Love-Centered Design
What is more important to you? a. Designing a delightful user experience b. Self-love, intimacy, peace, and freedom If your answer is the latter, join... Read More
Designing Beyond Products: Case Study in Restorative Justice
Design thinking and user research are increasingly standardized, predictable, and “deliverable” in their methodology. As designers, we reference precise Venn diagrams that show the intersection... Read More
Mentorship Panel: Experience is the Teacher
Jan Ballard leads a discussion on o mentorship case study of an ongoing industry/academic program in Dallas–Fort Worth that brings professionals at Dialexa together with... Read More
How We Do the Work Matters
We have told ourselves and each other for years that we should be happy with small victories — we worked with our teams to make... Read More
Be a Cultivator of Ideas
One of the UX Designer’s primary roles to not generate all the ideas, but to cultivate ideas from all of the various stakeholders in a... Read More
Queer Global: A Case Study in Designing for Dignity
This talk will highlight the UX work of the Queer Global team to design for dignity in the specific areas of accessibility and universal design,... Read More
Adopt and Adapt: A Jump-Start Strategy for Driving Experience Culture
Designing for Dignity — effectively, consistently, and at scale — requires a full toolkit of experience standards, governance, and training. The problem? Developing such a... Read More
Panel Discussion: From Toxicity to Dignity (How Gamers Create a Communication Space)
Toxicity is so widespread in our online communities, it is hard to imagine a future without it. Multiplayer gaming is no different, but our research... Read More
You Have a Seat at the Table: Now What?
During last year’s conference, I spoke about getting a seat at the table through UX measurement. The title of the talk was: “Seat at the... Read More
Racism Untaught: Revealing and Unlearning Racialized Design
Racism Untaught is focused on cultivating learning environments for people to further explore issues of race and racism, from the obvious to the invisible. Racism... Read More
Concept Testing with Confidence
When going from zero to one with a new feature, product, or service, it is crucial to find out if your solution is useful before... Read More
Crushing Constraints as a Marginalized Group
As designers, we take pride in what we do. Creating experiences to improve the lives of many despite the constraints of budgets, technology, and the... Read More
Look Who’s Talking: How to Make Designers Work Amiably
There are more than 60 designers at DataArt, all of them distributed between Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, and other countries. Sometimes, we staff the project with... Read More
Never Ask “Why”: Running Design Critiques in an Agile World
Asking “why” in design critiques invariably puts the designer into a defensive position: “Why did you do it this way?” or worse “Why _didn’t_ you... Read More
Zero to Hero – How to Build Your Value + Become an Asset in Your Career
Far too many of our nation’s best and brightest tech professionals work as hard as they can to advance their careers without really understanding how... Read More
An Integrated Approach to Research to Treat People with Dignity
A deep understanding of your target market’s needs across all phases of the journey from non-customer to customer is the starting point for treating customers... Read More
Panel: Authors of 97 Things UX Practitioners Should Know
Dan Berlin moderates a panel of authors from the O’REILLY book called 97 Things UX Practitioners Should Know. It is an Amazon bestseller in many... Read More
More than a Resume: Lessons from 20 Years of HCI Experience
We are more than our resumes. Each of us has a story to tell about where we started and how we got to where we... Read More
Video: 2021 Kicks Off with Humility
Justin Dauer kicked off the 2021 monthly meet-up series, sponsored by Big Design and UXPA Dallas, with a talk titled Humility: The Designer’s Most Essential... Read More
Sketchnotes from Day 4 Talks
Big Design ends with some amazing talks! If you missed talks, here are sketchnotes from the conference, made possible by the UX Club at UT... Read More