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World Usability Day special: Tech for Good

Thursday 12 November 2026·5:15pm·CodeBase
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Date & Time

Thursday 12 November 2026

5:15pm – 7:30pm

Location

CodeBase

37a Castle Terrace, Edinburgh EH1 2EL

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Free

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UX Edinburgh

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UX Edinburgh marks World Usability Day with two founders who have built public-good products, talking about what it actually took. James Buchan, founder and CEO of ePass, traces the route from a CivTech challenge to national government infrastructure: doing discovery when every council works differently, designing for citizens, businesses, licensing officers and policy teams at once, and building one common component that 160+ licence types can configure. Tirtho Dasgupta, founder of Nirmanaa, built an accessibility co-pilot solo in nine weeks and talks about designing for uncertainty rather than certainty. Doors 17:15, talks from 17:45, close 19:30, at CodeBase. Free. Why go: both talks are first-hand delivery stories rather than theory, and the government-services one is material you rarely hear outside closed service-design circles. Best for designers, researchers and product people, and anyone working on public-sector digital in Scotland.

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James Buchan

Founder and CEO, ePass

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Tirtho Dasgupta

Founder, Nirmanaa

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