User Research Friday

A casual conference, user research friday is where UX, research, and design professionals gather to discuss methods and meet each other. By Bolt | Peters.

On November 18th, 2011, over 200 design and research professionals gathered in NY, SF, and Amsterdam. Check out all the videos and slides here.

2010: Last Year

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.

Speakers

Tomer Sharon

Author, It's Our Research
Google

Eris Stassi

Director of UX
Morgan Stanley

Daniel Stillman

Designer
Gotham Smith

Kathi Kaiser

Partner
Centralis

Jenn Downs

Design Researcher
MailChimp

Diane Loviglio

UX Researcher
Mozilla

Nate Bolt

President
Bolt | Peters

Schedule

Venue(s)

In New York, the brand new Interaction Design department area will be our home for the afternoon. In San Francisco, come hang out in the wonderfully creative Bolt | Peters Office in the SOMA area of San Francisco. In Amsterdam, our sponsor Usabilla is hosting you for free, so you can watch and participate from there for free. Think skylights, big open space, and an HVAC system to die for. You can check out more pictures from other events if you so desire.

URF 2008

More than 250 people had a great time in 2008. Check out that one.

Sponsors

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.

Become a Sponsor or Media Partner!

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. Contact Cyd Harrell at cyd@boltpeters.com to discuss different sponsorship levels. This is a great opportunity to support the design and development community looking to do smart research and gain recognition for your brand!

Who Should Attend

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 )

From the Authors of Remote Research



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.