UK UPA’s World Usability Day Event

Education: Designing for Social Change

 

About the event

The UK UPA in association with Thomson Reuters Design Team will host the 2011 World Usability Day on 10 November 2011. The theme for this year is Education: Designing for Social Change offering a broad platform from which to explore how what we are learning and teaching about user centred design will influence social change in the future.

Doors will open at 6.30pm with a chance to enjoy an opportunity to network and socialise with colleagues as well as checking out the UX Booths which include representatives from some of the University courses available.

The initial mixing will be followed at 7pm with an introduction from the UK UPA President Dr Chandra Harrison and Michael Lowry of Thomson Reuters. Then we will have presentations exploring health, children and communication. The formal part of the evening will finish at about 8.30pm with a further opportunity to explore network and celebrate until 9.30pm.

 

Sponsor of the event

The UK UPA would like to sincerely thank Thomson Reuters for their support in hosting and sponsoring this event and their commitment to supporting continued enhancement of our profession.

 

Logistics of the event

Date – Thursday, 10 November 2011

Time – 6:30pm for 7pm start

Location – Thomson Reuters, Canary Wharf

There is no charge for this event thanks to the generous sponsorship from Thomson Reuters.

 

Format of the evening

6:30 – 7:00: Mixing and Mingling and checking out our UX booths

7:00 – 7.15: Intro from the UK UPA President Dr Chandra Harrison and Michael Lowry – Head of Capabilities Design, Thomson Reuters

7.15 – 8:30: Talks by 3 speakers (see below)

8.30 – 8.40: Closing remarks from the President and Martin Colebourne – Head of Framework Design, Thomson Reuters

8.40 – 9.30: Mixing and Mingling and checking out our UX booths

 

UX Booth Holders

University of West London

University of York

UK UPA Mentoring Programme

 

About the speakers

How SapientNitro Idea Engineers help save lives

Bradley Gamage – Director | SapientNitro

Bradley will talk about the creation and implementation of SapientNitro’s Organ Donor and Offering solution for NHS Blood & Transplant and the impact that this has had on saving lives. The focus will be on the importance of good user experience and user centred design when delivering true business critical and life impacting systems.

Bradley leads SapientNitro’s Health business and is passionate about communicating with patients and health care professionals through the web, social media and mobile channels and see the increasing relevance and effectiveness of online communities, whether providing health related information or interacting and engaging with patient support group networks.”

 

Are smart phones really smart?

Souleymane Camara – UX Consultant at Foolproof/Flow

A socio-technical examination of mobile phone adoption and use in emerging markets: the case of sub-Saharan Africa. Souleymane has over eight years cumulative experience in interactive instruction design, teaching and learning in higher education, research and publication.

Prior to Foolproof/Flow, Souleymane worked for several years as an Interactive Education Consultant for various African countries designing, training and producing interactive educational programmes and social campaigns. He is a dedicated researcher interested in interaction design with an emphasis on participation and evaluation of socio-technical issues, multi-disciplinarity, context and culture. He is constantly monitoring mobile phone adoption and mobile e-learning in sub-Saharan Africa.

 

 

Building Something Special

BBC, System Concepts, Aardman and Ambitious About Autism

Earlier this year, teams from the BBC, Aardman Digital and System Concepts Ltd collaborated to produce a new accessible web site for the CBeebies TV Show Something Special.  In this talk, those involved in the project will share the lessons they learnt about designing an online website specifically for children with physical and cognitive impairment.  The talk will cover how online resources are currently used in SEN schools, how requirements were gathered for the new site, the importance of user research and what challenges the development team had to overcome during the sites development.

Ian Hamilton – Former BBC

Katherine Monk – Former BBC

Tom DuCroz – Ambitious about Autism

Stuart Norman – System Concepts Ltd

Jake Manion – Aardman Digital

 

Queries about the event

If you have any questions about the event please contact Chandra Harrison (president@ukupa.org.uk).

 

Other dates for your diary

8 December 2011: Christmas Drinks

 

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