Jessica is a Lead UX Architect for a large media organisation. Day to day she oversees projects, gets hands-on with wireframes (and more), collaborates with her talented UX team, and mentors’ people inside and outside of her work.
She truly enjoys mentoring, not only does she get to meet lots of wonderful people, she helps them to expand on their current knowledge, or maybe set them on a path to switch careers but she’s improved her UX practice and skillset along the way. She talked about how you can get into mentoring, empowerment, setting boundaries and more…
Jon Roobottom – Murder on the dancefloor: The death of disco uxbri
Discoveries are crucial to a designer’s toolkit, but why do they sometimes feel like a slog?
Dive into the ins and outs of the discovery process, learn to navigate everyday challenges, and pick up practical strategies to guide your teams toward effective results.
Olena Bulygina – Designing for Humanity: A UX Journey in Humanitarian Aid uxbri
This is a talk about applied design. We will venture to the land of humanitarian aid and follow a story of applying a design skill set to a set of challenges, such as lack of equipment, lack of medical supplies, in times of war.
We will look together at processes, challenges and the successes and failures that one might experience when the only option is to apply all skills to a very complex subject matter. We will witness bottom up changes in the healthcare system that start with individual impact: the impact of ideas. It is also a story about systems, and how we implement change in them, omitting the notion of centralised control.
Paul Robert Lloyd – Time team: Documenting decisions and marking milestonesuxbri
Exercise regularly; eat plenty of vegetables; floss your teeth. Tasks that feel like chores are often the most beneficial in the long run. The same is true of writing documentation.
Documenting decisions, recording design iterations and explaining commonly used terminology means everyone on a team can have a shared understanding of a product’s design and evolution. Making this information public can increase accountability and build trust. Deliberately building institutional memory can prevent mistakes being repeated and lessons needing to be learnt over and over again.
In this talk, we’ll look at how to record and recall design decisions and consider the role designers play in cultivating a fun yet inclusive culture within a team, and the potential pitfalls to avoid when doing so.
cxpartners – Impact mapping: the Service Designer’s secret weaponuxbri
‘Impact’ has become a ubiquitous term that is hard to define and hard to measure. In this workshop cxpartners worked through the steps of developing an impact map, as both a process and a tool for setting clear intent around the impact we want to achieve in our projects, and mapping the journey for getting there.
Impact maps are extremely effective for gathering consensus on our longer term objectives, and challenging our assumptions around how we think positive change happens as a result of the services we deliver.
Sharon debunked some common myths about what you need, to be a mentor. She drew on her experiences of mentoring to talk about how she found it, and what she’s gained by being a mentor.
Luke shared his experiences of mentoring over the years. He has mentored, and managed several people and was also heavily involved in running the Brighton Internship Programme during his time at Wired Sussex. He focused on his experience of the UX Brighton mentoring programme so far and included tips for mentors and mentees to help them get the most from their time together.
Product development requires trade-offs, but just like a deal with the devil, the devil is in the details of how you make those trade-offs. And your choices can be devilishly hard. This demonic themed talk looks at various techniques for easing the burden of the bargains you make.
About Lucy
Lucy has spent two decades making all sorts of mistakes while building customer experiences. She likes to share what she’s learnt from places like Amazon, TUI, LOVEFiLM, M&S, Department of Health, Compare the Market, and now Appvia, so others can make new and more interesting mistakes.
Building a product can help your business scale to incredible heights, but too many teams get stuck in what Janna Bastow calls the Agency Trap. In this talk, she’ll share signs you’re veering into this trap, and actionable guides on how to get out and stay out!
About Janna
Janna Bastow is co-founder of ProdPad , product management and roadmapping software for product people. Janna is also co-founder of ProductTank and Mind the Product, a global community of product managers. She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”
Jon Roobottom – Murder on the dancefloor: The death of disco uxbri
Discoveries are crucial to a designer’s toolkit, but why do they sometimes feel like a slog?
Dive into the ins and outs of the discovery process, learn to navigate everyday challenges, and pick up practical strategies to guide your teams toward effective results.
