[Hybrid] Workshop: Facilitating a Usability Test

This month we're jumping back into practical applications with a workshop on usability testing. While there is a lot of work that goes into planning, scheduling, facilitating, and synthesizing findings from user research, this workshop is going to focus on facilitating the usability test session.

After a brief primer on running the session, we will break into groups where everyone will have a chance to facilitate a short usability test. Facilitating user research is a skill that requires experience to build, so hopefully this will be a great opportunity for us all to work on this skill.

This workshop is open to all experience levels, so if you've never facilitated a usability test before, or you've done thousands, you're welcome.

Things to bring

• A laptop (preferred) or cell phone to use as a usability test participant
• A notebook to take a few notes when you're in the notetaker role
• Yourself - please arrive on time as this workshop will be a bit longer than our usual events

Remote attendees
If you are joining online, please be prepared to share your screen with a small breakout zoom room in order to participate in the usability test part of this workshop.

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