Guerrilla Usability, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love UX

Track: UX + Git + DevOps
Skill Level: Beginner
Room: Room 105
Time Slot: Tue 2/25, 2:30 PM
Tags: ux , user research , user experience
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Abstract

A talk about the grand importance of user testing and research and how anyone can perform these tasks with no UX staff or budget. Topics covered include doing in-person testing with little or no budget, performing remote usability tests and a brief overview of what it means to perform usability tasks.

Bryan Robinson

Bryan Robinson is the Director of Design and Strategy at RocketFuel an interactive agency in Memphis, Tenn. He manages a small design team and teaches HTML and CSS to journalism students at the University of Memphis.

Before working at RocketFuel, Bryan worked for the EW Scripps Company as a User Experience Specialist and Sr. Front-end Developer, where he oversaw the HTML, CSS and Javascript for 13 newspaper websites and helped guide new products through UX and product development methodologies.

He is a member of The Interaction Design Association and takes an avid interest in the technological and entrepreneurial community in Memphis and is a board member for HACKmemphis, Memphis Technology Foundation and co-organizes the Memphis Web Workers. In his spare time, Bryan is an enthusiastic geek enjoying video and board games as well as great books and movies.