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Episode 52: Data-Driven Design with Brent Palmer
Episode 52: Data-Driven Design with Brent Palmer
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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Mar 9, 2017
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Podcast episode
Description
How do you make sure your design efforts are effective? There's no bigger mistake than just guess! Brent Palmer, a design lead at Zendesk, walks us through the tools and methods for data-driven design. You'll learn how to approach customer research the right way, why testing is important, and how to deal with the research results.
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Show Notes
Zendesk — the company where Brent works
Heap, Google Analytics, Mixpanel — common analytics tools
Usability Hub — remote user testing for quick design validation
InVision — a prototyping tool
Zoom — a video conferencing tool for conducting 1-on-1 sessions
Confluence — a documentation tool for storing results of UX research (also Google Drive, Slack)
Inspectlet — a tool for heatmaps
Pendo, Intercom — tools for customer research
Zendesk Garden — a public library of user interface components for Zendesk products
Follow Brent on Medium
Brent's website
Conferences where Brent is speaking this year: DIBI 2017, Design Matters 2017
Follow Brent on Twitter: @brentpalmer
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Podcast feed: subscribe to http://simplecast.fm/podcasts/1441/rss in your favorite podcast app, and follow us on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play Music.
Show Notes
Zendesk — the company where Brent works
Heap, Google Analytics, Mixpanel — common analytics tools
Usability Hub — remote user testing for quick design validation
InVision — a prototyping tool
Zoom — a video conferencing tool for conducting 1-on-1 sessions
Confluence — a documentation tool for storing results of UX research (also Google Drive, Slack)
Inspectlet — a tool for heatmaps
Pendo, Intercom — tools for customer research
Zendesk Garden — a public library of user interface components for Zendesk products
Follow Brent on Medium
Brent's website
Conferences where Brent is speaking this year: DIBI 2017, Design Matters 2017
Follow Brent on Twitter: @brentpalmer
Today's Sponsor
This episode is brought to you by Tiny Reminder — a simple productivity tool for freelancers and consultants. Need content or files on time? Tiny Reminder will play "bad cop" for you with friendly notifications! It works great for collecting content, feedback, files, bios, or anything else. What's best, this tool is forever free — sign up today!
Interested in sponsoring an episode? Learn more here.
Leave a Review
Reviews are hugely important because they help new people discover this podcast. If you enjoyed listening to this episode, please leave a review on iTunes.
Released:
Mar 9, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
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