Our next event is on Thursday, November 16th. It’s called ‘Building your UX career’ and is hosted by Workday.
The event will feature speakers who will share their insights into building a UX career. This should be interesting to any UXers who are wondering how to develop their careers. Workday is sponsoring and hosting the event. We will get an insight into their office and have the opportunity to meet people in the industry over refreshments.
18:00 to 19:00: Food and drink reception on the 6th floor
18:15 to 19:00: Tours of the Studio
Group sizes max 20 people Tour takes a max of 15 mins
19:05 to 20:35: Presentations on the 6th floor
Presentations from the Workday team
Bill Fogarty: Introduction and welcome to Workday
Bios: Bill Fogarty is the UX Design Manager at Workday. He would like to welcome you all to Workday and Introduce you to the Workday Design team. The team will then share some tips with designers who are starting out in their careers as Interaction Designers, Researchers or Visual Designers.
Speakers: Neil Fletcher & Ben Taylor | Duration: 10 mins
Title: UX Career – Tips from Interaction Designers
Bios: Neil and Ben are interaction designers at Workday. As part of their roles, they focus on using design thinking methodologies to solve problems. They focus on distilling user needs, complex problems and business requirements into simple and elegant user experiences via concepts, user journeys, wireframes, high fidelity mock-ups and prototypes. Their areas of expertise are in interaction design, usability and stakeholder engagement. They specialise in translating business requirements and user needs into meaningful experiences. They have lots of useful tips that they would like to share that will help you when applying for jobs.
Speakers: David Gottlieb & Rebecca Nolan | Duration: 10 mins
Title: UX Career – Tips from Researchers
Bios: Rebecca and Dave are Researchers at Workday. Dave has been here for 3 1/2 years and Rebecca for 16 months. As part of their roles, they focus on letting the voice of the user be communicated to key stakeholders. Workday is a user-focused company, and user feedback drives the product forward. Dave & Rebecca conduct different research methods with users, such as usability testing of the Workday products (explain what UT is?), design jam workshops, design sprints, process workshops, persona creation, etc. As part of their work they conduct 1:1 interviews with end-users. Sometimes, this takes place in the UX studio here, and other times, they will visit customers’ offices. Dave’s favourite part of the design process is the discovery phase, which takes research insights from contextual interviews and turns them into new design concepts and features.
Speakers: Christos Kastriti & Stella Curley | Duration: 10 mins
Title: UX Career – Tips from UI Designers
Bios: Christos is a UI Designer at Workday and Stella is an Interaction Designer with a background in UI Design. As part of their roles, they focus on creating coherent UI components that are both visually pleasing and accessible across all of our products, as well as contributing to our Design System. Their areas of expertise are colour theory, typography, iconography, web layouts, motion, and many other design elements. They specialise in translating interaction design requirements into simple and elegant designs while also trying to push the creative boundaries. They will be sharing lots of useful tips in showcasing your best work, and applying for design jobs.
Guest Speakers
Speaker: Pavitra S. Tandon | Duration: 10 mins
Title: The UX Gold Rush: Do you have what it takes?
Bio: Pavitra currently leads UX for mobile at Ryanair with dev teams in Ireland and Poland. Having started as a graphic designer, her specialisation is in UX and data visualisation. She has 9+ years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies like Barclays, McKinsey&Co. and startups alike, which has given her a deep understanding of applying Lean UX and/or full-stack UX processes across the board within companies of any size or budget.
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Speaker: Robert Coyle
Title: Building a UX Career: The Hard Way
Bio: Robert works as Head of UX for Creme Global. Creme provide software for data scientists in food safety and nutrition. Robert has lead the design of multiple greenfield platforms, and has more then a few things to say about thriving in UX.
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