LTUX Berlin #36: Less Blabla with Workshops & Collaborative Methods
Agenda
18.15: Vegan snacks & drinks
18.30: Introduction
18.40: Talk by Katja about Workshops & Collaboration
19.30: Q&A
20.00: Hangout & Chitchat
About the speaker
In her continual quest for a more human-centered impact, Katja has ventured through various professions and roles over the years, including visual design, project management, user experience design, team leadership, consulting, strategy, and facilitation. Through this journey, she uncovered that achieving impact in complex environments strongly depends on team collaboration. To her, workshops are a persuasive tool suitable for fostering improved collaboration and co-creation in nearly every type of organizational culture.
Katja pursued her education in design and communication in Saint Etienne (France) and at UdK Berlin. She held the position of Head of Strategy and UX Design at a Berlin Digital Agency for over two decades. Today, she operates as a self-employed facilitator, trainer, organizational consultant and designer.
She lives in Berlin and Brandenburg with her partner Jörg and her faithful companion, Pavlov the dog.
Katja is the author of the recently published book titled "Workshops Machen".
Talk description
Less Blabla with Workshops & Collaborative Methods
As complexity continues to escalate, the importance of bringing together individuals with diverse perspectives, opinions, and expertise becomes increasingly evident. When facing significant challenges, establishing collaboration with truth and trust becomes paramount.
This holds especially true for UX professionals, who must navigate a wide array of requirements and expectations from internal stakeholders and users, where collaboration ultimately shapes the outcomes.
Katja, author of the book "Workshops machen" (Conducting Workshops), presents an engaging and illustrated talk on the valuable contributions that workshops and collaborative methods can make to fostering exceptional collaboration.
The biggest part of the talk is dedicated to workshop hacks and practical approaches applicable to innovation, strategy, team building and decision making. You can integrate these methods as components within workshops or employ them independently during meetings.
Key Topics Covered:
Persuading your clients, your boss and your team to embrace workshops
Designing workshops effectively
Preparation for great outcomes
Spotlight on Methods
This talk is for initiators, creators, transformers and moderators eager to drive things forward.
About the host
Userlutions is one of the leading UX agencies in Germany and has been supporting companies from all industries in optimizing their websites, apps and interfaces since 2011. Among their customers are Coca-Cola, Adobe, Check24, BMW and many more. Userlutions is also running RapidUsertests.com, a tool for remote UX testing and UX research with a panel of more than 50.000 testers.
