Wednesday, October 16, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Reimagining research: What does the field need to grow? [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Sharon Banh • UX Researcher, MongoDB
Dave Hora • Founder, Dave's Research Company
Marieke McCloskey • Director of Foundations UX Research, LinkedIn
Alicia Zhong • Founder, Future Insight Group

Wednesday, October 2, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Industry junctures: Paths forwards for UXR and the critical decisions that get us there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Robert Fabricant • Co-Founder & Partner, Dalberg Design
Sahibzada Mayed • Trauma-Informed Researcher, Abolitionist, Pause & Effect
Nidhi Singh Rathore • Assistant Professor of Design, Corcoran School of Arts & Design at George Washington University

Wednesday, September 18, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

AI: Passionate defenses and reasoned critique [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Rachael Dietkus, LCSW • Digital Services Expert in Design & Social Work, United States Digital Service
Llewyn Paine • Strategy Consultant
Nishanshi Shukla • PhD candidate in Arts, Technology, and Emerging Communication, The University of Texas at Dallas
David Womack • Co-founder, b-theory

Wednesday, September 4, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Methodologies: Beyond the interview [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Sam Ladner • Sociologist and Researcher
Megan Blocker • Director of User Research, DigitalOcean
Tanvi Dhond • Senior Designer, Dalberg
Katie Hansen • Senior UX Research Manager, Thumbtack
Ricardo Martins • Professor and Service designer

Wednesday, August 21, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Communication: Innovative techniques for making your voice heard [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Shazia Ali • Qualitative Research Specialist
Bruce Gillespie • Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Wilfrid Laurier University
Joyce Lee • Lead Researcher, Salesforce
Andy Warr • Director of Portfolio Research & Insights, Dropbox

Wednesday, August 7, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Collaboration: learning from other fields beyond our own [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator
Subhasree Chatterjee • Data Analytics Manager, LexisNexis Legal & Professional
Robert Fabricant • Co-Founder & Partner, Dalberg Design
Alexandra Jayeun Lee • Director of Research and Data Science, Microsoft
Ben Robins • Founder, Sound Insights

Wednesday, July 24, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Democratization: Working with it, not against it [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series]

Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator
Steve Carrod • Managing Director, DPMG, Ltd.
Chris Geison • Advancing Research Curator
Dr. Shadi Janansefat • Senior Data Scientist, Meta
Christopher Nash • UX Research Democratization Specialist

Wednesday, March 20, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

A Genuine Conversation about the Future of UX Research (Videoconference)

Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Robert Fabricant • Co-Founder & Partner, Dalberg Design
Peter Merholz • Co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs
Noam Segal • Founder, The Disruptive Coach
Teresa Torres • Author, Speaker, and Coach

Friday, March 15, 2024 • Advancing Research Community

Three Years Out: Perspectives on the Near-Term Future of User Research (Videoconference)

Lija Hogan • Principal, Customer Experience Consultant, UserTesting
Milan Mijatovic • Strategic Insight Architect, Independent
Sam Proulx • Accessibility Evangelist, Fable
Louis Rosenfeld • Principal, Rosenfeld Media

Thursday, November 9, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

What UX research maturity looks like and how we get there [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

Megan Blocker • Director of User Research, DigitalOcean
Lada Gorlenko • Senior Director of Research at MURAL
Fatimah Richmond • UXR Programs & Strategy, Google
Molly Stevens • Director of UX Research, Booking.com

Thursday, October 26, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

How to make UX research leadership more effective [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

Sarah Alvarado • Head of UX Research, AWS Emerging Technology
Nalini P. Kotamraju • Vice President, Research & Insights, Salesforce
Anne Mamaghani • Founder + CEO, Wisdom Driven UX
Peter Merholz • Co-author of Org Design for Design Orgs

Friday, October 13, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

Dark Side of Democratization (Videoconference)

