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Tamara Chehayeb Makarem

I am a user experience designer based in London. Using an agile approach, I design desktop, tablet and mobile web apps. At Scott Logic, I work with clients mainly in financial services enhancing their trading platforms, analytics dashboards and Intranet tools. I am an enthusiast of Data visualization and interactive projects using code for art.

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UX Design
On finding purpose, nurturing talent and building a sustainable future
In this post, I share the top things that resonated with me from the Women of Silicon Roundabout 2021 conference: the importance of finding purpose, nurturing talent, and building a sustainable future.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 5th  Nov 2021 · 2 min read
Open Source
OSSF London 2021
Earlier this month, I was a speaker at the Linux Foundation Open Source Strategy Forum (OSSF) in London. I moderated a panel on women’s career progression within Fintech. In this post I detail my thoughts on the key takeaways from the panel
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 18th  Oct 2021 · 1 min read
People · Video
Cultivating Empathy
In this talk, I present empathy as a skill that can be cultivated and explores ways of doing that. Anyone interested in building their empathy skills or cultivating empathy within their team or workplace can learn here about different types of empathy, the ways it can empower us and its practical application in our day-to-day jobs.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 28th  Sep 2021
UX Design
UX Migration Strategy for Legacy Applications
In this article, I focus on the migration strategy for legacy applications from a UX perspective and highlight the elements that businesses should think about.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 16th  Jul 2021 · 3 min read
UX Design
Designing with accessibility in mind
The process for meeting accessibility standards can seem overwhelming. In this post, I explore three ways of approaching accessibility that make achieving it more manageable.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 11th  Sep 2019 · 3 min read
UX Design
We’ve heard of clean code, it’s time for Clean Design
Clean Design is the cleanliness of your design files and the practices of creating these files rather than the design outcome you generate from them. In this post, you can find a few tips on how you can start applying Clean Design.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 8th  May 2019 · 5 min read
UX Design
FinTech Design Summit 2019: Designing for emotions and raising financial literacy
We know that emotions can move markets through optimism and pessimism but what about apathy, stress and the embarrassment that we feel when discussing our finances? Designing for emotion is not a new concept but perhaps it has been overlooked in FinTech. In this post, I share my take on the FinTech Design Summit 2019 focusing on an angle that puts people’s emotions at the center of FinTech Design.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 26th  Apr 2019 · 4 min read
UX Design
Big Data London 2018
In this article, I share my take on the recent Big Data LDN 2018 conference and delve into some particular highlights from Dr Hannah Fry's keynote.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 30th  Nov 2018 · 3 min read
UX Design
How UX designers can help users protect their data
Protecting users’ privacy and security is often seen as a task for developers. However, UX designers can work alongside developers and play a role in that. In this post, I present a few ways in which designers can help users protect their data.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 27th  Jun 2018 · 5 min read
Delivery
The 3 types of minimum viable products
An MVP is a product that has just enough features to add business value. Typically you quickly learn from it to improve on subsequent releases or inform business decisions. MVP is also a buzzword and many have tried to constrain its definition. However, when people talk about MVPs, they mean different things. In this post, I describe the 3 types of MVPs that I encountered.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 26th  Jun 2018 · 4 min read
UX Design
Working with type: Sketch vs. Adobe Illustrator
In this post, I go over the similarities and differences between Sketch and Illustrator when working with type.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 3rd  Jul 2017 · 5 min read
UX Design
Sharing styling specs with developers
This post looks at the pros and cons of some of the automated handoff tools available for designers to share style specs with developers.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 24th  Feb 2017 · 5 min read
UX Design
Four tips for achieving successful UX workshops
Facilitating UX workshops can be challenging when ideating with non-designers who have not participated in a UX workshop and are sceptical about its value. In this post, I suggest four tips for achieving successful UX workshops and gaining the trust of the more sceptical participants.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 11th  Jan 2017 · 6 min read
Data Engineering
How are businesses using Big Data?
Big Data can help businesses run more efficiently. Their main challenge is getting the best value from the data they have to turn it into actionable information
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 1st  Dec 2016 · 4 min read
UX Design
Body as Interface
Body as interface is plausible either when the body is in a controlled environment or when the device becomes part of the body. Exploring this notion allows us to stop designing interfaces and start designing experiences.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 25th  May 2016 · 4 min read
UX Design
Data visualisation and scale: leveraging the macro and the micro
The size of things is relative to the scale that we set. This might sound like a trivial notion, but it is key to creating meaningful data visualisations.
Tamara Chehayeb Makarem · 16th  May 2016 · 5 min read

Talks

Girl Geeks Dinner
17 May 2017
Girl Geeks Dinner
20 July 2016