Workshops

Futuristic business challenges

Darren will ask attendees to solve business challenges using futuristic digital media. This session will be interactive, and will be designed to provide the participant with hands‐on experience. The overall goal of the workshop is to create beautiful user experiences, reflect and share.

Story telling – communicating the project

Or ‘how to make boring stuff interesting’. Traditional communication techniques for 21st century audiences. Tips and tricks for face-to-face meetings, presentations and engaging narratives to ensure your stakeholders understand your work, regardless of their experience. Interactive, fun and something everyone should know.

Wicked workshops

Jason Mesut will dig into his repertoire of key workshop skills for user experience professionals to share with attendees, in order to help them engage with their colleagues and clients. He will talk through some of the founding principles of effective workshops and introduce key techniques for progressing projects in a fun and effective way. Jason will then get attendees to try out techniques for themselves: prioritising requirements, developing clear experience propositions, coming up with design solutions, selecting design concepts and running project lessons learned reviews. This session will be highly interactive, and will be designed to be as fun as possible after a morning of talks.

Pitching UX

• The key to winning a pitch is realising that it’s a journey, not an event - from the starting point where the opportunity is discovered (for agency-side, that’s the RFI. For client-side that’s budget discussions), to presenting your idea. Robert will take the audience through a whirlwind tour of the pitch process providing key do’s and don’ts along the way. Believing that practice makes better (not perfect, as that’s impossible), the attendees will be asked to participate in their own pitch journey.