User Experience talks

User experience (UX) is everything a person experiences when using a product or service: whether it is useful, how easy it is to use, how it fits their context and how it makes them feel. UX design spans research, information architecture, interaction design, content and visual design, and it extends beyond the screen to support, onboarding and every other touchpoint.

For product teams, UX is where business goals and human needs meet. Understanding users through research, testing ideas early, designing clear content and building teams that can act on what they learn all shape whether a product succeeds. Data, strategy and team culture are as much part of good UX as interface details.

The 32 talks here span 2008 to 2020 and events such as Northern User Experience, UX Poland, the Design and Content Conference, beyond tellerrand, Mind the Product, Smashing Conference, UX Salon, UX Week and UXDX. Jared Spool argues that “UX Strategy Means Business”, Peter Merholz that “The Experience is the Product”, and Paul Adams discusses the “Definition of Done”. Content is covered by Karen McGrane, Kathy Wagner and Sara Wachter-Boettcher; research by David Travis, Peter Morville and Jim Sterne; and teams and conflict by Aaron Walter and Steve Fisher. Other speakers include Kathy Sierra, Jesse James Garrett, Amy Jo Kim, Jake Archibald, Chris Risdon, Rochelle King, Josh Payton and Benjamin De Cock.