Publications, presentations and events

Jason has spent the last ten years of his career helping to build local communities around User Experience and Design, while also challenging thinking within these industries.

Below are a selection of articles and presentations that he has given publicly, to closed groups or published.

Product-Service Strategy

Bridging the physical-digital divide
Bringing industrial and interaction designers together. Premiered at UX Brighton – development ongoing.

Better decisions by design
Using data visualisation for better decision making. Prepared for Betfair and Orange.

Product-Service ecosystems
Product Design and Innovation conference panel around systems thinking and collaborating with ‘frenemies’.

Beyond the screen
Interactions 12 redux connecting various themes beyond screen interactions.
IxDA London

Inspiring interaction design from music technology
Hardware and software interaction design inspired by music technology for MEX 2010, London IA and Brunel Brand Jam.
MEX, London IA, Brunel Brand Jam

Design management

Sketching interfaces
Sketching workshops for Interactions 12, UCL’s HCID event, and in-house designers, managers and developers at Google and UBS.
Interactions 12, UCL HCID,
Google, UBS

Sell yourself better & Better UX Portfolios
Tips on portfolios and a presentation explaining how practitioners can
sell themselves better by improving them
www.betteruxportfolios.com,
UX Lisbon

Working together
Presentation about how creative, UX and tech teams should collaborate – delivered to Orange designers and managers at UX People.
UX People

Wicked workshops
Mass workshop session with 200 attendees at Euro IA in Berlin. Adapted for UX People as a half-day workshop.
Euro IA, UX People

Creating the Perfect Experience Architect
Poster describing the key characteristics of great UX practitioners. Presented at Euro IA and UPA careers events for five years (LBi stand).
Euro IA, LBi stand at UPA careers events for five years

Healthcare

Interaction design for clinical applications
An IxDA London presentation describing an A&E case study that inspired R&D about data entry and visualisation for clinical environments.
IxDA London

Dig the new breed of NHS designers
A Guardian article about designers in the NHS.
The Guardian

Debating the role of design in healthcare
Co-organised and ran two healthcare and design debates, in conjunction with Big Potatoes and the Battle of Ideas.

Positive experience conference
Organised a whole day and evening conference around design and healthcare for World Usability Day in 2007.
World Usability Day

Making a real difference
A New Media Age article on using User-Centred Design to make a difference for healthcare in the UK and Kenya.
New Media Age