Neurodiversity: The Alignment of UX and Autism | Sean McSharry
Sean McSharry is Head of UX at DXC Technology. Sean has a strong background in user experience, technology, business and leadership, working across many sectors, roles and countries. He has studied and worked consciously to glean the best approaches and methodologies from the best people from role to role, industry to industry, studying hard to be a better UX architect, technologist and leader at every step, leading to many successful senior roles. Sean is also a published author for Apress on programming-based books and a public speaker on UX, and has run and presented at a number of user groups. During this podcast episode, we spoke about Neurodiversity in technology and UX, and the advantages of the alignment of UX and Autism, as well as Sean's experience in the industry after being diagnosed with Autism part way through his career. Whilst you're here, check out Sean's UX Sanctuary meetup group here: https://www.meetup.com/UX-Sanctuary/ andThe UX Sanctuary website here: https://uxsanctuary.wixsite.com/home. The UX Sanctuary was set up to be a global UX group for UX professionals, those who want to be UX professionals, project leaders, project teams and business leaders who want to understand and leverage UX.