Sessions at UX Australia 2012 on Tuesday 28th August Workshops

Immersing your client in their user’s world to get enthusiastic buy-in
Fiona Meighan
You’ve done the research and designed a fantastic user experience, but it wont go ahead until the client commits! I’ll share some techniques to help you connect your clients deeply with their users to advocate for your user centred designs, recommendations and innovative ideas.

Innovate or die
Lucy Chen
Do you “do innovation”? Is it critical to your success? How do you turn ideas into tangible, profitable projects? I want to introduce a method we use at Vivant that was effective and efficient (and minimises meeting time). The result: an energised team, solid project proposal, and traction with the clients.

Great design is not the only thing that makes for successful projects and happy clients
Chris Michelle-Wells
If you’re a designer new to UX, it might seem depressing to hear you won’t automatically succeed just on your awesome design skills. However, this can be a good thing. Here’s five things I’ve learned about making successful projects and happy clients – none of them to do with good design.

The hardest soft skills
Mia Northrop
Soft skills are the interpersonal, communication and behavioral skills that can make or break a UX practitioner. Sure you can prototype and card sort, but how are you at selling ideas, negotiation and constructive criticism? This talk explores what soft skills are most useful, and hardest to master, for UXers.

Positive design
Renato Feijó
Current UX approaches are based on problem finding and solving. The focus on dysfunctions contributes to sapped morale, political games and decision paralysis in multidisciplinary teams. Positive Design is an alternative strength-based method which promotes positive change and innovation through human-centric cooperation and collaboration across organisational boundaries.

Immersing your client in their user’s world to get enthusiastic buy-in
Fiona Meighan
You’ve done the research and designed a fantastic user experience, but it wont go ahead until the client commits! I’ll share some techniques to help you connect your clients deeply with their users to advocate for your user centred designs, recommendations and innovative ideas.

Innovate or die
Lucy Chen
Do you “do innovation”? Is it critical to your success? How do you turn ideas into tangible, profitable projects? I want to introduce a method we use at Vivant that was effective and efficient (and minimises meeting time). The result: an energised team, solid project proposal, and traction with the clients.

Great design is not the only thing that makes for successful projects and happy clients
Chris Michelle-Wells
If you’re a designer new to UX, it might seem depressing to hear you won’t automatically succeed just on your awesome design skills. However, this can be a good thing. Here’s five things I’ve learned about making successful projects and happy clients – none of them to do with good design.

The hardest soft skills
Mia Northrop
Soft skills are the interpersonal, communication and behavioral skills that can make or break a UX practitioner. Sure you can prototype and card sort, but how are you at selling ideas, negotiation and constructive criticism? This talk explores what soft skills are most useful, and hardest to master, for UXers.

Positive design
Renato Feijó
Current UX approaches are based on problem finding and solving. The focus on dysfunctions contributes to sapped morale, political games and decision paralysis in multidisciplinary teams. Positive Design is an alternative strength-based method which promotes positive change and innovation through human-centric cooperation and collaboration across organisational boundaries.