Talk UX: Redesigning Place Schedule 2025

There may be small updates and additions to this schedule leading up to the event.

9.00–10.00

Registration

10.00–10.20

 

Welcome

10.20–11.10

 

Keynote – Studio A

Design as Protest: Practicing Ethical UX in Flawed Systems

Marley Dizney Swanson 

Talk description

11.10–11.30

 

Break

11.30–12.30

 

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

11.30–11.55

Design actually can save lives… but not by itself

Daniel Burka and Mahima Chandak 

Talk description 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

12.00–12.25

Co-creating the Period Symptom Checker 2.0

Beth Granter

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Studio B

45 min workshop

11.30–12.15

Time machines for problem solvers: Futures thinking in action

Sayani Mitra

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Studio C

11.30–11.55

Re-thinking ideas with public intervention

Himanshu Mewada

Talk description 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

12.00–12.25

Everything is an interface: Designing place-based systems that enable connection

Jenni Lloyd

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

12.30–13.30

 

Lunch

Mediterranean lunch boxes provided by Nostos Catering.

13.30–14.30

 

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

13.30–13.55

Bridging the gap: The UX designer’s role in cross-functional collaboration

Cindy Yeh

Talk description

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

14.00–14.25

Unexpected user insights: A UX workshop leveraging the support frontline

Eniola Ayedun

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Studio B

45 min workshop

13.30–14.15

Brighton 2050 – Designing a city that designs back

Shivani Sundar

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Studio C

13.30–13.55

Title coming soon…

Lizzie Kelly-Dyson
(co-founder of LTUX)

#Talk 

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

14.30–14.45

 

Break

14.45–15.45

 

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

14.45–15.10

What (not) to measure: How do we know that UX has really had an impact?

Clara Kliman-Silver

Talk description 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

15.15–16.10

Designing for Trust in Agentic AI

Zaianne Sparrow

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Studio B

45 min workshop

14.45–15.30

Discovery with constraints: Planning UX Discovery and prioritising user needs with limited time and budget

Chloe Ward-Smith

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Studio C

13.30–13.55

Exclusive Film Screening

Who Was Harriett Cowley? (5 min film)

Market Values, Women’s Voices (15 min film) 

Courtesy of our charity partner, Quiet Down There.

#Films 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places #Crafting-Community

16.00–16.30

 

Keynote – Studio A

Redesigning our inner place: Unlearning bias to build responsible futures

Sandra González 

Talk description

16.30–16.45

 

Close – Studio A

 

16.45-19.30

 

Snacks and Drinks

 

9.00–9.40

Registration

9.40–10.10

Welcome

10.10–11.10

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

10.10–11.35

Power, politics, and the broken promises of (UX) design

Julia Petretta

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

10.40–11.05

The role of UX in digital rights

Arda Awais

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Studio B

45 min workshop

10.10–10.55

Your city/
landscape/
environment
is a stakeholder,
let it speak

Ellen de Vries

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places #Crafting-Community

Studio C

10.10–11.35

Putting the user at the centre of your design system

Alex Edwards and Lucy Blackwell

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

10.40–11.05

Just take a picture… The research behind our GenAI image recognition tool

Rhea Ebanks-Simpson and Rebecca Gordon

Talk description

Themes:
#Changing-Places

11.10–11.30

Break

11.30–12.00

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

11.30–11.55

You’re in the room — now what? Thriving as a junior UXer by asking, learning, and being loud

Dhiraj Vishwakarma

Talk description

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

Studio B

11.30–11.55

Making research accessible: Lessons learned so far

Sharon Webster

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Studio C

11.30–11.55

‘But I’m not creative’: The role of creativity and connection in content design

Lauren Pope

Talk description

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

12.00–13.15

Lunch

You’ll have time to get lunch from one of the eateries nearby. We recommend checking out The Open Market (a 5-minute walk), which has lots of inexpensive lunch options. 

While you’re there, pop up to the balcony to visit Quiet Down There. This laundrette offers free washing and drying to those who need it, alongside creative activities. They’re our charity partner, and they’d love to show you around and tell you about their work.

13.15–14.15

Parallel Sessions

Studio A

13.15–13.40

Holistic Tech: Designing systems that care

Rai Gethers

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

13.45–14.10

You are the user: Applying UX heuristics to ‘Design Your Life’

Lilymae Prescott

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Studio B

45 min workshop

13.15–14.00

Mapping the systems that bind us: Introduction to rapid systems mapping

Ghaith Nassar

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Studio C

13.15–13.40

Impacts of digital design and interaction on physiological and psychological stress

Louise Bloom

#Talk 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

13.45–14.10

Exclusive Film Screening

Who Was Harriett Cowley? (5 min film)

Market Values, Women’s Voices (15 min film) 

Courtesy of our charity partner, Quiet Down There.

#Films 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places #Crafting-Community

14.15–14.30

Break

14.30–15.15

Running groups in tech / What does the future look like for LTUX Brighton

Panel discussion: Rifa Thorpe-Tracey FRSA, other panellists to be announced

15.15–15.30

Close

That’s a wrap! We need to clear the venue by 4pm, so if you’re able to help with a quick clear-up before you go, we’d really appreciate it💜.


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