UXLx 2015, Lisbon, Portugal. For the 4th time, James and Per attended UXLx and brought you interviews and insights from the event. Over the course of the conference we talked to 10 speakers across 8 interviews to bring you 150 minutes of listening joy!
Also available as a playlist on Soundcloud.
We talked to Alastair Somerville at UXLx 2015. Alastair is a specialist in sensory cognition and accessibility and held a workshop on day one called Designing wearable experiences. Amongst other things we chat about sensory experiences and about how accessibility settings can help us deal with cognitive load.
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We talked to Nicole Fenton at UXLx 2015. Nicole is an editor, writer, content strategist. During her career she’s worked with companies such as Apple and Facebook. Words are her thing and she cares about them passionately. We talk to her about content, conversations and being iterative with your words.
Just before they magic themselves off to the airport we sat down with Josh Clark and Stephen Hay. Josh was closing keynote speaker at UXLx 2015 with his talk Magical UX and the Internet of Things. Stephen held a day 1 workshop – Responsive Design Workflow as well as a conference day talk entitled The Art of Deception.
Adrian Howard joined us in Room 4 for a chat at UXLx. He regularly teaches and speaks on integrating Lean, UX and Agile methods and held a workshop on day 1 about User Story Mapping.
We talk to Adrian about what user story mapping is, how it can be used, how it can be “sliced” in different ways to provide different information.
Interview with Mike Atherton at UXLx 2015. Mike held a workshop around structured content modelling and held a talk on the conference day entitled Designing with linked data. We Pulled him into Room 4 after lunch on day 3 and talked about linked data and its potential.
Interview with Mike Beasley at UXLx 2015. Mike held the workshop Web Analytics for User Experience. Web analytics are an important part of the user research toolkit, we chatted about some of the ways it can be used and how you can get started.
Lisa Welchman was the opening speaker on the conference day of UXLx 2015. She posed the question Are we Architecting the Information Age? We talk to her about our responsibility as designers and creators of digital products, services and information and our need to take a holistic view and have the confidence to stand up for what we know we should be doing digitally.
Our door was open and Abby Covert and Andrew Hinton came on by to have a chat. We tried to sort out this mess we’ve got ourselves in.