UX Bristol

Short Talks

Stuart Church — Mon, 23 Jul 2012 13:05:28 GMT

We rounded up the day at UX Bristol with a series of short talks from Matthew Venn, Luke Jones, Al Barker, Emma Powell, Andy Budd, Jon Waring and Jack Leith’s workshop team.

UX, psychology and the 'dark arts'

Stuart Church — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 14:31:22 GMT

Joe Leech, user experience director at cxpartners, gave an introduction to the dark arts of psychology and how these apply to UX.

Designing stuff that matters - Fast!

Stuart Church — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 12:45:33 GMT

Eewei Chen, solution design director at BSkyB, and Darius Kumana, practice lead for experience design at ThoughtWorks Europe, gave an overview of their quick fire method to design stuff that matters, and issued a challenge for participants develop an idea in just 60 minutes – with staged deadlines enforced with a nerf gun.

Why usability problems go unfixed?

Stuart Church — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:52:23 GMT

Caroline Jarrett, a user experience consultant at Effortmark, and Francis Rowland, a web developer and UX designer at EMBL EBI, facilitated a workshop to generate tactics to get unsolved usability problems fixed.

From Gamification to Gameful Design

Stuart Church — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 10:31:00 GMT

Dan Dixon, senior lecturer in Creative Technologies at UWE gave an interactive workshop to help participants consider how they could use gamification as a lens to do user design.