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Zoë Rose

UX | IA | Education

Canberra





Mostly

But also

And sometimes

...and there are also a couple of outliers.



About me

I started my UX career in the UK, where I worked for organisations like the BBC, Cambridge University Press, GOV.UK, as well as a range of startups.

In 2015 I moved to Melbourne, where I worked for organisations like Seek, PwC, and General Assembly.

In late 2018 I moved to Canberra. An injury has restricted my ability to take on long-term work commitments during 2019.

Before UX, I worked mostly in education. My training and experience in how people learn still informs my practice today.

Read my work history on Linkedin



Talks

In Australia

2020-11
Solve for one, extend to many: a practical hypothetical exercise in inclusive design for people with disabilities
Workshop facilitator, DTA Digital Summit
2020-09
Disability for abled people: accessible collaboration (link to video of talk) (link to video of panel)
Speaker and panelist, CSIRO future of meetings symposium
2018-08
Disability as a driver of innovation (link to audio)
Speaker, UX Australia conference
2018-05
Accreditation in UX (link to audio)
Interviewee, UXPodcast
2018-05
Disability and innovation
Speaker, A11y bytes lightening talks
2018-04
Gestalt visual processing and the IA of lego storage
Invited speaker, Prototypes and popcorn meetup
2018-11
Disability as a driver of innovation
Speaker, OzeWAI accessibility conference
2017-08
Disability and UX
Invited speaker, Melbourne geek night meetup
2016-01
Introduction to ontologies
Invited speaker, Melbourne web science workshop

In the UK

2014-09
Comics theory, UX practice (link to video)
Speaker, CamCreative meetup
2014-04
Ontologies (link to slides)
Invited speaker, CamCreative enterprise search meetup
2013-07
Ontologies (link to slides)
Invited speaker, European bioinformatics institute
2012-07
What's the point of open data? (link to slides)
Contributor and speaker,
Young rewired state open data hack day
2010-09
Technical standards in learning technologies (link to dynamic slides)
Speaker, Technical communication UK conference

Articles

What I, as a UXer, learned at crisis counselling training
Triumph of the flat
UX design is not a profession (yet)
Maybe you shouldn't hate comic sans
Eventually, the choice between voice and eyes will come down to speed
Experience design and game design are not friends
Design considerations for P and NP

This list is a sample. I also write about educational technology, games, and other topics.

If you're interested, you can read more of my articles on medium.


Other professional achievements

2017-11
Team mentor, Camp Seek girls' STEM program (Melbourne, Australia)
2012-03
Member of the organising team, TEDx Granta (Cambridge, UK)
2012-01
Invited guest, Horizon project future of education summit (Austin, Texas)
2011-07
Invited advisory board member, Technology outlook for UK tertiary education report
2011-03
Leader of the winning team ('Lessonista'), Startup weekend (Cambridge, UK)
2011-01
Comissioned article, Technical standards in education Part 2 (for IBM developerWorks)


...and the outliers

I have a surprisingly extensive knowledge of a range of technical standards.

Most of the standards I'm familiar with are for learning technologies or metadata for content discovery.

In learning technologies, I know quite a bit about SCORM 2004 and 1.2, xAPI, and various interoperablity standards for content packaging in LMSs/VLEs, most of which are now either obsolete or never really caught on in the first place (Common Cartridge, QTI, and LOM all spring to mind).

The metadata standards I know well are mostly intended for either enterprise search or GLAM environments. MARC (yes, that MARC), Dublin Core, schema.org, that kind of thing.

I'm still deeply commited to learning technologies, especially in higher education and workplace learning, but I'm somewhat unusual in that I recommend for the most part that people *don't* use the technologies I understand best. If you want to know why, just ask!

A UXer who likes technical standards and data wrangling - who would have guessed?

I'm also really adept at regular expressions, if you can believe that.




If you've made it this far, we should talk!

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