Latest Past Events

Harnessing Our Superpowers: Organizations as a Design Problem

Newcastle, UK

Rebecca Blakiston delivers a keynote talk for the sixth annual UXLibs conference. The conference theme is UX and organizational culture. We know that culture eats strategy for breakfast, and shifting to a user-centered culture can be exhausting work. But organizations are made up of people, and as human-centered thinkers, we’re well positioned to lead the

Lightweight & Impactful: UX in Action and on a Budget

Online

Rebecca presents for UX Wellington. Constraints within the UX process can be a fairly common challenge. Different restrictions such as budget, time, tools, and access to users can lead to new ways of producing lightweight yet impactful work. In this talk, Rebecca will share methods and experiments she has run at the University of Arizona.

Free

Charleston Conference Panel: The Workflow Librarian

Online

Rebecca Blakiston presents as part of a panel, "The workflow librarian: Reaching library users where they are." How do libraries add value for patrons increasingly working outside library-preferred workflows (e.g. searching via Google Scholar), and accessing the library’s collection off-campus? This is a question of profound relevance to all library stakeholders – librarians, publishers, and

$325