UXPA Boston

Making Meaningful Research, Making Research Meaningful Eventbrite Registration please refer to Eventbrite for location and logistical information Overview The results of research can take on many forms, and it is our job to effectively communicate these outcomes to a number of different stakeholders. We can never predict what we may uncover in the course of [...]

Sketching: From Ideation to Concept Development with Sarah Bloomer Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4223203716/eorg Overview Design is not a straight path, and we often fall back into our comfort zone of designing what we know. Sketching is the designer’s tool for exploring ideas – a technique often underutilized by user experience designers. Bill Buxton describes sketching as a [...]

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784666038/es2?rank=2 Overview Your participant is flirting with you. Your participant found your Facebook profile before the session. Your observers are being rambunctious. As moderators, we have to be prepared to face a number of common, uncommon, bizarre, and interesting situations. We rely on many of the same skills as a circus ringmaster – creativity, flexibility, [...]

Register at http://www.eventbrite.com/event/3784483492/es2?rank=3 Overview A meaningful and fulfilling career can be yours! The UX profession has exploded on the scene and the demand for UX professionals has skyrocketed. Now is the time to follow your passion! Does one of these statements describe you? You have a successful career but in some ways, it lacks meaning and doesn’t give [...]

A half-day interactive workshop for researchers, designers, and anyone who practices UX research. Eventbrite Registration One of the biggest challenges and top frustration causes for UX research and usability practitioners lies in getting buy-in for research from stakeholders. People have trouble persuading stakeholders to conduct UX research to begin with. They have difficulties in getting sponsorship and [...]

The world is abuzz with agile. Companies are adopting new ways of working that threaten the traditional role of user experience. Has your team started having daily stand-ups? Working from a backlog? Splitting work into sprints? Integrating successful UX practices can be challenging. In this class, we will experience the agile lifecycle from a design [...]

Stories are an effective way to collect, analyze and share qualitative information from user research, spark design imagination and help us create usable products. We all tell stories all the time, but to craft a story for a particular audience, for a particular reason and effect, requires some instruction and modeling, a reasonable amount of [...]

Tom is looking at a website that sells computers.  He’s wondering whether he should splurge for the laptop with all the bells and whistles, or opt for something cheaper. As the Designer of the site, you’ve done the usability testing and are confident that the user needs have been met. You assume that Tom will [...]

UPA Boston workshops present How to be a Usability Star – The UX Public Speaking Toolkit When it comes to advancing your career, public speaking might just be the #1 skill that can help you get noticed.  And yet for most of us, presenting in front of an audience inspires ambivalence at best, and outright [...]

Visual Design for Web Sites and Web Apps Now that your screen flows, site maps, wireframes, and sketches are done, you’re ready to dig into the visual design of your Web site or Web application. In this half-day workshop, Jon Follett of Hot Knife Design, Inc. will provide an overview of techniques that can help [...]