Notes on UX Camp Brighton

Here is a round-up of the various post-UX Camp Brighton blogs, pics, tweets and slide decks.

Blogs

Tom Prior: http://www.thebestisyettocome.co.uk/ux-camp-brighton/

Makemedia: http://www.makemedia.com/blog/?p=1589

Chris How (Cogapp - Hosts): http://www.cogapp.com/blog/brighton-ux-camp-day-ux-goodness

Tim Minor: http://www.t75.org/2011/10/brighton-ux-camp-oct-1-2011/

Jesse Speak (Cubeworks - Sponsors): http://www.cubeworks.co.uk/design-and-ux/notes-from-ux-camp-brighton-2011/

Natalia Buckley: http://blog.nataliabuckley.co.uk/2011/10/02/ux-camp-brighton-2011/

Pejman Mirza-Babaei - Video Games Usability with Biometrics (includes a link to his slides): http://www.pejman.ir/?p=77

Slides

Glenn Jones - Choosing the Right Words; Web Intents/Actions: http://slidesha.re/r5dpuE

Sjors Timmer - Designing the design process: http://speakerdeck.com/u/sjors/p/designing-the-design-process

Paul Davidson - Microdata and findability: http://slidesha.re/n15CV4

Tim Minor - An Introduction to A/B Testing: http://speakerdeck.com/u/timminor/p/b-testing

Rob Pearson - Quantifying subjectivity: http://speakerdeck.com/u/robotperson/p/quantifying-subjectivity

Andy Hume - The Cult of Friendly URLs: http://speakerdeck.com/u/andyhume/p/the-cult-of-friendly-urls

Fredrik Lindersson - Facilitating design workshops with non-designer's: http://slidesha.re/p36BbM

Pictures

Please add your pics to Flickr, if you haven't already done so: http://www.flickr.com/groups/uxcampbrighton/

If we've missed any out, please let us know.

You are here... or you soon will be

Just a quick reminder how to find the event:

Cogapp, 4th Floor, Lees House, 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3FE

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By Rail
Brighton is served by direct rail links from London Victoria and via Thameslink through London Bridge. For further rail information please visit the web site for National Rail Enquiries. Cogapp is about ten minutes walk from the station.

By Road
Brighton can be easily reached via the M25 and M23. There are several car parks within easy reach of Lees House.

NB if coming by car via Dyke Road and Seven Dials please note that Dyke Road is one way for a short span coming into Seven Dials from the north. At Seven Dials, follow signs to the Children's Hospital and you will be guided back onto Dyke Road to continue your journey.

Hi-de-Hi!

We hope your looking forward to visiting Brighton tomorrow, we wanted to drop you a line just to confirm a few things.

No shows
If you really can't make it please don't just not show up. We still have people on the wait list who would be very grateful for your ticket. just reply to this email with I cant come and we will be able to redistribute the ticket for you.

What to bring
Basically bring what you need to enjoy the camp your laptop don't forget an adapter for plugging in to the projector. Your power supply.

Food
There will be a croissants when you arrive but this is just a light snack you may want to think about eating before. Lunch is not supplied but there are lots of nice places near the venue.

Your talk
If you don't have anything prepared yet don't worry a talk doesn't mean you have to be talking. Why not pose a question for discussion or have a fish bowl. You could even take the opportunity to get advice from other people about a design problem your trying to solve.

See you tomorrow… :)

Seaside drinks

We are excited to announce that we have arranged a great venue for the after-UXCamp drinks.

Just five minutes walk towards the sea from Cogapp is the Brighton Music Hall, right on the beachfront. It is a classy new bar run by the people behind Ohso Social, which is further along the beach.

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We have an upstairs space booked, which overlooks the beach, sea and piers. The weather forecast looks great, so it should be a lovely way to end the day, watching the sun set with a cool drink in your hand!

We will be there from around 5.30pm and we extend an invitation to all of Brighton's UX community to come along and join us, even if you didn't attend the UX Camp.

Please note that as UX Camp Brighton is a free event organsied by volunteers, there will not be any free drinks. However you'll be pleased to know that the prices aren't exorbitant, especially when you consider the bar's style and location.

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Brighton Music Hall, 127 Kings Road Arches, Brighton BN1 2FN

How to find the venue

The event is being hosted by Cogapp, on the fourth floor of Lees House, in central Brighton and is easily accessible by road and rail.

By Rail
Brighton is served by direct rail links from London Victoria and via Thameslink through London Bridge. For further rail information please visit the web site for National Rail Enquiries. Cogapp is about ten minutes walk from the station.

By Road
Brighton can be easily reached via the M25 and M23. There are several car parks within easy reach of Lees House.

NB if coming by car via Dyke Road and Seven Dials please note that Dyke Road is one way for a short span coming into Seven Dials from the north. At Seven Dials, follow signs to the Children's Hospital and you will be guided back onto Dyke Road to continue your journey.


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Cogapp, 4th Floor, Lees House, 21-33 Dyke Road, Brighton, BN1 3FE

What are you talking about?

We encourage you to post details of your session up on lanyrd.com.

This will help you focus on what you're going to be discussing, as well as help others plan their own sessions.

It doesn't matter if your idea isn't fully fleshed-out yet, just get it up there. You can always amend it later. It might also start a debate around that topic.

Look on the schedule for the session with your name. There is a box marked Tools, click on Edit details and change the Session title and Abstract.

Then tell us all about it on Twitter and on the schedule post on this website.

Thinking caps on people, it's not long now!

Order of Service

Here is the running order for the day (subject to amendment):

10.00 – 10.30
Registration
Drinks & snacks (provided by Cubeworks)
Socialising
Rubbing the sleep out of your eyes

10.30 – 11.00
Intro
Housekeeping
Putting presentations on the grid

11.00 – 13.00
Presentations
5 x 4 (@ 25 mins each) = 20 sessions

13.00 – 13.30
Lunch (not provided)

13.30 – 15.00
Presentations
5 x 3 (@ 25 mins each) = 15 sessions

15.00 – 15.30
Break
Drinks & snacks (provided by Cubeworks)

15.30 – 17.00
Presentations
5 x 3 (@ 25 mins each) = 15 sessions

17.00 – 17.30
Closing
Prize giveaway (provided by Clearleft and Axure)

17.30 – late
Pub 

As attendees are both presenters and audience, please show each other due respect by arriving punctually in the morning and for each session. This will help to keep the event running smoothly and on schedule.

NB: In order not to make the day too long, lunch is only half an hour. So please, get your skates on at lunchtime.

Ta.