2025-10-14 –, Hall 6
In this session, we’ll be exploring how designers and researchers can work better together.
Researchers spend time and effort to understand users and their needs. They then share their findings with designers, who then create solutions that meet those needs. For various reasons though, the finer details can fall through the gap between research taking place and the designs being released into the wild.
This workshop will deliver findings from in-depth research into the current ‘gap’ between design and research. It will go on to give practical steps that designers and researchers can take to ensure they are working as a seamless team to deliver exceptional experiences for their users.
Takeaways:
How the two disciplines work together most efficiently
Collaborating on research planning
Frameworks for delivery
Translating between the disciplines
Overcoming obstacles
Luke is a UX consultant with over 20 years experience across UX and user research. As the Senior Researcher at Clearleft he combines qualitative and quantitative research techniques to get a rounded picture of user experience.
In 2018 Luke wrote a book about how to use your analytics data to inform your UX decisions. The book, Researching UX: Analytics, aims to help demystify analytics data for those working in UX and
user research.
Over the past few years he has facilitated various forms of user research with people from various backgrounds – from teenagers to pensioners, dress-makers to bodybuilders over the course of a few hundred user research sessions.
As well as getting stuck into research Luke also runs training in UX and has spoken at conferences all over the world.