UXPA Boston Conference 2018

This will be a panel session unlike any other. We have two UXers known throughout the UXPA community for their qualitative research, two UXers equally well known for their quantitative research, plus a referee (aka moderator) known for his outstanding emcing skills and his neutrality that rivals Switzerland. It's time for the "Ultimate Smackdown"!

Yes, our proposal is for a panel session, but we intend to borrow elements from pro wrestling (without the actual tossing of people around), including masks and capes. And probably some trash-talking.
It will be a tag-team match, where the referee will start each round with a question or topic and one member of team Quant will face off against one member of team Qual. They size each other up, circling their prey as they give their arguments for why their approach is best for the topic at hand. If one of their partners has a point they want to make, they will have to "tag in".

The end of each round will be signaled by a bell and the audience will vote on which team "won" that round. We will, of course, take questions from the audience.

While we obviously want to make this fun, we also plan to convey useful information about qualitative and quantitative research methods, such as:
• What are some of the common qualitative and quantitative approaches to UX research?
• Is “method” a useless term to apply here?
• How does ROI figure into both Quant and Qual?
• What does Qual solve for that Quant doesn’t? And vice versa?
We will hype this session as much as possible both before and during the conference through posters (in the style of typical wrestling posters) and social media.