Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research

Jonathan Horowitz presented the following deck at the Agile / Lean Practitioners Meetup on 2/3.

Create a User-Centric Culture with User Research from Jonathan Horowitz

Event Description:
Research can improve team synergies which create opportunities for better products and a team that is happier with their results.  In this meetup Jonathan will share insights for how research can be used to create both a user-centric culture and a catalyst for team bonding. Whether you are looking to introduce an internal research practice for the first time or looking to improve on an existing one learn how these methods can work for you. The second half of the event will be a group exercise to uncover bottlenecks in your own organization implementing user research and how this can be solved.

Agenda:

6:30-6:45 - Networking
6:45-8pm - Presentation / Group Exercise / Q&A
8-8:30pm - Announcements / More (Optional) Networking

Bio 

Jonathan Horowitz is a local user experience design leader with 15+ years experience working on consumer and enterprise digital products for startup and Fortune 500 companies. His core specialties are user experience strategy, design and research. In the workplace he is passionate about working with cross-discipline teams uniting them to collaborate and motivating them to deliver. Some highlights of his recent work include higher education applications, tools for budding entrepreneurs, financial applications and automated systems. Jonathan works at Citrusbyte, a design and development consultancy here in New York City leading teams as a Product Strategist and Designer.

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Note: This event is being co-promoted between Agile / Lean Practitioners,  Digital Product Design, Lean Product Best Practices,  Software Product Management and the UX Lab Meetups.

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NOTE: Note this post was updated on 2/6 to include Jonathan's Deck.

Digging In – Pro Interviewing Techniques for Agile Practitioners

On 12/9, Adam Hulnick, gave the following presentation at the Agile / Lean Practitioners meetup.


Event Info
In this lean and agile age, more and more teams are doing some level of user testing on their own. Many of them find, however, that getting a user to talk is not as easy as it looks. Users don’t always want to talk, or they’ll get started on the wrong topic. Sometimes they lack the words to express how they feel about an interface or product. Sometimes they think everything is “fine.” How can you dig deeper to get more info from a user, especially if they are digging in their heels? How can you get people talking, keep them on topic, and find out what they are really thinking? Join us on December 9 to learn some of the professional UX researchers’ tricks of the trade. 

Bio: 

Adam Hulnick is a seasoned User Experience researcher. He’s currently heading Research & Insights at We Are Experience, though he has performed user testing in numerous contexts and with countless different types of stimulus. In the thousands of hours he has logged doing user research, he has picked up numerous techniques to get the data his clients need. 

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This event is being co-promoted with Lean Product Best Practices, Software Product Management NYC, and UX Lab Meetups.

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NOTE: This post was updated after the 12/9 event to include Adam's presentation.