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The talk narrates the path of design and construction of the first female UX community in Latin America and how, after co-creation sessions, was defined and started working on 5 mvps that are now the core projects of the community. These are: the monthy meetings, a women in UX interview, monthy workshops, mentoring program and an only UX women Directory.
As my career progressed from practitioner to executive, I found that what I set aside at one point (practicing information architecture) I revisited as I became responsible for organizations. Information architecture is a valuable skill for anyone designing how teams and organizations grow and operate. IA tools such as labeling, creating taxonomies, and lumping and splitting 'right-size' categories were essential to the crafting of "Org Design for Design Orgs." It applies information architecture to the development of principles of a successful organization, the creation of roles within a design team, how people navigate their career through a levels framework, and the evolution of a design organization. I've long felt information architecture did itself a disservice by being so closely bound up with end-user experience. There are countless valuable applications of "IA Thinking," and organization design is one.
Reinvention is a necessity for longevity. The 11 years spent as a designer, as well as the years spent in school, have been an extended exercise in reimagining myself at each company I've been employed as well as each role. Your growth as a creative professional lives at the intersection of various factors, which are both in and outside of your control, yet you can still proactively plan for them and evolve on your own terms. During this talk, I'd like to share lessons I've learned, insights gained, and patterns recognized, which you can take and leverage for yourself.
In late 2016, Gartner predicted that “by 2020, 30% of web browsing sessions will be done without a screen.” Comscore likewise predicted that by 2020 “half of all searches will be voice searches.” Though there’s recent evidence to suggest that the 2020 picture may be more complicated than these broad stroke projections imply, as of 2019 we’re already seeing the impact that voice search, artificial intelligence, and smart software agents like Alexa and Google Assistant are making on the way information is found and consumed on the web. In addition to the indexing function that traditional search engines perform, smart agents and AI powered search algorithms are now bringing two additional modes of accessing information into the mainstream: aggregation and inference. As we’ll see through examples drawn from healthcare, government, and education, a design effort that focuses on creating effective “pages” is no longer sufficient to ensure the integrity or accuracy of content published to the web. Rather, by focusing on providing access to information in a structured, systematic way that is legible to both humans and machines, we can capitalize on innovations in voice and AI, whether or not we're producing chatbots or tapping into AI directly. This presentation frames content in its dual roles as narrative and data, illustrates the changes that we face as designers in the burgeoning age of voice UI and AI, and introduces simple techniques attendees can use to advocate for and introduce structured content in their own work.
The reality of domestic violence doesn’t disappear when people enter the digital world. How can we as technologists ensure that our products aren't used for abuse? This talk will explore how to consider the reality of violence, recognize intervention points, and advocate for user safety.
