Luke and I didn’t have to venture far to make our pilgrimage to last week’s UX Australia event—the annual conference was held in our home city of Melbourne.
Of course, we weren’t simply attending this year, we were presenting. Our presentation, Design With Soul: Battling The Ecommerce Blues, was more of a production, complete with singing, dancing, improvisation, and a bearded man dressed as Aretha Franklin. Oh, and a bit of actual substance as we talked about our redesign of the Mathematical Association of Victoria’s online shop, and how we used the project as a testbed to determine, once and for all, which was the best UX technique.
If you’re after an extensive post-mortem of the conference (including our own views on the conference highlights and an interview with a special guest) then be sure to tune into our webinar in a couple of days’ time. In the mean time, here’s the set of eleven sketchnotes from the sessions I attended.
While no other presentations were filmed at the conference, we did arrange for a video camera operator to record our session. We’re planning to make it available online for those who weren’t present, so that everyone else has the opportunity to enjoy the magic of the UX Brothers.
As always, it was a terrific conference, and a fantastic opportunity to connect with peers and friends, old and new. UX Australia 2014 will be held in Sydney; if you’re able to attend, I thoroughly recommend it. A huge thank you to Steve and Donna for all their hard work, and for trusting that our hair-brained idea was worth presenting.
P.S. Check out some of Ben Crothers‘ amazing sketchnotes from the same conference.
Hey Matthew, great to have met you at UX Australia, and great to see your sketchnotes, too. It’s interesting looking at what you bring out of each talk compared to what I ended up doing in my sketchnotes, of the same talks – I’ve a lot to learn about clarity and locking into simpler renditions of ideas!
Great stuff mate, and thanks for the shout-out too. :)
Reckon you’re being pretty hard on yourself there, Ben! Love the illustrative flair and metaphor you’re bringing to these.
I totes love your sketch notes & they inspire me. Kudos!
Thanks so much Eva!
love both your work Matthew & Ben, and yes Ben you are too hard on self. Your notes are fantastic and inspirational to a newbie such as myself :).
Cheers Nene!