UX Beyond the Screen, Part 3: Measuring the Crowd — How AI Is Giving Live Events Telemetry

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For the first time, AI gives live events real telemetry: computer vision crowd analytics, emotion detection and real-time sentiment. Part 3 surveys the AI measurement stack — and the privacy and metric-capture caveats it demands.

UX Beyond the Screen, Part 2: Who Designs the Audience Experience — and Who Actually Decides?

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In live events the audience experience is designed by a coalition of partial owners — artists, producers, venues, ticketing vendors, marketers, authorities — and nobody owns the whole journey. Part 2 follows the risk and the money.

UX Beyond the Screen, Part 1: Does Anyone Actually Design the Audience Experience?

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How much is UX really considered in performing arts, festivals and sports? Part 1 maps the academic vocabulary of live-event experience: servicescape, festivalscape, sportscape, eventscape and experiencescape.

UX Career Path After 15 Years: Director, Principal Designer or Product Design Lead?

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What comes after 15 years in UX and a small team leadership role? A practical breakdown of five realistic next moves — UX Director, Principal Designer, Product Design Lead, Service Design Lead — with promotion timelines and honest peer benchmarking.

How a UX Redesign Delivered +2% Revenue: The Kamil Koç Case Study (ECHO Award 2019)

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How a structured UX audit and iterative redesign of kamilkoc.com.tr delivered +2% revenue and the ECHO Award 2019. The specific design decisions across search, seat selection, and checkout — and the lessons that apply to any conversion-focused redesign.