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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 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

You don’t need to ask that – Anticipatory Design to create smart, delightful user experiences Republic A/BYogesh Moorjani 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

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

How Designers Can Make the World a Happier Place Republic A/BKathi Kaiser 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

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 The Art of Information: A Guide to Data Visualization Design Republic A/BElaine Li

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