Archives

Welcome to management: Learning how to lead your first UX research team You’ve spent years honing your craft as a researcher and in recognition of your hard work, you’ve been promoted to lead a team of your very own! Welcome to management, now what? UX management is fulfilling, but is not a direct next step […]

Link to session survey Text fields and dropdowns and radios oh my! Usability testing online surveys (and forms) The online questionnaire, be it a survey or form, is truly ubiquitous. The promise of fast data collection from large numbers of users appeals to business, marketing and design stakeholders alike. But not so fast… while large sample […]

UX After Dark Three industry stalwarts will share funny, insane, unbelievable stories from their own and others’ professional UX lives. Crazy clients, wacky test participants, grace under fire, the sacred and the (nominally) profane. We tell ourselves these stories after hours for our own amusement. Now we invite you to pull up a seat at […]

Link to session survey Combining Qualitative and Quantitative approaches As UX researchers and designers, we spend a lot of our time looking at qualitative insights – who people are, why they do what they do, what their unspoken needs are, etc. Often, in another part of the organisation, there are different people working with quantitative […]

Link to session survey The Net Promoter Score – What can NPS Tell You About Your User Experience? While it’s obvious to us UX practitioners that any products or applications should focus on the needs and wants of the users, this type of mindset is not automatic in most profit-driven private organizations. As a result, […]

Link to session survey Keep Your Friends Close and Your Enemies Closer: Using Competitors to Do Better UX Research There are many ways to solve a design problem, but only so much time for testing and iteration. Fortunately, there’s a great source of alternative designs that can be reviewed, tested, debunked and borrowed from – […]

Link to session survey Let’s Get Inclusive: Getting Personas and Surveys Out of Hot Water Are you in the business of creating personas or surveys? Man, oh, man, is there some bad stuff out there. The sexism, the racism, the ageism, the ableism. *Your* company’s not doing any of that, of course. … But you’ve […]

Link to session survey Product Design Best Practices and Tools for Localization Is your product’s design scalable to meet the needs of its expanding marketplace? Staying competitive in a global marketplace includes providing your app in different languages. This talk will cover: The importance of localization An overview of how developers code solutions How to […]

Link to session survey The Risk-Free Guide to Design for Positive Impact This session inspires attendees to utilize design as a powerful tool for positive impact and help others do the same. There are countless ways that designers can improve efforts for social and environmental justice. Organizations for social and environmental justice need our help. […]

Link to session survey Should UXers get a PhD? Can a PhD help take your UX career to the next level? Our panel will cover the ins and outs of getting a PhD for aspiring or current UX professionals. How do you pick a PhD program and what is required to graduate? What types of […]