Digitization stands and falls with the user-friendliness of digital applications and services. The positive user experience (UX) is – in addition to the technical functionality – a key factor for the success of the digital products. The “Barcamp Graz 2023” is located at the interface of design, digital trends and technology. It takes place on May 6th at the FH Joanneum and focuses on customer experience and new technologies.
Whether privately in leisure time, on the road in the car or at work: products and services that are well designed and executed not only support everyday life, they can inspire. In such cases, the good customer experience (user experience) has created customer satisfaction, which in turn contributes significantly to customer loyalty. “You have to keep an eye on how different people interact with the product – and that is a complex requirement and requires a wide range of knowledge, both for the analog and the digital area,” said Johannes Lehner, himself a UX designer and engineer .
Lehner teaches user experience and UX management as a guest lecturer at the University of Passau. In 2020 he started to help build the UX Graz community in order to promote exchange and cooperation in the UX department across companies. On behalf of his association “Barcamp Graz – association for the promotion of discussion and free exchange of knowledge” he is now inviting to an unconventional conference for design and tech enthusiasts at the FH Joanneum.
There is no predetermined program apart from a major topic, and there is no division of the participants into speakers and listeners: “The Barcamp offers a platform for everyone who is interested in design, technology and digital trends. We have the major topic of UX and development ( DEV) and offer an open and interactive environment for this. It’s about good ideas, sharing knowledge and getting impulses from others, simply learning from each other,” the organizer explained in an interview with APA. At the beginning of the event, the participants spontaneously work out the content of the event by entering topics they would like to discuss in the available time slots.
The event will take place on May 6th – on the opening weekend of Design Month Graz 2023 – Creatives Industries Styria is supporting the event. “We want to bring together the design and tech scene, but also those who want to get a taste of the topics: schoolchildren, students who enjoy contributing their ideas and want to discuss projects,” says Lehner. Cooperation partners are the degree programs for Content Strategy and Applied Computer Science.
More than 200 people had already registered by the beginning of the week, and a total of 300 free participant places can be allocated for the informative and creative knowledge transfer. Meals are also provided free of charge.
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