When: Wednesday, Dec 10 · 5:45 PM to 8:45 PM GMT
Where: Clockwise Edinburgh Leith, Commercial Quay, 84 Commercial St, EH6 6LX
Why you’ll want to be there
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UX Without Rituals: Building Human-First Digital Support with Zero BS by Dr Ziwei Wang – learn why “best practice” in UX isn’t always best. This talk shows how to build impactful, user-centred products without the usual rituals, templates, or big budgets — drawing on the real story of designing Pathlight, a grief-support platform for young people.
- Teaching (Yourself and Others) with Claude: Experiments and Reflections by Jon Minton – learn how Claude and Claude Code can accelerate your own learning while helping you build clear, engaging teaching materials for others. From prompting Claude to take evidence-based stances on complex topics to co-designing visual guides, generating statistical animations, and even creating full simulated codebases for training, this talk offers a practical look at AI-assisted learning in action.
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Pizza, pints & people – mix with Edinburgh’s Tech People, enjoy cold drinks, have fun.
Agenda
| Time | What’s happening |
|---|---|
| 17:45-18:30 | Welcome • grab a drink • take some pizza • have a quick chat |
| 18:30-19:15 | Dr Ziwei Wang – UX Without Rituals: Building Human-First Digital Support with Zero BS |
| 19:15-19:30 | q&a • chat break |
| 19:30-20:15 | Jon Minton – Teaching (Yourself and Others) with Claude: Experiments and Reflections |
| 20:15-20:45 | q&a • beverages • networking |
Speaker spotlight
Dr Ziwei Wang – Strategic insights lead / product manager – https://www.linkedin.com/in/drziweiwang/
Specialises in turning complex user needs into decision-ready frameworks and building digital support tools under real-world constraints. With a background in behavioural science, combines evidence rigour with inventive delivery — from research galleries to journey systems — to align user insight with product strategy and organisational mission. Advocates for contextual, purpose-driven design that challenges standard UX rituals and delivers impact where it matters.
Jon Minton – Senior Statistician – https://www.linkedin.com/in/jon-minton-09480b13a/
Senior biostatistician with a very eclectic background and interests. He turned from AI sceptic to believer after watching The Thinking Game and seeing AIs evolve from playing Atari games to winning a Nobel prize in under a decade, and when Claude started arguing against him. See also his GitHub and Blog.
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Location:
Clockwise Edinburgh Leith – Coworking & Office Space, Commercial Quay, 84 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6LX
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