We're a community of designers that get together to share ideas and insight about UI UX design whilst getting to know one another. This month we are supported and hosted by the awesome team at Cuvva.

Ticket information

This event is available for 50 mid-experienced designers. Tickets are FREE and will be available for registration on Eventbrite from 6th January 10 am. You can ask Eventbrite to notify you when they go live. You must have an Eventbrite ticket to attend.

We will be releasing 80 tickets to allow for drop out but just in case, we will adopt a FIRST COME FIRST SERVED entrance policy - so please make sure to arrive on time to guarantee.

Raffle & Giveaways

Thanks to our sponsors at Sketch we will be giving away two FREE Sketch licenses in a raffle. Show up, collect your lucky number raffle ticket and the winners will be announced at the end.

Do you want to donate or gift something to the community for a raffle? Maybe a conference ticket, maybe some lush stationery, then give us a shout and we'll add it to the raffle.

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Schedule

6:30- Open for arrivals & drinks

6:55 – Welcome & introduction

7:00- Talk one

7:25 - Q&A

7:30 - Talk two

7:55 - Q&A

8:00 - Open Mic Session*

8:10 - Raffle & close event

8:15 - Networking and social

9:15- Close

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Talk one: Talk one: Meet the users you can’t meet

This talk will dive into the challenges of designing for healthcare

Speaker: Shabana Ahmed

I'm Shabana, Lead UX at huumun. I design experiences and sometimes interfaces for national and international companies. I believe in improving everyday experiences for people, practising UX methodologies that get the team boosted, being agile, iterative, tested and shipped in my UX cycles.

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Talk two: Design at Cuvva

Blake will talk about the design tools we use at Cuvva, how design shapes the culture at Cuvva and the way designers and engineers work together. I’ll also be talking about the challenges of a scaling design & product team and how we’re working towards overcoming them. One challenged faced as designers is how we can get our work as close to the real thing and i’ll show you how we’re approaching it through design systems, dynamic content in Figma that streams to our backend and more.

Speaker: Blake Folgado

Hi 👋, I’m Blake. Principal designer at Cuvva. I lead the design team building an experience that rethinks the usual approach to insurance. Genuinely putting the customer first at every decision to lead to the simplest yet most informative experience. I am passionate about solving challenging issues through first principles and getting the design to build experience as seamless as possible.

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🎤Open Mic Session

Here is where you put your big, brave pants on and jump on stage. This is a safe and open space for you to speak to your fellow designers. Perhaps you’re looking for feedback, partnership or advice on a project you’re working on or simply have a question. Well, this is your moment to shine! You can ask the group and further the conversations in the social after.

We are looking to expand our wonderful design lab volunteering team. We are looking for:

🏡Inspiring venues and sponsors to host our events

🗣Awesome designers to speak and share their design ventures

🕺💃Volunteers on the night, to host, set up and make everyone feel welcome

🎨Marketing designers to assist in the promotion and marketing of our design community

📱Social media wizards to make our digital space and voice brighter.

If that is you, contact us ⬇️

🔊 Contact Us

✍️Contact designlab@novoda.com if you are interested in speaking, hosting or volunteering.

🐥Follow us on twitter

Thanks for listening and see you at the event!