Techie Brekkie #6 / What's UX Research all about, huh? / Andy Irvine
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We all agree that it's important to understand our users, but User Research is the murkiest component of a product team. I'll de-murk the dark art of User Research by exploring:
- Why everyone should care about their users
- What UX Research is
- How UX Research fits together with everyone else
Andy is UX Team Lead at FreeAgent, one of the UK's largest, and most popular, online accounting software providers. Andy helps the FreeAgent team understand customers and ensures the right things are made, and the right things are right. Right?
Prior to FreeAgent, Andy was Head of UX at Blonde, helping guide organisations like Royal Mail, 2014 Commonwealth Games, ScotRail and IRN-BRU through the choppy waters of creating great experiences for their customers. A self taught UXer, he's worked in digital since the heady days of 1999.
Techie Brekkie #5 / Wearing the Architect's Hat / Alec McEachran
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Front-End Software Architecture has become increasingly commoditized by the major tech companies. Major Front-End Frameworks are powerful and inform a lot of architectural decisions, but we constrain ourselves unnecessarily when we consider the limit of our architectural considerations the choice between (e.g.) React or Angular. Every problem domain is different, and good architecture simplifies and standardizes the development of solutions for that domain. We should all wear an architect hat, some of the time.
Alec is Principal Developer at KPV LAB, Edinburgh. He was previously Senior Software Engineer at Google (Firebase and YouTube), and worked in California during the 2010s Social Games gold-rush. In a previous life, he was a Mathematics and Philosophy high-school teacher.
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