A casual conference, user research friday is where UX, research, and design professionals gather to discuss methods and meet each other. By User Interface Engineering.
On November 18th, 2011, over 200 design and research professionals gathered in NY, SF, and Amsterdam. Check out all the videos and slides here.
There were 125 web, UX, design, and research professionals that got together in San Francisco in SOMA to listen to talks from the Twitter design research team, Jared Spool, and many others. You can see all the videos & slides on the 2010 page, although we know conference videos are usually pretty dry unless it's freaking TED. These ones pretty good. Swear.
Rosenfeld Media is simply the only user experience publisher in the world. Buy their books because they rock.
Usabilla offers a fast and simple way to collect visual feedback on webpages, mockups, wireframes, sketches, or any other images.
Optimal Workshop took their years of experience in usability consulting and condensed it into a suite of usability study tools. We love their card sorting!
User Testing, the fastest, cheapest way to discover why people leave your website.
C'mon, we make this thing, and it's awesome sauce for recruiting participants. All that at ethn.io.
Would you like to sponsor the first User Research Friday in New York City? Your logo will be displayed prominently on this site and in the conference materials.
Startups
Designers at startups
Product managers at startups
Developers at startups
The lone UX wolf at a startup
Designers and developers who care about UX at startups
Founders of startups
Investors in startups
You've done focus groups and thought they sucked
Developers at startups who think users are stupid
Market research professionals now working for a startup
You, you, and you (from Blues Brothers)
Me and you, your momma and your cousin, too (from Outkast )
We completed the book, Remote Research, last year, which is the the first book on online user research methods written in the history of humankind.
