WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA?

• Presentation: Sharing of big pictures and ideas around the importance of design in the OpenMRS community by key individuals and experts.

• Panel discussion: A mixed panel session to discuss and share ideas about using design conventions, processes, and output.

• Lightning talk: Short and informative presentation around particular topics that are relevant to the community by the members and implementers.

• Showcase: Showcase of design and best practices by the various squad and implementing countries.

• Design workshop: Participatory design workshop around a particular challenge that the community would like to solve and create a vision for a feature that would have widespread utility in the community.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

As a community, we're committed to our values of being user and community driven. With the new OpenMRS 3 frontend, we're seeing new opportunities for collaboration on frontend features emerge - creating an opening for us to walk the talk and integrate design into our shared development process.

This conference explores how we're

Realizing the Potential of Community-Based Design

The broader objective of the conference is to raise awareness and promote the use of our community's design conventions and tools among the broader OpenMRS community and implementing organizations. The conference creates an opportunity for the countries to share best practices and will empower the implementing organizations to build the capacity of the design team.

Objectives

The 2022 UX design conference aims to help everyone become a UXer!

• Raise awareness and promote the use of user research & design among the broader OpenMRS community and implementing organizations.

• Create an opportunity for the community to share their design work and receive practical user feedback for improvement.

• Introduce people to design documentation and recent design activities.

• Learn best design practices by looking at the work of different countries and implementation organizations.

This conference will explore

• What UX Design is vs is not

• User Research & Validation 

• Applying Design Patterns: What every non-designer needs to know

• How to apply this in your setting, with your team, and with the OpenMRS Community

• Collaborative approach to design thinking through the workshop. 

• Future opportunities to gain experience

REGISTRATION

Interesting in joining the conference, please proceed to register via our Zoom registration.

Upon successful registration, you will automatically receive a personalized Zoom link shared on the email along with a link that you can use to add the event to your calendar.

SPEAKERS

Lightning Talks

Interesting in presenting short and informative presentations around particular topics that are relevant to the community? Please book your slot here.

Showcase

Each squad or implementer who has signed up for the showcase will have 10 minutes to share. Please sign up here.

SOCIAL NETWORKING

Want to keep in touch with people at the conference:

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE