Dear designers, aspiring designers, and design enthusiasts!

We are happy to invite you to this year's first UX / UI Riga Meetup on January 28!

This time we will focus on the participatory design! We will gain practical insights on synthesizing research data, co-creating user personas, and framing challenges in a remote work setting. Also, we will present the UX / UI Riga community's plans for this year.

📌 Working language: ENG (lectures) + ENG & LV (community activities). The event will take place online. Please register your participation (link to Eventbrite). The number of places is limited.

📌 Meetup agenda:

“Remote workshop magic - how we do that in Prezi”

Irina Ganeviča, Senior User Experience Researcher at Prezi

Group work and flowing communication is something that we are missing in remote conversations times. Organizing an immersive workshop for the team is a challenging task for research professionals. In this presentation you will see a case study of the workshop for Prezi persona creation, with that you will learn a couple of hacks on how to keep participants engaged, and how to boost empathy and reduce video-calls fatigue.

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"How to and why you should involve clients in the design process"

Rostislav Roznoshchik, Founder at Lurnby and Design Researcher

A critical component of how well a design project runs is how successfully you can frame the problem and how much ownership the stakeholders feel for the final solution. In this talk, Rostislav will walk you through a recent case study to explain the participatory and analytical methods he has used to break down a problem, synthesize the design goals, and design with clients instead of for them.

📌 About our guest:

Irina is a Senior User Experience Researcher with 10+ years of total experience in the digital product design field. For 3 years she is also a Member of the Riga TechGirls organization, which empowers women to start their careers in IT. Irina has rich experience in SaaS - running extensive product research, instrumenting, and reporting on users’ behavioral analytics, organizing internal workshops for the team and external ones to share the knowledge with the Latvian design community. She has experience in the past in art direction, leading the designer’s team, mentoring, and multidisciplinary design since 2008.

Rostislav is a Ukrainian born, New York raised design researcher. Over his 10 year career, he has worked in a mix of startup and corporate environments. He's been a Service Designer, UX Researcher, Product Manager, and Web Designer. Currently, he's working on a personal startup project called Lurnby while doing agency work with Idea Partners