Since 2014, Google has been holding UX masterclasses for designers in Sub-saharan Africa. In the first edition, they flew in designers from their UX team to facilitate the sessions.
To scale this, they held a three-day intensive “train-the-trainers” session in November 2017 as part of the World Usability Day. Participating in that training meant you were “certified” to facilitate a UX masterclass in your area which will be backed by Google.
UX professionals who happen to organise Usable, a community of designers, were chosen to be part of the training. Usable holds regular meetups sponsored by CcHub, a co-creation centre for solving some of Nigeria’s social problems using technology. As a result, CcHub hosts startups, founders and regular meetups to brainstorm and work towards the solution of our challenges.
In May, Usable held their first UX Masterclass for early-stage startups and this month, they are looking to host a second one for participants that would like to improve their product development and shipping process with design thinking.
The UX Masterclass is a two-day event where participants are shown the process of taking an idea from concept to launch. This usually involves things like UX fundamentals, user research, prototyping and user testing.
Here is all you need to know about this year’s event:
- Date, time and venue: September 15 and 16, 9AM to 5PM at MEST incubator (Ikoyi) Lagos.
- Suitability and preference: Relatively newbies to the UX discipline NOT for Experts and a cross-functional team of not more than 4 people per team.
- Registration: Although it closed on Friday, you can get on the waitlist. Note, it is only open to selected startups.
- Speakers: They are;
- Ayomidotun Freeborn: User Experience & Product Design Lead, Edacy
- Early Attoh: User Experience Design Lead, CcHUB
- Jubril Juma: User Experience Researcher, Google
- ‘Lade Tawak: Usability Researcher, Interswitch
To find out more about the event, email info@usable.ng or tweet at Usable.
Let us know if you’ll be there!