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SUMMARY:Florida Library Webinars: UX on a Budget
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca presents for Florida Library Webinars. Free registration for Florida library staff only. \nLibraries are often strapped for resources\, and are fortunate if they have anyone on staff dedicated to UX research and design. Many of us try to squeeze UX work in between other duties\, which can leave us feeling both frustrated and exhausted. \nIn this talk\, Rebecca will share methods and experiments she ran with her small yet mighty UX team at the University of Arizona. She’ll also introduce some learnings from her new role at Ad Hoc working to support government agencies\, which are also resource constrained. You’ll leave with ideas on how you can do a lot with a little\, as well as how to advocate for more UX resourcing in the future.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/florida-library-webinars-ux-on-a-budget/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Overcoming Barriers to UX Research
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca presents at Designing for Digital. \nLibraries aren’t flush with resources\, and UX research often falls to a small team\, a team of one\, or perhaps no one at all. Barriers appear at every stage: picking a method and designing an effective study (and maybe getting it approved)\, securing incentives and recruiting enough of the right participants\, conducting the research itself\, and then turning findings into actionable next steps. In this talk\, we’ll discuss how to overcome barriers at every stage for more realistic and sustainable research that can happen no matter your role or institution.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/overcoming-barriers/
LOCATION:Austin\, TX\, 1900 University Ave\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230307T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20230307T121500
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SUMMARY:A Spring Cleaning Sprint: Let's Tidy Up Our Websites
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca presents a workshop at Designing for Digital. \nLibrary websites tend to have a lot of content. Our homepages are often cluttered\, and hidden in the depths of our websites are often outdated\, duplicative\, and overly complex web pages\, many of which are irrelevant to website visitors. Let’s learn some tools and techniques to reduce our content bloat and simplify our websites\, making them more sustainable in the long term. \nIn this workshop\, you’ll learn how to: \n\nIdentify where your website needs the most clean up.\nPrioritize content that matters most through top task surveys\, analytics\, and other data.\nIdentify web pages you can merge\, archive\, or delete.\nReduce content to its simplest and most sustainable form.\nMake the case for why simpler is better.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/a-spring-cleaning-sprint-lets-tidy-up-our-websites/
LOCATION:Austin\, TX\, 1900 University Ave\, Austin\, TX\, 78705\, United States
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SUMMARY:3 Steps to Cleaning Up Our Websites
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca presents for Florida Library Webinars. Free to library workers in the state of Florida. \nLibrary websites tend to have a lot of content that’s hard to sustain. Oftentimes\, they are filled with outdated\, duplicative\, and overly complex content. \nIn this webinar\, learn three steps you can quickly implement that will reduce your content and simplify your website\, making it more user-friendly and more sustainable in the long term.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/3-steps-to-cleaning-up-our-websites/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240307T083000
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SUMMARY:Break Down Silos and Scale Impact with Research Operations
DESCRIPTION:Rebecca Blakiston and Fan Huang present at Service Design in Government\, a virtual conference out of Scotland for anyone involved in designing\, delivering\, and commissioning public services. \nResearch Operations (ResOps) is well known for providing research tools\, establishing research governance\, and setting standardized procedures. For large organizations\, however\, ResOps can go even further\, helping to break down information silos\, allowing researched information to move across an organization in the same way that IT infrastructure enables information to move across a network. \nApproaching ResOps through the lens of IT infrastructure allows us to design research infrastructures that make research accessible and scalable in government. \nThis presentation will bring practical approaches to the large-scale research and service design most common to government agencies. User research in government requires a greater level of systems thinking\, so we will acknowledge the challenges of that complexity and how particular approaches to ResOps can meet that challenge. \nParticipant takeaways: \n\nPractical approaches to large-scale research\nHow ResOps can enable research to move across an organisation\nDesigning research infrastructure to actively aid effective service design
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/research-ops/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Design Studio: Hands-On Workshop
