This document summarizes Ranjeet Kumar Tayi's experience attending the 2010 International UX Conference in Germany and UX Camp Europe in Berlin. It lists over 30 UX sessions attended on topics like cross-cultural collaboration, offshore development culture, touch gesture usability, and more. The conferences brought together over 850 UX designers from 55+ countries to discuss technology, user experience design, and cultural practices.

1. Embracing Cultural Diversity – User Experience Design for the World
Conference notes & learning's
get ready…
Ranjeet Kumar Tayi
User Experience Designer
2010 International UX Conference (Germany)
ranzeeth@gmail.com
Usability Professionals Association (UPA) ‐ Munich www.thinkusable.blogspot.com
& UX Camp Europe –Berlin www.ranjeeth.com

2. German’s are great designers…
Beauty of Architecture & Design

3. Conference Hotel

4. Conference hall
(More than 850+ UX designers from more than 55 countries have attended..

5. UX Lunch Sessions
Gather based on different UX topic selections

6. UX sessions which I have attended at UPA:
Technology is a Cultural Practice
Usability Perspectives for Everyone
(Hinman)
Using Stories Effectively in User Experience Design
(Quesenbery and Brooks)
Offshore Development Culture and User Experience
(Iyengar)
Guided Selling: Helping Customers Make Sense of Your Offering
(Hawley)
Agile UX: The Good, the Bad, and the Potentially Ugly
(Rauch)
East meets West and West meets East
(Szuc and Iyengar)
Evaluating Touch Gesture Usability
(Arthur)
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7. UX sessions which I have attended at UPA:
“Selling” UX By Aligning User Experience With Your Organization’s
Goals: When it Comes to “Selling” User Experience (UX) Processes,
Methods and Techniques
(Sherman and Szuc)
Of frogs in wells and hearing your own accent
Panel ‐ (Straub, Lew, Barker, Rawlins, Chabukswar, and Burgess)
Designing Communities as Decision‐Making Experiences
(T and Howard)
Dealing with Difference
Usability Perspectives for Everyone
(Bieling and Göllner)
Designing for Delight
(Colborne)
How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice?
Panel

8. UX sessions which I have attended at UPA:
Schedule of UX sessions which I have attended:
Establishing Cross‐Cultural Collaboration in the Field of User
Centered Design
(Plach, Scholz, Srinivasan and Pradhan)
International Student Design Competition Q&A
From International Observations to Cultural requirements ‐
Integrate or Tailor Cultural Differences in User Interface Design
(Zhou, Meng and Rampoldi‐Hnilo)
CLOSING PLENARY: Change, Impact & Optimism
Usability Perspectives for Everyone
(Buzzini and van Heerden)

9. UX sessions which I have attended at UX Camp Europe:
‐ Information and Users Information divide Enterprise 2.0
Eche Grifueter
‐ Reusing UI prototyping without creating 20MBIes.
Thomas Immich
‐ Educating UX & IA professionals (Panel Discussion)
Pipaa & Thomas
‐ Next Generation User Interaction
soscha
‐ An Introduction to the Psychology of Creativity
Wore Ronald
‐ UX Design for Aero planes & Ships Navigation
Cindy & Mulan

10. UX sessions which I have attended at UX Camp:
‐ Hidden IA, Strutting User Driven Data
Bas Evers & Xancer Roofer
‐ IPod User Interface, why does it new & how does it matters
Fasen Marryo
‐ Knowledge Sharing in Companies (We know a lot but where?)
Comen Fehrenbach
‐ Visual Note making / Sketch notes‐ An introduction & workshop
Eva Loth Lamm
‐How can we draw on the concepts of the Off‐Line Service Met.
Gurus to improve online customer satisfaction.
Eric Reiss

27. Read more on my blog: http://thinkusable.blogspot.com/2010/06/attended‐upa‐2010‐munich‐germany.html

28. Thank You
Ranjeet Kumar Tayi
ranzeeth@gmail.com
Design & Photography: Ranjeet | Sketch notes: Amanda Jahn (london)