User Research Bootcamp - End to End Guide for Testing Digital Products
User Research Bootcamp - End to End Guide for Testing Digital Products
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Create a design research playbook! In this 3-weeks you'll practice running a study & create a guide for your future user-centered research.
User Research Bootcamp - End to End Guide for Testing Digital Products
5 Weeks
·Cohort-based Course
Create a design research playbook! In this 3-weeks you'll practice running a study & create a guide for your future user-centered research.
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Hosted by
Heatherlee Nguyen
The Indie Consultant
Course overview
End-to-End UX Research: a 30-day bootcamp!
No research team? No problem! Learn how to plan product testing, recruit real users, and design user tests to maximize learning.
Who is this course for
01
Founders + Entrepreneurs, are you sick of not really knowing about your users? Lacking data & insight into your product? Take this bootcamp!
02
Freelance Designers, Consultants are you eager to become a researcher too? Learn how to confidently test client work & run your own studies!
03
UX Managers + Product leads, want your team trained to run usability tests? Need to develop personas? Sign up as a team!
Key outcomes
Learn the different research methods
On week 1 you'll learn the different methods and why certain styles are better at certain phases. As a group we'll look through some survey data to make hypotheses..
Craft a formal test plan
By week 2 you'll have a drafted test plan as you learn how to communicate your learning objectives. You can test your own hypothesis for your own project or use 1 of the examples..
Practice interviewing + facilitating
Put it all to practice! Week 3 you'll learn the dos and don'ts of writing scripts and facilitating usability tests and user interviews! The prior 2 weeks of work set you up for this..
Synthesize learnings + create personas!
Week 4 you'll learn how to effectively synthesize your learnings into themes, key insights and start persona documentation. The next week (Oct 29) is demo day, where you'll present your Findings Deck!
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Meet your instructor
Heatherlee Nguyen
The Indie Consultant
Hi I’m Heatherlee, the Indie Consultant ☺️ A freelance UX Designer & Researcher helping tech startups and small businesses launch their big ideas! 🚀
For 12 years I've been an Independent Consultant practicing at the intersection of UX, Product + Service Design. I've been trained in the formal way of research and developed more scrappy, creative methods along the way. My goal is to arm anyone, with any background, with the skills to plan & facilitate user research of any kind!
My corporate background includes UX work in the Twin Cities at most noteably Optum (UnitedHealth Group), Mayo Clinic, Target, Best Buy and Securian Financial. I'm also a Human-Centered Design coach who worked with smaller agencies like Azul Seven, with cool clients such as Capital One and Teleopti. I got my BFA from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design.
Globally, people may know me from altMBA (3) OpenIDEO, Black Designers Ignite, Femmecubator, Twin Cities Startup Week, Hack the Gap, or my Mpls Ignite talks Free UI: Making Zero UI More Human (2016).
I consider myself a Researcher above all because I believe a great designer is curious and exploratory. I also love people and learning about them and how the digital landscape continues to shape the way we live and perceive the world around us.
I can't wait to learn more about all of you. We will be actively participating in a little study of my own during this month (which I'll further explain on week one :) See you October 1st!
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Course syllabus
01
Methods: Surveys + Interviews
The what! Jump right into example survey data + write your own survey + interviewing template. Week 1 is about defining your learning objectives and starting your test plan.
02
Test Plans: Objectives + Participants
The who and the why! With the prior survey work you'll have a working test plan (a solid artifact you can reference & reuse after this bootcamp).
03
Facilitating: Interviewing Users
The how! Week 3 is an awesome experience for those who've never facilitated usability tests or interviewed users before. You'll learn all the tips + practice with each other during class, and interview real users as homework.
04
Synthesizing + Presenting: The Art of the Findings Deck
Telling the story! What have you learned? How will you share the results of this study? Get your key insights together, week 4 has you working on your final findings deck (to be shared the following & final week!)
05
Demo Day! --- Sat. Oct 29, 2022 ---
Share with us! On Week 5 it's solely Demo Day! You will have the opportunity to present your Findings Deck with your peers. (We may even open this up to the public!)
Course schedule
4-6 hours per week
Saturdays (5 consecutive weeks)
1:00pm - 2:00pm EST
Starting Saturday, October 1st, We will meet live on Zoom for one hour once a week for the core lesson plan of the week. This includes live presentation, quick videos, solo + group work every Saturday.
Sat. Oct.1
Sat. Oct. 8
Sat. Oct.15
Sat. Oct. 22
Sat. Oct. 29 - demo day!
Thursday check-ins (3 total, optional!)
7:00-8:00pm EST
Starting after week 2, there's a Zoom check-in with your instructor and peers to get feedback and share what you've been doing. (There are a total of 3 of these optional sessions).
Thurs. Oct. 13
Thurs. Oct. 20
Thurs. Oct. 27
Course runs October 1 - 30th
30 days total
- first class = Sat. October 1st
- 5 Saturdays total (lectures + live, group learning)
- 3 Thursdays (optional check-ins)
- last live class together will be on Saturday, Oct 29th
- final course materials available and sent October 30-31st
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