LibUX Community Webinar: UX Quackery

Early registration has closed, but before the event starts we'll post the attendee link here. Space is limited so just keep that in mind. A video of the webinar will be posted on www.libux.co, and you will still have options to opt-in for transcripts as well :). https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2533987654647911682

In the field of User Experience there are dishonest practices, misnomers, claims of special knowledges, and required skills that are touted as being ‘common knowledge’ or ‘best practices’. These biases or ‘trappings’ are often encountered when working with various clients, project managers, product managers, designers, and even developers.

This webinar will focus on the prevailing quackery that exists in the field of UX when working with various stakeholders, performing research, or conducting user testing … and what UX professionals can do to weed-out the quacks.

Our Volunteer Expert

Tim Broadwater (@tim_broadwater) is an expert UI designer and certified UX developer that has worked for Fortune 500 companies, grant-based education initiatives, higher education institutions, and nonprofit organizations. For the past ten years he has lived in the greater Pittsburgh area. He’s an avid foodie, a convention junkie, enjoys social gaming, and likes taking music and theatre road trips.

Why a suggested donation?

These webinars are free, and are -- so far -- unsponsored, presented by really special volunteers. Our speakers put in a ton of work making free content.

Many professional organizations, such as the ALA, charge members and non-members a fee for these events. The paywall excludes exactly the ground-level UXers organizations and companies need to elevate services.

However, if you are attending as a group that has earmarked a budget for professional development, or you're just happy to donate a buck or two, your contributions go straight to the presenter.

Rewards

• $1 - Everyone who donates $1 gets a producer credit in the video archive. Thank you!
• $3 - Gets you a link :). I'll link up your social media, site, you name it.
• $10 - A quality transcript of the talk, including relevant screenshots, and links. Awesome.
  
• $50 - Sponsorship. I'll thank you or your company on video and in writing before the talk and after.

This is the first ever LibUX Community Webinar (!). Ours is a community of designers, developers, librarians, info architecture people, content strategists, marketing folks, accessibility enthusiasts, and others, started by me -- Michael Schofield (@schoeyfeld) -- and Amanda L. Goodman (@godaisies). We do our best to make content that pushes the conversation around the user experience and libraries, non-profits, and higher-ed forward.

These webinars are free to everybody! I hope you find them professionally fulfilling and not boring. My pitch to potential speakers is that they know what they're talking about and they really like their topic. Experts who are enthused speak volumes.