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Closing keynote is Alan Cooper — The Oppenheimer moment.

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Alan start by letting us know UX Australia is exceptionally run, with great content and Melbourne has lived up to its hype as a wonderful city.

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Last year Cooper the consulting company Sue and Alan created was sold and they have been focussing on other things.

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Bill DeRouchey — Design careers in the science fiction future

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Bill has been reflecting on careers. What he's done, what he wants to do.

Thinking about being 25 and fumbling through a design career.

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How may technology evolutions affect our future design Careers?

Let's look at the past to take a reasonable guess at what's coming up

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Next presentation is from Patrick Stafford — to write better UX copy, think like a journalist

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Over the past years a lot of business have build job descriptions for UX writers.

They've all asked for 'journalism' skills.

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Pat will talk about 5 of those skills that are beneficial for everyone.

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The next session I'll be covering is Richard Sison — the role of microcopy in UX.

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Richard will sign up for random products and services to geek out about what words they were using

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What is microcopy?

It's been around for a while.

Error messages
Placeholders
Form fields.

The words and messages that help you about experiences and websites

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Next up is @z_rose with Disability as a driver of innovation in UX.

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Innovation is the umbrella term we use when we don't know if we need an invention or an improvement.

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Pellegrini created the first braille type writer so he could send private letters to his blind friend.

Alexander bells lifework was focussed on helping deaf people, and the telephone was just a side thing he invented.

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Next talk @TimNoonan — Voice UX, insights from the blindside

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One of the great things about doing a session about voice and sound Tim has avoided making slides.

He's suggesting people close their eyes for a small amount of time or all the time of the talk and move into an experiential listening space.

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Foundations around voice experience design.

It's a very inclusive and expansive field with many dimensions.

It's different from a screen reader.

A screen reader interrogated what's on the screen and doesn't really have any intelligence.

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Next presentation is Eva-lotta Lamm.
Visual literacy and visual fluency
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Eva-lotta is a visual thinker and is her preferred way of figuring out problems.

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She sketches with other people, for other people, and encourages people who say they hate sketching to sketch.

It's a great way to get to assumptions and have conversations you wouldn't necessarily get to with words.

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Day 2 UX Australia!

ARE YOU READY TO LEARNNNNN?

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Farai begins with a story about a Johannesburg musician who passed away in February. A hero of Farai's this talk will be a eulogy.

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Hugh grew up in Apartheid South Africa and would break rules, cross train lines to visit his white friends who had jazz record collections.

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Last presentation for day 1 is @jkolko - creative clarity: finding focus in the midst of ambiguity

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John is enamoured with creativity and so is everyone else based on the articles that have 'X secrets to creativity'

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John will share 4 tips that have helped him foster creativity in his team's.

Acknowledging feelings
Taming ambiguity
Let them run amok
.....And a 4th one

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Last two session of the afternoon. @steveportigal
Stop solving problems

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Steve is going to talk about a number of different approaches companies are going about creating products and services.

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Steve wants us to be a bit more reflective about how we go about work and wants us to be able to weight the risks from our choices.

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Next up is Larissa Azevedo — embedding machine learning into your design practice.

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When was the last time that something came along that changed the way you work?

For the last few years Larissa has been using data scientists, behavioural scientists and designs to help people make informed choices in the finance industry.

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When we work as data scientists you're trying to complete one task really well.

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Back to the longer presentations!

@daughterofbev is up — Design Systems and Agility

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As designers we have organisational and systemic challenges

Cath will cover:

1. Our working context in UX design and technology
2. Complex adaptive systems and agility
3. A story about the weather
4. Why design systems are important
5. Survey results.

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If we think about the current state and accelerating pace of change in technology were thinking about a lot of change, coming quickly to the way we work.

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Next up is Caylie Panuccio — from seedling to sequoias
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Who's worked in an organisation where:
UX research is new?
UX research isn't understood
UX research isn't done well?

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Here are Caylie's tips.

1. Plant some seeds.

Create templates:
Ethics
Recruitment screeners
Discussion guides.

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Next talk is by Purvi Desai — method acting and qualitative research.

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Purvi was feeling tense and frustrated navigating through a foreign airport in another language with no signage. She told herself 'remember this feeling, use it on your next project"

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Method acting is about creating a connection between the actor, character and the stage.

Our job as researchers to understand and share the feelings of those who we're researching.

Translating that experience so other can understand it.

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We're back after lunch! You're about to hear a heap of 10 minutes talks, hope you're ready :D

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Sarah Stokes — the power of good listening

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We all learn how to read, write and speak but only 2% of people have received formal listening training.

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Next presentaion is by Ian Barker — Design Culture

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This is a short talk about a big topic that presents an immense opportunity.

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Iain is asking us to make a choice

1. Right thing long term.
2. Right thing short term

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The opening keynote is Lauren Currie, @Redjotter presenting 'Desiging Tomorrow'
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Lauren went to the Melbourne museum on her first day here to understand the complex history of Australia. Lauren acknowledges the Wurundjeri people as the traditional owners of the land we gather today and pays her respect to elders present past and emerging.
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Design communities love to put people in narrow definitions of what and how we design.

Our gift as designers is out complexity and how we respond to problems.

Design would be better if we stopped putting ourselves in boxes.

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