NEW DATE: UX Research Method - Sopheclean Prototyping (@BrainStation Vancouver)

We're rescheduling the event to a week night to bring the VanUXR meetup back in-person! Drinks and food will be provided. The event will take place at the BrainStation Vancouver campus. Seating is limited. Event attendees will receive a $250 scholarship towards BrainStation Certificate Courses.
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Event description
This workshop is built around a method called role play, which uses voice and writing to make, test, and iterate an idea. Participants are first paired up and assigned roles. One person represents a user, and one person represents a product or service that will be interrogated by that user. As a jumping off point, we might say that the product or service is a voice user interface like Siri. Once the roles are assigned to the pairs, they have a conversation based on their roles; in this case, a conversation between Siri, and a person using Siri. This often happens for a timed interval of ten minutes. After the ten minutes is up, the second half of the workshop begins. In the same pairs, the same conversation happens except this time, we focus on variations of the product or service. The workshop concludes with a takeaway idea. Next time, try this process instead of in pairs, in a group of three, where the third person is a note taker who just listens to the interactive conversation between the pair and turns it into writing. In addition to voice user interfaces, this can easily be adapted to interrogate the relationship between users and mobile devices, or within more pioneering technologies like VR and AR.
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Speaker Bio
Thomas Girard (12/30/1980) is a delegate, author, assistant professor, and speaker. As a delegate he’s invited to speak in 2023 at the Sorbonne Université in Paris, France on “Advanced Typography Workshops in Quarantine”. As an author, he’s written 6 books including the internationally acclaimed “Emerging Scholar: Gratitude of an Award Recipient”. He has taught as an Assistant Professor at the University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, and has a TEDx talk translated into 14+ languages.
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Agenda
6:30 pm PDT: Door opens
6:45 pm PDT: Opening remarks
6:55 pm PDT: Talk starts
7:15 pm PDT: Workshop
7:35 pm PDT: Q&A
7:50 pm PDT: Mingle / Book signing

Food and drinks will be provided at the start of the event. The event will be recorded and photographed.
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BrainStation Vancouver is a few minutes walk from Waterfront station. There are lots of downtown parking options including Granville Square and EasyPark.