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All presentation videos now available
We've just uploaded recorded videos of our sessions' presentations to our Program page (and to YouTube, which provides transcripts). Enjoy!
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All decks now available
We've just added the decks from our main conference sessions to the Enterprise UX 2018 program page; enjoy!
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Sketch notes are now available
MJ Broadbent creates amazing sketch notes for all of our conferences—not just all four Enterprise UX conferences, going back to 2015, but last year's DesignOps Summit as well. You can check out her amazing work…
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Trip notes are now all available
Natalie Hanson is one of the heroes of every Enterprise UX conference. She takes high-quality tripnotes (AKA trip reports), and turns them around within hours of the conclusion of each conference. 2018 is no exception;…
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Trip notes for “Creativity and Principles in the Flourishing Enterprise” (Richard Buchanan)
Creativity and Principles in the Flourishing Enterprise Richard Buchanan, Professor of Design, Management, & Innovation, Case Western Reserve University For all of our sophisticated and often technical discussions of user experience, there is one area…
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Trip notes for “Cleaning Up Our Mess: Digital Governance for Designers” (Lisa Welchman)
Cleaning Up Our Mess: Digital Governance for Designers Lisa Welchman The Internet and Web have reached a tipping point. We're now witnessing the surfacing of harmful patterns and norms that we designed—often unintentionally—into our products,…
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Trip notes for “Bias Towards Action: Building Teams that Build Work” (Husani Oakley)
Bias Towards Action: Building Teams that Build Work Husani Oakley, SVP, Director of Technology, Deutsch How do you create an agile, customer-centric team of designers, developers, product managers, and user experience specialists whose instinct is…
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Trip notes for “Innovate with Purpose” (Janaki Kumar)
Innovate with Purpose Janaki Kumar, former Vice President and Design Evangelist, office of the Chief Design Officer at SAP Labs. She is also on the faculty at Stanford, where she teaches customer experience from neuroscience…
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Trip note for “Standardizing Product Metrics for Leaders, Designers, and Everyone” (Jennifer Cardello)
Standardizing Product Metrics for Leaders, Designers, and Everyone Jennifer Cardello, Head of Design Ops, aetnahealth There is nothing more frustrating than dedicating your blood, sweat, and tears to developing a product, only to see it…
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Trip notes for “Communicating the ROI of UX within a large enterprise and out on the streets” (JD Buckley)
Communicating the ROI of UX within a large enterprise and out on the streets JD Buckley, Principal, UX Strategy & Research, ADP Innovation Center UX is being recognized as a significant business differentiator for new…
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Trip notes for “Peace is Waged with Sticky Notes: Mapping Real-World Experiences” (Jim Kalbach)
Peace is Waged with Sticky Notes: Mapping Real-World Experiences Jim Kalbach, Head of Customer Success, MURAL Framing a user experience map is tricky, as we have to determine what to show from research, as well…
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Trip notes for “Lives on the Line: The Stakes of UX at the Scale of Government” (Marina Martin)
Lives on the Line: The Stakes of UX at the Scale of Government Marina Martin, former Chief Technology Officer of the Department of Veteran Affairs The mere idea of interacting with the DMV or the…
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Trip notes for “Ethics in Tech Education: Designing to Provide Opportunity for All” (Mariah Hay)
Ethics in Tech Education: Designing to Provide Opportunity for All Mariah Hay, Vice President of Product, Pluralsight We know that ability is equally distributed among humans, but opportunity is not. As the need for skilled…
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Trip notes for “How to Identify and Increase your ‘Experience Quotient'” (Patanjali Chary)
How to Identify and Increase your "Experience Quotient" Patanjali Chary, Vice President of User Experience, Ellie Mae Even in enterprises with mature design practices, true design execution requires UX leaders to speak and understand the…
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Trip notes for “The Magic Word is Trust” (Dorelle Rabinowitz)
The Magic Word is Trust Dorelle Rabinowitz, Senior Director, Global Design, PayPal How do we build genuine relationships with our cross-functional partners? How does that improve decision-making and build honest collaboration? We do it by…
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Trip notes for “We’ll Figure That Out in the Next Launch: Enterprise Tech’s Nobility Complex” (Nancy Douyon)
We'll Figure That Out in the Next Launch: Enterprise Tech's Nobility Complex (Originally titled "Making Uber More Efficient through Informed International Insights") Nancy Douyon, International User Experience, Uber Every design decision has the potential to…
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Looking ahead to Friday
Hope you enjoyed the opening reception (and thanks for sponsoring, Cisco!). We’ll wrap up the conference tomorrow (Friday) with the second half of our main program: Once again, we’ll be at The Mission Bay Conference Center (1675 Owens Street); doors open…
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Looking ahead to Thursday
The workshops are done, and so is the happy hour—hope you enjoyed them both! Tomorrow (Thursday) is the first day of our main conference program; here are some details that’ll help: We’ll be at The Mission Bay Conference Center (1675 Owens…
