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Damian Rees

BSc
UX Director (Europe)
Ipsos
Country or state 
United Kingdom
Available to 
Global
City 
London
Fee 
Languages 
English
Volunteer
Yes

Personal Details

Bio

I’ve dedicated my 20-year career to understanding human behaviour. In particular, I have focused on how humans interact with technology and businesses. I’ve learned a lot about the elements that shape an experience and what makes an experience memorable for the right reasons, and of course the wrong reasons.

I’ve worked in UX agencies, and for large organisations including the BBC, National Air Traffic Services, and Bournemouth University. For the last 12 years, I have run a user experience consultancy working with top-tier clients including Financial Times, Siemens, Vitality, and Burberry.

My current role at Ipsos is UX Director for Europe where I inspire UX teams to deliver best practice UX for our clients who range from Google, Facebook, Amazon, BMW, and L'oreal.

Current position (2)

UX Director (Europe)

Ipsos

User Experience Director

Experience UX

Degrees (1)
Applied Psychology
Bournemouth University
1995 to 1998

Presentations

Presentations (3)
User Adoption: Why most new products and services fail

New technology is exciting, but in a rush to launch the next great product or service, businesses tend to forget about one key thing — the human who needs to use it.

For every Uber or Airbnb, there are thousands of failed ventures littering the business landscape. Why? Because users didn’t connect with them or see that they offered a valuable alternative to a rival service.

In this talk, Damian will take you through the core ways you can ensure user adoption, and how to focus more on the human first, rather than the technology.

Exceeding user expectations and the future of e-commerce

What are the core user expectations when it comes to e-commerce and how have they changed since the pandemic. In this talk, I walk the audience through the core user needs based on global UX research and demonstrate how top e-commerce brands meet those needs in innovative and interesting ways

UX - What makes the difference between success and failure

This talk delivers the basics of what UX is, how it can me measured and maintained, and what the key differences are that make the difference between business success and failure. I provide a framework to take back to the office to assess your UX and outline some key next steps to make improvements.

Past talks (5)
Understand human behaviour to improve user adoption
Travel Forward
London
November 4, 2018
Understand human behaviour to improve user adoption
UX Insider
Bournemouth
October 15, 2018
8 steps to transform good UX into great UX
HCID17
London
April 23, 2017
The Future of UX research: Where are we headed as a discipline?
UX 360 Summit
Remote/online
February 8, 2022
https://www.ipsos.com/en-ch/ipsos-webinar-user-experience-ux-what-makes-difference-between-success-or-failure
UX - What makes the difference between success and failure
Switzerland/Online
September 16, 2021
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Books & Articles (6)

What does the future of UX hold?
Is your customer experience really as good as you think?
Without user research you’re placing a hefty bet on intuition
Why the games industry should pay more attention to UX
Does personalisation enhance user experience?
Why tech companies should put humans first

Expertise (17)

Design
Technology
Business
Great User Experience End User Adoption Strategy Customer centricity Customer Acquisition Customer Experience Design Human centered design human centred leadership User Experience Design Consumer Psychology Lean UX User Acquisition User experience user engagement User Research
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Why choose me? 

I’ve studied human behaviour for over 20 years. I’m an expert in user research, UX, & service design

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