WORKSHOP:
Collaborative Analysis: Understanding Users Together
+ With Aras Bilgen + Language English
It is great that many companies recognize the value of user research and reach out to their users for insights. Unfortunately, many companies fail to benefit from user research because they carry it out with only a small team of researchers and designers. This small team makes isolated decisions, uses flawed methods with wrong participants, and arrive at incorrect conclusions. By the time the project members realize that the study is useless, it is already too late, months are wasted.
Good user research needs to follow a solid framework and everyone on the project needs to be involved from day 1. In this workshop, we will discuss why the entire team—from developers to business partners—should be a part of user research, and why they must absolutely be a part of the analysis phase. We will then go over techniques for creative analysis that help your teams focus on impactful changes together. If you have a big ego, this workshop is not for you.
Who is Aras Bilgen
Aras Bilgen leads the core UX team in Garanti Bank, a BBVA joint-venture in Turkey. His team of 30 designers and developers work on a broad range of areas from mobile apps, web sites, ATMs to enterprise software, discovery, and long-term strategic research.
Prior to joining Garanti, he was the product director for Çiçeksepeti, the largest flower and gifting site in the world. Before ÇiçekSepeti, Aras was a Product Development Group Manager at Monitise, where his team of product managers and designers delivered top-notch digital experiences for leading financial institutions and e-commerce sites, such as İşBank, Visa, eBay, Turkcell and Turkish Airlines. He was a UX planner at Intel where he led the UX planning for Tizen (with Samsung), worked on MeeGo (with Nokia) and adapted Intel’s brand identity system for the software products.
Previously, he was at Microsoft Research, where he developed a gestural system for interacting with displays remotely. He completed similar research efforts at the University of California, Irvine and Lancaster University, UK.
Aras holds a BS from Bilkent University and an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech. He is an avid cook and drives his colleagues nuts by winning all food-related trivia games.
