Creative research methods speed dating workshop

Elevate your research game with our creative methods workshop!

Dive into our dynamic 'speed dating' workshop designed to introduce you to an array of innovative research techniques that yield rich, high-quality interview data.

What you’ll gain: Discover how creative research methodologies can reveal profound insights and boost participant engagement, surpassing traditional approaches.

Workshop highlights: Experience six unique 'dates', each showcasing a different creative research method. You’ll get hands-on practice with fellow participants, exploring techniques such as:

• The Product Box: Visualise and conceptualise ideas in a tangible format.
• Mapping: Create visual representations of data and concepts.
• Photo Elicitation: Use photographs to prompt deeper discussions.
• Vignettes: Employ storytelling to capture nuanced perspectives.
• Rich picture: illustrating complex experiences and problems using drawing and sketching.
• Walking Interviews: Conduct interviews in motion to gather natural, flowing insights.

Why Attend?

Join us to enhance your research toolkit with these cutting-edge methods, making your data collection process more engaging and insightful. Don’t miss this opportunity to transform your research approach!

About the workshop leader

Rachel Abbott is a Lead User Research Consultant at Hippo. Rachel has been a user researcher for over 5 years, and has worked on government digital projects for NHS, Department for Education, Standards and Testing agency, Defra, Cabinet Office, and Ministry of Justice. She has recently become interested in how creative research methods can enhance traditional user research in digital design teams, and recently presented "The Product Box: Making research tangible" as a talk at UX Scotland.

This event is taking place as part of Leeds Digital Festival and is hosted by Hippo. Hippo is a trusted digital services partner that designs with empathy and builds for impact. By combining data-informed evidence, human-centred design and software engineering, Hippo helps its clients thrive as modern organisations.

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