Better Design Through Cocktails
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The document reflects on seven years of UX Cocktail Hour events, highlighting key lessons learned such as the importance of starting initiatives, community building, and embracing chaos. It emphasizes the value of side projects and personal reflection in improving skills and outcomes. The document concludes with a call for collaboration and the continued evolution of design topics, including artificial intelligence and design ethics.
Better Design Through Cocktails
- 1. | 22–03–2018 Better design through cocktails — Looking back at 7 years of UX Cocktail Hour R’dam WE’RE LOOKING FOR TALENT! JOBS.CLEVERFRANKE.COM Follow us:
- 2. I’m moving to Chicago to build the C°F US office photo: Bob Corporaal
- 3. 3 23 events 51 presentations 1595 members 14 workshops In 7 years there were
- 4. 7 years of awesome UX events
- 5. So what did I learn from that? LEARNING 5
- 6. I met a great group of smart people
- 7. photo: Bob Corporaal Had some excellent cocktails
- 8. photo: Bob Corporaal Learned some new workshop tips and tricks
- 9. photo: Mirabeau Some with crazy results
- 10. But beyond that… LEARNING 10
- 11. 11 Back to the start…
- 12. In 2011 I started working at UI 12
- 13. We we’re opening a new office in Rotterdam
- 14. photo: Bob Corporaal Actually the old office of Mangrove
- 15. 15 Where is everybody in Rotterdam? So we needed to build our network.
- 17. photo: Bob Corporaal So we created our own event
- 18. And it worked… UXCH #1 18
- 19. photos: Bob Corporaal The first edition was a success
- 20. photo: Bob Corporaal So much that not everybody wanted to leave
- 21. …so we continued. UXCH #1+ 21
- 24. …and make them do silly things. LESSON #2
- 25. photos: Bob Corporaal Making snowflakes to learn about Scrum
- 26. photos: Online Department Creating a dating app with personality
- 27. photo: Online Department All great conversation starters
- 28. photo: Bob Corporaal Sharing hobbies in the Coolblue team
- 29. photo: Mirabeau
- 30. #3 Plan in detail, then don’t mind the details LESSON #3
- 31. photo: Bob Corporaal Sometimes workshops had crazy results
- 32. photos: Exact & Mangrove
- 33. #4 Always have side projects LESSON #4
- 38. Explore Learn Try new things Get inspired Fail Have fun Side projects provide opportunities to SIDE PROJECTS 38
- 39. Scratch your own itch 39
- 40. Keep a simple backlog for your projects 40
- 41. photos: Exact, Guilty People & Mirabeau
- 42. NOT EVERYTHING WORKED 42 photo: Coolblue Some events had some learning points
- 43. NOT EVERYTHING WORKED 43 photo: Coolblue
- 45. RETROSPECTIVE 45 photo: CLEVER°FRANKE We all do retrospectives
- 46. But also do a personal retrospective How do I feel about this? Why do I feel this way? What should I do different next time? PERSONAL REFLECTION 46
- 47. Resulting in the UX Cocktail Hour manual 47
- 48. And the improved manual 48 Open Sourced, because why not
- 49. 49 23 events 51 presentations 1595 members 14 workshops So that was
- 50. 50 24 events 53 presentations 1595 members 14 workshops Or actually right now
- 51. 1. Just start somewhere 2. Bring people together and enjoy the chaos 3. Plan in detail and then don’t worry about the details 4. Always have side projects 5. Reflect and iterate So what did I learn from the UX Cocktail Hour? LEARNINGS 51
- 52. Exact THANKS Fabrique Mirabeau Online Department Hogeschool Rotterdam User Intelligence MetrixLab Thanks to all the hosts Coolblue Deloitte Digital ISM eCompany Rotterdam Startup Port Hike One Philips IN10 Guilty People Colours We Are Reasonable People Sensor Lab CLEVER°FRANKE 52
- 53. Thanks to everybody who attended
- 54. The UX Cocktail Hour will continue!
- 55. One more thing
- 56. Design Sprints TOPICS Strategy Quantitative Research User Research Design Process Iterative Design Designing for Exhibitions Client Collaboration B2B applications Designing for personality Corporate Design Robots Agile Development Internet of Things Design Thinking Design Education Designing for Kids Storytelling Empathy Dynamic Design Startups Personas Design Systems Design thinking Conversion Optimization What we talked about Artificial Intelligence 56
- 57. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Design Designing with data Designing systems instead of instances The role of the designer Building and growing design teams Design Ethics What we should be talking about next TOPICS 57
- 58. Thank you WE’RE LOOKING FOR TALENT! JOBS.CLEVERFRANKE.COM
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