UX Lighting Talks with IXDA Phoenix
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This August IXDA will be holding a night of Lightning Talks so sign up or come and cheer on your fellow IXDAers for a night of conversations, new ideas and fun.
Our goal is to bring Phoenix’s UX community together to share ideas, get new perspectives and engage in thoughtful conversations. Come join us as we listen to a series of talks by new and experienced speakers covering topics ranging from UI, research, copy, leadership, portfolios and more.
Presenters
Rebekah Baggs, Onward And
Search Data and Content Design
Much like interviews or journey mapping, intent analysis is a form of user research you can lean on to better understand user needs. Having search intent knowledge is powerful. Not only does it give you insight into what real users want and need from your site, it gives you compelling data that you can use to advocate for meaningful content design across your entire content experience from information architecture and category labels, to features and functionality and information hierarchy. The possibilities are pretty endless!
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Christina Carrasquilla, ASU
UX Portfolios - Not One Size Fits All
"Top 10 UX Portfolio Must Haves" ... "UX Managers Reveal Portfolio Mistakes-- #4 Will Shock You" ... "Get Hired Instantly with this UX Portfolio Hack" ... Why all of the above is garbage and the real answer is just not that easy.
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Kevin Whipps, GoDaddy
How to work with your copywriter
There are some misconceptions about how copywriters work, and I'd like to offer some tips to UXers.
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Stacy Holmstedt, Nextiva
DIY Research for UX Designers
DIY research is a great tool for designers when feedback can’t wait. Here are some tips and tricks of the trade for getting quick, iterative user insights.
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Brent Larson, Stratfield Consulting
Math & Design Artifacts
Design artifacts are like math. You only need to show your work if someone is checking it or it helps you solve the problem.
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Ryan Allen, GoDaddy
Hack the Planet
A cross-channel testing process for increasing a north star metric by hacking Growth Opportunities with a cross-channel testing process aimed at a narrow key objective.
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Robert Renteria, GoDaddy
The Art of Listening in Design
"We teach our children how to read and write, but not how to speak and listen. Listening is untaught and usually unpracticed." - Julian Treasure
As UX practitioners we often use different design thinking methodologies and in most cases, they start by doing research to identifying a need/problem. I'll go over how important listening is when it comes to understanding a problem and some tactics great researchers and designer use.