Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of New Media endeavors in the Boston area while promoting design, technology, usability, and standards.
Summer means warmer weather (or really hot weather this year), vacations, and tougher scheduling for tech events. So we're skipping a July event this year in order to loosen up the schedule and work on the rest of our 2010 gatherings instead. We've already lined up a late August event and we're working on the coming months as well.
Our August event features CEO and Founding Principal of Perfetti Media, Christine Perfetti, who will present Quick and Dirty User Research Techniques.
There are those that believe that user research must be a complex and scientific process that takes lots of time, money, and resources. However, in the real world, most designers and engineers don't have the luxury to spend weeks and months on their user research. That's where guerrilla research techniques come into play.
It's possible to get useful results without the time-consuming expense of traditional user research methods. In this presentation, Perfetti Media's Christine Perfetti will share quick and dirty techniques for collecting user research data. You'll learn how to answer essential design questions using methods that take only a day - and sometimes only 10 minutes! Christine will discuss user research techniques, including:
In this presentation, Christine will share Perfetti Media's experience with these techniques and discuss how you can perform them yourself.
Christine Perfetti is CEO and Founding Principal of Perfetti Media. For more than a decade, she has taught and consulted with hundreds of design and development teams on product strategy and user experience techniques.
With her extensive knowledge of human factors and user research techniques, Christine has been a top-rated presenter at the User Interface Conference, the Internet Marketing Conference, CHI, and the Usability Professionals' Association Conference. Before launching Perfetti Media, Christine was VP & Managing Director at User Interface Engineering, a leading user research, training, and consulting firm.
Once again, we need to thank Microsoft for providing us a wonderful space, bringing us pizza for attendees, and allowing us access to numerous beverages in the coolers on the 10th floor.
We're also happy to announce that Morgan Kaufmann will be donating a few UX books to raffle off to attendees as well. They offer Refresh Boston members 30% off any title in their HCI/UX catalog using discount code REFRESH.
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