PPP3 // NUX5 CONFERENCE

Today on the Friday, 7th of October I went to my first ever conference in Manchester. This conference was situated around the subject of User experience. NUX5 is a yearly anual conference aimed at finding national and international speakers who want to share what they have learned. It’s big and exciting, and it’s just as friendly as our monthly get-togethers. NUX is a organisation based in the north and holds regular meet ups in Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool and Newcastle.

Since coming to university I've had a keen interest in this discipline as well as previous experience. It an area that I've always been fond off. There were a number of speakers from around the world who all gave an interesting and inspiring insight into their field of work within the domain of UX. Going into the conference I was inexperience, a new born out of the womb. My knowledge was mostly self taught and I knew I would be surrounded by many professionals within the industry. Therefore, my main objectives was to absorb as much information as humanly possible. The speakers were:

Every single speaker gave an incredible glance into the industry. It instantly became clear just how vast the area is. Scary but no doubt all exciting! From the talk about Wicked problems by Lola Oyelayo, security and UX by Glenn A Gustitus, Mixing methods abroad by Karina Van Schaardenburg and accibility user experience by Henny Swan. 

The main highlight from the conference was the talk by Henny Swan. She spoke about accesibility user experience when she worked at the BBC. Talking about designing and solving solutions for disabled or impaired users.