Experience the UX London vibe with the UK UPA User Experience Clinic

What's the UX Clinic?

If you haven't managed to secure a ticket to UX London, the UX Clinic is your opportunity to meet and throw questions at Kate Rutter, Kim Goodwin, Russ Unger, Todd Zaki Warfel and Nate Bolt.

All five of them are speaking at Clearleft's conference, and have graciously agreed to take part in our panel, providing their unique perspectives to issues posed by you.

How does it work?

Ask a question, specifically for one of the speakers, or all of them. You can do so on the night, but it would be great if you submit them up-front:

• email events@ukupa.org.uk with "UX London" in the subject.
• tweet at @UKUPA using the hash tag "#UXLondon"

Where is it?

At the conference venue, the Cumberland Hotel, in the Carbon Bar. The entrance is on Old Quebec Street.

What does it cost?

As the UPA won't be providing food or drinks, this event is now free for all!

Follow us on Twitter @UKUPA

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More about the speakers

Kate Rutter

Kate Rutter is an Experience Designer at Adaptive Path. During her 15+ years in the web industry, she’s worked with corporations, startups, and nonprofit organizations to help them grow, change and successfully chart new paths in ambiguous times and shifting markets. Clients include Greenpeace, Travel + Leisure, Citysearch, Dice.com, Globo Networks, and Nokia.

Kate attended Wellesley College, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in studio art. She finds inspiration in a wide variety of subjects: Semiotics, textile arts, slime mold, origami, code, urban design, fire, and other dangerous things. She is an active community leader as well as a formidable welder.

Kim Goodwin

Kim Goodwin is the author of the bestselling book, Designing for the Digital Age. Kim is currently consulting for clients in varied industries including aviation, consumer electronics, and retail. She spent most of the last decade as Vice-President, Design and General Manager at Cooper, leading an integrated practice of interaction, visual, and industrial designers and the development of the acclaimed Cooper U design curriculum.

Kim has led projects involving a tremendous range of design problems, including web sites, complex analytical and enterprise applications, phones, medical devices, services, and even organizations. Her clients and employers have included everything from one-man startups to the world’s largest companies, as well as universities and government agencies. This range of experience and a passion for teaching have led to Kim’s popularity as an author and as a speaker at conferences and companies around the world.

Russ Unger

Russ Unger is a User Experience Director for Happy Cog, a web design firm in New York City, Philadelphia and San Francisco. He is co-author of the book A Project Guide to UX Design for Peachpit Press (Voices That Matter) and is co-authoring a book on guerilla research methods with Todd Zaki Warfel due out in 2011.You can find Russ online in the following locations: Book — A Project Guide to UX Design, LinkedIn, Twitter, Blog

Todd Zaki Warfel

Todd Zaki Warfel is President and founder of Messagefirst, a Philadelphia-based design research consulting firm, where he blends research and design to evolve products in innovate and beautiful ways. Todd is a dynamic speaker and storyteller by nature. He’s rarely short on details. He is an active member in a number of industry communities and organizations, including the Information Architecture Institute, IxDA, and UPA.

Todd’s clients have included Albertsons, AT&T Wireless, Bankrate, Bank of America, CitiGroup, Comcast, Cornell University, IntraLinks, Hartford, Motorla, Palm, Sallie Mae, and SBC. Todd currently lives in Philadelphia, blogs at toddwarfel.com, and is currently working on a book on prototyping with Rosenfeld Media A Practitioner’s Guide to Prototyping available in 2008.

Nate Bolt

Nate is the co-founder and president of Bolt | Peters, co-author of Remote Research, designer of Ethnio, and animator of dinosaurs explaining information architecture.

After creating and directing the User Experience department at Clear Ink in 1999, which included the construction of Natural Environment and Remote Observation laboratories, Nate began working with the team at B|P to conduct hundreds of UX research and design projects for Sony, Oracle, HP, Greenpeace, Electronic Arts, and others.

Nate speaks regularly in academic and commercial settings – SXSW, UX London, CHI, UX Week, U.C. Berkeley, and the Urbal Libraries Council where he gave a keynote on the future of library user experience. Working with faculty at the University of California, San Diego, he created a degree titled “Digital Technology and Society,” which focused on the social impact of technology. He also completed a year of communications studies at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was jailed briefly for playing drums in public without a license. He’s an invited photographer at Phoot Camp, has photos featured in San Francisco Magazine, Pictory, and 7×7, and manages a healthy Instagram addiction.