Gear up for a great fall with another round of lightning talks from Richmond UX, Ladies that UX, and RVA Content Strategy. We’re bringing together pros from the Richmond design community to share their tips and techniques on how to succeed in a constantly evolving field.
When: September 27
5:30 PM – 7:30PM
Where: Carmax Downtown
140 Virginia St
Richmond VA 23219
Terry Peters | Experience Director: ICF Olson
Talk:
Communicating Design
Design is a complex process composed of many smaller activities: listening, analyzing, evaluating, brainstorming, synthesizing, experimenting, composing, describing, discussing, exploring, reacting, and countless others. Documenting is not one of these activities, but engaging in any of these activities yields artifacts—diagrams, notes, sketches, lists, inventories, annotations, and larger documents—that result from the act of performing the task. At the same time, each task requires inputs, and these artifacts that come from doing design are the same things that can help feed the design process. The success of the task directly relates to the quality of the inputs and may be measured on the quality of its outputs. So how does one effectively make use of these to communicate the fruits of their labors?
Bio:
Talented user experience leader with 12 years of proven experience in the development and implementation of enterprise digital strategies, user-centered research and systems design with clients such as AARP, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Chik-fil-A, Johnson Controls, Scripps Networks, and The Nature Conservancy. Experienced team leader capable of mentoring cross-functional teams and fostering relationships to transform business and design needs into valuable and usable working products.
Katie Moriarty | UX Research: Snag
Talk:
You Don’t Have to Be a Researcher to Do User Research
We’ll discuss the value of observational research, how to do this type of research yourself, and how to apply your learnings to your day-to-day practice. Katie will use her own experiences to illustrate how accessible observational research can be.
Bio:
Katie is a User Experience Researcher at Snag. Her work focuses on helping Snag’s product development teams gain a greater understanding of hourly workers and employers so they can design and build products that solve their users true pain points. Katie has experience in conducting a wide range of qualitative research methods to uncover key insights that are both meaningful and actionable to stakeholders.
Adarsh Ramakrishnan | Freelance Product Consultant
Talk:
A Figma(nt) of Your Imagination — Streamlining your design flow using Figma
Explore how Figma can help you consolidate your entire design flow, letting you design, prototype, and spec in one platform.
Bio:
Adarsh is a product consultant who specializes in strategy and design. As part of his consulting services, he has designed and built visual systems for digital products across multiple platforms. He is also teaches engineering design to students from non-technical majors through the VCU Da Vinci Center.
Matt McGhan | Experience Designer: Singlestone
Talk:
Healthy Design Systems Make Better Products
Bio:
Midwest farm boy turned East Coast experience designer. Went from drawing animals, sports cards, and airplanes to designing visual experiences via VCU to non-profit to SingleStone. Lover of people and their day-to-day interactions with designed & digital things.
Terry Peters | Experience Director: ICF Olson
Katie Moriarty | UX Research: Snag
Adarsh Ramakrishnan | Freelance Product Consultant
Matt McGhan | Experience Designer: Singlestone
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