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UXPA Boston Conference 2020

Our first ever all-virtual UXPA Boston Conference took place on October 23, 2020. Thank you to all who attended!

8:30am EDT

Welcome and Opening Chat 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)Matt DiGirolamo

9:15am EDT

Elevating design with words 2 - Back Bay C/D (Design)Annie Persson Find it and Fix It: How a UX audit empowers you to identify your product’s top UX issues 5 - Liberty (Career)Judy Xu Is That Really Me? A Case Study in Measuring Emotional Engagement of Customers Using a Virtual Dressing Room in an e-Commerce Website 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)William Albert Learn from the Best: How Experienced Professionals Moderate Usability Tests 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Rolf Molich The Dirty Truth about Accessibility 3 - Independence (Strategy)William Murray

10:15am EDT

Survive and thrive through a usability emergency 5 - Liberty (Career)Catherine Robson Same data, different chart: How the form of data affects what users can see 2 - Back Bay C/D (Design)Erica Gunn Research Ready to Build: Compelling Artifacts that Speak Your Agile Team’s Language 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)Joshua Ledwell • Devashree Desai What Did I Miss? The Hidden Costs of Deprioritizing Diversity 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Megan Campos Being together is overrated: Making distributed and remote teams work 3 - Independence (Strategy)Diana Brown Morning Mentoring 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)Jen McGinn • Bob Thomas

11:15am EDT

Forget About Coding. Why Product Management Skills can Elevate your UX Design. 5 - Liberty (Career)Henry Wu Your New Enterprise Sidekick - Designing The Conversational Experience Of Your Workplace Chatbot 2 - Back Bay C/D (Design)Srikant Chari The Great UX Debates 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)Eva Kaniasty • Chris LaRoche • Jeremy Kriegel • Colleen McCretton • Michael Hawley • Jen McGinn Riding the synthesis wave: How to avoid drowning in your qualitative data 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Margot Lieblich When UX research and organizational culture collide: Leveraging organizational design frameworks for more effective and impactful outcomes. 3 - Independence (Strategy)Lindsey Messervy

12:00pm EDT

Lunch Break 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)

12:30pm EDT

Lunchtime Table Topics 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)Eva Kaniasty • Bob Thomas

1:30pm EDT

Bringing UX in-house: Cultivating digital skills through peer training 5 - Liberty (Career)Lindsay Goldstein • Shannon McHarg • Maroya Faied Building a UX Practice in the Face of Resistance 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)Bob Thomas • Loi Sessions Goulet • Craig Cailler • Richard Beauregard • Lauren McKenzie Beyond the Binary: Design Principles for Gender-Identity Inclusion 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Jess Mons • Lindsey Brinkworth The Remote Design Sprint Toolkit: Create and user test a new idea within a big team in 1 week (even remotely!) 3 - Independence (Strategy)Norman Wozniak • Emily Thompson • Lauren Lamperski

2:30pm EDT

Eliminate 60% of Accessibility issues by implementing Design Systems 2 - Back Bay C/D (Design)Rajesh Kalidindi • Joanna Kirtley Enterprise Customer Insights Research - How to Make an Impact? 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Meng Yang • Lindsay Li Empower Your UX Team via Effective Onboarding 5 - Liberty (Career)Shanae Ullman If we can do it, you can do it: two librarians navigate a web redesign project 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)Andrea Schuler • Nicole Bookout Why UX Matters: The Chips and Pickle Story 3 - Independence (Strategy)Dean Schuster Afternoon Mentoring 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)Jen McGinn • Bob Thomas

3:30pm EDT

From Sticker Sheet to Mature Design System: Improving User Experiences while Scaling an Org 2 - Back Bay C/D (Design)Jessie Rogers • Stephanie Cenatiempo • Neva Corbo-Hudak • Karissa Woodward-Hobson The State of Agile UX 4 - Republic (Research & Panels)Diana Brown • Jeremy Kriegel • Melanie St James • Jen McGinn • Calvin Arterberry Boundary Maintenance for UX Researchers 1 - Back Bay A/B (Research)Kris Engdahl Facilitating Collaboration on Cross-cultural Teams 3 - Independence (Strategy)Estefania Ciliotta • Michael Arnold Mages UX in the Discovery Phase: Building the Right Thing 5 - Liberty (Career)Erin Freeburger • Chris Hansen

4:30pm EDT

The Misapplication of Empathy 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)Sekai Farai

5:15pm EDT

Networking 6 - Ballroom (UXPA Boston)