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The UX of Being Human: A Usability Assessment of You

by Janel Anderson | at Minnebar20

What if we applied the same rigor we use to evaluate software interfaces to how we interact with our colleagues?

In this session, we'll conduct a live usability assessment, but instead of testing an app, we're testing you. Using actual UX methodology (heuristics, systems thinking, friction analysis), we'll identify where your professional interactions create unnecessary cognitive load, confusion, or frustration for the people trying to interact with you as a coworker or leader.

You'll discover:

• The hidden usability issues in how you communicate • Why your "intuitive" management style might be anything but • How to run lightweight user testing on your own leadership approach • The difference between being technically right and being human-centered

Walk away with a practical framework for making yourself easier to work with, because the best technology works seamlessly, and the best colleagues should be too.

Perfect for developers, designers, and anyone who's ever wondered why people problems feel harder to debug than code problems.

Janel Anderson

Dr. Janel Anderson, owner of Working Conversations, helps technology organizations communicate more effectively so they can collaborate better, be more innovative, and get products to market faster.

Janel began her career in a start-up company where venture capital investors kept a revolving door on the senior leadership. Her curiosity about that prompted her to go to graduate school to better understand what makes for great leadership communication. After completing a PhD in organizational communication at Purdue University, she taught at the college level before returning to corporate America to run a user experience engineering department for a multinational corporation.

Janel combines her research background with many years in the corporate sector to provide engaging, motivating programs that are research-based and realistic and practical. Her technical management experience equips her to interact easily in technical settings with everyone from senior executives to individual contributors.

She lives in Minneapolis with her husband and three children. Outside of work, Janel serves the urges of taste and design as she reverse engineers recipes for dishes from her favorite restaurants in her kitchen at home.

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/janelanderson/

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