matt 🦕First talk at #UXPlus from Sidney & Brittany on Slow Tech, Fast Growth
Is it possible to use #SlowTech patterns to give back to users when building digital products?
Passion projects are better with friends - finding someone to keep you honest, even just a weekly calendar invite. #UXPlus
“Art and emotion become our compass points” #UXPlus
Consider creative projects in your local community and make it about people #UXPlus
Next up Dominique on Designing for Open-Source.
By the community, for the community - and the huge companies that rely on the software #UXPlus
Promise of the internet - universal access to information, connection and ideas, with WordPress powering 43% #UXPlus
“Design for inclusion, lightweight design will load quicker and not require as much bandwidth” #UXPlus
Next up at #UXPlus is Eleanor! On all Creating AI-Powered User Experiences: A Practical Guide
(I’ve heard this one quite a few times but there’s some highlights for sure)
Great AI products, Loom - product for work, to help with communication
Gong - AI notetaker to automate the drudgery of meetings
Gong - AI notetaker to automate the drudgery of meetings
“UX is how we decide if a hype cycle can become cool or useful”
“Garbage in, garbage out” as for prompting models - but then also for training models as Google learnt recently
LLM’s are great at being confidently wrong #UXPlus
Doing vs being or rather doing and being, embody the being when doing
How do you breathe in the attitude of a partner, how do you change your physicality to that of a collaborator?
Powerful questions, short, clarify objectives (what do we want / what’s the biggest hurdle) invite creativity, generate energy and uncover blind spots. #UXPlus
Time for a bit of a break? #UXPlus
A panel on the future of all things UX and a big theme of this is AI (and callbacks to Eleanor’s talk 🤖)
“Interested in when Designers can start treating AI as an agent rather that a servant”
“It’s not enough to send a Figma link, pitch”