NUX Sheffield - March 2026

Welcome back to NUX Sheffield! This event will be hosted at Sheffield Hallam University and food will be provided by NUX on Thursday 5th March 2026. Once you enter the Charles Street building head for the lifts and floor #4 and look for NUX volunteers.

Paul Bailey kicks off the evening by exploring how design thinking can help us navigate uncertainty in work and life. This human-centred talk shares practical tools for creativity, resilience and critical thinking - no parenting required.

To close the evening, Blessing Mbipom, Senior UX Researcher at IBM, leads an interactive session on the art of asking better questions. Expect practical frameworks, real examples and activities you can immediately apply to research, workshops and everyday conversations.

Info: We spend our working lives designing better experiences for others. But how often do we apply the same care and curiosity to our own lives?

In this talk, Paul Bailey explores how human-centred design mindsets can help us navigate uncertainty — at work and at home.

Drawing on his experience as a UX consultant and a parent of four, he shows how simple design tools like reframing problems, running small experiments and reflecting on outcomes can be applied far beyond products and services.

This is not a parenting talk. It’s a talk about the power skills that make us human.

You’ll leave with practical insights on creativity, resilience and critical thinking, and why these matter more than ever in a world shaped by AI and constant change.

You don’t need to be a parent to find this useful.

If you care about people, systems and the future we’re designing into, this session is for you.

Info: The quality of insights we uncover, whether in user research, workshops, meetings, or team sessions, depends on how we frame our questions. In this interactive session, we will explore practical techniques for asking questions that spark deeper thinking and produce richer insights. Through real examples and quick activities, you will pick up a toolkit of questioning frameworks that you can apply in your very next conversation. This is a great opportunity to learn how to make your conversations more impactful. Blessing is a Senior UX Researcher at IBM. She has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence and over a decade of experience delivering impactful research across public and private sectors. She specialises in uncovering deep user insights and translating them into accessible products, services, and experiences that meet real user needs.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Charles Street Building, Charles St. Building room 12.4.12, Sheffield City Centre, United Kingdom

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