Programme 2025

Day 1 - Wednesday 11 June

08:45

Conference registration

09:45

Welcome to UX Scotland

10:00

Track 1

Keynote

Designing the next evolution of us

60 minutes

Alphonso “Fonz” Morris

Entrepreneur & Growth Advisor

11:00

Morning break

11:30

Track 1

Talk

Serious Work, Playful Minds

45 minutes

Laura Yarrow

GDS

Track 2

Talk

How to make neurodivergent people love you

45 minutes

Rachel Morgan-Trimmer

Firebird

Track 3

Workshop

The power of heuristics: Improving UX through practical evaluation

90 minutes

Jinal Shah

1E Ltd (a TeamViewer company)

Track 4

Discussion

How can working across disciplines help us drive organisational change?

90 minutes

Barbara Mertlova

Opencast Software

Emily Allinson

Opencast Software

12:15

Switchover

12:25

Track 1

Talk

Being the grown up: the one habit of highly effective leadership

45 minutes

Dan Healy

Made Tech

Track 2

Talk

People or the Future – who are we failing? Co-Designing for trauma, fragility, and complexity

45 minutes

Vinishree Solanki

13:10

Lunch break

14:00

Track 1

Talk

Leading design in challenging times

60 minutes

Morgane Peng

Societe Generale CIB

Track 2

Talk

Tech speak: A designer’s guide to collaborating with software developers

60 minutes

Rebecca Gorton

TPXimpact

Track 3

Talk

Future shock & UX strategy: Designing for emerging technologies

60 minutes

Paul Jervis Heath

Independent

Track 4

Workshop

Using trauma-informed principles in content design

120 minutes

Rachel Edwards

Content Design London

15:00

Switchover

15:10

Track 1

Talk

Everything changes but you – design in the AI-era

60 minutes

Ben Holliday

TPXimpact

Track 2

Case Study

UX at a 1,000 year old institution: Evolving at the University of Oxford

60 minutes

Kyree Holmes

University of Oxford / Onyx Valley

Track 3

Talk

With great community comes great responsibility

60 minutes

Imran Hussain

Government Digital Service

16:10

Afternoon break

16:30

Lightning talks

17:30

Social evening

Day 2 - Thursday 12 June

09:00

Conference registration

Lean coffee

09:50

Welcome to UX Scotland Day 2

10:00

Track 1

Keynote

Designing in spacetime: A metaphysical framework for better pasts, presents and futures

60 minutes

Vicki Tan

11:00

Morning break

11:30

Track 1

Talk

How to run a mentoring programme to build community and equity

45 minutes

Jeremy Yun

Betty Mwema

Government Digital Service

Track 2

Talk

The jamming’s in the details!

45 minutes

Florence Okoye

UX designer and qualitative researcher

Track 4

Workshop

Inside-out service design

90 minutes

Chris Taylor

Home Office

Gemma Barnes

Independent

Track 4

Discussion

The foundations of a disruptive design team: Opening a conversation about the conditions that design needs to thrive

90 minutes

Andrea Yurie Ando Yau

Police Scotland

Aran Browning

Police Scotland

Daniella Levins

Police Scotland

Lisa Dyer

Police Scotland

Track 5

Workshop

Designing the End: How it can help your users

180 minutes

Joe Macleod

AndEnd

12:15

Switchover

12:25

Track 1

Talk

Navigating the UX career maze: beyond Job descriptions

45 minutes

Hilary Brownlie

Standard Life

Track 2

Case Study

Down with the kids: Effective UX research techniques for engaging children

45 minutes

Caroline McKinley

NatWest Group

Marta Valle

NatWest Group

13:10

Lunch break

14:00

Track 1

Talk

Reimagining business collaboration in banking

45 minutes

Heldiney Pereira

Monzo | Samaritans

Lauren Deneuve

Monzo

Caroline Wilcock

Monzo

Track 2

Talk

The forgotten art of field-based user research

45 minutes

Alex Barker

Alex Barker Consulting Ltd

Track 3

Talk

What every designer can learn from design research & UX for humanitarian & human rights technologies

45 minutes

Eriol Fox

Superbloom

Track 4

Workshop

Your UX career: A group coaching session

90 minutes

Jenny Björkman

Interaktiv Design Studio

Workshop continued

14:45

Switchover

14:55

Track 1

Talk

Bridging the Gap: Building Better Collaboration Between Designers, Developers, and Stakeholders

45 minutes

Ade-Lee Adebiyi

SoPost

Track 2

Talk

Your user needs are crap! (and so were mine) - 10 ways to improve user needs

45 minutes

Patrick Sansom

Ministry of Justice

Track 3

Case Study

Leveraging AI for accessible design systems with variables

45 minutes

Oluwatobi Olowu

Wood Mackenzie

15:20

15:40

Afternoon break

16:00

Track 1

Endnote

Our humanity is needed

60 minutes

Indi Young (Virtual keynote)

Founder, Adaptive Path

17:00

Conference close

17:15

End of conference - gather locally for a post event refreshment!