Let's Meet Up Virtually: UX Research Meetup & Event Guide March 2024

"Join us to hear Karen Holtzblatt share her experience and tips of the trade when working with teams.

What is the real job of successful impactful user researchers? Only 30% of the job is research. The rest is partnering, listening, and communicating. UXR folks ensure business goals are met & strategic research is balanced with tactical testing. They lead complex meetings to ensure decisions are based on data and shared across functions."

"Journey mapping is a great tool to visualize what your customers are going through during their journey with you and communicate it to your team to figure out ways to improve the customer experience.

​Journey maps are not always straightforward. They can be complex, especially for non-linear and B2B journeys.

At this event, we’ll explore different cases where maps become complex, providing practical solutions and best practices for handling such maps."

"Tired of struggling to find the right participants for your research? You're not alone. Whether you're conducting surveys, interviews, focus groups, or user testing, recruiting the ideal individuals can be a major hurdle.

Join us online for this insightful workshop where we'll:

• Demystify the recruitment process

• Explore diverse channels

• Craft compelling invitations

• Optimize your screening process

• Engage and retain participants"

"Why aren't customers using my product? What should I do differently? It's frustrating when we see people struggling to use our products - or even worse, when they are not interested in even trying them! What is even more challenging is that people usually can't tell us what to fix. The things that prevent people from using products are usually very personal, hard to explain and sometimes embarrassing to do so!

In this talk, I will explain why the way we talk to customers is ineffective, and some approaches to get people to feel comfortable enough to explain what they really need."

"Everyone feels like they have a book in them—and UX designers, researchers, and (of course) writers are no exception. But having an idea and making it into a book are entirely different things. If you’ve ever wondered what’s involved in the process, how it differs from other types of writing you’ve done, whether your idea even merits book treatment, or other authorial considerations, well… here’s your opportunity to have an informal conversation with a real live publisher of UX books."

"UX Research has been one of the breakout fields in tech this past decade, with many people considering a pivot into the practice.

If this sounds like you, join us for this five-day introductory program, featuring dozens of senior researchers, to learn the basics of the trade, enough to set up and run your very own entry-level research project."

"Please join author Laura Kalbag, Guild host Lija Hogan, and other UX researchers for a fireside chat about the latest in accessibility and inclusive design topics.

With the launch of WCAG 2.2 in late 2023 and an increased focus on supporting vulnerable populations driven by new regulations enforced by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK, many organizations have been actively at work to ensure digital experiences and products enable everyone to navigate the world successfully. We'll use her recent book, “Accessibility for Everyone” from A Book Apart as a reference and starting point."

"A research repository’s success often hinges on the success of its adoption strategy. And we’ll be diving into how to improve its chances of success!

Emily DiLeo, UX Research Ops & Knowledge Management Expert, will be providing some invaluable insights on:

• The context of implementation

• When to start your adoption strategy

• How to build a supportive network

• Helpful engagement strategies

• What to do after implementation"

"With the rise of voice interfaces, companies are implementing their ideas of voice assistants, voice-activated systems, and bots. Voice interfaces have great potential, from improving accessibility to enhancing user experience. But what is UX research for voice interfaces? Marta will share her experience on the topic."

"A spring cleaning for your human-centered insights practice.

We’re back with our second year of YouX, a research and insights event all about you, whether you’re in research, product, design or ops. This year we’re focused on sharing fresh, growth-minded perspectives on the most important topics in the industry."

"This workshop will simplify what you need to know when it comes to collecting and storing participant's data safely, ethically and in line with data protection.

Sometimes this can feel complicated so I'll break it down in simple steps, including what secure folders you need to set up and templates you can use for privacy notice and consent."

"For many consumer products and services, quickly shifting to include AI capabilities is a straight-forward process. For large, enterprise-level software companies, it certainly is not.

Enterprise software has such an extensive web of stakeholders, workflows, and priorities, that when you make even a small change, you have to consider the ripple effects across an entire organization.

At this event, let’s discuss strategies to thoughtfully start leveraging and implementing AI into the tooling that powers some of the world’s largest companies."

"Join our global book club online event as we discuss "Thinking Fast And Slow" by Daniel Kahneman.

Kahneman exposes the extraordinary capabilities - and also the faults and biases - of fast thinking, and reveals the pervasive influence of intuitive impressions on our thoughts and behaviour. The importance of properly framing risks, the effects of cognitive biases on how we view others, the dangers of prediction, the right ways to develop skills, the pros and cons of fear and optimism, the difference between our experience and memory of events, the real components of happiness-each of these can be understood only by knowing how the two systems work together to shape our judgments and decisions."