Speaking

I love public speaking and speak passionately about a wide variety of topics, including:

The Art and Science of Storytelling
Experience Listening
A Masterclass in usability testing
An ethnographic hands on primer (workshop)
Bad user testing participants (and how to deal with them)

Climbing The Mountain - Your UX Practitioner Journey
What Kids Have Taught Me About Experience Design
Counter Productive Creativity Methods
UX Ikigai: Design for meaning
Understanding your impact - a systems thinking approach to UX

my next talks

Euroia2020

Speakers from all over Europe (and beyond!) volunteer their time to speak as part of EuroIA. They share case studies, methodology and practice gleaned from their experience as digital professionals. All speakers go through a blind review process before final selection by the EuroIA co-chairs.

ucd gathering 2020

UCD Gathering is a new virtual event for the research and design community. Over 2 days you'll hear from inspiring keynotes and take part in practical tutorials, engaging live sessions, interactive group sessions, speaker Q&A.

ux days tokyo

March 2021

Do you want to start running your own usability testing projects, but don’t know how to prepare, run or deliver back what you find? This masterclass will give you a step by step, practical blueprint for running your own testing. As an active practitioner, I can give you many tips and tricks I have discovered to help you gain confidence in learning this valuable skill.

arts university bournemouth
october 16th 2019

UX COPenhagen
30-31st march 2010

UX Scotland
June 10th-12th 2020 (postponed due to the covd-19 pandemic)

Past talks

Re:develop

See all the photos from Re:develop 2019

ux in the city: manchester

Have you ever wanted to do more contextual, field research? Do you want to observe real people in their natural setting, but need to know a bit more about the type of observations you should be making? This is a quick, hands on primer to get your observation skills up to scratch so you can start doing your own ethnographic field research.

ux scotland

This tutorial is all about rediscovering the lost art of listening. As user researchers and UX practitioners, it’s easy to get caught up focussing on our deliverables and processes, forgetting that our soft skills are the key to producing great insights about the humans we're learning about. Listening is arguably our most important - yet toughest - skill to master. We'll be looking at what bad listeners do, the effect of not listening, and the techniques you can use to lean in and give people your time and attention, so that you can become a great, active listener.

Go to the UX in the city website

generate london 2018

UX bournemouth 2018

The Art and Science of Storytelling (Superpowers for user researchers)

At the event I help to organise and run I gave a talk about the neuroscience behind storytelling, and why this is a great skill for user researchers and UX practitioners to have. This is a much improved version of a similar talk I gave at Balanced Team in London (Below).

Balanced Team, London

What's your story?

I recently attended the Balanced Team Unconference at the Pivotal offices in London, and gave a talk about the neuroscience behind storytelling, and why this is a great skill for user researchers and UX practitioners to have.

UX Camp brighton

Experience Listening

My most recent talk was at UX Camp Brighton. I spoke about Experience Listening, which is really just a fancy way of looking at how active listening can benefit UX professionals

If you want to talk to me further about public speaking, get in touch below:

Ask me about speaking