1-Hour Talks

Explore how teams can capitalize on research, effectively archive knowledge, and successfully gain buy-in on solutions across team and title boundaries. Learn how to instill empathy for your user, build value in your solutions, and convey what lies the core of your strategy: deep user needs.

It can be challenging to manage UX and Agile frameworks together. When a team is working quickly, UX work can easily get deprioritized in the interest of meeting deadlines. In this seminar, we will discuss overall Agile team lessons learned from the perspective of Australian fin-tech start-up, Athena Home Loans, growing from 20 to 100 people in 6 months.

Learn how differing functional fidelities can help teams explore, communicate and accurately usability test the more functional elements of our user interfaces – and what you need to consider to create a high functional-fidelity prototype.

Learn how to conduct remote research using digital diary tools, micro-surveys, remote interviews, and activities to uncover rich data and keep participants actively engaged.

Our Intranet Design Annual contest has once again revealed 10 inspiring intranet designs. Learn the latest intranet design trends, including: development approaches, time spent, team size, and technology.

Even when user research is fast and informal, researchers should follow basic principles of research ethics. Learn basic ethical considerations for user research; and specific elements such as informed consent, handling research data and researching with vulnerable users. This seminar also covers strategies for creating standards of ethical and professional research practice in your organization.

Part 2 of a two-part series on blockchain. A comprehensive look into the relationship of UX design and the underlying mechanisms of blockchain, cryptocurrency, and decentralized applications (dApps).

Part 1 of a two-part series on blockchain.  Learn the concepts behind blockchain and related elements--such as: cryptocurrency and decentralized applications (dApps)--and what they mean for UX practitioners.

“Search” can be a powerful means of finding a nugget of information from a large repository of structured and unstructured data sources. However, while a search feature is often a part of the solution, Search alone is not sufficient in addressing these user needs. Intranet Design Annual winners from IBM will share their methods and learning on how to best help users find what they’re looking for.   

This online seminar explores prioritization methods that Agile teams can use to focus on building the right things, minimizing disagreements, and maximizing productive work time.