Virtual Conference – Advancing Research 2020
A new conference for people who do research.
The AR2020 Reading List
A lot of great books were mentioned during the inaugural Advancing Research conference (some written by our presenters!) and after seeing so much enthusiasm for swapping recommendations, we started a slack channel dedicated to great…
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Frequently Asked Questions (and Answers) about Advancing Research 2020
Will I get to watch recordings? Yes. Soon after each day ends the raw recorded version will be accessible on the same page where you watched the virtual conference. Edited versions of the presentations will…
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The Advancing Research conference has gone virtual!
In light of current events, we've decided to make the inaugural Advancing Research conference a virtual experience. We hope you'll consider joining us; we'll still offer our excellent program, two years in the making, and are adding a variety…
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Important update regarding the Advancing Research conference
Hi all, I know you're concerned about the status of AR2020. The pandemic is, to say the least, frightening, and we're doing our best to navigate a difficult, uncertain, and extremely fluid situation that changes…
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Livestream access to Advancing Research 2020
UPDATED MARCH 13, 2020 Hi all, I know you’re concerned about the status of AR2020. The pandemic is, to say the least, frightening, and we’re doing our best to navigate a difficult, uncertain, and extremely…
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UPDATED MARCH 13 – From our COO
UPDATED MARCH 13, 2020 Hi all, I know you’re concerned about the status of AR2020. The pandemic is, to say the least, frightening, and we’re doing our best to navigate a difficult, uncertain, and extremely…
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Meet our scholarship recipients
We’re delighted to announce our Advancing Research 2020 scholarship recipients. There were nearly 200 applications, so our judges really had their work cut out for them. Rachel Poonsiriwong is an emerging interaction designer at the…
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Meet Nalini Kotamraju, Vice President, User Insights & Analytics at Salesforce
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Kate Weir, SVP Sales & General Manager, North America at iMotions
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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No travel required; livestream conference tickets are now available!
The inaugural Advancing Research conference is officially sold out. Still want to take part in the full menu of in-person ticket benefits including access to our Slack channel, live Q&A, recorded videos of the conference sessions,…
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Meet Sean McKay, Founder and CEO at Handrail, Inc.
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Patti Carlson, Director of UX Research at Mailchimp
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Mariano Suarez-Battan, Co-founder and CEO at MURAL
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Basel Fakhoury, Co-founder and CEO at User Interviews
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Benjamin Humphrey, Co-founder and CEO of Dovetail
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Dalia El-Shimy, UX Research Lead at Shopify
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet Carl Wong, Co-founder and CEO at LivingLens
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Meet EnjoyHQ CEO Sofia Quintero
We are lucky to have so many wonderful sponsors and exhibitors at this year’s Advancing Research conference–and we thought you might like to get to know them better! We’ve asked all of them some questions…
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Three scholarships available for Advancing Research 2020
We're offering three scholarships to deserving researchers and students to attend the upcoming Advancing Research conference in New York City, March 30-March 31. People from underserved groups are especially encouraged to apply. Apply now! Please…
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Add one of four full-day workshops to your conference ticket!
We're pleased to offer four full-day workshops on April 1. Add one to your two day conference ticket. Research Systems with Tomer Sharon, Managing Director, Head of User Research & Metrics, Goldman Sachs The practice…
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The Advancing Research conference program is live!
The program for Advancing Research 2020 is here, including 3 full-day workshops. We're so excited to share the program for our inaugural Advancing Research conference (New York; March 30-April 1, 2020)! We've selected a lineup…
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Researching the Researchers: From 721 responses to 5 personas to a new conference
Four members of our Advancing Research curation team join Lou to discuss the research they did to help shape our inaugural Advancing Research conference (New York City; March 30-April 1, 2020). The team analyzed over…
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How we Researched and Designed the Advancing Research Conference
There are more researchers focused on users, customers, and products than ever before, and those researchers’ needs are changing. Rosenfeld Media has already interacted with researchers through the Advancing Research community, which we curate, but…
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UPDATE: Call for Proposals closed
Thank you to everyone who applied to speak at the very first Advancing Research conference!
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New conference for researchers starts with…research
When we decided to explore the idea of putting together a new conference for researchers of various stripes, we started with our own research: a survey that drew over 700 responses in July of 2019.…
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Join our communityThese great organizations are helping us bring the 2020 Advancing Research Conference to New York City.
