Firstly: a huge thanks on behalf of all of us at the UXUK Awards needs to be said to everyone who entered, won and attended the UXUK Awards 2017. The event was our best one yet, and we couldn’t have done it without you.
Judge: John Goodall
Role: UX Consultant at Bunnyfoot
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
I love Spotify. It’s easy to find music I know and to discover new artists. I especially like being able to move from one device to another and continue listening where I left off. It’s the sole reason I got a mobile contract with unlimited data.
Judge: Dave Slocombe
Role: Product Owner Mobile Apps The Train Line
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
Waze app. Their data science driven UI that solves problems for travellers that had never been solved before is genius. MY favourite feature is the ‘leave later’ button, which shows you if your journey may be shorter if you leave later. Read More “Judge’s Q&A 2017: Dave Slocombe”
Judge: Paul Cooper
Role: UX Lead Vitality Insurance
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
I love productivity apps and websites such as Dropbox and Trello – anything that makes my life easier. But my favourite is Marvel – it enables me to build awesome prototypes that help test ideas with our users really quickly.
Judge: Ed Easton
Role: Head of Digital Design and UX Sony PlayStation
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
Uber & I love it for many reasons – how they’ve reinvented an industry, how simple and quick the app is to use, the availability/promptness of the cars in around London, the cleanliness of the vehicles, no stopping at the cash point and a good chat with the driver. I used them in San Francisco recently, and it was the same experience. I’d be sad to lose the beautiful design of the London Black Cab but they really need to rethink what they’re doing. Read More “Judge’s Q&A 2017: Ed Easton”
Judge: Jesse Williams
Role: Interaction Designer at Google
Judge: Harry Brignull
Role: UX Consultant Spotify
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
It’s kind of nerdy but I’m really into airtable at the moment. It’s an elegantly simple relational database creation tool. These sorts of things used to be quite horrific to set up, which is why so many businesses use spreadsheets for things they were never intended for – like tracking, resourcing and workflow management. It takes a lot of clever design decision-making to take something as intimidating as a database and add UI constraints so that it can be just picked up and used without training.
Judge: Alberta Soranzo
Role: End to End Service Design Director, Lloyds Banking Group
Judge: Paul Annett
Role: Head of Digital Customer Experience, Saga
Judge: Lara Burns
Role: Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Age UK