UCD2015 Conference Speakers Humanity in Digital Landscapes
September 13, 2015
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UCD2015 Conference 23rd & 24th October, Deans Mews, 11-13 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0AN.
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[Keynote]
The Joys and Sorrows of the Digital World: Finding Pleasure and Purpose in Digital Landscapes
Patrick Jordan, Consultant Business Psychologist
[Keynote]
Intelligence Everywhere: the Rise of Sympathetic Machines
Susan Cook, Senior Designer, Native Design
Steven Kelly, Electronic Engineer, Native Design
[Keynote]
Brainstruments – Adventures in Design, Cognition, and Musical Creativity
Lee Sankey, Director, Designer, Innovator, Strategist | @leesankey
[Keynote]
Almost Everything I’ve Learned From 5 Years of Lean UX
Jeff Gothelf, Author of Lean UX, Speaker, Organizational Designer | @jboogie
Self-Presentation Online
Aaron Parker, Senior UX Consultant, Nomensa | @AaronIRL
Our Eternal (Digital) Afterlife
Alberta Soranzo, Experience Design Director, Tobias & Tobias | @albertatrebla
A Semiotic Approach to Designing Interfaces
Alla Kholmatova, Interaction Designer, FutureLearn | @craftui
[Workshop]
Meta-moments: Thoughtfulness by Design
Andrew Grimes, Principal UX Consultant, Nomensa | @andrew_grimes
Make Me Think – Friction in Design
Bill Barham, Interaction Designer, ustwo | @kingbaramus
Design Thinking and Transformation in Business
Cathy Wang, Strategy Consultant | @Cathycracks
Nuno Oliveira, Project Manager, Method
Measuring Hard-to-Measure Things
Chrissie Brodigan, Lead UX Researcher, GitHub | @tenaciouscb
Comics v Digital
Daniel Whiston, Digital Scriptwriter, Author
Speech – from UX to EX – It’s Emotional
Daryll Scott, Human Technologist
Creating Authentic Conversations with Customers and Users
David Gilmore, Senior UX Research Scientist, General Electric Global Research
[Workshop]
Guerrilla IA: Drafting an Information Structure When You Can’t Do a Card Sort
Elizabeth Buie, Post Graduate Researcher, Northumbria University | @ebuie
Adam Babajee-Pycroft, User Experience Director, Natural Interaction Ltd | @adam_ux
Empathy: Science of Feeling
Emma Chittenden, CEO & Founder, Oubliette Ltd | @emchi
Bernadette (Bern) Irizarry, CEO & Founder, VLVT/ Velvet Hammer | @bernirizarry
Sonification of Virtual and Real Surface Tapping: Evaluation of Behaviour Changes, Surface Perception and Emotional Indices
Enrico Furfaro, UX Architect, WeLove Digital | @fasteedio
The Social and Psychological Impact of Invisible Interfaces
Georgios Maninis, Interaction Designer, ustwo | @gmaninis
The Sociology and Psychology of Closure Experiences
Joe Macleod, Designer, Author & Founder, Closure Experiences | @mrmacleod
Beyond Use: Using Cultural Affordances to Design for Meaning
John Payne, Principal & Co-Founder, Moment | @jeanphony
[Workshop]
Researching and Mapping Experiences
John Waterworth, Usable Insights and Government Digital Service | @jwaterworth
When Viewers Become Users
Jon Aird, Producer, BBC | @jonaird
The Neuroscience of UX
Jon Dodd, CEO, Bunnyfoot | @jonbunnyfoot
Putting the U Back in UX
Jon Reay, Digital Strategy Director, Aqueduct | @jreay
[Workshop]
The Graduate – Tweaking the System to Prepare New Talent for a Career in Digital
Jon Wall, Senior Consultant & UX Team Lead, Futureheads Recruitment | @jonwall14
Return on Investment in Inclusion
Jonathan Hassell, Accessibility Director, Open Inclusion | @openforaccess
Christine Hemphill, Managing Director, Open Inclusion | @openforaccess
And Not Or
Jonathan Lovatt-Young, Head of Service and Experience Design, Tribal Worldwide | @naughtynorth
Dogfooding – It Won’t Bite
Jonty Sharples, Co-founder & CDO, Hactar | @gringomoses
Designing for Our Future Selves
Julie Kennedy, Head of UX, Mail Newspapers
Lucy Scott, User Researcher, Mail Newspapers | @lucyscott6
[Workshop]
Cognition Clash in The Internet of Things – Designing for Chaos and Crash
Karl Smith, Digital Capability Consultant, Karl Smith
Thom Heslop, Director, Klein Rogge
Can’t Someone Else Do It? When Are We Empowering Users with Digital Healthcare, and When Are We Just Being Lazy?
