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How to Fix UX Fails with Object-Oriented UX - EvolveDrupal Talk
How to Fix UX Fails with Object-Oriented UX - EvolveDrupal Talk
Sophia V. Prater

Join Sophia at EvolveDrupal Atlanta where she will be giving a talk on the basics of OOUX through the lens of four principles designed to help overcome the four most common UX failures.

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A REAL Happy Hour
A REAL Happy Hour
Sophia V. Prater, Imogen Levy

New format! We are coming back to the original meaning of a Happy Hour: a gathering time with drinks (boozy or not), people, schmoozing, and conversation. During the hour we will host four 10-minute small-group convos, each with new faces. During each discussion we will provide you with a juicy discussion prompt that loosely ties to the ORCA Process.

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Recent Event Recordings

OOUX Happy Hour - OOUX in Government: A Panel Discussion
OOUX Happy Hour - OOUX in Government: A Panel Discussion
Brent Schneider, Kristin Ouellette Muskat, Barbora Halbich, Katelyn Caillouet

Join us and our panel of four esteemed UX professionals in the government space as we discuss how they are leveraging the power of OOUX to solve big, hairy challenges. Organizer Sophia Prater will be moderating the discussion.

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OOUX Happy Hour - Extending the Nested-Object Matrix: Show and Tell
OOUX Happy Hour - Extending the Nested-Object Matrix: Show and Tell
Luke Prater, Sophia V. Prater

The Nested-Object Matrix (the NOM) is one of the most powerful tools in the OOUX arsenal. During this event, we will give a short overview of the "classic" NOM (and show you where the idea came from)...and then we will go off the beaten path to show you how you can use this framework to map the relationships between just about anything.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Object-Oriented Video Games with Mandi Geiselman
OOUX Happy Hour: Object-Oriented Video Games with Mandi Geiselman
Mandi Geiselman

In this talk, Mandi Geiselman will be reviewing a slice of the exploration work she did on this subject by looking at a few objects from Horizon Forbidden West (developed by Guerilla Games) through an object-oriented player experience lens.

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Lightning Talk: How OOUX Connects Backend Developers with Designers
Lightning Talk: How OOUX Connects Backend Developers with Designers
Sondra Eby

Ever wanted to talk with UX designers about database concerns, but didn't know how? Enter Object Oriented UX: A design methodology that gets designers and database developers speaking the same language and working together to create digital projects from day one.

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OOUX Happy Hour - Noun Foraging Party with Sophia Prater
OOUX Happy Hour - Noun Foraging Party with Sophia Prater
Sophia V. Prater

During this game-like happy hour, we'll be going through three rapid-fire noun foraging challenges! You'll get some awesome practice at pulling out the objects (the core concepts) from a mess of user and stakeholder needs and you'll learn some tricks on how to hone in on object quicker and more effectively.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Systems Thinking For Designers
OOUX Happy Hour: Systems Thinking For Designers
Upma Singh, Sophia V. Prater, Sheryl Cababa

How can systems thinking help OOUXers? Sheryl Cababa is the author of a new Rosenfeld book Closing the Loop: Systems Thinking for Designers. Join us for this event where we’ll go fireside chat style with a conversation between Upma and Sheryl. They will discuss systems thinking for designers and how systems thinking overlaps (or not) with object-oriented thinking.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Content Types, Taxonomies and Nav Flows with Karen Hewell
OOUX Happy Hour: Content Types, Taxonomies and Nav Flows with Karen Hewell
Karen Hewell

In this session, see examples of how Karen and some of her more enterprising colleagues have used the basic structure of the "classic" nav flow and adapted it for concepts like user intent, voice & tone, page types and facets. Plus, explore how to better enable your content creators (many of which are *not* UX writers) with OOUX-informed documentation and processes.

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Leading OOUX: Story time with Imogen Levy and Upma Singh
Leading OOUX: Story time with Imogen Levy and Upma Singh
Upma Singh, Imogen Levy

In this interview style session, come and hear Upma Singh (EPAM Systems) and Imogen Levy (NHS England) speak about leading OOUX in their respective organizations, the trials and tribulations of embedding new ways of working and how it is helping to solve some epic problems in the health sector.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Tackling the Incredible Hulk of EHR Complexity with OOUX
OOUX Happy Hour: Tackling the Incredible Hulk of EHR Complexity with OOUX
Dani Nordin
and Liza Richardson

The domain of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHR) is arguably one of the most complex on the planet. Dani Nordin, Product Design Architect, and Liza Richardson, Clinical Content Senior Manager, will showcase the ways they have used the OOUX process through a handful of high-visibility projects within the Clinicals Electronic Health Record (EHR).

