Jeremy Keith

📣 We're calling for speakers to apply to talk at Clear Insight 📣 If you have something to share that goes beyond a list of best practices, the moment research stopped being a process and taught you something about people, then we want to hear from you. We're especially keen to hear from people across different backgrounds, cultures, and ways of working . Your perspective belongs here. 👉 Apply to speak: https://lnkd.in/eK5cyC6h

Discovered, designed, delivered. UX London 2026. ✅ A UX London shaped by the people in the room: the questions asked, the stories shared, the conversations, the laughs, and the generosity of a community that keeps showing up for the work and for each other. A UX London that couldn’t have happened without so many brilliant people. ✨ To our attendees: thank you for showing up with your questions, energy, stories and generous conversations. UX London is only what it is because of the community in the room. 🎤 To our speakers: thank you for sharing your ideas, experience and honest lessons from the work. You gave us plenty to think about and even more to take back to our own teams. 🛠️ To our workshop hosts: thank you for making the afternoons practical, hands-on and full of useful things to try, test and take away. 👏 To the CodeNode London team: thank you for helping everything run smoothly across three very busy days. 🎧 To the AV and technical teams: thank you for keeping the talks, slides, sound and screens running smoothly across all three days. 🎙️ To Jeremy Keith: thank you for hosting, curating and keeping us moving from one excellent session to the next. 📸 To our photographer Jonathan Cherry: thank you for capturing the moments! 💚 And of course, to the Clearleft team/Louise Ash: thank you for making it all happen behind the scenes, on the floor, at the doors, in the rooms and everywhere in between. We’ll be sharing more insights, resources and highlights soon. For now, that’s a wrap on UX London 2026, but fear not, super early-bird tickets for UX London 2027 are now available: https://lnkd.in/epbVbw3z #UXLondon #UXLondon2026 #UXDesign #UXResearch #ProductDesign #DesignSystems #DesignCommunity #UXLondon2027

Happy Monday everyone, and let's talk about gender and ethnicity ratios at tech events. The weekend before last I was speaking at a Tech Fest in my home city of Valencia, and that all went very well thank you very much, really enjoyed the experience.   The ratio in the attendance, roughly and by eyesight only, was 80 men to 20 women at best, 90% white. Except, notably, the talk on women in tech as an untapped resource by the brilliant Mariia Suleiman, which ran a full inversion of that ratio, I'd say even 90 to 10.   A ratio that shifted a little further after I went into the hallway and grabbed a few men-presenting folks by the scruff of the neck, figuratively of course, but with that kind of spirit.   (Mate: WE already know. We need YOU in the room.) This week I am speaking at UX London, so the other day I finally sat down and went through the speakers line-up properly. Strange that I hadn't done it sooner, as equity of representation is one of my criteria for acceptance when a conference invites me, but anyway. Well knock me over with a feather. What a slap in the face of every tech conference that claims it is simply not possible to have a truly representative line-up: multiple perspectives, multiple faces, multiple experiences, rather than the same default one we've all been staring at for decades (that's a white middle aged man in case you're wondering. I do love you, white middle aged man, but we've heard from you, and keep hearing from you. Time to hear from others, too). Yes, my friend. It is possible. UX London has done it. The Clearleft team has done it. Go look for yourself: https://lnkd.in/eTJk8BDk I'm speaking on Design Day, Wednesday 3 June, on the intersection of creativity and accessibility. And I'm thrilled to be part of this line-up: even more so than I already was.    If you're coming, come and find me. If you're not, come next year! With many thanks once again to Jeremy Keith and Louise Ash and everybody else in the UX London team. Image description: The UX London 2026 website showing the glorious diversity of all nine Discovery day speakers for Tuesday 2 June, arranged in a grid of circular portrait photos on a dark navy background. The speakers are: Maria Isachenko, UX Researcher (talk, research); Melin Edomwonyi, UX Director at Seedable Studio (talk, strategy); Marley Dizney Swanson, Product Manager at Bolt Insight (talk, research); Luisa Berta, Senior Product Designer (talk, learning); Feyikemi Akinwolemiwa, Research and Design Manager at National Grid (workshop, strategy); Natasha den Dekker, Senior UX Researcher at Made Tech (workshop, research); Chris How, Head of Experience Design at Clearleft (workshop, IA); Lucrezia Ponzano, Collaboration Strategist and Facilitator (workshop, alignment); and Michael Kibedi, Design Researcher.

Wondering who's in the room at UX London 2026? Next week, UX practitioners, researchers, designers, product people and leaders from organisations of all shapes and sizes will come together in London for three days of talks, hands-on workshops and conversations about where UX is heading next. It’s a chance to learn from leading practitioners, meet peers working through similar challenges and be part of the wider UX community gathering in London. Last chance tickets are still available. Book your place: https://lnkd.in/ePdqFuQb #UXLondon #UXLondon26 #UXDesign #UXResearch #ProductDesign

UX teams need a better way to turn signals into strategy. Dr. Feyikemi Akinwolemiwa is joining us at UX London 2026 with Future friction: Horizon scanning for UX, a highly interactive workshop about using horizon scanning to think more strategically about products, services and users. Across Tuesday’s Discovery day and Wednesday’s Design day, Feyikemi will introduce a practical framework teams can use to identify signals of change, explore how they might affect user behaviour, and turn those insights into stronger strategic conversations. The session includes playful activities, trend-spotting, scenario building and a section on 'Pitch Business', helping researchers and designers frame their work in a way that gets attention from stakeholders. She’s also looking forward to learning from other people, hearing what’s happening in different spaces, and seeing how others are tackling similar challenges. Explore the workshops 👇   https://2026.uxlondon.com/ #UXLondon #UXLondon2026 #UXL #UXResearch #UXDesign #ProductDesign #DesignStrategy #HorizonScanning #UXCommunity

We’re busy behind the scenes getting ready to welcome the UX community back to London. There’s still time to join us for one, two, or all three days of big ideas, hands-on workshops, and time in the room with fellow UXers. Don’t miss the chance to get up to speed on the state of UX. Last chance ticket here: https://2026.uxlondon.com/ #UXLondon #UXLondon26 #UXDesign #UXResearch #ProductDesign

In the UK, it’s estimated that we spend 15 billion hours every year administering our personal lives. At UX London 2026, Lou Downe, Founding Director of The School of Good Services, will close Delivery Day and UX London 2026 with Bad services: How to fix services that don’t work. Lou will explore why organisations still struggle to provide services that work, despite our best efforts, and what can be done about it. You’ll leave thinking differently about the admin, systems and service failures we’ve all learned to live with, and how better service design can help fix them. Learn more about Lou’s keynote 👇 https://lnkd.in/en7Cznqs #UXLondon #UXLondon2026 #UXL #ServiceDesign #UXDesign #DesignSystems #ProductDesign #DesignEvents

Hands up if you’re joining us next week. UX London 2026 is almost here, and we’re getting ready to welcome the UX community back to London for three days of talks, hands-on workshops and time in the room with fellow UXers. Last chance tickets are still available. Book your place: https://lnkd.in/ePdqFuQb #UXLondon #UXLondon26 #UXDesign #UXResearch #ProductDesign

There’s always that point at UX London where everyone stops being strangers. Usually somewhere between the coffee, the workshops and an unnecessarily competitive game. Join us? 👇 https://2026.uxlondon.com/ #UXLondon #UXLondon2026 #UXL #UXCommunity #UXDesign #DesignEvents