Firstly: a huge thanks on behalf of all of us at the UXUK Awards needs to be said to everyone who entered, won and attended the UXUK Awards 2017. The event was our best one yet, and we couldn’t have done it without you.
Judge: John Goodall
Role: UX Consultant at Bunnyfoot
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
I love Spotify. It’s easy to find music I know and to discover new artists. I especially like being able to move from one device to another and continue listening where I left off. It’s the sole reason I got a mobile contract with unlimited data.
Judge: Dave Slocombe
Role: Product Owner Mobile Apps The Train Line
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
Waze app. Their data science driven UI that solves problems for travellers that had never been solved before is genius. MY favourite feature is the ‘leave later’ button, which shows you if your journey may be shorter if you leave later. Read More “Judge’s Q&A 2017: Dave Slocombe”
Judge: Paul Cooper
Role: UX Lead Vitality Insurance
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
I love productivity apps and websites such as Dropbox and Trello – anything that makes my life easier. But my favourite is Marvel – it enables me to build awesome prototypes that help test ideas with our users really quickly.
Judge: Ed Easton
Role: Head of Digital Design and UX Sony PlayStation
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
Uber & I love it for many reasons – how they’ve reinvented an industry, how simple and quick the app is to use, the availability/promptness of the cars in around London, the cleanliness of the vehicles, no stopping at the cash point and a good chat with the driver. I used them in San Francisco recently, and it was the same experience. I’d be sad to lose the beautiful design of the London Black Cab but they really need to rethink what they’re doing. Read More “Judge’s Q&A 2017: Ed Easton”
Judge: Jesse Williams
Role: Interaction Designer at Google
Judge: Harry Brignull
Role: UX Consultant Spotify
Do you have a favourite app & website in terms of the design and user experience?
It’s kind of nerdy but I’m really into airtable at the moment. It’s an elegantly simple relational database creation tool. These sorts of things used to be quite horrific to set up, which is why so many businesses use spreadsheets for things they were never intended for – like tracking, resourcing and workflow management. It takes a lot of clever design decision-making to take something as intimidating as a database and add UI constraints so that it can be just picked up and used without training.
Judge: Alberta Soranzo
Role: End to End Service Design Director, Lloyds Banking Group
Judge: Paul Annett
Role: Head of Digital Customer Experience, Saga
Judge: Lara Burns
Role: Chief Digital and Technology Officer at Age UK
The UXUK Awards, the national awards for best customer centred design, is officially open. Entries are now being accepted for all categories including free student entries. There is currently an Early Bird offer with 40% off the entry price until Thursday, August 17th. Read More “The 2017 UXUK Awards officially open for entries”
We are currently finalising our preparation for the 2017 UXUK Awards. Exact dates will be announced shortly on this site, Twitter and Facebook.
At this stage we can tell you that entries will be opening early July and closing in early September. The ceremony will be held once again in central London in early November.
Thank you for the overwhelming enquiries for the 2017 UXUK Awards. We endeavour to make this year even bigger and better!
Watch all the winners take out the awards as presented by the judges of the UXUK Awards 2016
Thank you, everyone, for making this year’s UXUK Awards the best ever. We are humbled by all the love coming through.
Well, 2016 has been another year of growth and expansion for UX. More UX related events and conferences, more UX jobs and courses and with the resurgence of virtual reality, more areas in need of design. Most of all, we’ve been more variety and quality of entries for 2016. Read More “The UXUK Awards 2016 round up”
SH:24 was the clear winner for best user experience in 2016’s UXUK Awards. The social enterprise took a vital health service – testing and treating people for sexually transmitted infections – and brought it into the 21st century. Read More “Revolutionising sexual health testing: SH:24 walks off with UXUK award for its 5-star service”
He said yes! Rolf Molich, UX Godfather and co-creator of the original Usability Heuristics, has agreed to join us on the evening of the awards ceremony and give the opening keynote.
Here’s a quick Q&A so you can get to know him a bit better. Thanks Rolf 😀 Read More “Announcing the secret guest speaker: Rolf Molich”
It’s been a big year for entries at UXUK Awards. The judges have been busy going through over 120 entries and to come up with this year’s shortlist and it wasn’t easy with such compelling entries all round. We have been thoroughly impress with designers and organisations continuing to raise the bar to new levels, and above all design around the user!
Congratulations to the shortlisted entries! We look forward to celebrating on the official awards night Thursday 10th of November when the winners will be announced.
See the full list here.
Get more information about free tickets here.
We have now officially closed entries for the 2016 UXUK Awards.
Thank you to overwhelming number of entries this year. We have been seeing many great names, sites, apps and more. Shortlisting will begin very soon, so stayed tuned on Twitter and this site for announcements.
If you’d like to attend the event, you can apply for tickets.
Read more about our judges here.
We have decided to extend the entry deadline by 1 week to 1600 hrs, Wednesday 21st September.
This is due to the overwhelming requests to allow more time. That’s fine. It’s summer and we’ve all been benefiting from a warm September. A deadline was the only natural option. But we can’t extend it any further. It’ll annoy the judges and everything else that works to the timeline of the awards.
If you have not yet entered, this is your chance. It takes minutes to enter and a lifetime to enjoy!
Judge: Claire Lowe
Role: Head of Brand & Design at WWF UK
Houzz is gorgeous. And I can get lost in Pinterest for hours if I’m not careful.