UX Glasgow & UX Zimbabwe: Design Tools Showcase
Online on Wednesday 5 June 2023 at 18:00 BST
On Wednesday 5 June, we are having a joint meet-up with UX Zimbabwe!
We will have 5 speakers presenting design tools they use for 10 to 15min each, with some time for questions.
We will be online and using Zoom. At the end, we will open breakout rooms with a mix of people from both meet-ups in each of them.
The speakers
Walter Gombarume - UX Zim
Bio: I am a UI/UX Designer based in Zimbabwe focused on creating mobile apps and websites that help users meet their goals in the easiest way while leading them down a golden path which meets business goals.
Design Tool: Figma
Social media handle: linktr.ee/waltergombarume
Time: 10 minutes
Donell Mtabvuri - UX Zim
Bio: I am a solution architect (but I call myself a UX engineer from time to time), focusing on providing managed IT services and developing internal business applications (in Microsoft 365) as well as dabbling in marketing websites (Framer).
Design Tool: Jitter.video, a motion design tool far simpler to use than Adobe After Effects for most business use cases. I use it to animate prototypes, short how-to tutorials for applications I have built and animating pitch decks. You can import your design from Figma, animate and export to Lottie, or from 720p to 4K video.
Social media handle: Instagram, LinkedIn
Time: 10 minutes
Stéphanie Krus - UX Glasgow
Bio: I’m a French native designer with a strong focus on accessibility, inclusion and service design. I’ve been living in Scotland for nearly 20 years. Most of my work is in the public sector.
Design Tool: Some quick accessibility checks: tabbing through your website, checking contrast, zooming and Wave tool. Google chrome dev tools - making quick changes on your page - for that last one, you need a bit of knowledge of HTML and CSS.
Social media handle: LinkedIn, Mastodon
Time: 15 minutes
Jonny Holden - UX Glasgow
Bio: Working in various web related roles from content to site building. Director at Versoflow.com, building marketing sites for SaaS.
Design Tool: Octopus.do a full wireframe and content gathering tool that is simple enough for non technical people to use, but powerful enough to help designers and web builders create well structured, SEO ready sites.
Social media handle: https://x.com/JonathanDHolden
Time: 10 minutes
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Geke van Dijk - UX Glasgow
Bio: Co-founder and Strategy Director of STBY in Amsterdam and London, specialised in design research for service innovation, working for international clients in industry and public sector.
Design Tool: Two tools from the DIY Toolkit: Evidence Planning and Fast Idea Generator. They provide a quick analytical review of a problem space and creative prompts for thinking about potential new directions for improvement.
Social media handle: LinkedIn
Time: 10 minutes
Photo at the top from Dan Cristian Pădureț on Unsplash