Olena Bulygina – Designing for Humanity: A UX Journey in Humanitarian Aid uxbri
This is a talk about applied design. We will venture to the land of humanitarian aid and follow a story of applying a design skill set to a set of challenges, such as lack of equipment, lack of medical supplies, in times of war.
We will look together at processes, challenges and the successes and failures that one might experience when the only option is to apply all skills to a very complex subject matter. We will witness bottom up changes in the healthcare system that start with individual impact: the impact of ideas. It is also a story about systems, and how we implement change in them, omitting the notion of centralised control.
Paul Robert Lloyd – Time team: Documenting decisions and marking milestonesuxbri
Exercise regularly; eat plenty of vegetables; floss your teeth. Tasks that feel like chores are often the most beneficial in the long run. The same is true of writing documentation.
Documenting decisions, recording design iterations and explaining commonly used terminology means everyone on a team can have a shared understanding of a product’s design and evolution. Making this information public can increase accountability and build trust. Deliberately building institutional memory can prevent mistakes being repeated and lessons needing to be learnt over and over again.
In this talk, we’ll look at how to record and recall design decisions and consider the role designers play in cultivating a fun yet inclusive culture within a team, and the potential pitfalls to avoid when doing so.
cxpartners – Impact mapping: the Service Designer’s secret weaponuxbri
‘Impact’ has become a ubiquitous term that is hard to define and hard to measure. In this workshop cxpartners worked through the steps of developing an impact map, as both a process and a tool for setting clear intent around the impact we want to achieve in our projects, and mapping the journey for getting there.
Impact maps are extremely effective for gathering consensus on our longer term objectives, and challenging our assumptions around how we think positive change happens as a result of the services we deliver.
Sharon debunked some common myths about what you need, to be a mentor. She drew on her experiences of mentoring to talk about how she found it, and what she’s gained by being a mentor.
Luke shared his experiences of mentoring over the years. He has mentored, and managed several people and was also heavily involved in running the Brighton Internship Programme during his time at Wired Sussex. He focused on his experience of the UX Brighton mentoring programme so far and included tips for mentors and mentees to help them get the most from their time together.
Product development requires trade-offs, but just like a deal with the devil, the devil is in the details of how you make those trade-offs. And your choices can be devilishly hard. This demonic themed talk looks at various techniques for easing the burden of the bargains you make.
About Lucy
Lucy has spent two decades making all sorts of mistakes while building customer experiences. She likes to share what she’s learnt from places like Amazon, TUI, LOVEFiLM, M&S, Department of Health, Compare the Market, and now Appvia, so others can make new and more interesting mistakes.
Building a product can help your business scale to incredible heights, but too many teams get stuck in what Janna Bastow calls the Agency Trap. In this talk, she’ll share signs you’re veering into this trap, and actionable guides on how to get out and stay out!
About Janna
Janna Bastow is co-founder of ProdPad , product management and roadmapping software for product people. Janna is also co-founder of ProductTank and Mind the Product, a global community of product managers. She often starts and stops conversations with the question: “What problem are you trying to solve?”
Jonty Sharples - Arrogance & Confidence in ...Redux uxbri
Ten years ago Jonty gave a talk that changed his life. Now he revisits some of those lines of enquiry that upended his career (in a good way). With the benefit of hindsight, some spectacular mistakes, and a decade of experience scaling businesses and teams, what does Arrogance and Confidence look like in 2022?
About Jonty
Jonty’s been involved in the creation of digital ‘stuff’ for over two decades, with clients spanning museums, console and mobile device manufacturers, transport networks, charities, educational programs, government departments, financial services…he’s even helped redesign an ambulance. He loves complicated, and relishes making sense of the chaotic.
Jonty is currently VP of Product and Design at Airalo.
Louise Bloom - T-shaped skills save lives (and products). How and why to lear...uxbri
Product development requires the work of lots of different people with different skills to deliver their best efforts. So it’s natural we want to be the best at what we do. When those people work in silos and can’t share ideas or communicate, products suffer. Creating ‘t-shaped’ skill sets, with deep knowledge of your own field and insight into those around you, can help.
