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Last week I attended the user experience conference UXLondon organised by Clearleft, with a solid day of keynote talks, followed by two days of half-day workshops.

In brief summary the conference highlighted several key points:

• How we should work with the customer at all stages to ensure both designer and customer are working towards the same goals.
• Developing software that is intuitive, aligned with user behaviour, can really make a software product stand out from it’s competitors.
• How using prototypes before starting development can really help iron out usability bugs before investing too much time and expense.
• Designing good interfaces for complex systems is hard!

My own detailed notes can be found in “UXLondon – Notes on User Experience and Design” (with one of the presentations embedded), where I talk more about what I personally learnt and what I thought of the individual sessions attended.