Building your UX Career
Delighted to announce that Workday are sponsoring this event.
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 Workday team
Bill Fogarty: Introduction and welcome to Workday
Bios: Bill Fogarty is the UX Design Manager is Workday. He would like to welcome you all to Workday and Introduce you the Workday Design team.
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. They have lots of useful tips that they would like to share.
Speakers: David Gottlieb & Rebecca Nolan | Duration: 10 mins
Title: UX Career - Tips from Researchers
Bios: Rebecca and Dave are Researchers at Workday. Workday is a customer-focused company and user feedback drives the product forward. Dave & Rebecca conduct a range of different research methods from Contextual Inquiries to User Testing. Sometimes their studies take place in our UX studio and other times they will visit our customer’s offices. They have lots of useful tips for people who are interested in user research.
Speakers: Christos Kastriti & Stella Curley | Duration: 10 mins
Title: UX Career - Tips from UI Designers
Bios: Christos is a UI Designer and Stella is an Interaction Designer with a background in UI Design. They focus on creating coherent UI components that are both visually pleasing and accessible. They also contribute to our Design System. Their areas of expertise are in colour theory, typography, iconography, web layouts, motion and many other design elements. They will be sharing tips on how to showcase your best work.
Guest Speakers
Speaker: Pavitra Tandon | Duration: 30 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 & Poland. Having started as a graphic designer, her specialisation is based in UX and data visualisation. She has 9+ years experience working with Fortune 500 companies like Barclays, McKinsey&Co. and startups alike which have 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.
Speaker: Robert Coyle | Duration: 30 mins
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 than a few things to say about thriving in UX.
20:35 to 21:30: Networking
21:30: Event Over
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Additional Information
Event is hosted by Workday
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