UX Community Day
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Date
11 September 2025
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About the Event
This year the UCISA UX (User Experience) Community Day will be held virtually on Thursday 11th September. Join us for an insightful day full of inspiring talks and practical insights into UX in Higher Education.Event Schedule
09:45
Mingle and Chat
09:50
Welcome and Introduction
Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager, University of Edinburgh and UCISA UX CoP Joint Chair10:00
How We’ve Approached Staff Training to Improve Digital Content
Nick Daniels, Senior Content Designer, Katie Spearman, Web Content Design Assistant and Mel Batcharj, Web Content Design Assistant, University of Edinburgh10:30
Redefining UX: How to Impact the Entire Customer Experience
Paul Boag, founder of Boagworks11:00
Using AI In Your UX Work: My Journey From Newbie to Basic Competence in 3 months
Naomi Bain, Usability Analyst and Designer, Birkbeck, University of London11:30
Break
11:40
Case study: Oxford Admission Test System Design. Advocating UX Design Through a Real Project and Evolving the UX Practice with Project Teams
Nanami Nakamura, Lead Designer, Jane Stephenson, Business Analyst, Chloé Ashbell, Senior QA Analyst & Agile Leader, and Sunil Nair, Portfolio QA Manager, University of Oxford12:10
Collaborative Usability Test Reviews: Bringing Your Team Closer to Your Users
Neil Allison, Head of Prospective Student Web, University of Edinburgh12:40
Lunch
13:20
The Value of a Degree, Designed: Embedding Careers and Employability Information in Course Page
Chloe Smith, Product Manager, University of Southampton13:50
How Does It End? Designing Better Endings in the University Experience
Joe Macleod, founder of AndEnd14:20
Break
14:30
“Everything I need”: How Good Usability Supports Student Experience and University Strategy
Jenny Hill, UX Designer and Cherry Doyle, Product Owner, University of Birmingham15:00
Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily Habits for Strategic Storytellers
Ben Sauer, Author, Speaker, Leader: teaching people the art of strategic storytelling15:40
Closing Remarks
Emma Horrell, User Experience Manager, University of Edinburgh and UCISA UX CoP Joint Chair15:45