Using examples from the NHS, where multidisciplinary team working is critical to patient outcomes and supported by a culture of lateral learning and knowledge sharing, Louise looks at the benefits of knowing a little about a lot for product outcomes, team working and your own career, and shares a few surprising outcomes from her own ‘t-shaped’ approach to learning new skills.
About Louise
Louise is a Senior UX consultant professional who has spent over 15 years working for everyone from global banks to local butchers during which time she has contributed to books, blogs, conferences and podcasts on the future of work, digital wellbeing, ethical technology, and the physiology of technostress. Curious to understand more about how human-tech interactions were affecting levels of stress, Louise is now also a registered and practising Physiotherapist in the UK with a specialism in neurology.
It sometimes feels like design and product are talking a different language – both striving to get great products out to their customers, but frequently misunderstanding each other on the path to get there. Kate will share the times she’s seen this happen and the ways she’s tackled it so that you can get ahead and create brilliant working partnerships with your product counterparts.
About Kate
Kate is the Director of Product Design at Sky, working with the teams that look after NOW, Sky Go, Sky Sports and Sky News. Her career has taken her from New York to London, always trying to better the experiences for the people using the products and the people designing them.
Alison Rawlings - Is UX Strategy even a thing?uxbri
We hear a lot about UX strategy but what is it and how does it differ from business or product strategy? Do you need it, and how do you go about getting it? That’s a lot of questions to cover in twenty minutes, but Alison will make a start by calling on her experience of helping companies think more carefully (and strategically) about their customers.
About Alison
Alison has a career going back over 25 years and has established and run UX teams in both agencies and client-side organisations. She is currently Consultancy Director at experience design agency Bunnyfoot where, as well as supporting Bunnyfoot’s growth and evolution and delivering their UX strategy training course, she works with organisations such as EDF Energy and Sony Playstation to help them improve their performance by becoming more customer-centred in their approach.
Jonathan Smare - Leading culture change to increase customer centricityuxbri
Digital disruptors and the covid crisis have highlighted the importance of customer centricity. Business leaders clearly recognise their organisations need to be more customer centric and future proof them against ever-changing customer expectations, volatile economic conditions and aggressive digital disruptors.
Business leaders want to understand how to lead culture change to be more customer centric, how to implement new ways of working and how technology can enable their strategy.
Jonathan will talk about leading culture change to increase customer centricity, innovation and agility:
Working backwards from customers
Implications for operating models to empower small cross-functional teams.
How companies like Amazon, Cisco and others reinforce and change their culture.
Jonathan’s objective is to help leaders understand their critical role increasing the focus on customer centricity. Email Jonathan
About Jonathan
Jonathan Smare is a Partner, Strategy, Leadership & Innovation at DigitalWorksGroup. In his career spanning over 30 years at Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems and Amazon Web Services Jonathan has led numerous large-scale transformations. A veteran executive and public speaker, Jonathan works with executives worldwide to share experiences and discuss strategies for their digital transformation journeys.
Matt LeMay - YOU DON'T "GET" ANYONE TO DO ANYTHINGuxbri
“How do we get product managers to value user research?”
“How do we get executives to think in an Agile way?”
“How do we get UX researchers to prioritize our work?”
“How do we get our sales team to stop making promises we can’t deliver?”
For the last twelve years, I have heard these questions on a weekly basis. And the answer to all of them is exactly the same: you don’t “get” anyone to do anything. In this talk, product leader and author of Product Management in Practice Matt LeMay shares his experience working across product, UX, marketing, and leadership teams at companies like Google, Audible, Mailchimp, and Spotify. You’ll learn how the path to success in cross-functional product development means embracing ego death and recognizing that you have very little direct control over anyone or anything. No, seriously.
About Matt
Matt LeMay is an internationally recognized product leader, author, and consultant who has worked with companies like Spotify, Audible, Mailchimp, and Google. He is the author of Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O’Reilly Media, 2022), and has helped build and scale product management practices at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Matt is the creator of the One Page / One Hour Pledge, a commitment to minimize busywork and maximize collaboration that has been adopted by over 100 individuals and teams at Amazon, Walmart, CNN, BBVA, and more. Previously, Matt worked as Senior Product Manager at music startup Songza (acquired by Google), and Head of Consumer Product at Bitly. Matt is also a musician, recording engineer, and the author of a book about singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.