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How Mapping Relationships Can Save the World
How Mapping Relationships Can Save the World
Sophia V. Prater

With the theme of "Sustainability in Design" at UX Sofia's 2022 conference, Sophia answers the question: "How can OOUX contribute to solving the climate crisis…or saving endangered species…or cleaning our oceans and air? Or…all of the above?" It all comes down to exposing the truth about the inner workings of the world by mapping connections and relationships.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Running ORCA Sprints with Allie Ofisher
OOUX Happy Hour: Running ORCA Sprints with Allie Ofisher
Allie Ofisher

During this Happy Hour, we will learn about applying the ORCA process in sprints to gather domain knowledge and start scoping a project from the ground up. Allie will share tips for preparing one yourself — including what went well, what mistakes she made and wants you to avoid, and resources from Notion and Miro to help you conduct your own.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Enterprise OOUX: Prioritization, Business Process Modeling, and Libraries
OOUX Happy Hour: Enterprise OOUX: Prioritization, Business Process Modeling, and Libraries
Maria Garcia

In this happy hour, Certified OOUX Strategist, Maria Garcia, will discuss how she has approached object mapping a system that has tens if not hundreds of legitimately important objects that have complex relationships with one another.

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OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX Methods Beyond the Object Map with Lauren Stone
OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX Methods Beyond the Object Map with Lauren Stone
Lauren Costa Stone

OOUX isn't just a process; it teaches you a new, more practical, comprehensive approach to product, design, and development work and improves your overall skills. Let's talk about integrating OOUX into your UI and feature work. In this happy hour, we will go beyond the object map and explore some practical tips and tricks by reviewing some real-world examples.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Leveraging Airtable as a CMS with Keith Rich and Anthony Gallo
OOUX Happy Hour: Leveraging Airtable as a CMS with Keith Rich and Anthony Gallo
Keith Rich, Anthony Gallo

Keith Rich and Anthony Gallo — a dynamic design/dev duo from Think Company who leverage OOUX in their work — recently started used Airtable as a content and data management solution. After a bit of experimenting, they quickly realized the benefits. Content consolidation, a well-documented API, and accessible project management round out the benefits.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Noun Foraging with Rik Williams, Sophia Prater, and Robots
OOUX Happy Hour: Noun Foraging with Rik Williams, Sophia Prater, and Robots
Rik Williams, Sophia V. Prater

In this month’s Happy Hour Sophia Prater (your host and chief evangelist for OOUX) will be introducing what noun foraging is, where it fits into the ORCA process, and some of the best places to go foraging. Next, Rik Williams, UX Architect and Certified OOUX Strategist, will introduce a software-based method to mine diverse content sources. Plus a fun design challenge!

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OOUX Happy Hour: Content Ecosystem Mapping with Scott Kubie
OOUX Happy Hour: Content Ecosystem Mapping with Scott Kubie
Scott Kubie

During this happy hour (12pm EST!) we will learn about applying content ecosystem mapping, a specialized form of concept modeling, to drive clarity and alignment on large, complex digital strategy projects. We'll have a live, interactive demonstration of the technique based on some concepts in the OOUX universe, just for fun.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Objects, Information, and Meaning with Marsha Haverty
OOUX Happy Hour: Objects, Information, and Meaning with Marsha Haverty
Marsha Haverty

Marsha and her team work to help designers focus on their creation process, instead of spending time managing files and versions of files — and files within files. And files that don't play nice with other files. They are wrangling constantly increasing complexity — and they are leveraging Object-Oriented UX to do it. In this talk, Marsha will show us OOUX through her expert eyes.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Align, co-create, and reduce rework with Object-Oriented UX
OOUX Happy Hour: Align, co-create, and reduce rework with Object-Oriented UX
Sophia V. Prater

In this talk given at the 2021 No Code Conference, produced by Webflow, you’ll learn the basics of OOUX and how it can help teams achieve a shared understanding of scope, strategically structure content, and shine light on hidden complexity — reducing rework in the process.

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OOUX Happy Hour: The ABCs of Getting Buy-in for OOUX with Kristen Kite
OOUX Happy Hour: The ABCs of Getting Buy-in for OOUX with Kristen Kite
Kristen Kite

This talk will arm you with practical advice on how to take your OOUX knowledge to the next level: bringing your teammates’ perspectives and brainpower into the process.

