UX Y’all Archives

2020 Event Schedule



Your team is a system. You just don’t see it yet.
Sep
25

Your team is a system. You just don’t see it yet.

by Farai Madzima

In the early 2000’s design systems changed the way we work. We shifted from designing pages to designing systems of components. We gained new tools and ways of seeing. Those tools prepared us to handle the scale and complexity that comes with designing for every device, everywhere. In 2020 many folks have had to work from home (or live at work depending on how you see it). We are reminded that work and life are connected in complex ways. What does it mean to be in a team today?

Read More →

View Event →
Set and achieve your product vision with behavior change design
Sep
25

Set and achieve your product vision with behavior change design

by Amy Bucher

Behavior change design is one of the newer sub-fields of user experience—and anyone in UX can adopt its techniques and tool to their role.

Learn what a behavior change designer does, how frameworks like COM-B and self-determination theory help create more engaging and effective products, and why behavior change design reduces the risk and uncertainty of marching toward an ambitious product vision.

Read More →

View Event →
ReVision your practices: Contextual Design in a remote world
Sep
24

ReVision your practices: Contextual Design in a remote world

by Karen Holtzblatt

Stuck at home? Nowhere near your customers or your team? Wish you could go to the field to see what your users are really doing? Want to think wider than usability tests? Never fear!

Remote tools make gathering and using field data collaboratively with your team possible. Join Karen Holtzblatt, originator of Contextual Inquiry and Contextual Design, to learn how to use the key techniques of remote Contextual Design.

Read More →

View Event →