Meetup: Capital District Nosh & Connect - Lean, Collaborative User Research With Dani Nordin (joint event with Albany UX Group)

Where: Upside Collective, Downtown Albany (See their website for directions & information http://upsidecollective.com)
When: Thursday, January 28th, 5:30-8pm
What: Lean, Collaborative User Research With Dani Nordin (joint event with Albany UX Group)

Agenda:
5:30 - 6 pm: chat, munchies (thanks to Albany UX!)
6 - 7:15 pm: Lean, Collaborative User Research:
Dani Nordin, a Massachusetts native, will be joining us via Google Hangouts.

Many teams insist they have no time or budget for usability testing, even if they're convinced of the benefits. But what if you could find ways to create, implement and report on usability issues quickly and collaboratively?

In this session, UX designer and researcher Dani Nordin will outline the process she's developed at two separate companies to bring user-centered design practices into an Agile product team. You'll learn techniques to rapidly benchmark your user experience, test and report findings, and align stakeholders on critical usability issues.
Some of the things we'll cover:

Aligning with stakeholders on research goals;
Collaborative test planning;
Unmoderated vs. moderated testing: which one to use when?
Lean usability reports;
Balancing qualitative insights with quantitative measures (analytics, surveys, etc.)

This presentation is for you if you:
- work in an Agile or Lean product team and want to include user-centered design, but can't "find time for research."
- want to learn quick ways to understand how your actual target users experience your product (not people at Starbucks!).
- know there are problems in your current experience, but can't get stakeholders to buy into fixing them without more data.

7:15 pm: Mix and mingle with Drupalers and UX peeps

Important Notes

You must use the sign-up button below (or the UX Meetup sign-in http://www.meetup.com/albany-ux/events/228202269/) because Upside Collective is in a secure building. We need to have people's names at security so that you can be let into the building to attend the meeting.

This is different than our normal effort to have our meeting on either the last Monday or the last Tuesday of the month. In February we will be back to Monday.

Please note this meeting notice may evolve as more information comes along.

Thanks everyone - looking forward to seeing people!