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OOUX Happy Hour: Running a UX Research Workshop with the Customer Service Team
OOUX Happy Hour: Running a UX Research Workshop with the Customer Service Team
Havana Nguyen

In this talk, Havana will walk us through why tapping the knowledge of your Customer Service team is so important and how to do it properly. You'll learn how to foster relationships with the folks who have more direct contact with the user than anyone — and get a heads-up to avoid some common pitfalls.

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OOUX Happy Hour: When OOUX Meets API Design: Love at First "Site"
OOUX Happy Hour: When OOUX Meets API Design: Love at First "Site"
Caroline Sober-James

Understanding APIs is becoming more and more important for UX designers. Fortunately, OOUX can help with that. Join us and our guest of honor, Caroline Sober-James to learn how you can tap into the business complexity-wrangling power of object-oriented user experience (OOUX) to plan, design, build, and deliver better APIs.

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OOUX Happy Hour: UX for XR (Extended Reality)
OOUX Happy Hour: UX for XR (Extended Reality)
Cornel Hillmann

In this new book, Cornel writes about how an object-oriented approach to XR can help designers create more intuitive virtual experiences. During this Happy Hour, Cornel will take us through some UX for XR best practices. He'll also walk us through a case study that showcases how OOUX was leveraged to design a crypto art/NFT VR gallery.

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OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX'ing your Project Management with Notion
OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX'ing your Project Management with Notion
Lisa Lombardi

If you are interested in Object-Oriented UX and are looking for ways to apply the methodologies, you're in luck! OOUX and Notion go hand-in-hand; exploring one will help you build mastery of the other. Diving into Notion is a way to apply OOUX in the wild and practice creating and manipulating systems.

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OOUX Happy Hour: A Journey to OOUX: Transforming Digital at Moorfields Eye Hospital
OOUX Happy Hour: A Journey to OOUX: Transforming Digital at Moorfields Eye Hospital
Imogen Levy

Imogen Levy is head of Digital at Moorfield's Eye Hospital. When she started at this large NHS network of hospitals the digital "strategy" was basically to move all print material to PDFs. So, Imogen had significant educating and evangelizing to do. In this case study (and success-story-in-progress), imogen candidly shares how she is transforming content, structure, and minds with OOUX.

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OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX Deep Dive: Unlocking the Permissions Problem
OOUX Happy Hour: OOUX Deep Dive: Unlocking the Permissions Problem
Amy White

If you want to take a deep dive into the OOUX process, Amy White will show us how to use the ORCA method to think through privacy and permissions across an entire application - before designing any screens.

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OOUX Happy Hour: OOUXing your UX Portfolio
OOUX Happy Hour: OOUXing your UX Portfolio
Amanda Worthington

Is your portfolio the Boogeyman under your bed? Banish the Boogeyman with Amanda. She’ll walk us through some common portfolio pitfalls and show us how to combine self-discovery, Object-Oriented UX, and Webflow to take your portfolio from incomplete, hot mess, or cookie cutter to confident, clear, and uniquely you!

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OOUX Happy Hour: Quantum Content
OOUX Happy Hour: Quantum Content
Ekaterina Mitova, Dimiter (Jimmy) Simov

In this presentation, you will: Learn the three basic needs that humans have in any place: orientation, consistency, and organization. See a lot of examples that illustrate these needs in various places. Learn about content superposition.

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OOUX Happy Hour: The Magic of UX Grammar
OOUX Happy Hour: The Magic of UX Grammar
Daniel Rosenberg

In Dan's Lecture, he will give us a tour of his UX Magic framework, focusing on the foundation: UX Grammar. You'll learn how to create an Action-Object Matrix that illustrates the "conceptual grammar" of your system. Then, to reduce cognitive load (and screens!) you'll learn to compress that matrix, making it as dense as possible.

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Enroll in the Self-Paced OOUX Masterclass

This rigorous course is for UX designers, developers, and digital product people who are tackling complexity, wrangling stakeholders, and trying to make systems-level change.

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A dive into the weeds on UX systems, information architecture, human psychology, data wrangling, structured content, UX process, and above all simplifying the complex.

Join OOUX Happy Hour Meetup

OOUX virtual meetups feature amazing guest speakers, Q&A, discussion, networking breakout sessions, and important OOUX updates. Bring your coffee, wine, or whiskey.