Saturday, March 22 2025 / UI/CRaft
This 45-minute interactive workshop explores why digital UX/UI principles are important in healthcare and how UX/UI skills can be applied in this work. Using our adapted heuristics tool from an Aging in Place case study, participants will evaluate real-world healthcare scenarios where smart technologies and physical spaces intersect.
Through hands-on activities and scenario-based discussions, participants will learn to evaluate usability in socio-technical systems, ensuring safety, independence, and dignity for users. This session provides one example of a practical framework for designing seamless, intuitive, and accessible experiences that integrate both digital and physical needs as it relates to innovation in healthcare.
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Senior Research Associate - Human Factors at W21C
Anna is a Senior Human Factors Research Associate at W21C, where she applies a human-centered, evidence based approach to help innovators bridge the gap between emerging solutions and real-world implementation. With a background in biomedical technology, Anna specializes in integrating human factors and systems-thinking methodologies to support healthcare and technology innovators in designing solutions that are feasible, impactful, and – most importantly – usable.
Anna works at the intersection of research, design, and strategy, to ensure new technologies and services fit seamlessly into real-world environments. She thrives in the messy middle of problem-solving, where ideas evolve, users challenge assumptions, and potential solutions emerge. Whether conducting usability studies, facilitating workshops, or collaborating with partners, Anna applies a human-centered approach to ensure the solutions are intuitive, effective, and actually solve the problem they claim to.
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Human-Centered Design Lead at W21C
Kathryn is the Human-Centered Design Lead at W21C, supporting healthcare innovators in bridging the gap between innovation and real-world implementation. She specializes in behavioral design, scenario prototyping, and user-centered evaluations, ensuring that healthcare solutions are practical, scalable, and human-focused.
With a systems-oriented, evidence-informed approach, she integrates digital and physical environments to enhance accessibility, connectivity, and patient-provider interactions. Kathryn is passionate about translating research into actionable solutions, helping healthcare organizations and entrepreneurs design innovations that not only meet real-world needs but also foster meaningful human connections, ensuring that technology enhances, rather than replaces, the care essential to healthcare delivery.
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Friday, March 21, 2025
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Saturday, March 22, 2025
Tickets available until March 20, 2025
2 days before the event
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Building on the success of our previous UX Camps in Edmonton, the 2025 conference promises to be an engaging and dynamic gathering of UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators from across the province.
The partnership between Calgary UX and Edmonton UX represents a shared vision of fostering a thriving user experience community across Alberta. By joining forces, these two groups bring together the unique strengths of their respective regions, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.
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Our goal is simple: to connect and grow a community of people across disciplines and industres that share a passion for design and UX.
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