Shrut Kirti Saksena - Holy Shift! Learnings in UX Research over the yearsuxbri
Shrut is a Cognitive Scientist and a UX Researcher with 6 years of combined experience in academic & product research. Currently, she is a Sr. Experience Researcher for Adobe’s Creative Cloud & Emerging Products team, shaping and driving the next evolution of the Creative Cloud(CC) suite of products. In the past, she has founded & led the UX Research operations @Lollypop Design Studio(Bangalore), where she set up the UX Research function from scratch & mentored a team of UX Researchers on 30+ exploratory, evaluative UX research projects across diverse domains.
Her research expertise lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, global UX Research & operations, and cognition and behavioral sciences. She has been awarded numerous design awards such as A’design Award, Interface Red Dot Award to name a few. She is an inclusion & accessibility enthusiast, and mentors aspiring UX professionals, and emerging UX research teams @ADPList.org.
In a recent survey looking at 100 Experience Researcher job postings in the US in 2021, it was found that collaboration (84%) and business acumen(scoping, translating business requirements, & influencing product strategy) were the most sought-after requirements, other than the expected requirements of designing and conducting research studies (84%) for a UX Researcher. Also, it is no secret that there is now more demand for user insights than there are UX researchers in the industry.
Shrut’s talk highlighted the emerging demands of the industry from a UX Research role, elucidates why a change in perspective of mentorship & learning is required to meet these demands & how one could benefit from this perspective shift to grow into an experienced researcher: amplifying the impact of UX research and leveraging research soft-skills of collaboration, communication, connection, and influence to empower product teams & stakeholders.
Lewis Nyman - Building effective mentoring relationshipsuxbri
Lewis Nyman is a UK senior public sector contractor in UX, Research, and Service Design. He’s worked with the NHS, The Cabinet Office, GDS, hackney Council, and The Crown Prosecution Service. He’s also the founder of electric campervan hire company Wild Drives. He’s been a UX mentor at Springboard for 2 years.
A mentoring relationship is beneficial for both sides, Lewis presented research that outlines how to create an effective mentoring relationship.
Peter Winchester - Growing your career with (or without) a mentoruxbri
Peter is a designer and design leader with over 12 years of experience. He’s worked for a SaaS startup, a large marketing agency, and for corporates in travel and finance. During that time he’s designed products for MoreThan, Nationwide, Argos, Durex, Philips and Adidas. He’s now head of Design at Madgex, a career technology company in Brighton.
Working with a mentor is a great way to help move your career forward. But not everyone will find the right person, at the right time. Peter talked about some potential alternative ways you can continue to progress your career.
Technoblade The Legacy of a Minecraft Legend.Techno Merch
Technoblade, born Alex on June 1, 1999, was a legendary Minecraft YouTuber known for his sharp wit and exceptional PvP skills. Starting his channel in 2013, he gained nearly 11 million subscribers. His private battle with metastatic sarcoma ended in June 2022, but his enduring legacy continues to inspire millions.
Jonty Sharples - Arrogance & Confidence in ...Redux uxbri
Ten years ago Jonty gave a talk that changed his life. Now he revisits some of those lines of enquiry that upended his career (in a good way). With the benefit of hindsight, some spectacular mistakes, and a decade of experience scaling businesses and teams, what does Arrogance and Confidence look like in 2022?
About Jonty
Jonty’s been involved in the creation of digital ‘stuff’ for over two decades, with clients spanning museums, console and mobile device manufacturers, transport networks, charities, educational programs, government departments, financial services…he’s even helped redesign an ambulance. He loves complicated, and relishes making sense of the chaotic.
Jonty is currently VP of Product and Design at Airalo.
Louise Bloom - T-shaped skills save lives (and products). How and why to lear...uxbri
Product development requires the work of lots of different people with different skills to deliver their best efforts. So it’s natural we want to be the best at what we do. When those people work in silos and can’t share ideas or communicate, products suffer. Creating ‘t-shaped’ skill sets, with deep knowledge of your own field and insight into those around you, can help.
