Session description
Five years ago user experience wasn’t even a phrase in our lexicon, but now you hear it everywhere, and higher ed is finally taking notice.
Join us as we talk about the fundamentals of UX design, how it overlaps with your own job duties, and what skill sets can help make you more valuable at work (or even pivot into user experience yourself). You’ll leave with a better understanding of what user experience is, what tools you should have in your toolkit, and how you too can incorporate UX into your professional skill set.
Presenter
Robin Smail
As a user experience designer and as a speaker, Robin Smail’s mission is to connect people. Whether advocating for accessibility and universal design, helping to shape conferences and communities of practice, or designing applications, Robin’s goal is to collaborate, motivate, and transform. Recent work includes designing an open educational question bank application for instructors at Big 10 universities, Penn State’s Digital Badging Platform, an open education resource bank that offers students resources based on individual learning preferences, and the administrative usability of an intelligent collaboration research application. Robin holds a B.S. in Information Sciences & Technology from Penn State, and is an award-winning speaker and passionate user advocate. She can be found online everywhere misbehaving as Robin2go.
Sessions
- General Lecture Session: How do I wrangle this UX thing?
- Panel Discussion: Let's talk accessibility
- Panel Discussion: Composing continuously