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UXPA Boston Conference 2018

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7:30am EDT

Breakfast & Open Networking Constitution Registration Opens Ballroom Foyer

8:30am EDT

Welcome & Opening Keynote - UXPA Boston: Today & Tomorrow BallroomDan Berlin

9:15am EDT

In Case of Emergency, Break Taboo IndependenceBrandon Ward Purpose Before Action - Why you need a Design Language System Republic A/BCarrie Lloyd • Chris Reckling Securing the right research participants Back Bay A/BAmanda l Stockwell Interactive Journey Maps: Take your design & strategy deliverables to the next level! Back Bay C/DJennifer Briselli

10:15am EDT

CPUX – A Serious (and Usable?) European Attempt at Certifying UX Professionals Liberty B/CRolf Molich 5 essential art history lessons for UX & UI designers Republic A/BJennifer Smith 10-Minute Talks - Curated Commonwealth (Upstairs)Benjamin Basseches • Julian Gautier • Derek Murphy • Tania Schlatter Drawing Insights: Bringing Co-Creation to an Enterprise Context Back Bay A/BHilary Dwyer • Aaron Hatley • Timothy Hicks • Yogesh Moorjani • Neha Raghuvanshi • Whitney Roan • Priya Shetye Battling the Blah-Blah-Blahs: 7 Tips for Making Websites Readable Back Bay C/DJen Kramer • Martha Nichols Elevate your UX Team to Superhero Status by Forging a Guild IndependenceCarol Sadowsky Bergantino • Jennifer Bullard • Taylor Hayward

11:15am EDT

Mentoring Session #1 Liberty B/CPaul Boyd • Warren Croce • Benjamin Davies • Brad Durkin • Aaron Hatley • Kerry Holeman • Meena Kothandaraman • Jen McGinn • Susan Mercer • Heather O'Neill • Tania Schlatter • Kyle Soucy • Bob Thomas • Tom Tullis • Brandon Ward • Hanna Yehuda You don’t need to ask that – Anticipatory Design to create smart, delightful user experiences Republic A/BYogesh Moorjani 10-Minute Talks - Students Commonwealth (Upstairs)Hoshedar Bamji • Sean Higgins • Jen Siegel You Keep Using That Word... On the need for a shared vocabulary in UX Back Bay C/DDanielle Cooley Building Your Benchmark: How to Measure UX for Product Impact Over Time Back Bay A/BJennifer Otto • Paul Sisler • Yina Li Turchetti Design Sprints in the corporate world. Shorter sprints, remote testing, and other real-world adaptations. IndependenceYuling An • Caryn Gallis • Lija Hogan

12:00pm EDT

Lunchtime Table Topics Liberty B/CEva Kaniasty • Alyssa Boehm • janelle estes • Michael Hawley • Suzanne Hillman • Azilah Iskandar • Joshua Ledwell • Colleen McCretton • Dani Nordin • Mahima Pushkarna • Juhan Sonin • Amanda l Stockwell • Carol Szatkowski • Megan Tierney • Jonathan Tilliss Lunch Constitution

1:00pm EDT

The Wallflower's Guide to Selling Your Soft Skills (or To Surviving Behavioral Interviews) Liberty B/CKelly Moeller • Bryn Schockett Takeaways from CUE-10: A Hands-On Comparative Study of Experienced Usability Test Moderators Back Bay C/DCarol M. Barnum • Steve Krug • Jen McGinn • Rolf Molich • Elizabeth Rosenzweig Through Their Eyes: Using VR to Simulate Retinal Diseases Republic A/BJessica Holt-Carr • Weiwei Huang Using Qualitative Data Analysis Tools to Create a Virtual Tapestry of your Organization’s UX Research Back Bay A/BKay Corry Aubrey • Stuart Robertson Hope is not a method: How improving diversity in your design team makes better products and what you can do about it. IndependenceLisa deBettencourt

2:00pm EDT

Mentoring Session #2 Liberty B/CKanwaldeep 'KD' Singh Arneja • Sarah Bloomer • Astrid Chow • Ger Joyce • Nawaz Kamthewala • Kenny Kutney • Mary Lee • Jen McGinn • Jesse Morano • Emma Nguyen • Stephanie Reardon Redfern • Jason Reynolds • Susie Robson • Bob Thomas • Timothy Merrill • Rui Wang How Designers Can Make the World a Happier Place Republic A/BKathi Kaiser 10-Minute Talks - Curated Commonwealth (Upstairs)Elizabeth Harris • Ben Kertman • Dan Zollman User Research with People with Disabilities: What you Need to Know Back Bay A/BPeter McNally Digital whiteboarding and other techniques for remote collaboration and ideation IndependenceKristina Beckley • Ethan Perry Research is a team sport! Implementing an interviewing workshop to raise customer empathy Back Bay C/DHilary Dwyer • Elizabeth Quigley

2:45pm EDT

Coffee Break Constitution

3:15pm EDT

Design & Diversity: Why does this matter and what can we do? Back Bay C/DFarah Bernier • Nathan Kituuma • Matthew Laurence • Anoush Najarian • Hema Seshadri • Shanae Ullman Listen up! Improving your listening skills and awareness Back Bay A/BKaren Bachmann Sponsored Session - Redefine Your Redesign: How to Make the Most of Big Swings IndependenceDaniel Lachapelle • Wayfair The Art of Information: A Guide to Data Visualization Design Republic A/BElaine Li 10-Minute Talks - Students Commonwealth (Upstairs)Cameron Brown-Cross • Amanda Holmes • Stuti Jhaveri • Margot Lieblich • Louise Padilla

4:15pm EDT

Turning Designers Into Data Nerds Republic A/BLara Cavezza • Lindsay Matthews Participatory Paradigm Shifts: Workshop Methods to Design Innovative Products and Services Back Bay A/BLisa Otto Qual vs. Quant: The Ultimate Smackdown! Back Bay C/DMike Fritz • Chris Hass • Meena Kothandaraman • Elizabeth Rosenzweig • Tom Tullis Introduce Accessibility to your Organization by Inspiring Behavioral Changes IndependenceMark Miller

5:15pm EDT

Sketching and Designing Your Career Path Liberty B/CErin Freeburger • Lis Pardi Learning Machine Learning: Implications for Design and UX Republic A/BMahima Pushkarna Origin Stories for Personas: Positioning and Purpose of the Pervasive Design Tool Back Bay C/DZarla Ludin Research + Psychology = Magic: How to Plan and Analyze Research with the COM-B Model of Behavior Change Back Bay A/BAmy Bucher, Ph.D. The Fracturing of the Experience Movement IndependenceBill Gribbons

6:00pm EDT

Cocktail Hour Ballroom Foyer