UX Y'all Conference

And that’s a wrap on day 2! 🎉 Thanks to our attendees, sponsors, and volunteers. Stay tuned for more photos from the conference, and we'll see y'all next year! 📸 @tommycoyote_ & @michaelgillman.photography #UXYall #UXYall2024 #UXPA #TriUXPA #UXConference #DesignConference

“Tech has promised to take my job so many times. But we design for people, not tech.” Don't let the future scare you! 🤖 Milissa Tarquini's keynote showed us how to thrive in UX, even with the rise in emerging tech and all of life’s unexpected twists and turns. 📸 @tommycoyote_ & @michaelgillman.photography #UXYall #UXYall2024

Our lightning talks were full of valuable insights! We explored the power of social sensitivity and equitable collaboration, growing older in the design industry, important principles of accessibility, and the art of writing powerful research questions. Heather R. Ryan, Psy.D. Matthew Rogers Meg Cramer Jessamyn Edwards Jesse Sookne 📸 @michaelgillman.photography #UXYall #UXYall2024 #LightningTalks

By sharing the similarities between enterprise design and game design, Jackson Bostian proposed using game design thinking to give you an upper edge as a designer. 📸 @tommycoyote_ #UXYall #UXYall2024 #GameDesign #EnterpriseDesign

"When you own it and commit to a path forward, you can absolutely turn it around." We loved Angil Tate’s candid talk on pivoting from failure to success with constructive feedback and cross-functional trust. 📸 @michaelgillman.photography #UXYall #UXYall2024 #LearningFromFailure #Design

Rebecca Planchart, Matthew Peterson, and Karen Chen just wrapped their talk about function mapping and how it ensures a strong design process across teams of many experience levels. 📸 @michaelgillman.photography #UXYall #UXYall2024 #FunctionMapping

Leah Spalding shared her experience using citizen science to build SunSketcher, an app that transforms solar eclipse images into scientific data! She walks through lessons learned translating a scientific endeavor into an engaging and accessible experience. ☀️ #UXYall #UXYall2024 #CitizenScience #SunSketcher

"Understanding the ecosystem where all these pieces relate to each other can help influence what recommendations we have as we start to build those experiences out." We explored the power of ecosystem mapping as a tool for visualizing user experiences with William Ryan, Ph.D. How will you apply his insights when creating cohesive experiences? 📸 @tommycoyote_ #UXYall #UXYall2024 #Visualization #UX

A big thanks to our awesome sponsors! None of this would be possible without them. 😊 #UXYall #UXYall2024 #UXPA #TriUXPA #UXConference #DesignConference

"When you’re not aligned, you solve the wrong problems, you're less efficient and more expensive." Archana Shah and Subhasree Chatterjee demonstrated how encouraging open communication, building a shared vocabulary, and establishing iterative feedback loops can lead to better collaboration between research and analytics. 📸 @tommycoyote_ #UXYall #UXYall2024 #Research #Analytics