Workshop Title: Desigining for smart homes

Workshop Summary:

The future of the smart home is becoming increasingly more accessible, meaning the next generation of connected products need to be more human. Smart home technology is no longer for early tech adopters but is for all: your mum, your granny, your kids, for anyone who needs to make their life easier.
Indeed, the smart home environment is becoming simply ideal, a fluid ecosystem that adapts according to the users differing needs, habits and tastes. How can we design experiences to make this revolution happen?

This short workshop will help participants envision scenarios and concepts occurring in the future smart home.

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Workshop Title: Desigining for smart homes

Workshop Summary:

The future of the smart home is becoming increasingly more accessible, meaning the next generation of connected products need to be more human. Smart home technology is no longer for early tech adopters but is for all: your mum, your granny, your kids, for anyone who needs to make their life easier.
Indeed, the smart home environment is becoming simply ideal, a fluid ecosystem that adapts according to the users differing needs, habits and tastes. How can we design experiences to make this revolution happen?

This short workshop will help participants envision scenarios and concepts occurring in the future smart home.

Bio:

Workshop Title: Desigining for smart homes

Workshop Summary:

The future of the smart home is becoming increasingly more accessible, meaning the next generation of connected products need to be more human. Smart home technology is no longer for early tech adopters but is for all: your mum, your granny, your kids, for anyone who needs to make their life easier.
Indeed, the smart home environment is becoming simply ideal, a fluid ecosystem that adapts according to the users differing needs, habits and tastes. How can we design experiences to make this revolution happen?

This short workshop will help participants envision scenarios and concepts occurring in the future smart home.

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Workshop Title: Prototyping XR (extended reality) products

Workshop Summary:

The workshop will cover the basics of extended realities (XR) and introduce the possibilities to prototype the ideas quickly. It also explains how to make a good design brief for an external agency.
The workshop is intended for product managers, founders of start-ups or designers new to the field.

Participants will learn:
* the design process for XR experiences,
* practical considerations for the related platforms,
* the skills to prototype for VR/AR on a beginner level and
* making a good brief to outsource the work from an agency or a freelancer.

Participants are given the materials to continue working on their prototype and to gain more skills in XR field.

Please bring a computer with you – preferably one MacBook per team.

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Workshop Title: Prototyping XR (extended reality) products

Workshop Summary:

The workshop will cover the basics of extended realities (XR) and introduce the possibilities to prototype the ideas quickly. It also explains how to make a good design brief for an external agency.
The workshop is intended for product managers, founders of start-ups or designers new to the field.

Participants will learn:
* the design process for XR experiences,
* practical considerations for the related platforms,
* the skills to prototype for VR/AR on a beginner level and
* making a good brief to outsource the work from an agency or a freelancer.

Participants are given the materials to continue working on their prototype and to gain more skills in XR field.

Please bring a computer with you – preferably one MacBook per team.

The workshop will be run by:
Laura Leon is an experience designer and developer at Mobi Lab with a specialisation for extended realities.

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Veiko Raime is an entrepreneur, angel investor and technology enthusiast. He’s the founder of design and development agency and loves the innovation combined with the great user experience.

Mobi Lab (https://lab.mobi) is a design and development agency focusing on mobile experiences.

Talk Title:Mobile UX prototyping with Ionic

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Talk Title: How atomic design is about more than naming

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Talk Title: UX process for designing for voice experiences

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Adam de Linde is UX Director at Orange Group, managing design for the Technologies & Innovation division, developing digital products and services based on technology advances and service opportunities.

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Marion is the Creative Director of the London Liquid Studio and the global Design Thinking Lead for Emerging Technology within Accenture. She has over 15 years of experience in branding, design strategy & user experience and previously worked as a Service Design Lead at Fjord before moving to Accenture Technology. The Liquid Studio team is made of engineers and designers and who are all passionate about bringing innovation to life and repositioning the image of Accenture by using new tech to solve business problems and improve lives in a fast and agile way. Marion’s recent projects involve launching a fitness service using wearable technology, using AI to service a new open-banking platform and creating a product for the Amazon Echo Show to assist the elderly in their home. She’s particularly interested in design thinking, ethical AI and computational design.

Workshop Title: Design Thinking

Workshop Summary:

A hands on workshop teaching you how to problem solve in a creative way. Come learn how to assess problems, identify their factors through research. Ideate and test through an iterative process to create better user experiences.

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Froso is working as a Senior Product Designer at Pivotal Labs. Froso has 10 years working experience in user research and digital design.

As a member of cross-functional teams in Creative agencies and Software companies, her goal  is to design high-quality products for the best customer experience for global clients. She has experience in designing high quality products for global clients such as, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, Vodafone, EE, Santander, Fidelity, Siemens.

She is passionate about consulting clients how to apply the best ways of working and help them understand how user research and design thinking can benefit and transform their organisation. Her main research is on how to design digital products for people with accessibility needs that everyone can benefit from.

She has always been an advocate of the human-centered design process and she she has facilitated “Creative Problem Solving” workshops at King’s College London and “School of Hospitality and Tourism Management” at the University of Surrey

Talk Title: Lessons learnt from carrying out research in the real world

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At Just Eat, our research team spends hours each month observing and listening to both customers and restaurant in the environment in which they complete their tasks. This type of research so we are able to understand the different technologies that our customers interact with and how they interplay with each other. In this talk we will share some of the main lessons we have learnt from setting up our contextual research program. The talk will be littered with real examples of the problems that the team has encountered and how they were overcome.