Using examples from the NHS, where multidisciplinary team working is critical to patient outcomes and supported by a culture of lateral learning and knowledge sharing, Louise looks at the benefits of knowing a little about a lot for product outcomes, team working and your own career, and shares a few surprising outcomes from her own ‘t-shaped’ approach to learning new skills.
About Louise
Louise is a Senior UX consultant professional who has spent over 15 years working for everyone from global banks to local butchers during which time she has contributed to books, blogs, conferences and podcasts on the future of work, digital wellbeing, ethical technology, and the physiology of technostress. Curious to understand more about how human-tech interactions were affecting levels of stress, Louise is now also a registered and practising Physiotherapist in the UK with a specialism in neurology.
It sometimes feels like design and product are talking a different language – both striving to get great products out to their customers, but frequently misunderstanding each other on the path to get there. Kate will share the times she’s seen this happen and the ways she’s tackled it so that you can get ahead and create brilliant working partnerships with your product counterparts.
About Kate
Kate is the Director of Product Design at Sky, working with the teams that look after NOW, Sky Go, Sky Sports and Sky News. Her career has taken her from New York to London, always trying to better the experiences for the people using the products and the people designing them.
Alison Rawlings - Is UX Strategy even a thing?uxbri
We hear a lot about UX strategy but what is it and how does it differ from business or product strategy? Do you need it, and how do you go about getting it? That’s a lot of questions to cover in twenty minutes, but Alison will make a start by calling on her experience of helping companies think more carefully (and strategically) about their customers.
About Alison
Alison has a career going back over 25 years and has established and run UX teams in both agencies and client-side organisations. She is currently Consultancy Director at experience design agency Bunnyfoot where, as well as supporting Bunnyfoot’s growth and evolution and delivering their UX strategy training course, she works with organisations such as EDF Energy and Sony Playstation to help them improve their performance by becoming more customer-centred in their approach.
Jonathan Smare - Leading culture change to increase customer centricityuxbri
Digital disruptors and the covid crisis have highlighted the importance of customer centricity. Business leaders clearly recognise their organisations need to be more customer centric and future proof them against ever-changing customer expectations, volatile economic conditions and aggressive digital disruptors.
Business leaders want to understand how to lead culture change to be more customer centric, how to implement new ways of working and how technology can enable their strategy.
Jonathan will talk about leading culture change to increase customer centricity, innovation and agility:
Working backwards from customers
Implications for operating models to empower small cross-functional teams.
How companies like Amazon, Cisco and others reinforce and change their culture.
Jonathan’s objective is to help leaders understand their critical role increasing the focus on customer centricity. Email Jonathan
About Jonathan
Jonathan Smare is a Partner, Strategy, Leadership & Innovation at DigitalWorksGroup. In his career spanning over 30 years at Hewlett Packard, Cisco Systems and Amazon Web Services Jonathan has led numerous large-scale transformations. A veteran executive and public speaker, Jonathan works with executives worldwide to share experiences and discuss strategies for their digital transformation journeys.
Matt LeMay - YOU DON'T "GET" ANYONE TO DO ANYTHINGuxbri
“How do we get product managers to value user research?”
“How do we get executives to think in an Agile way?”
“How do we get UX researchers to prioritize our work?”
“How do we get our sales team to stop making promises we can’t deliver?”
For the last twelve years, I have heard these questions on a weekly basis. And the answer to all of them is exactly the same: you don’t “get” anyone to do anything. In this talk, product leader and author of Product Management in Practice Matt LeMay shares his experience working across product, UX, marketing, and leadership teams at companies like Google, Audible, Mailchimp, and Spotify. You’ll learn how the path to success in cross-functional product development means embracing ego death and recognizing that you have very little direct control over anyone or anything. No, seriously.