Katherine Benjamin, Digital Health Expert | @mskatiebenjamin
Customer Centric Innovation: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Kathryn Cormican, Lecturer & Research Leader, College of Engineering & Informatics, National University of Ireland, Galway
Making Data Useful: Design, UX and Innovation
Kevin Richardson, Director of User Experience, Infragistics | @khr_ux
Quant = Qual: the Power of Data-driven Insight
Lola Oyelayo, Director of Strategy & User Experience, Head | @LolaOye
How Experiences Sell Products
Lucy Blackwell, Creative Director, FutureLearn | @lucyblackwell
[Workshop]
Sketching to Support Free and Open Exchange of Complex Thoughts, Content and User Experiences.
Makayla Lewis, Post Doctoral Researcher, Royal Holloway University of London Information Security Group | @maccymacx
Using Situational Awareness to Improve Information-rich Digital Experiences
Mark Potter, Freelance UX Specialist, BASE UXD Ltd
[Workshop]
It’s Not What You Say, It’s The Way That You Say It – Using Your Voice to Your Advantage
Marika Rauscher, Soprano, Entertainment Specialist, and Performance Coach | @marikarauscher
Framing and Blending: Understanding Human Frames to Create Great Things
Mary Piontkowski, Independent Consultant | @ maryp
[Workshop]
How to Design for the Future – Working with AI
Melinda Seckington, Developer, FutureLearn
Alla Kholmatova, Interaction Designer, FutureLearn | @craftui
Building a Digital Bank: the UX Way
Mikhail Goldgaber, Director of User Experience, Deloitte Digital | @mgoldgaber
Out of Our Heads? Some Thoughts on the Location of Thinking and Action
Nigel Shardlow, Director Planning, Sandtable Ltd
Why Difference Matters: Designing for Real People
Ofer Deshe, Managing Director, Tobias & Tobias | @Tobias_Tobias
Understanding New Behaviours: Photo Ethnography for Experience Design
Orla Hennessy, Senior UX Consultant, Foolproof
Melissa Riby-Williams, UX Consultant, Foolproof
Finding Humanity in Energy Consumption Data
Paul Huston, Senior UX Designer, Friday | @paul_huston
Rachel Coldicutt, Planning Director, Friday | @rachelcoldicutt
Punk Rock Principles That Put People at the Heart of Public Services
Rebecca Kemp, Director, Rebecca Industries Ltd | @rebeccakemp
Client Experience Design – Defining the New Client
Ryan Hall, Managing Director, Nice
[Workshop]
The Carrot and the Heuristic – the Big Problem with Technology and Big Data
Scott McArthur, Owner, Sculpture Consulting | @scott_mcarthur
Life Online – the Myths and Truths of Online Identity, Personality and Behaviour
Sofie Sandell, Author & Professional Speaker | @Soffi_Propp
Alternate Reality Games. Non-linear Storytelling Across Multiple Platforms
Susan Martinez, Programme Manager, BSD | @sus4mar
Legible London: Users at the Heart of a Legible City
Tim Fendley, Director, Applied Wayfinding
Wayfindr: Independent Travel for the Blind
Umesh Pandya, Associate UX Director, ustwo | @the_uMe
”You May Also Like…” How Digital Has Changed the Way We Develop Our Interests
Vaughan Evans, Director, FEB Digital
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UCD2015 Conference Committee
UCD UK is a not-for-profit organisation run by people who have other jobs. There are no full time employees. We do these conferences for the development and benefit of the design community.
- Be Kaler – Founding Director, representing BIMA (Futureheads)
- Dr Ruth Sims FHEA – University of Derby
- Karl Smith – Founding Director, representing BCS, ELITE, ACM, UXPA
- Julian Hirst – Conference Curator, representing BIMA (Native Design)
- Sarah Thackray – Event Manager
- Liz Inskip – Social Media Manager (Blue Latitude)