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UX Camp Europe 2017 in Review

UX Camp Europe in Berlin is one of the the biggest User Experience events worldwide. On one amazing weekend, more than 500 participants from various professional backgrounds such as User Experience, User Interface Design, Development, Service Design, User Research, Psychology and other digital design enthusiasts from around the world gathered at Humboldt University Berlin for the 9th UX Camp Europe.

The event concept is that of a BarCamp, which means it’s an open, participatory workshop, where everyone is part of the camp and contributes equally to its success and all the content of lectures and workshops is provided by participants themselves. Every attendant has the chance to manage a session and share their own topics, questions and network with other participants.

In this article, we want to share some impressions of the sessions we attended and our most important learnings with you.

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Impressions from session planning and some sessions at the 9th UX Camp Europe in Berlin.

1.Teamwork

Lessons I learned about designer – developer collaboration

Session by Magdalena Zadara, Experience Designer at BCG Digital Ventures

In her session, Magdalena Zadara talked about the collaboration between designers and developers. From her practical experience as a UX Designer, she gave many useful tips on how to work with developers. Her method is not only suitable for big companies, but also helps any interdisciplinary team collaborate more smoothly in their everyday workflow. Her key points were the following:

First: Get to know each other
Second: Establish a workflow
Third: Be interested & interesting

2. Taking notes in meetings

5 Steps to change your note-taking

Session by Eva-Lotta Lamm, UX Designer

The note taking workshop going on.

One of the most popular sessions of the day was “change your note taking” by Eva – Lotta Lamm. She used some great examples to tell us how to visualize information instead of “just” writing. In her talk, she gave 5 tips on how to drastically improve you note-taking:

3. How AI is changing UX and product design

Future proof your product!

Session by Holger Eggert, Lead Strategic Designer at Daimler

How do you make your product safe for the future? – Design a useful algorithm.

In his session “Future proof your product“, Holger Eggert gave many insight and tips about working with artificial intelligence and how to build useful algorithms. He also made a couple of very specific points on how to understand Artificial Intelligence (AI), like “you don’t need consciousness for artificial intelligence” or “in the past, we only knew intelligence combined with consciousness, because the only intelligent thing we knew were other humans”. As a striking example, he menioned the Japanese board game Go, in wich an AI named AlphaGo recently won the game against a human grand master. Still, we don’t really know how AlphaGo feels about this ground breaking victory.

Here are Holger’s top tipps on how to build a future proof product:

First: Map out the user journey – in meticulous detail:

Second: Three approaches to building a future proof algorithm:

To get a more detailed impression on this topic, you can watch Holgers Talk on Vimeo.

Wrapping up

UX is not what you think

As technology is progressing more and more rapidly, product teams need to adress many emerging roles – from flexible and empathic team leaders to decicive product visionaries and fearless tamers on artificial intelligence algorithms. Building innovative products that carry meaning for the customer needs teams of flexible professionals who take on roles as they emerge and who know how to surf the waves of constant change with grace.

We are very happy to participate at UX Camp 17 and we are already looking forward to witness the state of the UX profession in 2018.

 

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