The following presentations were delivered at our 7th annual conference in Brighton in June 2023.

• Making it Right: employing creative UX research methods for richer engagement by Andy Priestner, Chair of UX in Libraries, and Director, Andy Priestner Training & Consulting
• DOKK1: public participation as democratic infrastructure by Marie Østergård, Director of Aarhus Public Libraries, Denmark
• Be your most disruptive self: collective action in experience and design by Dr Arun Verma, Head of Inclusion, University of London, UK
• Design, Align, Combine: getting buy-in for your great ideas by Emma Thompson, Head of Academic Engagement and Teaching Services, Manchester Metropolitan University Library, UK
• Inclusion through Participation: exploring the barriers to real inclusion for underserved communities in UX research by Dr Victoria Olaniyan, Senior User Researcher, Methods, UK
• More than just working together: reflections on UX work and collaboration by Shelley Gullikson, Web & UX Librarian, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
• Welcome to Day 2 (UX is a team sport/Don’t be a lone wolf – Andy Priestner)
• Team Challenge briefing – Andy Priestner and Andrew Alexander

Delegate presentations:

• ‘What are the library vibes?’ Investigation, collaboration, and co-creation at the University of Sussex by Eleanor Ferguson, University of Sussex, UK
• ‘From problem to prototype’ – using a service design course to bridge gaps within a university by Ingela Wahlgren, SLU University, Sweden.
• How to make a grand entrance by Elizabeth Tilley, University of Cambridge, UK
• Stronger together: building a UX community of practice by Alison Sharman, University of Huddersfield, UK [Or alternative PDF version without notes]
• From invisible to popular: how we increased attendance to a library course by 692% by Gunvor Bjerkelund Røkke (NTNU) and Maria Sindre (Norsk helsenett), Norway
• Connections in coastal communities: a new era for public libraries by Kerry Murray, Norfolk County Council, UK
• An advisory board by any other name: embedding UX and cultivating engagement through a user working group turned homegrown student organization by Amanda Kraft, College of Charleston, USA
• ‘We don’t start with Library’: students interviewing students about using the Library website by Gopal Dutta, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• The Dutch University Libraries (UB) UX Community FKA UXLib-NL by Marjanne Goossens (Wageningen University & Research) and Larissa Tijsterman (University of Amsterdam), Netherlands [Or alternative PDF version]
• The long and winding road? Inclusion in UX data and recruitment by Anna-Lena Kleinert and Eve Jamieson, King’s College London, UK
• Embedding collaboration into improving the student library experience by Nia Ellis and Jim Foster, Aberystwyth University, UK
• Friends with benefits – creating strategic alliances and pushing collaborative boundaries at Linnaeus University by Emelie Uggla Waldenström and Johanna Palm, Linnaeus University, Sweden [Or alternative PDF version without notes]
• We’re the problem: mapping our way out of printing purgatory by Joshua Herter and Sydney Nicholauson, University of Winnipeg, Canada
• When you wish upon a stall: toilet facilities as a factor in library satisfaction among trans and gender nonconforming users by Hannah Jones, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Supporting critical UX at a large diverse university by Michael Aguilar, Sharesly Rodriguez and Laurel Eby, San José State University, USA
• The Experience of Non-Users and Ex-Users of the Jagodina Public Library: Sparking the Interest in the Library by Jelena Rajić, Radislav Nikčević Public Library, Jagodina, Serbia
• Understanding the use of physical spaces in the library: a collaborative approach by Karina Arrambide, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Co-designing and re-imagining library services: a librarian’s tale by Nicholas Heavey, University of Sussex, UK
• Collaborating with a team of student volunteers on UX projects: how to shoot two birds with one stone by SuHui Ho, University of California, San Diego, USA [Or alternative PDF version without notes]
• Sharing the love of reading from park bench to park bench: the story of an external collaboration focused on enabling readers to connect in public spaces by Kelly Henderson, Independent UX researcher, USA

Workshops:

• Communicating the benefits of UX to everyone who needs to hear it by Ned Potter, University of York, UK
• Storytelling with Data by Larissa Tijsterman, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands [Or alternative PDF version without notes]
• Taking UX Beyond the Library (aka Timetabling was Never on my Bucket List) by Sarah Halliday and Pete Hanna, University of Hertfordshire, UK
• Exploring student experience through creativity by Sebastian May, University of the Arts London, UK
• ‘Punching Up’ – Engaging with Senior Decision Makers with developed Negotiation and Persuasion skills by Jane Burns, Technological University of  the Shannon, Ireland
• UX research in the Metaverse? by Victor Alfson, Stockholm City Library, Sweden

And these photographs taken by David Scott:

• Day 1 Photo Gallery
• Gala Dinner Photo Gallery
• More photos coming soon…