It was in 2013 when the first Tajriba event was held and that was
the first time a UX month was being done in Africa. You can read how that event
went down from this blog post by +Mark Kamau who orchestrated this feat.
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Tajriba – A Swahili word which means experience.
Partners from all over the world supported this mission and their
stories are the most interesting such as +Erik Flowers Principal Service Experience Designer at
Intuit who received his invite through a tweet from +Kagonya Awori or +Susan Dray a leader in the UX field who contributed in
the founding of ACM’s sigCHI {Special Interest Group in Computer
Human Interaction} chapter and found this new development in Kenya – a
must do.
2014 was no different and Erik Flowers for the second time with Professor
Fast forward three years later, Tajriba has come a full circle
with many of the objectives Mark had set out in his vision in 2013 having being achieved.
A community has grown around User Experience, Design Thinking and
Human Centred Design. There is monthly meetings held at the iHub UX Lab by the
UX ambassadors and WananCHI, the Kenyan chapter of ACM’s SigCHI has grown in
membership and has run sessions every month in 2015 at Strathmore’s +iLab Africa.
In the rest of Africa – well UX conferences are being held in
South Africa and elsewhere – a great light is shining on the Dark Continent.
Why Tajriba 2015?
Zeldman says, “Designers don’t retire, they die.”
The problems and opportunities facing Kenya now more than ever
need UX and a Human Centred approach to get contextual solutions to contextual
problems.
The communities of UX ambassadors and WananCHI or the iHub UX Lab
facility are champions of this but the task ahead is huge – to bring every
start up founder, every innovator (tech and non-tech) and even every government
strategist.
It is time for UX to scale. It is time for Tajriba 2015.
Be A Part Of It.
You can be a part of this great movement and a part of the Nairobi
UX culture. It will be a two week marathon of UX training with the first week
focussing on UX Fundamentals and the second week focussing on Prototyping.
Venue: iHub UX Lab {+iHub}
Theme: "Tajriba - Building Interactions"
Date: Monday, October 5, 2015 at 5:00 pm - Friday, October 16, 2015 at 8:00 pm (EAT)
RSVP: Sign Up here for tickets
#HappyDays
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