Browse all the past conference talks and filter by year or topic. UX New Zealand has hosted some of the top thought leaders in user experience, information architecture, research design and strategy.
Want to show your org chart in your products? Of course not. But for large teams and orgs, when there are many teams and individuals working on the same product, it’s hard to ensure cohesion even when individuals have the best intentions to build great experiences. Join Yutong Xue, staff product designer at Meta and ex-Googler to hear learnings and practical techniques to bring teams closer and ship more cohesive experiences.
Let's move from tolerance to belongingness by using a UX process to achieve social justice.
Jobs To Be Done methodology and its role in driving customer choice
Design principles and considerations for supporting users with neurodiversity in the online education sector.
Is a lobster an animal or food? In this case, there’s no such thing as “both”. Join Q Walker for a look at emoji IA.
We have assumptions on how seniors use tech based on our own experiences, but what do we really know? Find out at UXNZ
From funding to delivery: Delivering a complex government service while maintaining alignment and traceability.
Want to learn a simple three step tool to improve creative confidence and remove egos from your team?
Learn the principles of product strategy to become a more strategic designer.
Being a design or UX expert comes with its own blindspots. Why this happens and what we can do about it.
Cool or creepy? What role should artificial intelligence play in the UX design process?
Learn about web3, what's new about it, and key UX principles important to know as a designer.
Designing the Metaverse is about enabling social relationships, and making inclusive places for communities to thrive. A shift from technology to relationship centered design.
This talk draws light on the overlooked impact developers have on UX and provides an actionable toolkit you can use to empower the developers you work alongside to make better, more conscious UX decisions.
Building relationships: how it helps your team, encourages stakeholders and informs a better product for the customer.
Is HCD dead? What comes next? What is post-Human Centred Design?
How embracing vulnerability, mistakes and asking for help, resulted in outputs (and outcomes) that had an outsized impact on our customer’s lives.
Find out how to turn a #designsystem into a celebrated strategic resource for your company. Join #Logitech speakers @xlicious and @costanzavolpini at #UXNZ2023 :rocket:
Accessible content, for all beautiful minds
Examples and practical tips (which don't require any drawing experience) on visual thinking to help you improve your daily communications in the design workplace.
It’s no secret - we have a diversity problem in design and technology. Hear what we're doing to change this.
Learn to see the information in your work, and think about it as information, to help you research, designing, and information architecture work.
Embed the IA discipline as part of normal product development, so that our users can always find what they need
Tasks power our productivity AND form the basis for designing experiences. Tasks require information architecture.
Food recalls, fishing rules, and forestry: creating an IA strategy for diverse audience needs
Taking you on the journey to trace the story of how covid19.govt.nz was built—from first meetings to the website today.
There is a misconception that experience is something unmeasurable. But there are actually so many ways you can do it.
What can the global pandemic teach us about teams? Join @danramsden as he shares his experience of building and developing teams - both in the best of times and the worst of times.
Discover how a project on information architecture led to headline-making change in New Zealand’s biggest supermarket.
In the never-ending war for our attention, there aren’t many winners. An unyielding onslaught of communication has created a wall of white noise, which despite its magnitude, falls on deaf ears. In this talk, Tom poses that you should spend as much time on saying the thing right as saying the right thing, providing real life examples of how a switch in focus can increase both customer experience and conversion.
And Now The Good News explains what the future will look like, and you can make sure it's awesome.
See how @intercom transformed content design to have more impact by working on just one product at a time.
Learn how to differentiate empathy from sympathy and how to utilize empathy to make the right decisions for your customers.
Learn about the power of inclusive design by discovering the value of outsiders and underdogs.
Karma is a *****! Each designer has to spend the next seven days in the hell of bad UX!
Always a bridesmaid, never a bride, Discovery is seldom given the same level of rigour as Delivery. But what if it was?
Going independent: how to find everything you need within yourself to start your own profitable UX practice
Cognitive load: learn a bit about how the brain works, 3 types of cognitive load, and some practical tips to lessen its impact.
How can we, as the people creating these products, design with mental health in mind?
The polarisation of views is rife. What can we do about it, and are we more guilty of it ourselves than we want to admit
This talk will highlight the value of using cross-cultural strategies in research around technologies that support simulated environments
Inclusive Design
‘Is bias always bad?’ Finding and expressing your worldview, while being an unbiased design researcher.
Our uses have biases and so do we. Learn how content strategy can help keep them at bay (or use them for good).
Kate Towsey, Research Ops Manager at Atlassian, will share war stories and triumphs, realities and reminisces and how Research Ops has helped amplify research efficiency and impact along the way.
Want to get great feedback for all your design presentations? Join @maadonna to learn how
Be Actively Ethical! #AI systems require dynamic #UX practices. Learn techniques to integrate #ethics @uxnewzealand with @carologic
The interface of the future is invisible – how will Conversational User Experiences shape this future?
AI and You. Designing an empathetic conversational interaction that will be natural, usable and supportive of users' needs
Make every word in the UX meet customer and business goals.
A talk filled with great examples of DesignOps, designed for you to be inspired and use them on your own team!
Wanna get your mind blown by colour science? Join @elizallen_ for Red Herrings: Debunking the Pop Psychology of Colour
Do you have to choose between Personas or Jobs-to-be-done? My experiences with both and how I use and hack them to make it fit for purpose
Ka mua, ka muri; Look back to Te Ao Māori to advance your design research and increase equity alongside Tangata Whenua
Don’t limit your UX through a lack of wider research. Influence your organisation’s UX at every level, even brand.
How might we level up our UX Research using academic research practices?
Create optimistic fictions to align product directions around thriving tomorrows
Gregg Bernstein shares how he’s scaling UX + product research at Vox Media, where with each bit of practical research, research becomes an established practice.
State of the Design Nation will provide a critical, in-depth analysis of how organisation are embedding (or not!) design into their DNA.
UX debt is often the result of abusing Lean principles to ship suboptimal design solutions with no intention to iterate, but what’s the cost?
Learn how user onboarding techniques can address a range of product and user situations across the customer journey.
Design for Access is a pillar for responsible innovation and one of the most innovative tools in the designers hands.
Why is showing the ROI of CX design so hard to do? Learn basic techniques detectives and intelligence analysts use to prove a serious crime to show the value of design.
How to conduct small-scale user research in the cadence of an Agile team without compromising your research principles.
The data science lens on improving user experience
At Instagram, we use research to find signals in the wild - about people’s backgrounds, behaviours, likes and dislikes - that can be incorporated into the algorithms we use to deliver content.
From high-level design principles down to specific design history rationale, how might we prop up our design systems with context?
Collaboration means happier people and better products. We’ve got some neat tricks for solving problems as a team.
The story and lessons learned of a UX Design who moved to East Africa to research and design mobile financial services.
In a world of working together & sharing information – we have lost sight of what is involved in true collaboration. This talk will unlock your teams full potential by transforming them from cooperators to collaborators.
Practical advice for how user experience designers have the power to create apps that are both delightful and secure.
The Voice of UX will explore how speech technologies change the UX landscape, and how we can prepare with confidence.
Forms are critical to a user's experience, drive conversion rates and in general, make the world go ‘round. Is your form effective?
Are we designing a world we'd want to live in? Come hear Michael, PhD candidate and designer, challenge your conception of value.
Designing for a global audience? Multicultural UX reflects on working with participants from refugee backgrounds.