About Matt
Matt LeMay is an internationally recognized product leader, author, and consultant who has worked with companies like Spotify, Audible, Mailchimp, and Google. He is the author of Agile for Everybody (O’Reilly Media, 2018) and Product Management in Practice (Second Edition O’Reilly Media, 2022), and has helped build and scale product management practices at companies ranging from early-stage startups to Fortune 500 enterprises. Matt is the creator of the One Page / One Hour Pledge, a commitment to minimize busywork and maximize collaboration that has been adopted by over 100 individuals and teams at Amazon, Walmart, CNN, BBVA, and more. Previously, Matt worked as Senior Product Manager at music startup Songza (acquired by Google), and Head of Consumer Product at Bitly. Matt is also a musician, recording engineer, and the author of a book about singer-songwriter Elliott Smith.
Shrut Kirti Saksena - Holy Shift! Learnings in UX Research over the yearsuxbri
Shrut is a Cognitive Scientist and a UX Researcher with 6 years of combined experience in academic & product research. Currently, she is a Sr. Experience Researcher for Adobe’s Creative Cloud & Emerging Products team, shaping and driving the next evolution of the Creative Cloud(CC) suite of products. In the past, she has founded & led the UX Research operations @Lollypop Design Studio(Bangalore), where she set up the UX Research function from scratch & mentored a team of UX Researchers on 30+ exploratory, evaluative UX research projects across diverse domains.
Her research expertise lies at the intersection of emerging technologies, global UX Research & operations, and cognition and behavioral sciences. She has been awarded numerous design awards such as A’design Award, Interface Red Dot Award to name a few. She is an inclusion & accessibility enthusiast, and mentors aspiring UX professionals, and emerging UX research teams @ADPList.org.
In a recent survey looking at 100 Experience Researcher job postings in the US in 2021, it was found that collaboration (84%) and business acumen(scoping, translating business requirements, & influencing product strategy) were the most sought-after requirements, other than the expected requirements of designing and conducting research studies (84%) for a UX Researcher. Also, it is no secret that there is now more demand for user insights than there are UX researchers in the industry.
Shrut’s talk highlighted the emerging demands of the industry from a UX Research role, elucidates why a change in perspective of mentorship & learning is required to meet these demands & how one could benefit from this perspective shift to grow into an experienced researcher: amplifying the impact of UX research and leveraging research soft-skills of collaboration, communication, connection, and influence to empower product teams & stakeholders.
Lewis Nyman - Building effective mentoring relationshipsuxbri
Lewis Nyman is a UK senior public sector contractor in UX, Research, and Service Design. He’s worked with the NHS, The Cabinet Office, GDS, hackney Council, and The Crown Prosecution Service. He’s also the founder of electric campervan hire company Wild Drives. He’s been a UX mentor at Springboard for 2 years.
A mentoring relationship is beneficial for both sides, Lewis presented research that outlines how to create an effective mentoring relationship.
Peter Winchester - Growing your career with (or without) a mentoruxbri
Peter is a designer and design leader with over 12 years of experience. He’s worked for a SaaS startup, a large marketing agency, and for corporates in travel and finance. During that time he’s designed products for MoreThan, Nationwide, Argos, Durex, Philips and Adidas. He’s now head of Design at Madgex, a career technology company in Brighton.
Working with a mentor is a great way to help move your career forward. But not everyone will find the right person, at the right time. Peter talked about some potential alternative ways you can continue to progress your career.
Technoblade The Legacy of a Minecraft Legend.Techno Merch
Technoblade, born Alex on June 1, 1999, was a legendary Minecraft YouTuber known for his sharp wit and exceptional PvP skills. Starting his channel in 2013, he gained nearly 11 million subscribers. His private battle with metastatic sarcoma ended in June 2022, but his enduring legacy continues to inspire millions.
Storytelling For The Web: Integrate Storytelling in your Design ProcessChiara Aliotta
In this slides I explain how I have used storytelling techniques to elevate websites and brands and create memorable user experiences. You can discover practical tips as I showcase the elements of good storytelling and its applied to some examples of diverse brands/projects..
Fonts play a crucial role in both User Interface (UI) and User Experience (UX) design. They affect readability, accessibility, aesthetics, and overall user perception.
