Interviewing Users: What Has Changed in the 2nd Edition; A Conversation with Author Steve Portigal
2024-06-11 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Remote
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Interviewing skills are table stakes for qualitative researchers – but everyone can improve their practice. Steve Portigal wrote the go-to guide, Interviewing Users, and has recently published an updated second edition. He’ll join us to discuss the updates, including evolving interviewing techniques, research operations, and best practices for remote research. Don’t have time to read the book ahead of the discussion? You’ll still benefit from the discussion.
Register for this free remote event at https://lu.ma/BookGroup2.
Steve Portigal is a consultant who helps organizations to build more mature user research practices. Over the past 25 years, he has interviewed hundreds of people, including families eating breakfast, film production accountants, hotel maintenance staff, architects, radiologists, home-automation enthusiasts, credit-default swap traders, and rock musicians. He has informed the development of commercial lighting controls, medical information systems, professional music gear, design systems, wine packaging, work-from-home practices, financial services, corporate intranets, video conferencing systems, and music streaming services.
Steve is the author of two books: the classic Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights (now in a second edition) and Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries: User Research War Stories. He’s also the host of the Dollars to Donuts podcast.
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How to set up user research from scratch
2024-06-11 18:00 - 18:45 | Remote
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Setting up a research function is complex. How to keep processes simple? How to show and communicate impact early on?
To learn how to build a research practice from scratch, I’ll sit down with Anna-Zsofia Csontos, UX researcher @ UX Studio. She developed a knack for setting up research practices for startups as well as corporates and distilled a methodology to get started.
Our agenda
1. Steps of setting up a research practice
2. How to keep the implementation efforts low
3. Pitfalls of launching a research practice
4. Fine-tuning of the approach based on company size
Key learnings
Anna-Zsofia will share a blueprint to set up a research practice in your org. If you have one, you can explore where the research process can be more streamlined and how to increase its impact.
About Anna-Zsofia
She is a UX researcher @ UX studio who helped numerous companies (big or small) to properly set up their research practices. She is a psychologist by education and she regularly holds courses on customer-centered design.
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Quant UX Con 2024
2024-06-12 00:00 - 2024-06-13 23:59
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The worldwide conference dedicated to Quantitative UX Research(and everyone interested in quantitative methods and careers in UX Research)

In all time zones worldwide over 30+ hours consecutively
June 12-13, 2024(US Pacific Time = June 12-13; in some timezones that is June 13-14)
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Quant UX Con 2024 will occur across 4 blocks of time as follow (subject to minor change):

Block 1: June 12, 2024: US/Pacific Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm (optionally 6:00pm)

Block 2: June 13, 2024: Asia/Japan Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm

Block 3: June 13, 2024: Europe/CEST Time: 10:00am – 5:30pm

Block 4: June 13, 2024: US/Pacific Time: 9:30am – 5:00pm

At most times, there will be 2 or more concurrent sessions. Sessions will be recorded for attendees to watch later.

Main Organizing Committee
Chris Chapman, PhD | Principal UX Researcher, Amazon Lab126 (Co-chair)
Kitty Xu, PhD | Quant UXR, Cofounding Researcher, Cambly (Co-chair)
Fei Gao, PhD | Staff Quant UX Researcher, Pinterest
Maria Cipollone, PhD | Senior Manager, Design Research, Capital One
Mario Callegaro, PhD | Senior Staff Quant UX Survey Scientist, Google
Mackenzie Sunday, PhD | Senior Quant UX Researcher, Google
Katie Wainwright, PhD | Staff UX Research Manager, Google
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