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UX Scotland 2023 Programme Highlights  2008 2008 Border Crossing UX

UX Scotland 2023 Programme Highlights 

This year’s UX Scotland lineup is full of incredible speakers and a wide variety of interesting topics. From designing with gestures in mind to trauma-informed service design, we’ve compiled a list of some of our top highlights to help you get started with your planning.

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Join Us at UX Scotland 2023: A Quick Guide to the Conference 1443 536 Border Crossing UX

Join Us at UX Scotland 2023: A Quick Guide to the Conference

We are excited to announce that we will be sponsoring and exhibiting at UX Scotland 2023. We’ve provided a quick guide on the conference with why you should attend and what you can expect. Hope to see you there!

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Merry Christmas: Our highlights 2022 2016 1512 Border Crossing UX

Merry Christmas: Our highlights 2022

As another year draws to a close we wanted to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us Border Crossing UX. We also thought we’d take this opportunity to share our hightlights of 2022…

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What I learned about UX in my year at Border Crossing UX 2560 1707 Border Crossing UX

What I learned about UX in my year at Border Crossing UX

The 17th of November officially marked my one-year anniversary at Border Crossing UX. As the Marketing Specialist here, my role did not require prior UX experience, though it did require an understanding of general user experience principles and many transferrable skills. So as a “non-UX” individual working in the UX industry, I wanted to share some of the top things I have learned during my year in UX that may be of use to others considering entering the industry.

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Adopting a hypothesis-led approach to design 2560 1704 Border Crossing UX

Adopting a hypothesis-led approach to design

Scientists are known for being measured, methodical and exacting in their approach. They follow a logical structure and systemise their research to obtain valid data and confident results. Following a path of enquiry has given us some of the most important discoveries of our time. We owe everything from insulin to x-rays to the scientific process that asks, “What happens if I do this?”. 

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Customers or Competitors: Who defines your unique value proposition? 904 600 Border Crossing UX

Customers or Competitors: Who defines your unique value proposition?

The unique value proposition is the element of strategy that has an outward perspective, and sits on the demand side of your business, with a sliding scale of uses. Yet, in an age of digital transformation, most businesses cite the need to keep up with disruptive and well-established competitors, retaining an inward, comparative perspective rather than an evaluative edge.

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The Marketing Society: Trendspotting Strategy Event 1536 512 Border Crossing UX

The Marketing Society: Trendspotting Strategy Event

Trendspotting is more than checking an instantaneous ranking on Twitter about hashtags and topics. Blending art and science, trendspotting has replaced the traditional marketing method of the 4 Ps: product, pricing, promotion and place. As the world around us changes, so must our strategy, weaving into the fundamental shifts in value and purpose every consumer experiences in their purchasing decisions.

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Meet our new Executive Assistant: Emily Dean 1177 1584 Border Crossing UX

Meet our new Executive Assistant: Emily Dean

As our team continues to grow, we’re excited to welcome and introduce Emily Dean, our new Executive Assistant. With a wealth of experience and an incredible can-do attitude, Emily has already brought in some incredible insight to the Border Crossing UX team. We chatted to Emily to learn more about her background and to find out how the last month of working here has been.

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Globalising the User Experience 2136 1355 Border Crossing UX

Globalising the User Experience

In a multicultural and multilingual world, it is important to consider cultural norms and translatability when creating content for your website or launching in a new country. That’s why every product, campaign, and service should have local users in mind to be successfully adapted to different countries and languages.

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Top 5 Highlights from Neurodiversity Celebration Week 1949 1462 Border Crossing UX

Top 5 Highlights from Neurodiversity Celebration Week

As we look back on the great content shared during Neurodiversity Celebration Week last week, we’ve rounded up the Top 5 ways that companies are working to make the world a more inclusive place for neurodivergent individuals.

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Meet our new Junior UX Designer: Catherine MacEwan 642 470 Border Crossing UX

Meet our new Junior UX Designer: Catherine MacEwan

We’re delighted to welcome Catherine MacEwan, our Junior UX Designer. She’s been working closely with the rest of the team to help create artefacts that are both beautiful and usable. But we wanted to know a little more about what makes Catherine tick, so Rebecca sat down with her to find out what the last month has been like at Border Crossing UX.

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