09:30 – 12:30 | 26 Sept 2024 | 2-Work, Leeds
As part of this year's Leeds Digital Festival, we're running a half-day workshop exploring how designers and researchers can work better together.
Researchers spend time and effort to understand users and their needs. They then share their findings with designers, who then create solutions that meet those needs. For various reasons though, the finer details can fall through the gap between research taking place and the designs being released into the wild.
This workshop will deliver findings from in-depth research into the current ‘gap’ between design and research. It will go on to give practical steps that designers and researchers can take to ensure they are working as a seamless team to deliver exceptional experiences for their users.
Throughout the day, we’ll cover:
The tools and techniques to be able to ensure that the insights from research make it through to the final design. Whether you’re responsible for running the research, designing the product or a bit of both the workshop will help you overcome the current challenges along this process. Bridging the gap between research and design will help to ensure that we’re all delivering exceptional experiences for our users.
About Luke
Luke is part of Clearleft’s design research team. He digs deep into the needs of users and customers through user interviews and user testing, gaining empathy and domain insight. He then shares this empathy and context with the wider team in order to empower their design decisions for the benefit of our clients and their customers.
Luke is a UX consultant with over 20 years experience across UX and user research. He combines qualitative and quantitative research techniques to get a rounded picture of user experience. This often means looking at website analytics data such as Google Analytics, alongside plenty of qualitative user research (i.e. talking to users).
“Luke was a really knowledgeable and welcoming trainer. The course content was easy to understand and we had chance to develop on queries throughout the day where needed. I also felt very lucky that Luke had taken to the time to get a good understanding of our charity and what we do.”
