Every month we have fun and informative “bite sized” presentations to add some inspiration to your lunch break.  These virtual events allow us to partner with amazing speakers, community groups and organizations to share their insights and hot takes on a variety of topics impacting our industry. 

Join us at the end of every month for Lunch n' Learn.

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Cole Armstrong

We all understand the need to better understand our users when designing new products, experiences and messages, but are we, as designers, missing an opportunity sitting in plain sight?

This recording of Lunch n' Learn features Cole Armstrong, Managing Director of behavioural strategy agency NeuroSpot.  Cole gave us a quick intro to the world of behavioural science and how it can be applied to support design initiatives that really make a difference by driving actual behaviour.  Drawing from examples around the world, he showed how a deeper understanding of human psychology has resulted in great outcomes.  He also showed where it prevented failure, pointing out some of the design opportunities that we, as designers, could be overlooking.

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Speaker Bio

Cole Armstrong is the founder and Managing Director of NeuroSpot, a behavioural strategy agency based in Auckland, New Zealand. At NeuroSpot, Cole is working with a range of New Zealand’s leading organisations, covering fields such as retail, supermarkets, financial services, and utilities amongst others, to apply a behavioural science lens to customer and user experience across a range of channels.

Cole has a diverse background covering academia, commerce and public sector, in New Zealand, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. His perspective is that behavioural science allows organisations to more effectively identify why people do what they do, and then set in motion a series of evidenced based strategies to deliver on organisational outcomes.

Grab your lunch, invite your colleagues and we hope to see you at our next Lunch n' Learn

Every month we have fun and informative “bite sized” presentations to add some inspiration to your lunch break.  These virtual events allow us to partner with amazing speakers, community groups and organizations to share their insights and hot takes on a variety of topics impacting our industry. 

Join us at the end of every month for Lunch n' Learn.

Sign up now to stay in the loop.

Anh Duong

In this Lunch n' Learn our guest Anh Duong drew on her proud Vietnamese heritage to explore how UX practitioners and advocates can consider non-native English speakers in UX. Ahn shared her personal experiences to show and discuss how empathizing with people who don't have English as their first language in your UX approach can really make a difference. This fun and interactive talk surfaced some really valuable takeaways including how considering a non-native English speaking point of view in your UX can actually improve digital experiences for everyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8nrSW1dvK0

Speaker Bio

Anh Duong wears multiple hats at Catalyst IT as a Business Analyst, UX consultant and Accessibility Specialist. Practicing in different disciplines has helped her see how accessibility ties into every part of the product life cycle. Anh is passionate about helping others and is always looking beyond the rules and standards of UX or WCAG to find practical ways to create awesome accessible web designs. She has delivered web accessibility training and audits to many clients and actively participates in creating and maintaining a culture of accessibility and inclusive design throughout the company. Anh is proudly made in Vietnam with a healthy obsession of Banh Mi and Ca Phe Sua Da.

Grab your lunch, invite your colleagues and we hope to see you at our next Lunch n' Learn

We've launched a brand new series of 'bite sized' presentations to make your lunch break more inspiring. Together with speakers, community groups, and organizations from around the world — these virtual events dive into a variety of topics impacting our industry today.

Join us at the end of every month for Lunch n' Learn.

Sign up now to stay in the loop.

Clara Kliman-Silver

In our first Lunch n Learn, Clara Kliman- Silver, Senior UX Researcher at Google unpacked some of the barriers to effective designer-developer collaboration.

In her talk "UX in a distributed world", Clara discussed various workflow stages, the role of design systems, common pain points, and mitigation strategies — all based on UX research studies with designers, developers, and product teams over the last three years.

Clara also covered research on UX tools, how tools have transformed workflows, and where a perceived tooling problem might actually be a process issue (and what you can do about it). In addition, she considered how tools and workflows might evolve in the future.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sYWOdROBM

📹: UX in a distributed world.

Speaker bio

Clara Kliman-Silver is a Senior UX Researcher at Google who studies design teams, design systems, UX tools, and designer-developer collaboration.

She specializes in participatory design and generative methods to investigate workflows, understand designer-developer experiences, and imagine ways to create UIs.

In previous roles, she has conducted research on developer tools, artificial intelligence, and healthcare. Clara holds a Bachelors of Science in Cognitive Science from Brown University.

Grab your lunch, invite your colleagues, and we hope to see you at the next Lunch n' Learn.