DESCRIPTION:In-person workshop presented by Rebecca Blakiston and Bob Liu for UX@UA. \nStarting a UX project can be daunting—especially when you need buy-in from stakeholders with an ambitious wishlist. In this workshop\, you’ll hear about the “design studio” method\, a lightweight session that can happen anytime and anywhere. Learn how to engage stakeholders and collaborators\, see what they’d like to include in a final design\, and establish the consensus and trust you need – all in the early stage of your project. You’ll also see examples of how others have used design studios to tackle tricky problems.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/design-studio/
LOCATION:Main Library\, University of Arizona\, 1510 E University Blvd\, Tucson\, AZ\, 85721\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250115T110000
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SUMMARY:Visualizing the Customer Journey to Improve Library Services
DESCRIPTION:Are you looking for ways to assess and improve your library services\, spaces\, and websites? Have you ever considered visualizing your customers’ journey to uncover pain points and new opportunities? \nJoin us for an engaging session where we explore how to bring the library experience to life through powerful visualizations\, including customer journey maps\, user experience maps\, and service blueprints. In this workshop\, you will learn: \n\nThe impact of visualizing services to pinpoint pain points and discover opportunities for improvement\nThe differences between various mapping techniques and how to select the best one for your specific needs.\nMethods for creating maps\, including research methods\, visualization tools\, and co-design workshops.\n\nWhether you’re a public services librarian\, web librarian\, UX specialist\, or any library professional eager to improve service delivery\, this workshop will equip you with tools to map out the user journey and ultimately improve your library’s user experience.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/visualizing-customer-journey/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Data Fluency Foundations: User Experience and Data
DESCRIPTION:How can you ensure you are centering your users and their experiences in all of your data processes? In this session as part of Library Journal’s Data Fluency Foundations online course\, we will cover the foundations of user experience (UX) as it relates to collecting\, analyzing\, and engaging with data. You’ll gain practical tips for designing effective surveys\, as well as explore alternative methods for gathering both behavioral and attitudinal data. You’ll learn how data from user research can inform and enhance the design of products and services to truly meet users’ needs.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/data-fluency-foundations-user-experience-and-data/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T153000
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UID:1435-1747409400-1747413000@rebeccablakiston.info
SUMMARY:Enhancing Parks and Recreation Programs through Human-Centered Design
DESCRIPTION:Parks and Recreation aims to create spaces\, events\, and services that positively impact the community. While we often collect feedback through surveys\, there are many more ways we can enhance the way we design programs and experiences to truly meet the needs of our visitors. In this interactive session\, Rebecca will introduce human-centered design principles and practical methods to improve the services we provide. \nThe workshop will be held in person in Tucson\, Arizona.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/enhancing-parks-and-recreation-programs-through-human-centered-design/
LOCATION:Marana Aquatic and Recreation Center\, 13455 N Marana Main St\, Marana\, AZ\, 85653\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Halifax:20250618T133000
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SUMMARY:[CANCELLED] Service Design Methods: Improving the User Experience Across Touchpoints
DESCRIPTION:Due to sudden and unexpected funding cuts at the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)\, this program has been cancelled. I hope funding gets restored. \nHow do you know that your digital library services are meeting the needs and expectations of your customers? In this talk\, provided free of charge for library workers in the state of Florida\, you will learn key service design techniques that focus on optimizing every interaction a customer has with the library—from seamless book checkouts to easy event registrations\, efficient study room bookings\, and simplified access to digital journals. Attendees will learn how to create a more intuitive and cohesive experience across all library touchpoints\, fostering a more accessible and responsive environment for the people it serves.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/service-design-methods-improving-the-user-experience-across-touchpoints/
LOCATION:Online
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UID:1469-1793890800-1793894400@rebeccablakiston.info
SUMMARY:Service Design Methods: Improving the User Experience Across Touchpoints
DESCRIPTION:A free virtual presentation for librarians and library workers. \nHow do you know that your digital library services are meeting the needs and expectations of your customers? In this talk\, you will learn key service design techniques that focus on optimizing every interaction a customer has with the library—from seamless book checkouts to easy event registrations\, efficient study room bookings\, and simplified access to digital journals. Attendees will learn how to create a more intuitive and cohesive experience across all library touchpoints\, fostering a more accessible and responsive environment for the people it serves.
URL:https://rebeccablakiston.info/event/service-design-methods-improving-the-user-experience-across-touchpoints-2/
LOCATION:Online
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