EASY TUTORIAL OF HOW TO USE CAPCUT BY: FEBLESS HERNANEFebless Hernane
CapCut is an easy-to-use video editing app perfect for beginners. To start, download and open CapCut on your phone. Tap "New Project" and select the videos or photos you want to edit. You can trim clips by dragging the edges, add text by tapping "Text," and include music by selecting "Audio." Enhance your video with filters and effects from the "Effects" menu. When you're happy with your video, tap the export button to save and share it. CapCut makes video editing simple and fun for everyone!
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Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Hey I’m Jessica
I go by Jess or Jessica
Pronouns are she/her
15 mins maybe more
Questions till end
Can you all hear me okay?
Here to talk you today about mentoring
Mentees
Personal experience
being a mentor and mentee
My journey
How you can get into it
Self care
First I’m going to tell you a little about me
I’m a Lead UX Architect
Currently working at a large media org
Q: Put your hand up if you’re a UXer?
Q: Keep your hand up if you didn’t start out in UX and started in another industry.
Q: Shout out what did you start in.
I have not always been a UXer
Started off in print and digital design
Tried out a load of different design roles
And landed on UX! Way more interesting than the others
Outside of work I spend most of my time
Buying plants
artwork I don’t have space for
tiny highly combustible flat
Rest of my time is spent walking,
in rain, mud, snow or shine!
Christmas
-20
gloves
Walk between 150 and 200 miles a month
1 mile to 30+ miles a day
Yes I was tempted to walk here today
but 47 miles is pushing it a bit!
Why mentoring?
What inspired me to mentor?
Secondary school
Looked mostly same
Without realising I had a great mentor
in the form of one of my teachers
discover subject most passionate about
Graphic Design
Shared knowledge and really inspired me.
I went onto study graphic design at uni
Once I entered the world
media company in the ‘baby shard’ next to the actual shard in London
one of the PM’s took me under her wing
I learnt so much,
From business lingo,
connecting me with people,
learning about product lifecycle
Without these two people I would not be where I am today
On that subject for people that have inspired, encouraged and empowered
I had to mention these three women.
My great grandmother, my grandmother and my mum.
My great grandmother born in the early 1900’s,
rode motorbikes,
explored the globe taking boats from her home in Argentina,
to the UK and over to Australia.
My grandmother raising three children solo,
running the local youth club,
having kids from that club live with her when they were not able to live at home
I include myself in that list
And my mother,
who did everything for the three of us,
including being my dyslexia cheerleader,
fighting the school,
spending hours helping me with incomprehensible written homework.
She is also dyslexic
5 people are the reason that I mentor.
set examples, inspired, encouraged and empowered and
person I am today.
A mentor is not always someone in your workplace
Not always formal
You may have a mentor or mentee without realising
By coincidence
all the people mentored are women
All more junior level or starting their UX journey
In all
lack of confidence and self belief
being their cheerleader
believe in themselves
as others have done for me
confidence grow is amazing
future they inspire others
Q: What inspired to start mentoring journey
So you might be wondering how did I get into mentoring?
And to be honest I was trying to remember myself…
I was trying to recall all of the experiences that lead up to me officially calling myself a mentor.
old school, come back
talk to the kids 1:1 about my job
how I got there.
Guide them on what they could do.
And how they could get there.
uni
set up an internship programme in 2017/ 18
those interested in UX and UI
in for a week
shadow me
programme for them to follow
tasks to complete.
paperwork and conversations
fully paid summer internships
enjoyed helping people
learn and grow
People find
hands on experience
relationship building
Invaluable to me
mentoring programme in early 2020
facebook group I’d been part of for a while.
Very quickly had a couple of lovely mentees!
working for 10-20 years
looking for a career change.
When my first mentee got their first UX job
I was over the moon.
people started coming to me!
This was the first person.
connected over dyslexia
took it from there
more people connected with me,
before I knew it I had a whole group of wonderful mentees!
Might be wondering… how do I get into mentoring? Or find a mentor?
There are loads of different ways.
I will mention three
UX Brighton speed matching event in a few weeks.
Q: Who’s going?
online networks,
connecting people from all over the world.
Slack groups, facebook groups…
opportunities within your current company?
Have a look around you
Do they may have a mentoring programme?
If they don’t have one, could you start one?
Or mentor one person in your company and go from there.
Have a think
Are you already mentoring
Without calling it mentoring?
