We had a great turnout for ‘Building your UX career’ at Workday. The evening started with refreshments and tasty food provided by Workday. Guests could sign up for a tour of the Workday user testing facilities and creative space. The evening was focused on giving guests insights and advice on developing their UX careers. Some eight speakers gave talks at the event. Mary O’Gorman, a founder of UXtomorrow, began the evening by introducing Bill Fogarty, UX product manager from Workday. He gave a few words and introduced six Workday speakers. Neil Fletcher & Ben Taylor, started with tips from interaction designers. Christos Kastriti & Stella Curley gave tips from UI Designers, and David Gottlieb & Rebecca Nolan gave tips from Researchers.
After Workday speakers gave their talks, Marie Hedigan, a founder of UXtomorrow, introduced the two guest speakers of the night. Pavitra Tandon gave a talk about ‘The UX gold rush’. She gave insights into UX traits, skills, challenges and progression. Pavitra encouraged the audience’s engagement with a fun exercise. The audience had many heart shapes, which was nice to see. Robert Coyle gave a talk ”Building a UX Career: The Hard Way’. His talk gave insights into progression, possible career paths, inspiration and self-learning. His talk was directed towards mid-level to senior designers but with plenty of insights for designers trying to break into the UX field.
Neil Fletcher & Ben Taylor
Kick off for the November #uxtomorrow event “Building your UX career” @Workday #Dublin pic.twitter.com/yRgBqcLhgj
— Brendan Johnston (@KuruKuruBren) November 16, 2017
Christos Kastriti & Stella Curley
Christos Kastriti & Stella Curley talking @Workday about Tips from UI Designers #ux #uxtomorrow pic.twitter.com/YN0xpjv1zn
— UXtomorrow (@UXtomorrow) November 16, 2017
David Gottlieb & Rebecca Nolan
Talking UX Research portfolios at #UXTomorrow in @Workday Dublin. pic.twitter.com/gFhZltduMy
— Sinéad Cochrane (@sineadcochrane) November 16, 2017
Pavitra Tandon
Such an enjoyable talk from
Pavitra Tandon #UXtomorrow And a biiiiig lesson: mentor others pic.twitter.com/eUVqbULotw
— Daniel Alb (@danielalbro) November 16, 2017
Robert Coyle
Don’t stop learning #UXtomorrow pic.twitter.com/LQfZtpzxzR
— Daniel Alb (@danielalbro) November 16, 2017
After the talks UXtomorrow were delighted to give away prizes thanks to sponsorship from UXtraining.com. A prize was given to top tweet on the night and to some lucky raffle winners. Guests had time to chat to the speakers and meet people that came to the event. There was plenty of food and refreshments for guests.
Links of guest presentations
Our speakers were happy to provide PDFs of their talks:
Pavitra Tandon presentation: The UX Gold Rush_20171116
Robert Coyle presentation: Robert Coyle – Building your UX Career the Hard Way
Below is a group photo of the speakers and people who organised and helped organise the event. Thanks to UXtomorrow volunteer Melissa Batty for taking photos of the event.
