Pre-Conference Online Event

Our lives are increasingly lived online. Think about it — we work, study and socialize online. We talk with our therapists and consult with doctors online. We bank, shop and pay taxes online. Digital accessibility has never been more important than it is right now. Despite this, making our work accessible can feel like an overwhelming mystery.

This talk will teach us how to greatly impact the accessibility of our work with various approaches to our design and development tasks. We will identify many common UI (User Interface) patterns, and learn how to approach them in order for assistive technologies, such as screen readers, to understand and communicate them clearly. We will highlight and reiterate how accessible design is good design and benefits everybody. All of this without looking at a single line of code.

The goal of this talk is to reframe how we think about and start our design and development work to make accessibility feel like a natural part of our workflow. We are not building software for users, but for people — and all people deserve empathy from the digital products that make up their very real lives.

Adding words to deceptive design is like adding fuel to a fire. The result? A bigger fire! But you need words to make the user experience work, so how do you go about them without creating a hot mess?

Get the ins and outs of inclusive content whether you're a UX writer, designer, PM or like-minded, and start using the power of tone, framing and, well – the TRUTH to convey your message. Zero risk of fire hazard – heaps of opportunities to help your users do what they came here to do.

​​Accessibility is crucial, and design tokens can be a way to help achieve it. This talk explores how co-creating design tokens between product teams fosters accessibility, craftsmanship, and consistency, bridging the gap between designers and developers.

This talk is a case study about how we advocated for a collaborative naming system that emphasizes accessibility. We stress the importance of deliberate implementation, team workshops, and ensuring tokens resonate with developers and designers.

This talk highlights the value of design tokens in amplifying accessibility per WCAG guidelines. It poses key questions: How do we harness tokens to foster consistency without stifling innovation? How can we provide sufficient tokens without overwhelming dev<>design processes?

We also present a workshop model for collaboration, using AI for practical token techniques, and strategies for securing buy-in for tokens with accessibility, integrating inclusive design principles into processes.

Presentation will tackle the following topics: how to increase your impact as a designer (influencing more products and designers), importance of sharing knowledge, UX/UI communities and communities in general – genuine desire to give back, practical tips on building and nurturing a community from scratch, impact of sharing knowledge

Design is fun until it's not. You work in a very complex niche.

Being a Designer is one of the most challenging professions.

It's challenging but fun. You grow fast and become exceptional in what you do. You love design. You love creating websites, illustrations, icons, products, features, systems, style guides, and prototypes.

You feel powerful when you design!

However, your profession also requires you to work with other people, or maybe, over time, you might start losing interest in design.

This is where it gets a bit more complicated: perfectionism, procrastination, imposter syndrome, fear of failure, search for validation, fear of judgement, imposter syndrome, people-pleasing, feeling overwhelmed, and lack of authenticity and confidence.

My talk will help you discover how to feel powerful whether you work with pixels, systems, people or dealing with your inner struggles.

After this talk, you will:

• Understand your emotions and learn from them

• Learn how to overcome any fear and procrastination

• Learn how to communicate with anyone with confidence

• Become authentic in everything you do

• Rediscover your values and passion to become your most powerful self.

We live in a highly digital world where everyone seems to compete for our attention, and even the simplest tasks of daily life are influenced by technology. But technology should serve as a tool that simplifies our tasks, not be the one that overwhelms us. And who better to discuss the influence on user's well-being than UX designers?

This panel will focus on the positive ways technology can enrich our lives rather than telling us to stop using it. We aim to inspire you to approach technology responsibly, ensuring your design decisions truly improve people’s lives and as users, ourselves, how we can use technology to help us stay motivated, focused, and informed.

Join us for a discussion on our view of digital well-being and practical tips & tricks for designing (and using) technology that promotes well-being, fosters positive engagement, and helps both users and ourselves lead healthier, more balanced lives in our digital world.