The UK Chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association brings together UK professionals from the design, technology and research communities who share a vision of creating compelling technology that meets users' needs and abilities.

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The psychological basis of nerdiness and its impact on user-centred design - Thursday 18th March 2010

The UKUPA is proud to invite William Hudson to give a talk providing insight to the challenges we, as technology focused specialists, face in designing for the average user.

This talk will be based on William’s short paper to the CHI and British HCI conferences in 2009 about his large-scale study of IT workers.

The application of empathizing-systemizing tests found that technologists have substantially reduced empathizing skills and consequently have real difficulty in appreciating that others do not understand technology in the same way they do.

Latest job postings

New perm agency role - Senior UX consultant - up to 60k (ref J246)

We are looking for a Senior User Experience Consultant to join one of our dedicated User Experience Agencies, based in Central London.

New perm agency role - Interaction Designer - up to 60k (ref J245)

We are looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join one of our User Experience Consultancies in Central London.

Strategic, Conceptual & Creative Lead IA (Information Architect) - £55 - 75K+benefits

Genuinely amazing opportunity for a strategic and creative IA to act in a pivotal capacity for a large in-house design and development team.

UCD Consultants - AMBERLIGHT PARTNERS LTD, LONDON

We are looking for some exceptional people to join our team here in central London.

UCD Consultants - Freelance, AMBERLIGHT PARTNERS LTD, LONDON

We are looking to build our bank of brilliant freelance UCD consultants.

Mid/Senior Information Architect

My Client are looking for a passionate individual to help them create products that will allow customers to understand and manipulate large amounts of complex information. The ideal candidate is someone who is not only technically competent, but also has a great aesthetic design sense and enjoys having fun working with a team on exciting projects.

Head of user experience Webcredible, London

Webcredible is looking for a smart cookie to be our new head of UX. This is an important role within the company where you'll have overall responsibility for our entire UX and UCD offering, to include managing a team of 7 consultants. You'll need to have a real passion for user experience and a strong track record of innovative user-centered design thinking.

Senior User Experience Architect | Perm £55-60k | London

I am looking for a Senior User Experience Architect to work for a specialist Digital Agency based in London. The role will involve you taking on a hands-on approach to requirements gathering, producing high quality deliverables including wireframes and sitemaps and contribute heavily to proposals for new projects. The role will also be part consultative, implementing best UX practices across the board.

User Experience Consultant - Based in London, with travel throughout the UK

ThoughtWorks is a global provider of custom e-business application development and enterprise application integration services to Global 1000 companies. We focus on building high complexity, high business value applications and we are looking for passionate User Experience Consultants to join our business.

Customer experience Internship 2010

We are offering a full-time internship at our office in London, giving someone the chance to work on usability projects including testing, training and research, user recruitment, wireframing and more!

UX/UI DESIGNER £300 - £400 a day Central London

UX/UI Designer required for leading Media House in London with solid User Journey knowledge and an excellent understanding of Usability.

Permanent Senior User Experience Architect - £45k – London – Immediate start

An amazing opportunity within a small, yet growing agency – Pixelgroup.co.uk - Established within the consumer retail, communications and public sector. Specialising in combining usability and design.

mid weight User Experience consultant - agency - 350-400pday - 6-8 weeks

My client, a respected London digital design agency, are looking for a mid weight User Experience consultant to join one of their project teams in helping to deliver a global site roll-out for one of their FTSE250 Telco’s clients.

Head of User Experience – ideas Generator. London £45-£55k + bonus of 10-20%

Exclusive to Zebra People. This is a great opportunity for a senior User Experience consultant to take the step up, develop and shape their own team and discipline
within this small but fast growing agency.

Bilingual User Experience Researcher, £325-375 pd

Microsoft Online in London are looking for a Bilingual User Experience Researcher either French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Chinese Mandarin or Spanish speaking who can plan, conduct, analyse and communicate user research from self guided projects for both global and local products.

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