UXDX Community:Accessibility, AI UX, and Feature Sunsetting

In a world driven by technology, ensuring inclusivity should be at the heart of every digital experience. This talk dives into the crucial realm of accessible design, exploring how UI/UX design principles intertwine with accessibility standards, cutting-edge technologies, and user psychology to create interfaces that truly work for everyone.

Unveiling the Power of Inclusivity:

- Embrace accessibility: We'll delve into the why and how of designing for users with disabilities, exploring guidelines like WCAG and showcasing impactful success stories.

- Technology as a bridge: We'll examine how assistive technologies, AI, and other advancements are revolutionizing accessibility in UI/UX.

- Think like a user, design for all: Discover how design thinking methodologies provide a user-centric approach to tackling accessibility challenges.

- Unlocking emotions through design: We'll explore the psychology of user experience, learning how design decisions can influence emotions and engagement.

- Ethics at the forefront: Let's discuss the ethical responsibility of designers to prioritize accessibility and inclusivity, exploring real-world case studies.

Leave with Inspiration and Action: This talk will not only offer insights but also empower you with actionable steps to integrate accessibility into your design mindset. You'll walk away with a renewed understanding of the impact of inclusive design and the tools to champion it in your own work.

I believe that poor user experience design could lead to the downfall of human civilization as we know it today. As AI becomes easier to implement into new product designs, the UX community needs simple methodologies to avoid trapping users in poor AI driven experiences.

After discovering the value of UI Tenets & Traps for UI evaluation and design, and understanding the nuances involved in deploying AI into user interfaces, I created my own version of UI Tenets and Traps tailored to AI driven UI design.

Combining UI Tenets & Traps with the Microsoft Guidelines for Human AI Interactions provided a simple framework for designing and evaluating AI UI experiences. I will be sharing my AI UI Tenets and Traps in the hopes that future user interfaces that incorporate AI won’t trap users in poor experiences – avoiding the downfall of human civilization as we know it today.

In the product community, it has become imperative to build competitive products within a short period of time. This led to the creation of several frameworks that can be used to build successful products or to improve existing ones to stay competitive. Sounds great! Except that not all products or features can be improved. A unique approach should be taken for each product or feature to determine whether it is worthwhile to invest in enhancing it or establishing a sunsetting plan. How to decide about that without taking significant risks? The journey to sunset a product or feature has several requirements.

Join Dorra Mlouhi, Senior Technical Product Manager at AWS, to learn about:

- Why to sunset a product/feature
- When to sunset a product/feature
- How to sunset successfully a product/feature
- How to measure a product/feature end-of-life
- What are the risks to mitigate