NUX8 - UX & Design Conference
Brought to you by NUX and McrDig
NUX8 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.
NUX8 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 NUX8 please drop us an email: nux@manchesterdigital.com.
Platinum Sponsors
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.
Gold Sponsors
Auto Trader is the UK’s largest digital automotive marketplace. With over 55 million monthly visits and 94 adverts viewed every second, we work with an incredible amount of data. Through the evolution of our digital platforms and our innovative data products we continue to make the car buying process easier for our customers.
We’re proud of our people-centred culture which, combined with our tech and data expertise, makes us one of the UK’s leading companies.
We’re BookingGo, the ground transport division of Booking.com. We’re the ones who empower people to get where they’re going. Whether they’re taking the wheel or sitting back and leaving it to the driver. Whether they’re heading straight from A to B or enjoying the freedom to go wherever their journey takes them.
ECOM are the UK’s leading Digital Recruitment specialist. Established in 1999, our depth of experience and expertise in all things UX is unique.
Our business has evolved in-line with the digital industry itself, and having only ever recruited for the digital marketplace – we can truly call ourselves specialists. We have over 75 consultants in Manchester, London, New York and North West Europe covering the full spectrum of digital disciplines: UX & UI, Tech & Development, Product & Agile, Digital Marketing & eCommerce, Data & Analytics – across permanent, contract & freelance positions.
We’re especially proud of our UX & UI team which has some of the most experienced consultants in the company. We’ve adapted as new skill-sets evolved, guiding our candidates and clients so they stay at the top of their game. We’ve entered a time of digital product and services & our candidates are there, helping to create some of the most impactful products our world has seen, to improve our clients businesses in equally impressive ways.
We work closely with start-ups and well established businesses alike, providing a personal and unique service – priding ourselves on matching UX professionals with the right opportunity. Our reputation for delivery and quality of service is second to none.
However in order to provide the best experience for our candidates and clients, we need to live and breathe UX. That’s why we’re always found attending & sponsoring meetups and conferences such as NUX!
After-party Sponsor
Scrumconnect co-create with our client’s people to build great teams that work brilliantly together to build great services/products. We select the best individuals for a specific project. Our experts have extensive experience, typically at least 10+ years of delivering valuable, working software. Scrumconnect actively manages and support our people through the life of a project.
We’re a 50+ strong talented consultants across various disciplines across Design thinking, digital capabilities e.g. Agile coach, UR’s, UX, DevOps, full-stack devs, Product management, BA’s etc.
We are working across DWP, MOJ, Homeoffice, GDS, HMPPS, etc.
Scrumconnect is a user-focussed digital consultancy, helping companies with digital/agile transformation and building great teams to build great digital products.
We believe in agility and in the principles of the Agile Manifesto.
We don’t believe in following a single approach or methodology, we understand they each have their merits. We work with our clients to help them deliver whilst always learning, adapting and having fun.
Our niche consultancy is passionate about the end-user needs, nurturing people to get the best out of them, bringing clarity of purpose and creating a sense of urgency needed for change, help teams launch products that solve user pain point.
Sponsor Us
We have a number of sponsorship packages available. If you’d like more information please drop us an email: nux@manchesterdigital.com.
NUX Conference Partners
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.
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