How to make your organization care about UX

We hosted Simon Morisawa-Bostock and Chris Atherton of Equal Experts at Mesh for a talk on why organisations struggle to pay attention to UX, and what can be done about it. Both were working on a GOV.UK project.

The talk had three parts. The first covered human attention: what is known about how time, intention, flow, symbols, brains and senses shape it, and what that means for UX. The second looked at organisational attention and why it works differently. The third combined the two to suggest how to do better work for organisations that do not yet understand UX.

Morisawa-Bostock, an associate working on user experience and business analysis, had a background in agencies and the third sector and focused on change and transformation projects. Atherton, a senior user experience specialist with a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, had previously worked with Skype and the BBC and had researched and taught psychology.

Speakers

• Simon Morisawa-Bostock, Associate, Equal Experts (GOV.UK project) — How to make your organization care about UX
• Chris Atherton, Senior user experience specialist, Equal Experts (GOV.UK project) — How to make your organization care about UX

The original event page is on meetup.com.