UX South Africa

Established 2014. UX Craft South Africa highlighting our local User Experience talent and community.

UX South Africa is a general podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 0 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

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  UX South Africa

  Dr. Lizette Spangenberg | When AI Can't See You

  Aug 8, 202637 minS0

  <p>Some of the most damaging AI failures aren't caused by bad actors or broken systems. They happen when a system works exactly as it was designed to.</p><p>In this talk, Dr Lizette Spangenberg unpacks what Eric Meyer called inadvertent algorithmic cruelty, the harm that surfaces when an algorithm does its job perfectly and nobody stopped to ask who it might hurt.</p><p>Drawing on examples from Spotify Wrapped, Facebook's Year in Review, targeted advertising and healthcare AI, she shows how harm enters at three different layers of a product, data, logic and interface, and why UX...

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  Joanna Pawluk | What Hearing Loss Taught Me About Service Design

  Aug 8, 202631 minS1

  <p>A yoga instructor in a village hall in Northamptonshire drew out every pose on a sheet of paper so that one person in her class could follow along. Twelve years later, Joanna Pawluk still remembers it.</p><p>In this talk, Joanna traces a line from that piece of paper to the work she does today at Emirates, where she's mapping the end-to-end travel experience for customers who are deaf or hard of hearing.</p><p>Along the way she makes a point most organisations miss: the people who experience the most friction become the best at hiding it...

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  Ignatius Ferreira | Nobody Cares About Your UX Process

  Aug 8, 202634 minS1

  <p>Everyone in the room agreed. They thanked you for the work. The research was solid. And a few weeks later, nothing had changed.</p><p>If that's familiar, this talk is for you.</p><p>Across 11 years in healthcare, aviation, enterprise systems and consulting, Ignatius Ferreira watched excellent UX practitioners struggle to create impact while others moved things forward with ease. For years he put it down to design maturity, or stakeholders who just didn't get UX.</p><p>Eventually he realised he'd been treating two very different skills as if they were one: understanding a problem, and creating...

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  Shaeema Boer | How to Design AI People Can Trust

  Jul 29, 202627 minS1

  <p>As AI becomes part of more products and services, the challenge isn’t simply how to build with AI, it’s how to build AI that people can trust.</p><p>In this talk, Shaeema Boer explores what responsible AI means from a product design perspective, drawing on emerging global AI frameworks and her experience designing AI-powered products at Accenture Song.</p><p>Rather than treating responsible AI as a compliance exercise, she argues that it should be embedded into the way product teams think, collaborate and design from day one.</p><p><br></p><p>Using three practical desi...

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  Supreet Kumar | AI for UX Designers: Tools, Products & Practice

  Jul 29, 202637 minS1

  <p>AI isn’t just another design tool, it’s changing how we research, prototype, build products and collaborate as teams.</p><p>In this session, Supreet Kumar explores AI through 3 practical lenses:</p>AI as a design toolAI as the product we’re designingAI as a new way of working<p>Drawing on examples from companies including Klarna, IBM, IDEO and Adobe, Supreet shows where AI is already creating measurable value, where it introduces new risks, and why the role of designers is becoming more important—not less.</p><p>Rather than focusing on hype, this talk provides practical guidance...

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