WUI IDG Fireside Chat
Elizabeth Rosenzweig and Whitney Hess in a WUI Speaker Series fireside conversation.
Initiative
WUI Speaker Series
Global conversations about usability, accessibility, inclusion, and human-centered technology.
Why it matters
The Speaker Series gives people working on usability, accessibility, inclusion, design, research, education, and public-interest technology a platform to share ideas across regions and disciplines.
About the initiative
A forum for sharing ideas across regions and disciplines.
The WUI Speaker Series brings together voices from usability, UX, HCI, accessibility, plain language, research, education, design, policy, and public-interest technology.
The series creates a forum for people to share ideas, projects, research, and lived experience across regions and disciplines. It also helps WUI elevate voices and perspectives that may not always be centered in mainstream technology conversations.
Watch the series
Speaker Series recordings
The public playlist gathers WUD/WUI Speaker Series recordings and related conversations. The embedded playlist below will stay current as new public videos are added to YouTube.
Featured recordings
Selected sessions from the public archive
These videos give visitors a quick sense of the range of the series: fireside conversations, WUI strategy discussions, regional design perspectives, and talks about designing for changed social contexts.
WUI Panel and Discussion
A public discussion about the World Usability Initiative and the global role of UX, HCI, and usability.
Beyond Design Thinking
Maksym Tkachuk shares perspectives from Ukraine’s design community.
Deconstructing Copy Paste
A Speaker Series session about copy-paste futures and design in a post-COVID context.
People involved
Featured voices and ways to help
This first draft lists publicly findable speakers and hosts from existing recordings and event references. WUI can add a fuller roster with photos, bios, roles, and permissions after Elizabeth reviews the page.
Elizabeth Rosenzweig
WUI leader, host, and featured participant in Speaker Series conversations.
Whitney Hess
Featured speaker in the WUI IDG Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Rosenzweig.
Maksym Tkachuk
Featured speaker for “Beyond Design Thinking: Ukraine’s Design Community.”
Riya Thosar
Featured speaker connected to the “Design for Good” Speaker Series event.
Speaker Series volunteers
Volunteers can help plan sessions, invite speakers, manage outreach, coordinate recordings, support captions, and share talks after events.
Future speakers and partners
WUI welcomes suggestions for speakers whose work connects usability, accessibility, inclusion, education, policy, and public-interest technology.
Join the series
Help make the Speaker Series more active, accessible, and global.
WUI can grow the Speaker Series by inviting speakers, creating topic tracks, improving captioning and recordings, publishing short summaries, and connecting each session to an initiative or global challenge.
What this initiative does
Hosts talks, panels, and conversations; shares knowledge across global communities; highlights public-impact work; and creates opportunities for emerging and underrepresented voices.
How to get involved
Suggest a speaker, volunteer with programming, help with event logistics, support captioning and recordings, or sponsor the Speaker Series.