Name: UX In the Real World
Start: 2015-05-15T12:30:00-0600
End: 2015-05-15T13:30:00-0600

UX In the Real World

A panel of UX professionals from various backgrounds including agencies, startups, small businesses, and enterprises discuss the topic of UX in the real world. Panelists will be walked through a series of questions outlining what their UX process looks like on a day to day basis. Topics will cover what works, what doesn’t, what are the challenges they face in their respective organizations, what tools/processes do they use, and any advice for the startup crowd.

The panel will include:

Moderator:
Chris Alvarez, UX Design Lead at Slice of Lime

Panelists:

Brian Rhea, Chief Product Officer at Mocavo
Tania O'Brien, Sr. Manager of User Experience at Rally Software
Jackson Carson, UX/UI Creative Director at MobileDay
Travis Stiles, Director of User Experience at ReturnPath

Host

Chris Alvarez

Lead UX Designer, Slice of Lime

With a developer’s background and a researcher’s heart. I’ve been known to ask ‘why?’ until it hurts and believe the right answer is usually just a good conversation away.

Speakers

Jackson Carson

UX/UI Director, SnapEngage

UX/UI Director at SnapEngage, UX lead mentor at Techstars, and pixelosopher by day. Fine art abstract photographer by evening. Funky musician and jazz poseur by night.

Tania O'Brien

Sr. Manager of User Experience at Rally Software, Rally Software

We are a company with a software for agile, and so we are continually practicing agile on teams, at scale, and outside engineering. UX is a big part of the agile process at Rally and I'd love to share how we have tried to include it in the agile process at the many levels.