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Contextual Research is Jennifer’s passion. She has been advocating the need for contextual research for many years in companies such as Microsoft and Yahoo!. Jennifer is currently the Principal UX Researcher at Just Eat, the world’s largest online takeaway provider. She works with an extremely talented team of researchers who carry out exciting contextual research projects with takeaway customers and restaurants in markets across the Global.

At MUXL 2018, you’ll be learning both on and off the conference floor whether you’re speaking to a beginner UX’er or a seasoned pro like one of our industry leading speakers. Plus, the Conference is not just for those working as UX’ers – the event is open to designers, product developers, innovators and anyone with an interest in UX. With MUXL 2018 being such a diverse conference, you’re sure to find others working in completely different fields to you. The knowledge and skills you can impart on one another is truly priceless.

At MUXL 2017, we had industry leaders from Google, Microsoft, IBM, Airbnb, Aviva and Samsung speak about UX and give valuable insights into their fields of work. MUXL 2018 is set to be even bigger and will give you the chance to get practical advice you can apply to your future projects and inspire you to develop new ideas you never thought possible before.

We’re not just a one-off Annual Conference, we are a community of UX’ers. We are always looking to push UX forward and keep an eye out for new trends and developments across the sector. We run Hackathons, meet-ups, and our UX Academy where you can learn from industry leaders. Attending MUXL 2018 will introduce you to our community and the innovative and groundbreaking things it comes up with.

Mobile UX London is not a traditional business. We are a community of passionate designers, developers, project managers and more dedicated to showcasing the best in UX. We bring UX’ers from all walks of life together at our Annual Conference providing a breadth of knowledge and expertise unparalleled by our competitors.

Talk Title: The Challenges of automotive UX design

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Designing vehicles dashboards for cars and bikes poses a unique set of UX and UI challenges for the visual designers. Legal restrictions, environmental factors and OEM resistance frequently clash with driver demands and brand ambitions. Sam Clark, Managing Director of Conjure will talk in detail about these challenges and more as he explores how Conjure creates dashboards for performance vehicles. Key areas covered:

– Navigating legal standards: Understanding how ISO and local laws effect UX decision making
– How challenging hardware specifications forces tighter UX decision making
– Form and Function: Walking the thin line between delivering vehicle data and creating an experience.

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Sam began his career in 2005, working as a UI designer for a range of different web design agencies and clients including Disney, Sony and Manchester United. When the iPhone arrived and revolutionised small screen interaction he founded Conjure, a London based agency specialising in mobile application design and development. Since then Conjures remit has grown, and now Sam leads the automotive team, designing vehicle dashboards for the cars and bikes of tomorrow.

Talk Title: Digital as a mirror of IRL inequality

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Why are we copy pasting the shitty-ness of IRL structures into digital systems?
In what ways is technology sexist, racist and oppressive?
How can we make visible the ways in which technology is perpetuating inequality?

I’ll be exploring the ways in which technology is mirroring the systems of oppression that frame our society. More specifically, by looking at Personal Intelligent Assistants e.g. Alexa, Siri I wish to expose the ways in which the use of gender in technology is not neutral and reinforces existing gender stereotypes.

The patterns of interaction we are creating in digital worlds are not only building on and perpetuating IRL dominant notions of violence and oppression, but are also reinforcing them and reshaping them back IRL.

How can we actively challenge the dominant oppressive discourses in technology?

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Working at the intersection of design research, emergent technologies and activism Elvia is interested in critically investigating social narratives in design and the role that designers play in challenging dominant notions in technology.

Building on 6+ years of experience working in digital agencies, tech companies and consultancies, Elvia splits her time between large-scale digital transformation projects in the public sector, and a critical design practice that uses speculative design tools to tell alternative stories about the future.

Elvia holds a Master in Digital Arts from Camberwell College of the Arts, University of the Arts

Talk Title: Researching and Designing for Multi-Modal and Chatbot Interactions

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Building conversational virtual assistants (or chatbots) is very different, not just technically, from building a multi-modal user interface for a smart device or robot, and yet there are also several important similarities when it comes to building the right thing, the right way. I’ll point out some of these similarities and differences (and why they might matter to you) as I discuss two experiences I helped create: one, a conversational virtual assistant for Wells Fargo team members who handle bereavement and end-of-life account handling; and the second, a multi-modal robot designed to help folks remember to take their medications.

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Currently, Stacey is Head of UX Design and Research at Catalia Health. She has been designing, writing and strategising for services and products for over 20 years, and holds a Master’s degree in HCID. In her free time, Stacey paints maths-based oil paintings, writes blog posts and poetry, and draws lumpy stick-people cartoons. Stacey also likes to practise the electric bass.

Talk Title: Augmented spaces, the future of the design studio

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In the past 50 years computers have infiltrated the work environment to the point where there’s hardly a job left where they are not used. In the process, however, a rich continuum of understanding the world through movement, touch and spatial interactions has been flattened to pictures behind glass that are either manipulated through mice or touch interactions.

New technical developments such as augmented reality and spatial computing offer the opportunity to rethink how we can incorporate our body in knowledge work. To do this successfully we have to let go of design concepts that have been developed for a world of flat screens and start over with designing for digital spatial interactions.

Building on the work of Paul Dourish on embodied interaction design and David Kirsh on the use of space for cognitively demanding tasks I discuss a framework for thinking about and designing for augmented spaces.

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Sjors Timmer is a Senior UX designer at Designit in Berlin