What prevents us from doing user research? What can we do against it? How did it work out in my previous experience? I always went there to do wireframes and ended up getting plane tickets to field trips. How did it happen? This is what I'm talking about. Video version: http://ustre.am/_3MdB0:2qHq

1. HELLO
my name is Adam Nemeth

2. SOME QUESTIONS FIRST...

3. Paper proto test environment
Courtesy of Eszter Könczöl @ GE

4. UXstudio.hu

6. WHY DON’T WE TEST
MORE OFTEN?

7. FEAR

8. FEARS
of a UX Designer

9. will users
LIKE
my design?

10. will users
UNDERSTAND
my design?

11. do I answer a
REAL LIFE PROBLEM
with my design?

12. TWO PATHS

13. BETTER NOT TO GET
FEEDBACK
https://flic.kr/p/4Dy1AC

14. User Experience is the set of
emotions and thoughts a
person goes through during
contact with a system
Wikipedia, cca 2012

15. your users
WILL NOT USE
your wireframes

16. SEEK FEEDBACK
https://flic.kr/p/hqLawR

17. DOES YOUR WORK MAKE
PEOPLE HAPPIER?

18. FEARS
of a manager

19. Am I excercising
CONTROL
just enough?

20. ROI?

21. will other people
LIKE
me?

22. FLORIDA

23. BUCHAREST

24. PRAGUE

25. IT DIDN’T START LIKE THIS

26. most companies only ask for
WIREFRAMES

27. research is
ADDICTIVE

28. How to
user research?
2
3 4 5

29. 1test
EXISTING SOFTWARE

31. 2test on
SOMEONE EXTERNAL

32. FACECAM 3 use a
https://flic.kr/p/8bsavb

33. 4
your free time

34. 5MAKE THEM WATCH IT

35. SENDING A LINK WON’T DO

36. STORYTIME

37. THE PROBLEM ALREADY
EXIST

39. INTERNAL USERS

41. knowledge is
POWER

42. user research is
DANGEROUS

43. user research makes you
THE PERSON TO GO TO

44. user research makes you a
BETTER PERSON

46. IT’S FUN

47. GO OUT

48. MEET YOUR USERS

49. BUILD RELATIONSHIPS

50. USERS FIRST
usersfirst.blog.hu