Ari Zelmanow • Head of Experience Research, Core Platform, Twilio

Thursday, October 12, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

How to create actionable insight in the face of politics and silos [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

Robin Beers • Customer Insights and Experience Design Lead, Wells Fargo
Sonja Bobrowska • Senior Customer Experience Researcher, UNIQA Insurance Group
Mujtaba Hameed • Senior Research Consultant, Stripe Partners
Josh Morales • UX Research Manager, Miro

Thursday, September 28, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

What emerging methods are advancing UX research [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

Soma Ghosh • Director, Practical Semiotics
Savina Hawkins • Strategic UX Researcher & Prompt Engineer, Meta
Dave Hoffer • Design Leader
Rob Thomas • Director, Practical Semiotics
Victor Udoewa • Service Design Lead, CDC

Thursday, September 14, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

What UX research can learn from other research practices [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series] (Videoconference)

Nicole Aleong • Senior Design Researcher, TPXimpact
Michaela Mora • Founder, Relevant Insights
Prayag Narula • CEO & Co-Founder of Marvin
Brianna Sylver • President, Sylver Consulting

Thursday, August 31, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

How UX researchers can partner with (and not be replaced by) AI [Advancing Research Community Workshop Series](Videoconference)

Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Nick Fine • Digital Psychologist
Alexandra Jayeun Lee • Director of Research and Data Science, Microsoft
Greg Nudelman • Sumo Logic
Bo Wang • Senior UX Researcher, Teladoc Health

Thursday, February 23, 2023 • Advancing Research Community

Age and Interfaces: Equipping Older Adults with Technological Tools (Videoconference)

Rittika Basu • Senior Visual Designer, Merkle

Thursday, December 8, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Advice for Establishing Research (Videoconference)

Dave Hora • Founder, Dave's Research Company

Tuesday, November 15, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Layoffs (Videoconference)

Corey Nelson • UX Lead, First Page Strategy
Amy Santee • Career Strategist & Coach for UX Professionals

Thursday, September 15, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Advancing the Inclusion of Womxn in Research Practices (Videoconference)

Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Mansi Gupta • Founder, Unconform

Wednesday, July 13, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)

Uday Gajendar • UX Design Leader
Rachael Dietkus, LCSW • Digital Services Expert in Design & Social Work, United States Digital Service
Dr. Dawn Emerick • Senior Director of Strategy, Jacksonville Civic Council
Dawn E. Shedrick, LCSW • Leadership Development and Trauma Consultant

Monday, March 21, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Cultivating Business Partnerships to Grow Research Ops (Videoconference)

Noel Lamb • Research Operations

Thursday, February 3, 2022 • Advancing Research Community

Design Research Strategy & Strategic Design Research (Videoconference)

Mike Oren • Head of Design Research, Klaviyo
Janice Wiitala • UX Research and Strategy, OCC

Thursday, December 16, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

Unlocking impact and influence through inclusive hiring in research (Videoconference)

Joseph Williams • Co-Founder & CEO, Clu
Nepunnee Birondo • Facilitation & UX Research
Matt Readman • User Research Consultant
Allison Ngo • UX Researcher, Design Strategist

Friday, October 15, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

IBM User Experience Program—The What, Why and How (Videoconference)

Tracy McGoldrick • User Research Foundations Director

Thursday, October 7, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

Trauma-informed Research: A Panel Discussion (Videoconference)

Matt Bernius • Principal Qualitative Researcher, Code for America
Sarah Fathallah • Social Designer and Researcher
Hera Hussain • Founder & CEO, CHAYN
Jessica Zéroual-Kara • Senior Advisor to the Associate Deputy Minister, Deputy Minister’s Office

Thursday, September 16, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

Learning Velocity—The Insights Speedometer (Videoconference)

Jen Cardello • Senior VP, UX Research and Insights, Fidelity Investments
Jennifer Otto • VP, UX Research Operations, Fidelity Investments

Thursday, August 26, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

Bridge Building across Research Disciplines (Videoconference)

Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator
Chris Geison • Advancing Research Curator

Thursday, July 29, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

The Future of Research: Bridging the Gaps (Videoconference)

Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Steve Portigal • Author of Doorbells, Danger, and Dead Batteries and Interviewing Users
Alba Villamil • User Experience Researcher
Sam Ladner • Sociologist and Researcher

Thursday, June 17, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

What's Next for Research? (Videoconference)

Chris Geison • Advancing Research Curator
Dr. Jamika D. Burge • Head of Research & Insights Strategy for Design, Capital One
Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator

Thursday, March 4, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

What is Research Strategy?: A Panel of Research Leaders Discuss this Emergent Question (Videoconference)

Chris Geison • Advancing Research Curator
Cristen Torrey • Principal Researcher, Communal Research & Design
Eric Mahlstedt • Real Estate Investor

Thursday, January 28, 2021 • Advancing Research Community

UX Research Trends (Videoconference)

Janelle Estes • Faculty Lecturer, Bentley University

Thursday, December 3, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

The Future of UX Research (Videoconference)

Monty Hammontree • Partner Director of User Experience Research, Microsoft

Thursday, September 10, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

Planning and conducting remote usability studies for accessibility (Videoconference)

Rebecca Topps • Senior Accessibility Researcher, Atlassian

Thursday, August 27, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

Research Repositories: A global project by the ResearchOps Community (Videoconference)

Brigette Metzler • User Research Librarian, Australian Government Department of Human Services
Dana Chrisfield • Director of UX Research, Amex

Thursday, August 6, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

How Zapier Uses ‘All Hands Research’ to Increase Exposure to Users (Videoconference)

Roy Opata Olende • Head of UX Research, Zapier

Thursday, July 16, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

What Research Ops Professionals Have Learned from COVID-19 (Videoconference)

Marjorie Stainback • Senior User Researcher, Fidelity Investments
Molly Fargotstein • Associate Research Operations Manager, Mailchimp
Stephanie Marsh • UX Research Operations Lead, Springer Nature

Thursday, June 11, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

Remote User Research: Dos and Don'ts from the Virtual Field (Videoconference)

Sarah Rink • Research Director, Sngular

Thursday, April 2, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

Self-care in User Research (Videoconference)

Jane Reid • User Researcher
Janice Hannaway • Consultant User Researcher

Thursday, February 27, 2020 • Advancing Research Community

How Atlassian is Operationalizing Respect in Research (Videoconference)

Theresa Marwah • Global Head of Marketing Technology, Canva

Monday, December 16, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

Power of Insights: Why sharing is better than silos with Uber’s Insights Platform (Videoconference)

Etienne Fang • Principal Researcher, Amazon

Thursday, December 12, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

Paying Better Attention to the Problem with Indi Young (Videoconference)

Indi Young • Author of Mental Models and Practical Empathy

Thursday, October 17, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

Bringing together market and user research (Videoconference)

Jemma Ahmed • Advancing Research Curator

Tuesday, July 16, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

HITS, Microsoft's internal human insight system: From research library to living body of knowledge (Videoconference)

Matt Duignan • Principal Research Manager, Microsoft

Thursday, July 11, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

Opportunistic Research with Gregg Bernstein (Videoconference)

Gregg Bernstein • Director of User Research, Hearst Magazines

Thursday, May 16, 2019 • Advancing Research Community

The Problem Space (Videoconference)

Andrea Gallagher • UX Research on Decisions

Thursday, January 1, 1970 • Advancing Research Community

Leading through the long tail of trauma (Videoconference)

Rachael Dietkus, LCSW • Digital Services Expert in Design & Social Work, United States Digital Service
Uday Gajendar • UX Design Leader
Dr. Dawn Emerick • Senior Director of Strategy, Jacksonville Civic Council
Dawn E. Shedrick, LCSW • Leadership Development and Trauma Consultant