NUX4 - UX & Design Conference
Brought to you by NUX and McrDig
NUX4 is an all-day event in Manchester focussed on how an understanding of people can help you define, design, and build better experiences, on the web and beyond. With international speakers from some of the biggest digital brands, the day will provide a wealth of practical experience you can apply right away.
The event is organised by Northern User Experience (NUX) in conjunction with Manchester Digital. NUX is an informal, volunteer-run community for people interested in usability, HCI, information design and all aspects of the user experience in the North of England. Our membership is as diverse as the field itself, with developers, designers, academics, usability specialists, accessibility experts and technical authors.
Find out more about our regular monthly meet-ups in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool over on nuxuk.org or by following @nuxuk on Twitter.
NUX4 Sponsors
NUX is a not-for-profit group of people based in Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle and Liverpool. We are doing this because we love our industry. This event would not have been made possible without the help of our very kind and very wonderful sponsors.
If you’d like to sponsor NUX4 please drop us an email: nux@manchesterdigital.com.
Platinum Sponsors
Waters Corporation
Waters Corporation creates laboratory solutions, based around liquid chromatography and mass-spectrometry, which enable significant advancements in areas such as healthcare delivery, environmental management, food safety, water quality, consumer products and fundamental research into biological processes. Software is a key part of these solutions, facilitating instrument control, job scheduling, data acquisition and visualisation of complex multi-dimensional datasets.
The Hut Group
The Hut Group is the #1 online destination for health & beauty and one of the World’s fastest growing online retailers. Winners of the 2015 Sunday Times profit track 100, profits have grown on average 217% a year over the last three years.
Our UXD team works on varied projects across multiple devices – smartphone apps, multi device websites and web apps. We are interested in all aspects of User Experience, from our first contact with users, their journeys on site, through to delivery, fulfilment and beyond. We are passionate about User Experience and proactive, always looking to improve UX processes wherever possible.
We have a great culture of sharing and learning that includes brown bags, hack days and demos. We are regulars at conferences and meetups and look to use the latest tools and techniques wherever possible.
Gold Sponsors
People for Research
People for Research offer a specialist market research and user testing recruitment service for paid research projects across the UK. Our team of recruiters are highly experienced and can handle assignments, minute or mammoth… as such we are used to working on challenging projects for free find or list recruitment.
We have a database of respondents covering all major cities in the UK plus a few places in between – whatever your location, we’ll source the participants. We pride ourselves on our clean data and all respondents who participate in research are recorded on the database so we know who has done what, where and when.
careers.rentalcars.com
rentalcars.com is the world’s largest online car rental reservation agency – arranging over 4.7 million rentals a year in more than 24,000 locations worldwide. We employ almost 1,000 people from 73 countries in the centre of Manchester.
Renting a car needs to be a seamless experience. Through intelligent design, we manoeuvre customers through our desktop, mobile and native app interfaces to find their perfect rental car to go exploring in over 180 countries. We are always looking to hire talented UXers who put the customer at the heart of their work.
Orchard Recruitment
Orchard is the North of England’s largest Digital, Creative, and Marketing recruitment consultancy, with offices in Manchester and Leeds. We place talented people in freelance and permanent jobs.
We Are Sigma
We are a leading digital design and development company. Focusing on user experience, we design and build sites and applications that people love to use. We put users at the heart of our solutions and we believe that investing in user experience, research and engagement delivers better products to a happier audience. We solve customer challenges on the web, on mobile and on corporate applications. We Are Sigma.
NUX4 Partners
Axure
Axure is a wireframe software that lets you generate clickable HTML prototypes that can viewed in any web browser. Use Axure to create lo-fi sketchy mockups or hi-fi prototypes with interactive elements like carousels, tab control, and dynamic error messages. Axure is available for Mac and PC, with pricing from $289 to $589.
GatherContent
How many times have you been waiting on a client or copywriter to hand over the content your project needs — or had a team mate trying to make sense of a big, badly-formatted Word document when they are pasting content into the CMS? What if you could avoid the usual headaches on your web projects? GatherContent is a content-first solution that helps agencies and their clients plan, organise and collaborate on website content. Pre-CMS.
Rosenfeld Media
Rosenfeld Media provides deep user experience design expertise in the formats you need: 20 books, over 50 workshops, and consulting from dozens of the field’s top experts.
The Omni Group
The Omni Group are an employee-owned company dedicated to awesome software applications exclusively for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Their distinctive productivity applications include Omnigraffle, OmniFocus and OmniOutliner, and have won three Macworld Editors’ Choice awards, a MacUser UK “Maxine” award, Macworld Expo Best of Show, two Mac Observer Editors’ Choice Awards, an iPhone Alley Editors’ Choice award, and five Apple Design awards.
Manchester Digital
Manchester Digital is the independent trade association for digital business in the North West of England. It brings together organisations and individuals from all parts of the industry – from creative to technical, from software to media, from telecommunications to marketing. Our vision is simple, that by working together we can make Manchester and the North West an even better place for digital business.
Ladies that UX
Fancy meeting other women for a good old natter about UX and life in general? Then Ladies that UX is for you. Not got UX in your job title? No problem. If you’re inquisitive, enthusiastic and interested in making the world a better place for users, you’re one of us. Ladies that UX are a friendly, welcoming and collaborative community, with a growing number of local groups based in cities worldwide. So far we are in over 37 cities internationally including UK groups in Manchester, Birmingham, Cambridge, London, Reading, Bristol, Brighton, Edinburgh and Belfast. Find out more at LadiesthatUX.com or @LadiesthatUX.
