This document provides a brief history of UX design and discusses current topics in the field. It includes a timeline showing the evolution of design disciplines from 1830 to today. Current UX topics discussed are DesignOps, UX Research, UX Writing, and Design Systems. For each topic, it provides short definitions and examples from design history to show how current practices relate to older disciplines. The document concludes by recommending further reading and thanking the audience.

1. Connecting
the dots
Martyn Reding
UX Brighton | Nov 2019

2. Connecting
the dots
Martyn Reding
UX Brighton | Nov 2019

3. You can't connect the dots looking
forward; you can only connect them
looking backwards
Steve Jobs

4. 1830 2019
UX in the grand scheme of
design history
Book
design
Interior
design
1950
Software
design
1970
Industrial design
1858
UX
design
2003

5. Marketing? Technology? Digital? Operations?
UX in businesses

6. We’re still young

10. We’re not the first

11. 1. DesignOps
2. UX Research
3. UX Writing
4. Design systems
Current topics in UXD

12. Creating design and research teams that scale,
requires to be paid to tools, systems and the
operations of a team.
DesignOps

13. Unimark 1966
DesignOps

14. DesignOpsStudio Manager

15. ManagementStudio Manager DesignOps

16. Putting design teams and stakeholders in touch
with users’ behaviour via qual and quant
research techniques.
UX Research

17. David Ogilvy 1952
UX Research

18. Motivational scientists UX Research

19. Creative
Strategists
Motivational scientists UX Research

20. Recognise that a UI is delivering information to
users. If you don’t understand the content you’re
working with, you won’t understand the ux.
UX Writing

21. Bill Bernbach 1949
UX Writing

22. Art + copy UX Writing

23. Creative teamsArt + copy UX Writing

24. Collating pattern libraries for design decisions
and creating systems for scaling those libraries.
Design systems

25. Gerald Barney 1965
Design systems

26. Identity manual Design systems

27. Brand
platforms
Identity manual Design systems

29. Management
Strategy
Creative teams
Platforms
DesignOps
UX Research
UX Writing
Design systems
Current topics in UXD

30. Others
Urban design
Industrial design
Architecture
Car design
Immersive research
Dog fooding
Ethical design
Storyboarding

31. Recommended reading

32. We look at the present through
a rear view mirror. We march
backwards into the future.
Marshall McLuhan

33. thanks