Join us for an engaging M25 Winter Meeting, which will focus on UX/UI design. We will learn how research drives the design process, techniques to identify genuine user needs and dispel assumptions, and how to benchmark and improve your systems. Don’t miss this opportunity to enhance your skills, follow up on discussions with participants, connect, and collaborate.

Programme 

2.00 Welcome - M25 Committee

2.10 Intro and workshop goals: empathy in UX and exploring insights through continuous testing—incl. SUS as a tool. Kings College London (KCL) Team: Rachel Brown, UX Researcher; Andrea Amato, Product Designer; Helena Futerman, Product Designer & Juliana Matos, UX Manager

2.30 Activity: Empathy mapping. KCL Team

2.50 Practical methods to including empathy and testing in daily roles. KCL Team

3.00 Stakeholder engagement: practice framing insights for stakeholders, provide tips and discuss if there's time. KCL Team

3.10 Activity: Reflection and wrap-up: share key takeaways and questions. KCL Team

3.20 – 3.30 Break (Teatime)

3.30 UAL's UX Journey to a Consistent Course Template. Ben Kammerling, Front-end Developer & Rebecca Cheng – UX Researcher, University of Arts

4.00 UX/UI Design and Classroom Technology. Adele Cushing, Senior Digital Ed Consultant, Birkbeck, University of London

4.30 Final remarks - M25 Committee