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2023 UX South Africa Conference

Rob Cowie — Thu, 09 Nov 2023 18:54:35 +0000

Delivered a keynote address on Effective Data Visualisation Design at the 2023 UX South Africa Conference in Johannesburg.

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2023 Absa Design Masterclass

Rob Cowie — Wed, 25 Oct 2023 14:27:18 +0000

Presented a talk on 50 Things Every Designer Must Know.

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2019 UXD302 Teaching Module at Open Window

Rob Cowie — Mon, 25 Mar 2019 07:41:00 +0000

Completed my second teaching module over seven weeks at the Open Window Institute for Arts and Digital Sciences. The curriculum covers all aspects of Design Research, focusing on the practical application of the tools of the trade. Modules include an introduction to real world design, brainstorming and innovation concept development workshops, choosing the right tool from the design toolkit, customer journey mapping, the service experience cycle, hypothesis evaluation, prototyping for research, user testing, contextual enquiries, reporting and more. Students work on a project in teams over the seven week period, applying the concepts they learn in the modules, and then present to the class in the last week of the program.

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2019 Interaction Design Foundation Pretoria Talk

Rob Cowie — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 07:49:00 +0000

Presented on the Role of UX in Project Success, as well as debuting a Design Way of Work framework.

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University of Witwatersrand talk 2018

Rob Cowie — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 07:52:00 +0000

Delivered an introductory talk on UX to final year Information Technology students at the University of Witwatersrand.

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UXD302 Research Methodologies

Rob Cowie — Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:02:00 +0000

Created and taught this seven week elective course to final year students at The Open Window Institute for Arts and Digital Sciences.

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Classic FM Business Radio

Rob Cowie — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:06:00 +0000

Participated in a Design Thinking panel discussion on Classic FM Business Radio with local and international experts. The focus was on the role that Design Thinking can play in uplifting the South African economy.

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Inaugural IDF Gauteng UX meet-up hosted by Open Window

Rob Cowie — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 08:12:00 +0000

The Interaction Design Foundation is an independent non-profit initiative with an objective that sounds like a paradox: that of increasing the level of global design education to an Ivy League standard, while at the same time reducing costs to as low as possible.

Presented on Real World User Experience at the first Gauteng UX meet-up at the Open Window campus.

In September, also presented to 3rd year Interaction Design students on UX at Discovery.

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GIBS Design Thinking Forum 2016

Rob Cowie — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 08:18:00 +0000

Part of the panel at The Gordon Institute of Business Science (GIBS) forum on Design Thinking. Presented on the theory and practice of Design Thinking based on my experiences.

We discussed how design thinking leads to faster time to market, quicker decisions, lower project costs and less re-work. This new way of thinking is transforming the way people do business and driving innovative solutions that people love. This forum also explored Drive Breakthrough Thinking which gives employees the freedom and the structure to identify challenges, develop concepts, test prototypes and implement finished solutions.

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World Information Architecture Day 2016

Rob Cowie — Mon, 18 Jan 2016 08:27:00 +0000

World IA Day is a one-day, annual celebration focused on the practice and education of Information Architecture. Our celebration brings together a diverse community including information architects, user experience designers, content strategists, product managers, developers, scholars, and students. We come together to talk about and shape the future of Information Architecture.

Presented at the South African WIAD event at the University of Johannesburg on the topic “IA Entropy” – a concept which I define as “The gradual decline into disorder of the structural design of shared information environments”.

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