From Coaching to UX: Designing Change That Sticks

Join us for our September NUX Leeds event, where we’re delighted to welcome one of our own (an award winning team leader) — make new user- centred design friends, grab a pizza 🍕 and drink 🍻 (it’s on us!) and learn something new!

About our Speakers and Their Talks

🟢 Kimberley Bottomley - Product Design Manager at B&Q

💬 Talk: From Coaching to UX: Designing Change That Sticks

➡️ What do great coaches and great user experience designers have in common? More than you might think. In this talk, we’ll explore

💡 How the principles of coaching mirror the stages of effective UX design.

💡 We’ll look at how teams build trust and alignment, how they keep the end in mind, how they face into reality, and how they spot opportunities.

💡 Finally, we’ll consider the importance of reflection and closure - because good endings matter just as much as strong beginnings.

Whether you’re leading a design team, working with stakeholders, or facilitating change, you’ll leave with practical insights on how coaching mindsets can strengthen the way you design, collaborate, and deliver meaningful outcomes.

About Kimberley Bottomley: Kimberley has spent nearly two decades shaping the world of UX, Product Design, and Research. From helping to establish one of the UK's first in-house user research labs, to creating pioneering mobile guidelines for a leading insurer, to designing the end-to-end customer experience of a smart home device - before "Alexa" became a household name - she’s been at the forefront of innovation. An award-winning team leader, Kimberley is known for her passion for people, creative problem-solving, and sprinkling a bit of hippy wisdom into her work. She cares deeply about well-being in design and leadership, and is now training as a professional coach - combining her experience with a commitment to supporting human growth and potential.

🟢 Ben Brand - Senior UX Consultant at Hippo Digital

💬 Talk: Prompting vs Prompt EngineeringThis session aims to demystify Generative AI, first by explaining the core technology that makes it all work. Then clarifying the crucial difference between prompting and the more deliberate, powerful techniques of prompt engineering.

About Ben Brand:Ben is a senior UX consultant, with a decade of experience in solving problems. He’s relentlessly interested in society, the people who live in it and how it all works. With a knack for implementing meaningful public services for citizens and effective products for the private sector.

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📍VenueBrew Society Leeds: 26 Aire St, Leeds, LS1 4HT

Networking & Refreshments

Join us from 6pm for pizza and drinks, kindly provided by our sponsors, Hippo Digital and Ideasmiths LLP 🍕 🍻 talks start at 6:30pm with more chance to chat and network after the talks.

Our Sponsors

Ideasmiths

Ideasmiths are a diverse collective of individuals with extensive experience working on digital products. They're user researchers, interaction designers, strategists, and coaches who thrive working in multidisciplinary agile teams.

Hippo Digital

Hippo Digital is a UK-based digital services partner founded in 2016 that helps organizations drive digital transformation through data, human-centered design, and engineering. With a team of over 500 specialists, they offer a range of services, including strategy, agile software development, and data consultancy, supporting both public and private sector clients to deliver high-quality digital products and processes.

Tickets

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