Talk UX is an annual international design & technology conference led by women
Talk UX is an annual international design & technology conference led by women
Talk UX is an annual international design & technology conference led by women
Fairfield Social Club, September 20th 2019
Talk UX is brought to you by Ladies that UX, a global organisation that has created an international community of inspiring, supportive women in design and tech. Founded in Manchester, Ladies that UX is leading a global movement, with chapters in over 55 cities worldwide, that empowers women to achieve their full potential.
We shed light on the bridges that women in UX build between problems and solutions, user needs and products, and design and technology.
Gain Insight
Enhance your knowledge and skills by learning from industry leaders and experts. Hear stories from accomplished UX professionals as they share their experiences.
Make Connections
Meet local and global fellow-UX practitioners who are as passionate as you. Join a vibrant community, expand your reach, and further your career.
Get Inspired
Celebrate the exciting work of incredible women in design and technology and leave inspired to encourage change in your organisation.
Tickets
Full Conference
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Full day of conference talks
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Evening networking reception
Speakers
Kirsty Styles
Compere for the day
Kirsty has a decade of experience creating projects that help people better understand complex ideas. For five years, she worked as a technology journalist in London covering mobile, startups and tech giants. Here, before many people knew these issues were coming, she focused on ethical questions of technology, such as its economic, environmental and social impact, which included creating a standup comedy show.
She is now interrogating ‘public’ ‘journalism’ at the University of Central Lancashire – including through standup comedy – where she has borrowed from a public engagement initiative done by the universities sector. She also works at Liverpool-based charity The Reader, which rebuilds lives and communities by getting people reading great literature aloud together.
Lou Cordwell, OBE
CEO, magneticNorth
Basak Haznedaroglu
Consultant and Coach
About the speaker
Basak is a multi-disciplinary thinker, consultant, educator, and coach. After spending years as a design executive, leading design and research teams and developing strategies at visionary companies like InVision, Microsoft, and Foursquare, she strives to help companies and people transform and become more innovative, creative, and intentional.
She also co-founded OpenIDEO Berlin to create social impact through workshops and initiatives and design solutions to our world’s biggest challenges in sustainability, healthcare, education, and more. And, she is an ambassador of Geekettes and Hexagon, aimed to empower and support women and non-binary people in tech.
Gemma Germains
Head of Customer Experience, CANYON Bicycles
Connecting the dots: From content design to customer experience
The best thing about age is hindsight. Connecting The Dots looks at how we amass experience in the most unusual places. It also offers practical advice for levelling-up your career.
You should probably see this talk if you’re frustrated by your career progression.
You shouldn’t miss this talk if you’re a content designer who doesn’t feel like a ‘real’ designer.
About the speaker
With almost 15 years experience, Gemma can confidently call herself a creative industry veteran, with the battle scars to prove it.
Gemma was co-founder of Well Made Studio and spent 6 years fighting to highlight the stupidity of unpaid internships and the scarcity of female leaders.
As Head of CX at CANYON she gets to work with a global team of cycling experts and enthusiasts to deliver a best in class customer experience.
Clara Kliman-Silver
UX Researcher, Google
How do designers and developers collaborate? Which tools do they use? Where are the biggest pitfalls and pain points?
This talk will discuss research on how designers and developers work on co-located and geographically-distributed teams, leveraging a wide variety of tools to enable team members to design, develop, and collaborate.
Through a variety of research methods, we investigated how design tools and systems help — and hinder — their experiences. We will share our research methods so you can address your own team’s productivity and review which design tools are being used.
Additionally, we will provide a high-level overview of practices for tool integration and ways to avoid fragmentation to work together more productively as a UX team.
About the speaker
Clara Kliman-Silver is a UX Researcher at Google who interested in how designers and developers create products. Previously, Clara held UX design and research roles at companies in the artificial intelligence and healthcare spaces.
She is also the Director of Americas for Ladies That UX and co-organises its San Francisco chapter. Clara holds an Sc.B. in Cognitive Science from Brown University.
Clara’s Website
Alley Rutzel
UX Director, Google
Collaborating in a Global Workforce
As the need for employees to collaborate with remote colleagues continues to grow, corporations and organisations must learn to adapt. Unfortunately, not all have the right tools or processes to support this process well. Join Alley Rutzel as she discusses how to enable workplace transformation through connecting people in real time from across the globe to collaborate as productively as if they were in the same room.
About the speaker
Ladies that UX Global Panel Discussion – People and Connections
Clara Kliman-Silver
Director of America's LTUX
Jane Shih
APAC Regional Director LTUX
Jenny Shen
EMEA Director LTUX
Kavitha Krishnan
Director of Talk UX
Lizzie Kelly-Dyson
Co-Founder LTUX
On the day…
Programme
Including everything you need to enjoy your day
Executive Coaching
Hilary Farrington, founder of AuthenticWorks is joining us for free 1:1 ‘taster’ sessions, book yours on the day.
Afterparty at Fairfield
2 free drinks on us to wind down
Compere
Venue
Fairfield Social Club
Archway 6 Temperance Street Manchester M12 6HR
Nearest train station
Manchester Piccadilly
Nearest tram stop
Manchester Piccadilly
Nearest parking
Limited free on street parking Carparks at Baring Street and Sheffield Street
Sponsors
Talk UX would like to thank the following sponsors for the kind and generous support
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Team & Volunteers
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