Speaker Panel: How has UX changed for you over the last 10 years?
Discussion about the changing landscape of UX over the last 10years.
DuoLingo for Wellness
Embarking on a playful but powerful journey to craft a wellbeing app that aims to democratise and simplify our overall wellness. Imagine Duolingo, but for health. Join me as I step you through how we’re crafting a fun, engaging, and impactful wellness experience from concept to launch.
We need to talk about talking about accessibility
Discussions on accessibility are quite popular these days. Despite its importance and the effort involved, accessibility issues persist, with lawsuits doubling over six years. The problem may lie in how we discuss accessibility and our lack of effective tools to address it.
Everyday Design Thinking
This topic explores how you can use Design Thinking, a methodology that we mostly use in UX and Product Design, applied to other areas of your life – such as time management, health & fitness, personal finance, relationships or learning new skills. By going through the empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test and iteration phases of the Design Thinking framework, you can apply it to solving almost any area in your life – not just UX problems specifically. This topic explores how you can use Design Thinking, a methodology that we mostly use in UX and Product Design, applied to other areas of your life – such as time management, health & fitness, personal finance, relationships or learning new skills. By going through the empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test and iteration phases of the Design Thinking framework, you can apply it to solving almost any area in your life – not just UX problems specifically.
Here’s an example by Chat:
Time Management:
• Empathize: Identify when you feel most productive and when you struggle.
• Define: Recognise that you have trouble managing time in the mornings and formulate the problem statement.
• Ideate: Brainstorm routines or tools that could help, like setting a regular wake-up time, using time-blocking techniques, or a productivity app.
• Prototype: Start with a new morning routine for a week.
• Test: Track your productivity and feelings throughout the week.
• Iterate: Adjust the routine based on what worked and what didn’t.
Health and Fitness:
• Empathize: Understand your motivations and barriers to maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
• Define: Pinpoint the specific challenge, such as not finding time to exercise.
• Ideate: Think of various ways to incorporate exercise into your daily routine, like short workouts, walking meetings, or biking to work.
• Prototype: Try a few different methods over a month.
• Test: Observe which methods fit best into your schedule and make you feel better.
• Iterate: Continuously tweak your exercise routine to improve adherence and enjoyment.
Advancing UX Maturity in Mining: Enhancing Safety and Efficiency
Safety-First is ingrained in the mining industry, with companies steadfast in prioritising the safety, health, and well-being of their workforce and local communities.
Whether operating heavy machinery, performing equipment inspections, or conducting geological surveys, every detail from data logging to monitoring‚ is crucial for on-site safety.
Yet, UX and human-centred design have not historically been prioritised. I’ll share my journey to cultivate UX maturity in mining, underscoring its role in enhancing industry-wide efficiency and safety standards.
A11y Beyond the Theory: Integrating Accessibility Testing into Your Workflow
This talk aims to transform theoretical understanding of accessibility into practical, actionable steps for software teams. It focuses on how designers and developers can seamlessly integrate accessibility testing throughout their project lifecycle, ensuring that products are inclusive from the outset. The presentation will cover effective strategies for incorporating accessibility checks early in the design phase, techniques for automated and manual testing during development, and best practices for maintaining accessibility standards post-launch. Attendees will learn how to use tools and frameworks that facilitate accessibility testing, and how to foster a culture that prioritizes inclusivity. This talk is essential for professionals looking to make accessibility a standard element of their development process, rather than an afterthought.
Feathers, Pixels, and Code: A Flight Through Collaborative UX Magic
Soar with us as we navigate the skies of design and development in our journey to create a ZA-based birding app. Following our well-received talk at DevConf, we’ll chirp about our experiences transitioning to Compose (Android) and SwiftUI, and how these tools have given our workflow wings.
Join us as we tweet about the magic that happens when developers and designers flock together. We’ll share how we divided our roles, avoided nest-falls, and used the latest trends in UX and design to hatch a seamless user experience.
This talk is for anyone eager to peck at the secrets of successful collaboration between design and development, offering practical insights and inspiration to help your projects take flight.
Researching designers: what we do and don’t know about women in the workplace
She Can Do has conducted a study on women in UX & Design in South Africa. The presentation will cover the key influences and experiences affecting women in different places and spaces, the need for more transparency through further research, and the complexities of studying one’s own peers.
Our organisation has done an in-depth study that has not been presented to anyone yet, that speaks about the state of design for women now, how it has changed, and what we need for the future.
Adapting to Change: A Designer’s Guide to Surviving the AI Wave
An autobiographical talk sharing my experiences of expanding my professional journey from design into mentorship, right before the AI wave transformed our industry. Learn how to react and adapt to extreme changes without feeling overwhelmed, with practical insights and strategies.