Good morning
welcome to ux brighton 2014
Thank’s for coming
Danny Hope
Freelance interaction designer
Founder UX Brighton
curator of ux brighton 2014 - our 5th conference!
stand (and stay standing) if you were here last year
OK you can sit
@uxbri
@yandle
pictures - we’d love to see loads of pictures - snap away
theres 1 talk later on where pictures arent allowed but I’ll remind you at the time
why philosophy?
Learning about philosophy improves many aspects of your work as a designer
thinking about things makes us better at making things
One of the things that got me into philosophy was listening to philosophy podcasts
Possibly the 1st for me was Marianne Talbot’s excellent “Romp through the History of Philosophy” way back in 2008.
–roughly 1,000,000 downloads
–went on to monopolise the entire iTunesU top 10
–As philosophy forms an important foundation for design, Marianne’s talk, I think, will form a foundation for today.
So I’m very excited to welcome Marianne Talbot
mix of classical ideas
and modern design thinking
help businesses thrive in increasingly complex situations
Please give him a big round of applause; Andy Dennis
work in projects where the outcome touches millions of people
alpha sponsor Tesco
Rob Graham
back by noon
In conversations with our speakers and while doing my own research for this years event,
I kept coming across a concept, I’d not heard of but is very useful for thinking about the conditions of uncertainty in which we sometimes operate.
So, hands up who’s familiar with the term hermenutics?
Right? Me neither!
So when Sjors informed me, a few days ago, that he had experienced the same thing and was going to change his talk to focus on Hermenutics, I was a very happy man!
Please give him a warm welcome; Sjors Timmer
There was a dark time, before concepts like evidence and science were prevailant.
The philosopher David Hume was key to changing this.
Our next speaker is here to tell us about David Hume and to explain how we can use his ideas.
Please welcome to the stage; Ben Sauer
link at the top of the website
back by 2:30
Many of the ideas that have guided my work in recent years have come from philosophers
and many have come from the world of computer science.
–Written about philosophy
–Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard
great pleasure that I welcome,
all the way from Oregon USA
philosophy writer and computer scientist
David Helman
please no photos
hear his talk; see why
while user testing is definitely useful, it’s not the most exciting activity
its not like you are goign to break your arm
or need to wear riot gear
unless you work for our next speaker Martin Langham
–I’ve met folks from a fair few of agencies but Martin’s company “User Perspective” is doing the most insanely interesting work of any I know.
–Having never had a test participant break their arm
–and not having to own a full set of riot gear
back by 16:20
–speakers touched on the need to balance sceince. With these last 2 talks, we’ll try and expand on this matter.
I’m a scientist at heart so I often find myself trying to explain to others what good science is.
So I’ve asked Anna Cox along to show me how it’s done.
Anna is Deputy Director of the UCL Interaction Centre and a Reader in HCI
Please give her a warm round of applause, Anna Cox
I’m an artist at heart so…
When I heard our next speaker discuss the creative genius of 60s ad agencies, and fight the corner for what we might call a less scientific approach to design. I thought he would be the perfect person to round off the day.
Please welcome, one of web design’s most well respected designers, Andy Clarke
I Know you all want to get to the party
I’d like your help in saying thank you to a few people:
Sponsors
volunteers
emmeline
audience
The after party will have food
address on uxbrighton site
–audience
I’ve been danny hope and this has been UX Brighton 2014
scheduled breaks seats not the best
thinking about things makes us better at making things
Before or after breaks mention the after party/food
I’m freelance, how many others are?