James Chudley

James has been working as a design professional for 23 years across a wide range of sectors, most recently focussing on complex service design projects in the health sector. His experience spans the gamut of design practice from shaping projects and leading programmes of work to leading the delivering or research, strategy & design work for key clients such as Google, Spotify, Aardman, NHS England, BBC, Expedia, Hotels.com and Virgin Trains.
James specialises in leading and consulting on large scale, multinational and multidisciplinary user centred design programmes of work that deliver positive outcomes for the people who use them and the organisations that commission them.
James co-founded UXBristol, is a regular speaker at international UX conferences such as IXDA, UXPA, UXCambridge, UXScotland and FOWD and is the author of ‘Smashing UX Design’, ‘Usability of Web Photos’ & ‘UX Leadership Skills’.

Other Speakers

Antonia Lorz

Associate Senior User Experience Designer

  

Badi Sudhakaran

Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer
VALR

  

Kate Van Niekerk

Head of UX
MakeReign

  

Supreet Kumar

Design Head
KOKO Networks

  

Morné Venter

Head of School Creative Technologies
Open Window

  

Roxana Barbu

Sr. Cognitive and Behavioural Experience Researcher
Macadamian Technologies

  

James Chudley

Experience Director & Strategic Consultant
cxpartners

  

Giles Colborne

CEO
cxpartners

  

Carol Huang

Senior UX Designer
Indeed

  

Aalia Coovadia

UX Designer
Discovery Ltd

  

Alfi Oloo

Product Designer
Alfi Oloo

  

Megan Venter

UX/UI Designer
DVT

  

Michael Marais

Product Designer
MTN

  

Monique du Plessis

UX/UI Designer
DVT

  

Steyn Viljoen

Product Designer
Luno

  

Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead, Lecturer

  

Carl Sidler

Experience Director
Wunderman Thompson

  

Alexander Oloo

Head of Design
Absa

  

Inez Patel

Design Director
Absa

  

Danielle Goosen

Design Lead
Absa

  

Gideon Carstens

UX Designer
Spot On

  

Sean Dunn

UX Design Lead
Equal Experts

  

Wynand McCabe

Head of Experience Design
Lucky Beard

  

Sasja McKay


BBD

  

Natalia Carvalho

Founder and Digital Director
Estrela Digital Studio

  

Edna Chelule

Managing Director and Co-Founder
HumanInsights.Africa

  

Nomonde Shezi

Managing Director & Co-Founder
HumanInsights.Africa

  

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Danielle Goosen

Design Project Lead
Absa Design Office

  

Estee Jacobs

UX Engineer
Entelect

  

Irmi-Mari le Roux

UXer
Root Cause Care

  

Kudakwashe Sachirarwe

UX/UI Designer
Uncommon

  

Mzwandile Makgoba

Design Practice Lead
DVT

  

Olivia Lucas

Senior UX Researcher
Mantaray UX

  

Rob Cowie

Senior Design Specialist
Absa Group

  

Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead, Lecturer
Schalk Venter

  

Shay Fisher

Head of Digital
FirstRand

  

Tshepang Jonathan

Product Designer
SEON

  

Wadzanayi Kim

User Experience Lead
Beedesigned Studio

  

Dr. Setor Zilevu

Lead User Experience Researcher at Meta (Facebook)
Meta

  

Sean Buch

UX/UI Design Leader | Product Strategist & Manager
Entelect

  

Rachel Main

User Experience Designer
Sand Dollar Design

  

Davidzo Mashiri

User Experience Researcher
Sand Dollar Design

  

Jacqueline Fouche

Principal experience designer and Design coach

Dean Broadley

Design Executive
Designing Humans

  

Schalk Venter

Product Design Lead | Lecturer
Consultant

  

Gordon Angus

Product Design Leadership | Ex-Co Founder and Head of Design
Nona Digital (Acquired by Yoco)

  

Aalia Coovadia

Senior UX Researcher and Designer
Discovery Limited

  

Cara Winterbottom

Experience Consultant
Consultant

  

Schalk Neethling

Senior Frontend Engineer
Factorial Gmbh

  

Kudakwashe Sachirarwe

Product Designer
Uncommon

  

Schalk Venter

Full-time Consultant / Software Engineer / Lecturer
Front-end Development South Africa

  

Michael Marais

Product Designer
MTN South Africa

  

Stephanie de Beer

Lead UX Designer
Goboony

  

Kate van Niekerk

Anthropologist and UX Researcher
She Can Do

  

Alfi Oloo

Designer | Mentor | Speaker l Founder of Campfire
Campfire

  

Ebbie Swart

Product Design Lead at DVT
DVT

  

Stephan Swart

Fractional CTO | Engineering/DevOps Leadership
Magna BC

  

Lucky Nkosi

Software engineer - Head of R&D at BBD
BBD

  

Estee Jacobs

Senior UX Engineer at Entelect
Entelect

  

Kayembe Gilles Ilunga

Director of Business Consulting at TechniCap Partners
Ilunga Wealth Management

  

Barend Chamberlain

Senior User Experience Engineer
Entelect

  

Mika O’Donovan

Lead Digital Product Designer
Glucode

  

Nadia Naidoo

Competency Lead: Service Design & Design Research
IQbusiness

  

Varima Henry

Product designer & Entrepreneur
Dobetterux.com

  

Natalie de Canha

Product Designer and Manager.

  

Sivan Lapidus

Senior Design Director
Absa

  

Xandor Schiefer

Independent Consultant
Pixel Theory

  

Brandon Tancott

Founder
Webstreet Digital

  

Jody Butts

Senior User Experience Strategist
Cerner

  

Yvonne Rogers

Professor of Interaction Design
University College London

  

Lorenzo Palu

Product Designer
Codent Agency

  

Adele Meijers

UX Researcher
FNB

  

Darren Hood

Senior Learning Experience Designer
Kaizen UX Consulting & Education

  

Lizette Spangenberg

Head of Design
DVT