Prototyping GUIs is a creative & analytical juggling act of requirements, data, technical limitations, appeal and edge-cases. Mockupitis is a term I coined to describe common errors that creep into a UI prototype. Join our discussion of common oversights and tricky situations, and some methods and tools to overcome them.

This presentation is about how the UX practice is changing and how UX practitioners and UX teams around the world are designing user experiences for a global context. Our goal is to share what people are thinking about how they work in UX practices in global, cross-cultural, distributed team environments.

This practical presentation is aimed at helping you get your mobile services into customers' hands early in the design process, and the different ways of exploring mobile user experiences to better inform your design.

Recently, Digital Eskimo and the Powerhouse Museum collaborated to create Water Worx. Through this project, Anthony will reveal how co-design built trust and confidence across the project team. He will also present a range of successful formal and informal co-design, prototyping and testing activities from the project.

What does it take to get a User Focused Design process introduced into a large Australian Health Insurer – some pitfalls, some observations and just a little bit about bathroom design.

How do we influence experience in a large organisation? I say the old 'get engaged early' and 'get buy-in' are red herrings. From my experience, what needs to happen is to build relationships with product managers to show them not just what we do, but why we do it.

We all have different roles and responsibilities in projects, so isn't it only natural that we'd have different objectives and priorities too? Learn from my experiences with trialling 'total transparency' in projects, which has seen cross-functional teams acknowledge the 'agendas' of others, thereby enabling a more collaborative environment.

Cognitive psychology provides insights into the minds of our end users. But how might this field help us understand the importance of client involvement in the UX process? Irrational behaviours such as the "IKEA Effect" and the "Not-Invented-Here Bias" indicate why stakeholder involvement is so critical to a project.

The design wall is a great collaborative tool, however the team needs to be in one location. With increasingly distributed teams, who in some cases never meet face to face, how does one implement a design wall? This is the search for a solution to find the Virtual Design wall.

Designing for cognitive disabilities is often thrown into the 'too hard' basket. This talk will cover a brief overview of cognitive disabilities and as many practical 'designing for cognitive disabilities' tips that we can fit into a 10 minute slot!