UXLx Talks

UXLx: User Experience Lisbon

Full talks from UXLx: User Experience Lisbon, the largest European UX Training Conference, set in Lisbon, Portugal. Live since 2010. Organised by Xperienz Research and Design.

  1. DesignOps Initiatives in Practice by Peter Boersma

    MAR 17

    DesignOps Initiatives in Practice by Peter Boersma

    Every design organisation should continuously run initiatives that improve the circumstances for designers and increase the chances of good design happening. In other words: they should have a DesignOps practice.In this talk, Peter will walk attendees through examples of DesignOps initiatives and how they were executed, as well as introduce his process to maintain a DesignOps roadmap, all based on experiences at Miro, ServiceNow, IKEA, and other organisations.

    28 min
  2. Design for the rest of us: Must-haves of accessible design by Devon Persing

    FEB 23

    Design for the rest of us: Must-haves of accessible design by Devon Persing

    Most of us are familiar with accessibility requirements around color, support for screen readers, and basics for content structure. But what about more nuanced issues that impact users with cognitive and motor disabilities? In this talk, Devon will discuss ways to keep users with disabilities safe and included on the modern web with clear workflows, options for reduced motion, and interfaces that are user-friendly, not user-hostile.

    31 min
  3. Preparing Teams to Design Impactful AI Experiences by Mike Oren

    JAN 22

    Preparing Teams to Design Impactful AI Experiences by Mike Oren

    Designing for AI in 2025 is similar to designing computer interfaces in the late 80s and early 90s, where designers need some knowledge of the medium to craft the right experiences since our tools are currently insufficient.This talk will share how Klaviyo's AI team has been crafted to balance high-data literacy with designers that have more creative inspiration that gives our customers a feeling of magic.I'll cover how I hire for and help train data literacy in the designers so they can work in close partnership with data scientists & engineers.

    29 min
  4. Patterns for Faster, Cheaper, Better UX Text by Torrey Podmajersky

    JAN 22

    Patterns for Faster, Cheaper, Better UX Text by Torrey Podmajersky

    Sure, AI could help you write that tricky UX copy. But does it make the product work better for users?The right UX text can speed up onboarding, increase engagement, and reduce support costs.In this talk, Torrey provides practical UX text patterns to help you design faster, with better outcomes, and without spending AI tokens.

    35 min
  5. Themeable Design Systems With Design Tokens by Brad Frost

    11/27/2025

    Themeable Design Systems With Design Tokens by Brad Frost

    Your Multi-All-The-Things organization supports multiple products, brands, platforms, and modes. Your design system unlocks desperately-needed efficiency & consistency, which is great! But each product has its own unique design needs, so how can we provide the benefits of shared systems without forcing everything to look exactly the same?The answer is design tokens! In this talk, you'll learn how design tokens help organizations strike the balance between consistency/efficiency and expression/innovation. Brad will share important design tokens concepts, architecture, and hard-earned best practices to help you successfully create and maintain a robust design token system to serve your Multi-All-The-Things organization.

    28 min
  6. Designing Products Powered by AI by Katrina Alcorn

    10/16/2025

    Designing Products Powered by AI by Katrina Alcorn

    Designing for AI requires new considerations and new ways of thinking. We must focus our design talents on a new type of relationship with machines—one that is far more dynamic than ever before. What should these relationships look like? How might we take an ethical approach to create the best experiences with AI? And what role does design thinking have in helping us design for AI?

    30 min
  7. Tough Talks and How to Have Them by Meghan Casey

    09/18/2025

    Tough Talks and How to Have Them by Meghan Casey

    elationships with internal stakeholders are often the key to planning, creating, and maintaining strategic content that gets results. Being able to have productive conversations, even when the topic is tricky, is a skill every content professional can and should develop.From having to tell a stakeholder their idea isn’t on-strategy, to critiquing a non-writer’s writing, to approaching a frank conversation about content that is offensive or insensitive, we’ll walk through an approach to planning for and facilitating tough talks with stakeholders.Using real-world examples from 20 years in the fields of marketing, communications, content strategy, and user experience spanning a wide variety of industries and organizations, this session will give you a framework to: Determine whether a conversation is needed.Apply methods we practice with content to plan the conversation.Facilitate challenging conversations productively.

    22 min
  8. Tell, Don’t Show: the Mass Misuse of Microcopy by Relly Annett-Baker

    08/06/2025

    Tell, Don’t Show: the Mass Misuse of Microcopy by Relly Annett-Baker

    Join me on a fast and furious tour of all the ways we screw up helping users do what they came to do. We’ll see exhibits from the following categories of UI horrors: Sticky bandageVow of silenceOvereager assistantThe only customer is youand my personal least-favourite To you this is a tool to get work done, to me this is artDo you want fewer leaky funnels, better user created data, and to be able to meet the needs of different user groups through one interface? We’ll then take a look at how to achieve this by building better instructions, fallbacks and reroutes into products and tools. All through the power of simple, effective, well-placed sentences.

    27 min
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Full talks from UXLx: User Experience Lisbon, the largest European UX Training Conference, set in Lisbon, Portugal. Live since 2010. Organised by Xperienz Research and Design.

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  • Creator
    UXLx: User Experience Lisbon
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    142
  • Rating
    Explicit
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