A quick run through of key talks and some fun I had at UX Week 15

1. @luckykat

2. LEAH BULEY
• Millennials will be 75% of
the workforce in 10yrs.
They expect more, and like
writing bad reviews.
• For organisations that want
to succeed competent UX
is no longer optional. Great
UX is whats required!
@leahbuley

3. ERIN RAPACKI
• New remote working
options.
• Telepresence devices
• A robot that embodies a
person
• Embodiment is an
interaction - UncannyValley
@robotdiva

4. ILUMINATE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijsPFAIwohU

5. ILUMINATE
• Users include dancers,
technicians, programmers,
wardrobe & costume
• Everyone was so different
and so working together
they understood each
others perspectives.

6. ERIN HOFFMAN
• Game designer
• Fun theory - Koster
• Convert fear into happiness
through surprise = FUN!
• Don’t run from the pain
point. Getting out of it is
meaningful.Take the paid and
transform emotions from
confused to clear!
@gryphoness

7. ABBY COVERT
• How to make sense of any
mess.Thinking about
information as a material is
HARD!
• language matters
• there is no right way -
corporate underpants
• We need pictures - shared
visual assets to communicate
The person who
picks up the
marker owns the
project!
@Abby_the_IA

8. ABBY COVERT
• How to make sense of any
mess.Thinking about
information as a material is
HARD!
• language matters
• there is no right way -
corporate underpants
• We need pictures - shared
visual assets to communicate
The person who
picks up the
marker owns the
project!
@Abby_the_IA

9. APOLLO ROBBINS STOLE
PEOPLESTHINGS

10. Do unto others as you would
have done to you...is wrong.
How do you know they want
the same thing as you?

11. EXPERIENCE MAPPING

12. EXPERIENCE MAPPING

13. SERVICE DESIGN BLUEPRINTS

14. ALASTAIR SOMERVILLE
• Designing for wearables…
not really
• Sensory design
• Play carefully within the
limits if the person
• You can enhance the
experience but you can’t
own it
@Acuity_Design
“The brilliance of
humans is we are not
restricted by reality”

15. LEAH RADER
• Participatory Design
• Trying to get people to be
their authentic selves
• Enabling exercises - noticing
things that are part of the
fabric of their lives
• Projecting exercises -
sensitive topic areas.
@springstudios
• Lists
• MadLibs
• Stories
• Tracking (e.g. diaries)
• Sort
• Make
• Diagrams
• Map & layer
• Play!!

16. JESSICA HISCHE
• Typography….subtlety in design @jessicahische

17. JANET CRAWFORD
• Bias is everywhere but we
often fail to see it.
• Barbie is a designer… :-/
@janetcrawford

18. CEO

19. RECEPTIONIST

20. KARL FAST
• Understanding embodiment
• As problems & technologies
get more complex we need
to design for the 'network'.
All the pieces working
together.
• Going from 'design for the
thing' to 'design for the user'
to 'design for the body-mind-
context network'
@karlfast“The world is
a cognitive
resource. Use
it well.”

21. ADAM SAVAGE
• Art Vs Science - “Art and science are the twin
engines that push us forward as a society“
@donttrythis

22. ADAM SAVAGE
• Art Vs Science - “Art and science are the twin
engines that push us forward as a society“
@donttrythis

23. ADAM SAVAGE
• Art Vs Science - “Art and science are the twin
engines that push us forward as a society“
@donttrythis

24. ADAM SAVAGE
• Art Vs Science - “Art and science are the twin
engines that push us forward as a society“
@donttrythis

25. ADAM SAVAGE
• Art Vs Science - “Art and science are the twin
engines that push us forward as a society“
@donttrythis

28. SO WHAT NEXT?

29. THANKS
katja@perceptiveideas.com.au
@luckykat