Dr. Jerry Rekart

Prove Me Wrong: Ensuring that User Testing Isn’t a Rubber Stamp

Prove Me Wrong: Ensuring that User Testing Isn’t a Rubber Stamp In this interactive talk, Dr. Jerome (“Jerry”) Rekart discusses reasons why user testing studies must be designed with the goal of finding reasons to axe one’s favorite designs. Drawing from a host of examples, Popperian epistemology, and very likely some unique off-the-cuff remarks, Jerry’s Read more about Prove Me Wrong: Ensuring that User Testing Isn’t a Rubber Stamp[…]

Steven Jensco

March 23, 2023 | Design Tokens: Become Your Developer’s Best Friend

Design Tokens: a new approach to creating a UI library that’s easily integrated into both design and development workflows. By involving our development team in the creation of our UI library, we can structure it in a way that’s both easier to understand for the development teams bringing it to life, and allows for automatic export of our styles into an existing platform!

UX DEBATE

October 25, 2022 | UX Debate 2022: You Decide!

UX Debate 2022: You Decide! Take a break from all the political back and forth—join us for a UX debate instead! The most divisive UX topics will be vigorously debated by members of our own UXPA community, with you, the audience members deciding on whose argument is more convincing. Cast your votes real-time to determine Read more about October 25, 2022 | UX Debate 2022: You Decide![…]

Michael Hawley

September 22, 2022, Virtual Meeting | Remote Collaborative Workshops: Optimizing Creativity and Ideation When You’re Stuck Behind a Screen

Remote Collaborative Workshops: Optimizing Creativity and Ideation When You’re Stuck Behind a Screen Collaborative workshops are central to Design Thinking and innovation practices. Workshops bring multi-disciplinary groups together for unique perspectives and support divergent thinking by allowing participants to think visually and build on each other’s ideas. Of course, the global pandemic accelerated the need Read more about September 22, 2022, Virtual Meeting | Remote Collaborative Workshops: Optimizing Creativity and Ideation When You’re Stuck Behind a Screen[…]

Piet Kruithof

August 23, 2022, Virtual Meeting: You Do You – A Discussion on How Our Values & Beliefs About UX Have Guided Our Careers

You Do You – A Discussion on How Our Values & Beliefs About UX Have Guided Our Careers Your relationship with your employer isn’t all that different from your other relationships including family, partner, or…even your car. In all of those circumstances, the relationship is driven by alignment on a core set of beliefs and Read more about August 23, 2022, Virtual Meeting: You Do You – A Discussion on How Our Values & Beliefs About UX Have Guided Our Careers[…]

Brian Sullivan

July 20, 2022, Virtual Meeting | Breaking Into UX: Understanding the Question Behind the Question in UX Interviews

Breaking Into UX: Understanding the Question Behind the Question in UX Interviews Imagine you are in a UX job interview for the company of your dreams. You get asked a question, which you literally answer based on your skills, experience, and background. But, the interviewer looks bewildered and says, “You did not answer my question.” Read more about July 20, 2022, Virtual Meeting | Breaking Into UX: Understanding the Question Behind the Question in UX Interviews[…]

Rowena Leung

May 24, 2022, Virtual Meeting: Inclusive by Design: Accessibility in Practice

Now more than ever, there’s general awareness that accessibility is important, both for people and for business. But what does it mean to make a product accessible from a design perspective? Where do you start in your own work? Join us for an informative and practical presentation from Rowena Leung, who will help demystify this critical topic!