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
Redesigning success
How can we redefine the concept of success to better reflect the values and ambitions of a creative culture?
In recent years we’ve seen a growing number of organisations set out more ‘purpose driven’ visions for their futures. And yet, the reality is that most companies continue to use the traditional measures of growing profit, productivity and shareholder value to define success. What if we redesigned the mainstream success benchmarks to prioritise an alternative set of measures and behaviours that are better aligned to the delivering happier and more creative working cultures?
About the speaker
Lou is CEO of Manchester based digital design studio, magneticNorth. Founded in 2000, the company quickly established an international reputation with an award winning client portfolio.
Alongside the day job, she is also a board member on Greater Manchester’s Local Enterprise Partnership, Chair of Design Manchester and a passionate campaigner for gender equality in business and the tech industry.
Lou was awarded an OBE in the 2018 New Year’s Honours for services to the creative and digital economy.
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
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
Camille Gribbons
UX Designer, Booking.com
“This Design Sucks” and other anecdotes from launching a travel app in Indonesia from 7,057 miles away
When global company Booking.com decided to take things down to a local scale, they had no idea how challenging it would be to tackle a market across the world. Indonesia is one of the fastest growing markets in 2019, and by deciding to target that market, the team quickly learned that there was no way to be successful without help from the locals. In the talk, designer Camille Gribbons will share UX learnings and funny anecdotes about the unique challenges of designing for a brand new market and just how much cultural perspectives matter to the design of a product.
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
Tereza Alux
Latam Director LTUX
InnovateHer Panel – Choose your path
To support the InnovateHer initiative the panel for TalkUX will be focused around future skills for the industry, each individual’s story on how they got in to UX and on what they think matters as a UX’er.
Listen to our experts telling their inspiring personal stories of how they ended up in their UX careers – we can guarantee that no two paths are the same!
We’ll also be discussing the skills that you need for the future world of work, why diversity in tech matters, and how to prepare the next generation for roles that don’t even exist yet.
We’ll potentially have a very special guest – an alumna from one of our InnovateHer school programmes (permissions pending!)
Join us for a lively debate and for some inspiration on creating your own future career path.
@innovateherUK
#innovateher
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
Download our sponsor pack to learn more about sponsoring Talk UX
Lead sponsor
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Tea sponsor
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Team & Volunteers
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