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Looking ahead to Wednesday
A few notes as Wednesday approaches: Signed up for a workshop? They run from 8:30am-4:30pm, with lunch from noon-1:00pm. Registration and continental breakfast take place from 7:30-8:30am. They’re all happening on the second floor of The Palace Hotel (2 New Montgomery Street). We’ll also…
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Getting to and around San Francisco
We’re looking forward to seeing you very soon in San Francisco, where this week’s weather will range between 53-70°F (that’s about 12-21°C). No rain is in the forecast, but hey—it's almost summer in San Francisco. So be prepared for…
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Social stuff at #EUX2018
Well, just like that, the conference is here! We're looking forward to seeing you this week. And, on top of our amazing program, we've got some fun stuff planned: On Wednesday evening (5:30-7:30pm), we'll all meet…
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Meet your Enterprise UX storytellers
Drumroll please...meet this year's storytellers A highlight of every Enterprise UX conference is the amazing storytelling session that concludes Thursday's main program. These five-minute rants, raves, and ideas—expertly selected and curated by Dan Willis—bring…
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Scaling UX in the Enterprise
Our SCALE theme, one of Enterprise UX's four "mini-conferences," focuses the biggest differentiator in enterprise UX work. We face scalability challenges at every corner, from having the most impact with limited resources to scaling up…
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This year’s scholarship winners
Although this is the fourth edition of the Enterprise UX conference, it's the first year we've offered scholarships to people from underserved communities. We'd planned on awarding two scholarships, but thanks to a generous donor—who…
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Investing in UX within the Enterprise
Our INVEST theme, one of Enterprise UX's four "mini-conferences," focuses on strategic gains over quick wins, and balances long- and short-term priorities. INVEST helps us think beyond our immediate needs and lay the groundwork that…
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Communicating UX within the Enterprise
Our COMMUNICATE theme, one of Enterprise UX's four "mini-conferences," will help you get across the needs of our audiences, the value of our practices, and the unique skills we bring to the enterprise table. COMMUNICATE…
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Building UX within the enterprise
Our BUILD theme, one of Enterprise UX's four "mini-conferences," focuses on the ideating, sketching, modeling, and prototyping necessary to develop effective and flexible enterprise processes, products, and strategies. Whether you balance legacy and strategy, work…
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Full Program now Live
Hot off the presses! After months of hard work, we're so excited to share the full version of this year's Enterprise UX conference program is now live. Have a quick look—you'll get a quick sense…
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Submissions now open for EUX Storytellers session
Have a compelling story about your adventures designing solutions for people within complex organizations? We want everybody at Enterprise UX 2018 to hear it. The Enterprise UX Storytelling Session has been a highlight of every…
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Scholarships
High-quality conferences can be expensive—especially for those from underserved groups. So we're offering two scholarships to deserving candidates. Each scholarship includes a complimentary ticket to the conference and, if you're from outside the San Francisco…
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Diversity at #EUX18
How'd we address diversity? Through user research, of course! Read Dave Malouf's article on Medium to learn more about our process for ensuring that the Enterprise UX 2018 speaker lineup reflects a diverse set of…
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Sneak Peek Inside Enterprise UX 2018
In human years, when you hit age four, you reach a new level of independence, confidence and creativity. In dog years, at age four, you reach a perfect balance of mental maturity and body agility.…
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Convince Your Boss
Need to convince your boss to send you and your colleagues to Enterprise UX? Here are three benefits your company gains from your time at Enterprise UX. Benefit #1: Bring back knowledge your team needs…
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Pre-launch tickets on sale
We've made a limited quantity of pre-launch tickets available while we dream up the Enterprise UX 2018 program. We can tell you that we've got two fantastic keynoters—Lisa Welchman and Dick Buchanan—queued up to speak.…
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Suggest a speaker for Enterprise UX (and win a Rosenfeld Media book)
Speakers are the heart of every year's program–so here's an opportunity for you to suggest a speaker! We're looking to assemble the most diverse, balanced, exciting, and inspiring conference program possible. And we need your…
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How to participate in EUX 2018
There are many ways to participate in Enterprise UX 2018: presenting, volunteering, sponsoring. Read on... Want to speak? We’re really fortunate—LOTS of people contact us to suggest speakers or nominate themselves. In the past, we've stuck to…
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“Inspired teams” describes The Design Group at Cisco’s customer mission and team culture. We are creating a new way of working for Cisco collaboration customers while transforming Cisco into a global design leader. We’re a team of Red Dot winning, skiing, trekking, sushi-loving designers that loves what we do for a living. We’re inviting brilliant industrial and UX designers to join us. Find your inspiration with our team.
