1-Hour Talks

VR is an often overlooked research tool which can help replicate situations that are impossible to test otherwise. Learn how to effectively incorporate VR into your user research.

Open feedback is essential for a collaborative UX process. However, sharing unfinished work is naturally uncomfortable and often generates tension. The right critique process can foster an efficient, honest feedback loop.

This online seminar explores the details of designing and delivering a new digital workplace: everything from establishing a vision and set of goals, through delivering a solution that engages users and adds value to the business. These are just a few of the areas we will explore in the form of three digital workplace design case studies.  

Do you have a product or design idea that seems outlandish? Good. In this online seminar you will learn how to use design thinking and Lean startup methodologies to identify, test and scale seemingly crazy ideas. The goal is to get ideas out of our heads and into the market. Learn to embrace iteration and create experiences that users crave. 

Online forms can be a very important part of your website.  They represent a basic form of communication between you and your user, and can involve important tasks such as enrolling, buying, applying, registration, servicing, data collection, and feedback.  Forms can have a major impact on how your users view your website and your company.  Unfortunately, well-designed forms are not that common.  

Since 2001, our Intranet Design Annual contest has surfaced 10 amazing intranet designs. Certain features—from understated visual design, to deep personalization roles—become trends across teams. What’s important to teams, development approaches, time spend, team size, and technology all impact the intranets’ design and success. Aspire to have a great intranet? Hear the 2018 intranet design trends.

Did you become a user researcher because you love talking to users, analyzing studies and generating insights – but then found you were spending all your time trying to figure out how much to pay users, how long sessions should be, and waiting for no-shows? Using data from over 30,000 research sessions, we will share best practices on the planning and logistics of user research, so you can focus on the user research you love.

In this online seminar you’ll learn methods for shaping your users’ digital interactions in a way that aligns to your brand’s attributes beyond what may be in a style guide—core values, story, and characteristics. We’ll examine how brand mission can manifest in discrete decisions such as interaction design. 

Effectively implementing a design-led culture involves constant re-prioritization, collaboration and articulation of a clear road map. Learn from Athena’s Chief Experience Officer, Esse Turnbull, as she discusses how her team managed to innovate in a highly restricted and traditional sector: financial services.

After a period of utilizing Sharepoint as the primary internal collaboration tool, eBay began to ask themselves questions about the intranet’s role, and how well it represents their company and brand. These questions led them to embarking on building an entirely new experience, as well as a new platform along the way.