowles – Head of User Experience, Nomensa
- 19:15 – 19:50: Sabrina Duda – Senior User Researcher, Valtech
- 19:50: Wrap up
Logistics:
- Remote via Zoom. Zoom link will be provided on registration and again on the day of the event.
- This event is in British and American English.
- Timings are approximate.
If you have any questions about the event, please contact chris@uxpa-uk.org.
As always, we couldn’t do what we do without the help of the UXPA UK committee members and our event volunteers. If you want to volunteer at our events, contact our events team on events@uxpa-uk.org.
Stoicism, Resilience, and Design
The reality that we live in will test us: not always, but at some point. How is it that some people are able to survive and, in some cases, thrive during these difficult times while others don’t? How do people come back from challenges and learn to develop a mindset that enables growth? How do we develop the non-technical skills that enable us to become the best practitioners we can be?
In this talk, Joe will introduce stoicism as a concept and aims to put personal and professional development into that framework. Building on that, he will explore resilience from both a human and a corporate perspective, so that we can better understand how to build the skills that help us thrive as designers and as people.
Joe Knowles
Joe is an experienced and pragmatic user experience specialist with an academic background in psychology and ergonomics. His is particularly interested in lean UX, user research, strategy and personal growth.
Joe is the Head of User Experience at Nomensa, leading a team of experts with proven ability to improve design processes and increase empathy. He is personally involved in several of Nomensa’s key accounts and prior to working at Nomensa worked client side at globally recognised brands.
Back to the future – being a user researcher in the past, present & future
This talk will explore the role of the user researcher in the past, present and future.
Starting in the late 1990s, the talk will cover the early days of dotcom boom, how our tools, methods, ways of working – and even the name of our role – have evolved, up to the most recent changes during the pandemic, and how the future could look like.
Sabrina Duda
Sabrina Duda has over 20 years of experience in the field of UX and is passionate about user-centred product development and considering users’ needs and emotions.
Sabrina earned her MSc in Psychology at Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany, where she specialised in Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics. Sabrina co-founded one of the first usability agencies in Germany and served for over 12 years as a managing director and partner.
In 2015, she moved to the UK and has worked in user research roles for Valtech, The Lab Group, Experian, Zava, Ministry of Justice, The Very Group, ThoughtWorks.
She is a member of UXPA International & UXPA UK and frequently writes and speaks about UX. Read more about her on www.smiling.club