Handrail helps enterprise teams succeed with research at scale. Handrail is an enterprise research management platform for teams to easily store, find, and share user research and insights. Create research plans and interview guides, take notes together as a team, perform qualitative data analysis, capture findings, and share insights with stakeholders—all inside of Handrail.
Handrail
By visualizing eye tracking, facial expression analysis, and electrodermal activity data in real time with the iMotions platform, UX/UI professionals can instantly quantify reactions to a website, mobile app, product, or game. Whether to diagnose problem areas in user interfaces, detect when users miss key information, or better understand engagement or confusion levels, the iMotions software helps you get the full picture.
iMotions
MURAL is a digital workspace for visual collaboration, enabling innovative teams to collaborate to solve important problems. People benefit from MURAL’s speed and ease of use in creating diagrams, as well as tools to facilitate more impactful meetings and workshops. Global enterprises have embraced visual collaboration to align teams, plan in real-time, speed up decision making, reduce travel costs, and accelerate a culture of innovation. MURAL’s certified enterprise-class cloud-based infrastructure connects 40% of Fortune 100 global enterprises, and is supported by investors from Radian Capital, Gradient Ventures, Endeavor Catalyst and others. The company is headquartered in SF and employs 100+ people working remotely across six time zones, including office hubs in Buenos Aires and Europe.
MURAL
At Salesforce User Research, we believe that people need business applications that are vibrant, empowering, and simple. We are artists and scientists, working together to make tools that millions of employees at the most successful companies in the world depend on every day.
Salesforce
Ethnio is the ultimate platform for UX research participant management. Upload participants, create intercepts, automate all your scheduling, pay incentives in every country and currency, and track everything for your whole research team in one place.
Ethnio
User Interviews automates the process of recruiting, vetting, and scheduling participants for any type of user research and also have the world’s first Research CRM to help companies manage research with their own users.
User Interviews
Dovetail is a cloud-based user research and customer feedback software for analysis, organization, collaboration and storage of user and customer data. With Dovetail, researchers, analysts, designers, and product managers can store user research data in one place, analyze qualitative data to discover patterns and insights, and share research findings with the rest of their organization.
Dovetail
EnjoyHQ helps UX teams learn from customers faster by streamlining their customer research process. Used by teams at Adobe, Usertesting.com, and GrubHub, EnjoyHQ makes it easy to centralize, organize and share all your customer insights and user research data in one place. Scale your ResearchOps with EnjoyHQ.
EnjoyHQ
Mailchimp is a marketing platform that focuses on empowering startups and small businesses with innovative tools that help them grow. We offer email, automated drip campaigns, landing pages, CRM functionality, postcards, social ads, and more. Since 2017, our UX Research team has expanded from tactically supporting 5 product teams to delivering timely and robust insights across the organization. The team, along with Analytics peers, surfaces actionable insights and shares them to inform decisions that influence strategy and drive measurable results. We seek the real story that cuts through behavior data, interviews, and surveys.
Mailchimp
We’re the largest home-grown UX team in Canada, with more than 400 people (including 70+ researchers) dedicated to empowering commerce at a global scale. Our researchers use the context they acquire to help shape Shopify's product strategy and the experiences of its merchants, buyers, and partners.
Shopify
Goldman Sachs provides financial services to corporations, financial institutions, governments, and individuals. Its User Experience team is diverse, global, and cross-disciplinary, and takes deep dives into select problems, partnering with the business, clients, and technologists to make the tools it delivers powerful, competitive, and consumable.
Goldman Sachs
A focus on user outcomes. Restless reinvention. Diverse empowered teams. At IBM, we are building the largest design organization in the world with a mission to create a sustainable culture of design and design thinking empowered to solve our users’ problems at the speed and scale of the modern digital enterprise.
IBM
Whatever motivates and inspires you, we’re a community that helps you realize your definition of success. #InItTogether
LinkedIn
Macmillan Learning improves lives through learning. Our legacy of excellence in education informs our approach to using user-centered design, learning science, and impact research to develop world-class content and pioneering products that are empathetic, highly effective, and drive improved outcomes.
Macmillan LearningHow can we help?