Research Stage
The AI Finds. We Decide: Building Ethical AI Research When You're Locked Out of Users
About
When our team lost access to users for seven months, we had a choice: wait it out, or find another way to listen. We weren't AI specialists. We had no playbook. But we built an AI-powered social listening approach with human judgment at the centre - that uncovered real service issues we would have missed entirely.
This talk shares the experiment, the safeguards, the mistakes, and the mindset shift that made it work. It's for anyone who's curious about AI but unsure where to start.
Nikki Anderson — Founder at Drop In Research
The Impact Theater Trap
Senior+
Research Strategy
Leadership & Career
Strategy
Framework
🇬🇧 English
Victor Churchill Akpan — Senior Product Designer at ORB Innovations
Designing for Cognitive Overload: UX When Your User Might Be Concussed
Mid
Hardware & Beyond-Screen
Accessibility
Research Methods
Case Study
Framework
🇬🇧 English
Aleksandra Sienicka — Senior UX Researcher at Nextbase
Giridhar Bavana — Product Design Lead at Nextbase
Built to Spec: Bridging Engineering and UX Testing in Consumer Tech
Mid
Hardware & Beyond-Screen
Research Methods
Org & Collaboration
Case Study
Framework
🇬🇧 English
Dominika Szaniawska — Experience Design Team Lead at SoftServe
Unobvious Discoveries
Mid
Product Discovery
Design Craft & Process
AI
Case Study
🇬🇧 English
Marek Trawiński — Head of UX Research at XTB S.A.
"Zwolnij swojego badacza UX, przecież ogarnie Ci to moderator AI". Serio? No to sprawdzam.
Mid
AI
Research Methods
Case Study
🇬🇧 English
Dalia El-Shimy — Director of UX Research at Wise
A beautiful existential crisis: or how I learned to stop worrying and love embrace AI
Mid
AI
Future of Work
Leadership & Career
Inspirational
🇬🇧 English
Vedanti Joshi — Principal Product Designer at Independent
Emrah Sarıbaz — Head of Product Design at Independent
Test your way to personalisation at scale
Senior
Experimentation
Personalization
Design Systems
Case Study
🇬🇧 English
Brad Orego — ex. Head of Research at Webflow
Research: From Support Partner to Strategic Driver
Senior
Research Strategy
Leadership & Career
Org & Collaboration
Strategy
Framework
🇬🇧 English
Anna Malena Njå — Behavioral Science Consultant at Independent
Designing for actual humans, not who we wish to be
Mid
Behavioral Design
Research Methods
Case Study
Framework
🇬🇧 English
Radosław Sterna — Lead UX Researcher at Independent
UX Research, but with Logs: A One‑Year Experiment
Mid
Data & Quant
Research Methods
Case Study
🇬🇧 English
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