Programme

Talks

UX London presenters represent the cream of user experience practitioners worldwide. By attending, you will gain the wisdom of years of experience from this amazing cast of engaging speakers and effective teachers.

• Registration

  8:00 - 9:30

• Morning Talks

  • 9:30 - 10:15

    On Long Noses, Sampling, Synthesis, Design and Innovation

    It is my belief that professional design has both a rhythm and a process – both of which can be learned and effectively practiced, even if you would rather be doing anything else but work on that design.

    Bill
    Buxton
  • 10:15 - 11:00

    The Rise of Lean Startup

    What does Lean Startup mean? And will it play well with User Experience? A crash course on Lean Startup, Customer Development, and how these trends are resolving some of the most difficult problems UX professionals face.

    Janice
    Fraser

• Break

  11:00 - 11:30
• • 11:30 - 12:15

    Organising Mobile Web Experiences

    The things that make mobile devices unique have a big impact on how we can organise and guide people through the content of our web experiences.

    Luke
    Wrob­lew­ski
  • 12:15 - 13:00

    A Content Strategy Roadmap

    How to make a website: discover, define, design, develop, deploy.

    Kristina
    Halvorson

• Lunch

  13:00 - 14:30

• Afternoon Talks

  • 14:30 - 15:15

    Mobile & UX: Inside the Eye of the Perfect Storm

    The world of web application design is expanding at a rapid rate. The flood of iPad applications and successful online businesses are showing our executives that design matters.

    Jared
    Spool
  • 15:15 - 15:30

    From Print to iPad: designing a reading experience

    UX Designers always talk about failing early and often, but we rarely share the gritty details of the problems we face and the disasters we narrowly avert when working behind closed doors.

    Harry
    Brignull
  • 15:30 - 15:45

    Design with an Opinion

    Companies presenting themselves with a casual voice is all the rage, but deep engagement with the customers you want requires one more step forward. You have to break beyond the corporate instinct of avoiding risk and instead take a stand.

    Bill
    DeRouchey
  • 15:45 - 16:00

    Designing the Skycouch: How Air New Zealand moved from selling seats to selling experiences

    At the end of 2006, the Air New Zealand board challenged a small team to redesign the long-haul flying experience. Just over three years later, Air New Zealand unveiled the Skycouch, the world’s first lie-flat economy-class bed.

    Leif
    Roy

• Break

  16:00 - 16:30
• • 16:30 - 17:15

    The Next Step for Design: Social Entrepreneurship

    As designers are increasingly recognized as both thought leaders and the drivers of large-scale change, it’s become evident that we’ve outgrown the traditional contexts of our work - as stewards of organizational change in large corporations, and as hired guns at consultancies.

    Jon
    Kolko

• Welcome Drinks in the Carbon Bar

  18:00 - 19:00, Sponsored by Morgan Kaufmann

  Come and join us for a complimentary welcome drink, courtesy of Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.

  www.carbonbar.co.uk

• UX Bookclub in the Carbon Bar

  19:00

  If you've signed up for UX book club, join the discussion in the Carbon Bar.