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Intuitive, beautiful, user-centered design is key to the success of Google’s products. Our passionate, interdisciplinary UX specialists and designers work across platforms to create powerful visuals that highlight each of our product’s unique personalities. The team’s work touches billions while exemplifying one of Google’s core principles: “Focus on the user and all else will follow.”
Google
Idean helps businesses by creating and shipping the most innovative and valuable digital services, products, and experiences in their industries. In addition, Idean provides their own world-class design programs that will ignite growth and improve their customer experience at an organizational level.
Idean
InVision is the Digital Product Design platform used to make the world’s best customer experiences. We provide design tools and educational resources for teams to navigate every stage of the product design process, from ideation to development.
InVision
The UX Design Team at ServiceNow is a fast-growing global team transforming enterprise and putting user-centered design at the core of our products. We take complex problems and reimagine them into compelling and delightful experiences. Our focus is to impact the day-to-day lives of our users by designing experiences that change the way people work.
ServiceNow
Balsamiq is the maker of the industry-leading rapid wireframing software that combines the simplicity of paper sketching with the power of a digital tool so that teams can focus on what’s important. Balsamiq is a small and personable company that competes on usability and customer service. Balsamiq believes work should be fun, and that life is too short for bad software.
Balsamiq
Create brand experiences that drive business success with Adobe Creative Cloud for enterprise. Go from concept to prototype faster with our new app, Adobe XD, the all-in-one UX/UI solution for designing websites, mobile apps, and more.
Adobe
Atlassian unleashes the potential in every team. More than 65,000 organizations use Atlassian’s project tracking, content creation and sharing, real-time communication and service management products. Our products include Jira Software, Confluence, Stride, Bitbucket and Jira Service Desk.
Atlassian
Axure RP is used by user experience professionals, business analysts, and product managers to plan and prototype software applications for over 25,000 companies, including 87% of the Fortune 100.
Axure
Fuzzy Math is a user experience design, strategy, and innovation consultancy. We make businesses healthier by ensuring their users are happier. We’re experts in Enterprise UX organizational development, training, and interaction design.
Fuzzy Math
germain APM analyzes in real-time and 24x7, User Experience of apps, identifies points of friction on the business process and technology sides, records videos of user sessions (as if you were behind every user’ shoulders watching their browser). Germain is 100% funded by its clients: American Airlines, eBay, Pepsi, Sky Tv, Tele2, Uhc, Volvo, etc.
germain APM
Handrail is a collaborative research tool that helps your team plan, collect, analyze, and share user research, all in one place. Save time, involve everyone, and stay organized with Handrail.
Handrail
LUMA Institute equips top leaders to scale innovation, rapidly and with measurable impact. We are 100% dedicated to helping organizations worldwide transform the way they work through our proven system of innovation, based on Human-Centered Design.
LUMA Institute
MURAL is a visual workspace to help you design together. Teams synthesize research, brainstorm ideas and share solutions through online collaborative whiteboards. The MURAL experience is both playful and productive, helping organizations scale their design practice.
MURAL
Optimal Workshop is a user research platform that makes life easier for anyone trying to design things better. Their tree testing, card sorting, first-click, survey and qualitative research tools enable organisations, big and small, to test, benchmark and make evidence-based design decisions.
Optimal Workshop
ProtoPie is the easiest high-fidelity prototyping tool empowering designers to turn design ideas into highly interactive prototypes easily. Its unique concept model makes piecing interactions together as easy as pie. ProtoPie is available on macOS and Windows.
ProtoPie
RealtimeBoard is the leading visual collaboration platform helping cross-functional teams of designers, product managers and engineers ideate, design think, and collaborate to build some of the world’s most prolific products. Loved by nearly 2 million users from companies like Netflix, Salesforce, Airbnb, and Deloitte.
Realtime
At Salesforce UX, we believe that people need business applications that are vibrant, empowering, and simple. We are artists and scientists, working together to make tools that millions of employees at the most successful companies in the world depend on every day.
Salesforce
UserTesting is an on-demand human insights platform that empowers companies to make timely customer-centric decisions. Understand and capture the reasons behind your customer’s satisfaction with their experience across the entire customer journey. Increase brand loyalty and revenue by creating the right experience every time.
UserTesting
Build better experiences with UserZoom, the all-in-one UX research platform that enables agility for the modern enterprise. Get fast, measurable insights from real users to make data-driven decisions.
UserZoom
UXPin is a full-stack UX design platform for the enterprise. Design, document, validate, and implement product concepts. In one place – together. Go beyond prototyping and centralize your UX practice.
UXPin
VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure & digital workspace technology, accelerates digital transformation for evolving IT environments.
VMware
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