Talk UX: Redesigning Place Schedule 2025

9.00–10.00

Registration

University of Brighton, 154-155 Edward St, Kemptown, Brighton, BN2 0JG (or 6 Dorset Place – two buildings joined together). 
The main road is Edward Street.

10.00–10.20

Welcome – Room 105

10.20–11.10

 

Keynote – Room 105

Design as Protest: Practicing Ethical UX in Flawed Systems

Marley Dizney Swanson 

Talk description

11.10–11.30

Break

11.30–12.30

11.30–11.55

BST (UTC +1)

  • 03.30-03.55 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 07.30-07.55 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 12.30-12.55 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 16.00-.25 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 18.30-18.55 CST (UTC +8)

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

11.30–11.55

Design actually can save lives… but not by itself

Daniel Burka and Mahima Chandak 

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

room 304

Open/quiet space

Room 305

11.30–12.15

45 min workshop

Time machines for problem solvers: Futures thinking in action

Sayani Mitra

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

12.00–12.25

BST (UTC +1)

  • 04.00-04.25 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 08.00-08.25 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 13.00-13.25 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 16.30-16.55 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 19.00-19.25 CST (UTC +8)

Room 105

12.00–12.25

Co-creating the Period Symptom Checker 2.0

Beth Granter

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

room 304

12.00–12.25

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

Jenni Lloyd

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Room 305

Open/quiet space after 12.15

12.30–13.20

Lunch

Mediterranean lunch boxes provided by Nostos Catering.

13.20–13.30

Welcome back

Quick catch-up and introduction to the afternoon. 

13.30–14.30

13.30–13.55

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

13.30–13.55

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

Cindy Yeh

Talk description

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

room 304

Open/quiet space

Room 305

13.30–14.15

45 min workshop

Brighton 2050 – Designing a city that designs back

Shivani Sundar

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

14.00–14.25

BST (UTC +1)

  • 06.00-06.25 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 10.00-10.25 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 15.00-15.25 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 18.30-18.55 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 21.00-21.25 CST (UTC +8)

Room 105

14.00–14.25

Unexpected user insights: A UX workshop leveraging the support frontline

Eniola Ayedun

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

room 304

14.00–14.25

Re-thinking ideas with public intervention

Himanshu Mewada

Talk description 

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

14.30–14.45

Break

14.45–15.45

BST (UTC +1)
  • 06.45-07.10 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 10.45-11.10 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 15.45-16.10 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 19.15-19.40 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 21.45-22.10 CST (UTC +8)

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

14.45–15.10

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

Clara Kliman-Silver

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

room 304

14.45–15.45

60 min film screenings

Exclusive Film Screenings 

Who Was Harriett Cowley? (5 min film)

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

Courtesy of our charity partner, Quiet Down There. 

Who owns Brighton? A community research project (6 min film) 

Courtesy of Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust (BHCLT) and produced by Chalkstone Films. If you would like to find out more or join the trust visit their membership page (a bargain at £1!). 

#Films 

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

Room 305

14.45–15.30

45 min workshop

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

Chloe Ward-Smith

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

16.00–16.30

BST (UTC +1)
  • 08.00-08.30 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 12.00-12.30 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 17.00-17.30 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 20.30-21.00 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 23.00-23.30 CST (UTC +8)

Keynote – Room 105

Redesigning our inner place: Unlearning bias to build responsible futures

Sandra González 

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

16.30–16.45

Close – Room 105

17.00–20.30

Evening Networking Party 

Lighthouse Project Space 
New England House, Elder Place, York Hill Corner, BN1 4GH

 

9.00–9.40

Registration

University of Brighton, 154-155 Edward St, Kemptown, Brighton, BN2 0JG (or 6 Dorset Place – two buildings joined together). 

9.40–10.10

Welcome – Room 105

10.10–11.10

10.10–10.35

BST (UTC +1)

  • 02.10-02.35 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 06.10-06.35 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 11.10-11.35 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 14.40-15.05 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 17.10-17.35 CST (UTC +8)

 

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

10.10–10.35

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

Julia Petretta

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

room 304

10.10–10.55

45 min workshop

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

Ellen de Vries

Workshop description

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

Room 305

10.10–10.35

Putting the user at the centre of your design system

Alex Edwards and Lucy Blackwell

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

10.40–11.05

BST (UTC +1)

  • 02.40-03.05 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 06.40-07.05 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 11.40-12.05 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 15.10-15.35 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 17.40-18.05 CST (UTC +8)

Room 105

10.40–11.05

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

Lauren Pope

Talk description

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

room 304

After 11am: Open/quiet space.

Room 305

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

11.30-12.00 BST (UTC +1)
  • 03.30-04.00 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 07.30-08.00 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 12.30-13.00 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 16.00-16.30 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 18.30-19.00 CST (UTC +8)

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

11.30–11.55

The role of UX in digital rights

Arda Awais

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

room 304

11.30–11.55

Making research accessible: Lessons learned so far

Sharon Webster

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Room 305

12.00–13.05

 

Lunch

You’ll have time to get lunch from one of the eateries nearby. We’ll be adding some recommendations here soon. 

Here are some deals from around Brighton which have been arranged (you’ll need to show your conference badge for most of them). 

13.05–13.15

 

Welcome back in Room 105

Quick catch-up and introduction to the afternoon. 

13.15–14.15

13.15–13.40

BST (UTC +1)

  • 05.15-05.40 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 09.15-09.40 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 14.15-14.40 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 17.45-18.10 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 20.15-20.40 CST (UTC +8)

 

Parallel Sessions

Room 105

13.15–13.40

Holistic Tech: Designing systems that care

Rai Gethers

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

room 304

13.15–13.40

Impacts of digital design and interaction on physiological and psychological stress

Louise Bloom 

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

Room 305

13.15–14.00

45 min workshop

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

Ghaith Nassar

Workshop description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens

13.45–14.10

BST (UTC +1)

  • 05.45-06.10 PDT (UTC -7)
  • 09.45-10.10 BRT (UTC -3)
  • 14.45-15.10 CEST (UTC +2)
  • 18.15-18.40 IST (UTC +5.30)
  • 20.45-21.10 CST (UTC +8)

Room 105

13.45–14.10

You’re in the room — now what? Thriving as a UXer

Dhiraj Vishwakarma

Talk description

#Live-Stream-Programme 🖥️

Themes:
#Crafting-Community

room 304

13.45–14.10

You Are the User: Design Your Life with Human-Centered Systems Thinking

Lilymae Prescott

Talk description

Themes:
#Beyond-Screens #Changing-Places

Room 305

Starts after Ghaith Nassar’s workshop

14.00–14.20

Exclusive Film Screenings

Introduction by Lucy Jeffries, Quiet Down There Director

Who Was Harriett Cowley? (5 min film)

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

Courtesy of our charity partner, Quiet Down There. 

Who owns Brighton? A community research project (6 min film) 

Courtesy of Brighton & Hove Community Land Trust (BHCLT) and produced by Chalkstone Films. If you would like to find out more or join the trust visit their membership page (a bargain at £1!). 

#Films 

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

14.20–14.30

Break

14.30–15.15

Running groups in tech – Room 105

Panel discussion: Rifa Thorpe-Tracey (SheSays Brighton, Spring Forward Festival), Stephanie Taylor-Beale (Women in Tech Sussex), Sophie Mitchell (Ladies that UX London), Louise Bloom (UX Camp Brighton), Steve Rackley (Silicon Brighton), Tereza Alux (Global Director – Ladies that UX), Lachlan Hooker (codebar Brighton).

15.15–15.30

Close – Room 105

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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