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Demystifying UX Skillsets

Join our expert panelists as they explain the reasons they came together to define a framework that would support teams in understanding UX skillsets. The panelists will explain how they derived 3 skill sets and explain them to the audience.

What is UX?
User Experience (UX) encompasses the end-user’s interaction with a product, tool, or system. It involves deeply understanding users through research, organizing information, visual design (and more), all with the goal of meeting user needs and doing it elegantly. This is especially important in the life sciences, where users are scientists in a complex environment, and more usable, efficient tools can accelerate innovation.

UX skillsets can be confusing
The differences in UX skillsets are confusing enough for people who have been in the field for 20 years. There are no common frameworks that the industry buys into and can universally agree on and the world keeps changing. People who hire and work with UX and Design people find it hard to define what they really need, or worse want everything (the unicorn).

A framework to understand UX skillsets
This team came together to articulate a problem in the life sciences space. They have come up with a framework to help non-UX literate managers, peers, and recruiters to understand the skills, activities they might need to look for when building their teams.

Speakers

  • Sven Neumeyer, Global Lead Business Analysis and User Research, Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research
  • Jason Mesut, Principal Consultant, Resonant Design and Innovation Ltd
  • Joseph Rossetto, UX/UI Specialist, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

Application of Quantum Computing Technology in Life Sciences

This webinar focuses on the application of Quantum Computing technology in Life Sciences. Key opinion leaders will provide an overview of QC and insights into the opportunities to transform the efficiency and effectiveness of the biopharmaceutical industry with a particular focus on life science R&D

Data and UX Heuristics

This set of heuristics will help you to better apply good design practices when working with data driven projects.

Research, Design & Build

How To Create A Flexible User Research & Product Planning Database For The UX Pipeline

Synthesizing user research is messy, especially in the complex world of life sciences. The typical output of siloed research briefs often lacks durability across projects, transparency in synthesis rationale and derived decisions, and accessibility by stakeholders outside the design team. This session will dive into how the double-diamond design philosophy manifests into diverse user research artifacts and methods for structuring and synthesizing these artifacts in a centralized research database like Airtable to facilitate the design process and extend their value to the rest of your organization.

UXLS 2021 Conference: Research, Design, and Build

Synthesizing user research is messy, especially in the complex world of life sciences. The typical output of siloed research briefs often lacks durability across projects, transparency in synthesis rationale and derived decisions, and accessibility by stakeholders outside the design team. This session will dive into how the double-diamond design philosophy manifests into diverse user research artifacts and methods for structuring and synthesizing these artifacts in a centralized research database like Airtable to facilitate the design process and extend their value to the rest of your organization.

UXLS 2021 Keynote Address: Three Simple Wishes

Being a Research Scientist is a challenging role without the additional complexity of working with a plethora of Tech systems. Focusing on UX in Life Science Tech provides the opportunity to not just alleviate this complexity, but completely rethink the way scientists use Tech to achieve their goals.

Having led both scientists and Tech teams, Julie will offer some unique insights into what it’s like to be a user within a lab environment, and the provider of the Tech solutions they rely on day-to-day. Using some real-world examples from the labs, this talk will show how a focus on UX and Design can really make a difference to their jobs, and through this the value they can deliver to patients.

Julie will also offer her three wishes of Tech, from enterprise teams to vendors, that will pave the way for a better user experience for scientists.

Speaker

Julie Huxley-Jones Vice President, Research Solutions, GSK

UXLS 2021 Keynote Address: Three Simple Wishes

Being a Research Scientist is a challenging role without the additional complexity of working with a plethora of Tech systems. Focusing on UX in Life Science Tech provides the opportunity to not just alleviate this complexity, but completely rethink the way scientists use Tech to achieve their goals.

Having led both scientists and Tech teams, Julie will offer some unique insights into what it’s like to be a user within a lab environment, and the provider of the Tech solutions they rely on day-to-day. Using some real-world examples from the labs, this talk will show how a focus on UX and Design can really make a difference to their jobs, and through this the value they can deliver to patients.

Julie will also offer her three wishes of Tech, from enterprise teams to vendors, that will pave the way for a better user experience for scientists.

Julie Huxley-JonesKeynote Speaker: Julie Huxley-Jones, Vice President, Research Solutions, GSK

UXLS: Data and UX Heuristics

This informal panel discussion took place during the 2021 User Experience for Life Sciences Virtual Conference.


In this discussion, the UXLS project unveils the first draft of the Data and UX heuristics which have been crafted to support UX designers working on data-driven projects. This is a great example of how two Pistoia Alliance projects, UXLS and FAIR Implementation have collaborated to support UX designers and researchers in applying the FAIR principles and designing within the complexity of an ever-changing data landscape.

Scaling User Experience in the Life Sciences

In recent years, we have seen demand for User Experience (UX) in the life sciences increase. As demand has increased UX leaders in a variety of organizations have grappled with how best to expand their UX capabilities. Join us for this webinar where we will hear from a number of our project members on their approaches to scale UX in their organizations and product lines.

CSCS Expert Community – Brexit

This webinar, with speakers from Biocair, provided an overview of the state of play around Brexit and the impact on international pharmaceutical research.