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 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.