I’ve got a mentor/ mentee what do I do now?
Firstly don’t panic, it will be fine (ha)
Secondly get to know them.
Spend 30 mins, have a chat.
If the dynamic does not work for you either one or both
Or you are not able to offer what they are looking for
That is FINE!
Use your network, I will talk more about this later
Fave example of this
Someone approached me through a mentoring scheme
They has a project where they wanted to set up a website
They were not interested in UX just my help in setting up their site
Unsurprisingly I turned them down
I’m interested in helping people who really want to learn
Who want to try out UX, understand what it is
Looking at making a career move
Or expanding their current knowledge
Empower people
So once both parties mentor and mentee want to go forward and work together
What do I do?
As I always say to my mentees everyone has different ways of doing things
Weather that is in UX practises
Or a mentoring approach
I like to listen to them
Recap and reflect back the notes made in your 30 min chat
Understand if you need to start from the beginning
Or if they have a little UX knowledge
Is there an area they would like to learn about first?
How do they learn best?
Listen
Give advice
Let them make decisions
Do not push or force down a certain path
Support and empower
In their journey
Set a period of time
Until they get a job?
Or another target
Time box?
How often would they like to meet?
Golden rules of mentoring
ALWAYS have the next date in
Don’t leave it open, or it will never happen
Your network, USE IT!
As I mentioned earlier
Is the mentor/ mentee not right for you?
Is there someone in your network who might work well with them?
Do they want to learn more about other areas connected to UX?
Connect them to others
I’ve often set up a 30 min chat with Product Managers, UI, Researchers, Devs
Help them understand how all of the dots connect
Lived experience
I mentioned earlier
One person I mentor is dyslexic
She approached me after an event on Dyslexia
wonderfully neurodiverse
identify and
share coping mechanisms
alternative techniques
And this really does add so much more to our mentor/ mentee relationship
And I cannot tell you how much I have learnt about myself,
and dyslexia generally after mentoring her
My mind was literally blown when I realised most people don’t think in 3D
If you do share something in common with your mentee
it is awesome
Validate
No it’s not just you
Treated differently
Workplace
Spoke to someone senior
Nothing of it
They had not experienced
Again is there someone in your network
Who might be able to identify with them
For a one off session or co-mentoring
Source: https://www.dyslexicadvantage.org/thinking-in-3d/
No is a complete sentence
Boundaries!
Are you mentoring enough people for now?
Connect them with someone in your network.
As much as you may want to help them
If you cannot give them the time or you so not have the head space
that is not fair on either of you
Learning when to say no is hard
And until recently I was awful at it.
That is why I’ve currently got 5 mentees
Not taking on any more
Beyond number of mentees
So many other boundaries
Mentor more junior people
Help them to understand boundaries
Within the work place
Work/ life balance
Contact outside of catch ups
Happy to contact every day of the week?
Set expectations
Drop email at weekend
I’ll get back next week
Something that helped me realise this was walking
I am still very much on a journey
Actually and metaphorically.
This is a map of the best borough in London (ha) Wandsworth
These are the roads I’ve walked, I’ve completed around 60%
There was a point where I was going out before and after work, walking 15-25 miles a day.
So I could complete the borough as quickly as possible
When I got to about 50%
Self care is important
I was fed up, it kinda happened over night
But I know it had been building up for a while
APRIL
I was going out and completing as many roads as I could
The journey did not matter it was the destination
And that was so true of how I was approaching mentoring
I want to help as many as I could
JUNE
Completing roads
And walking in green
How many
help and do a good job
whilst continuing to develop and improve myself
Don’t get me wrong I learn so much through mentoring people BUT
My learning could be accelerated if I were to have a mentor
As a result I would be able to pass this knowledge onto my mentees
Look back
Reflect
Who mentored you
What impact did they have?
Do you want to have the same impact?
Why do you want to mentor?
Have you
Mentored in the past
Can you build on that?
If not
Recommend UX brighton speed-matching
Mentoring
Advise
Without pushing
Set a timeline
Something in common
Use your network
Connect them
Set boundaries
Look after yourself
Have fun
Help others
Grow yourself