Interested in the next, more advanced, User Research Friday? We’re shooting for Fall ‘08!

• Date: Friday, Oct 27th, 2006 - COME EARLY FOR A CHAIR. Only 80.
• Time: 1:30pm - 5:30 PM. Cocktail Hour open to everyone: 5:30pm - 7:30 PM
• Place: Bolt Peters. 410 Jessie Street, Suite # 504. San Francisco
• Questions or More Info? contact us on the Bolt | Peters web site
• Photo by zach klein - creative commons.

Imagine fifty eighty 144 people in a room listening to the latest innovations in user research methods and tools. Now imagine servers carrying trays of complimentary cocktails and hors d’oevres around to both speakers and listeners during each session. That’s the basic idea behind user research Friday. It’s a half-day informal gathering for talks about emergent user research methods hosted by Bolt | Peters, Uzanto, and KDA Research. Join us for an exploration of what’s new in user research methods, from international research, to eye tracking, to remote research, to researching concepts with comics.

There will be eight 20-minute presentations, free flowing discussion and possibly a panel, all accompanied by food and drinks. A separate demo lounge will be available for everyone to check out the newest research tools. This is an informal setup and we should have chairs for everyone, but some folks might have to stand if it gets extra-packed. There is also construction in our building right now, so we might have to put up with some intermittent hammering and banging sounds but it shouldn’t be too bad.

Speakers are: Go here for more information about Talks

1. Ravit Lichetenberg: HP
2. Lane Becker & Todd Wilkens: Adaptive Path
3. Wendy Castleman : Intuit
4. Indi Young : Independent
5. Steve August: KDA Research
6. Rashmi Sinha: Uzanto
7. Greg Edwards : EyeTools.com
8. Panel: We’ll let the audience choose from 5 topics on, and we’ll have spots for 3 volunteer panelists.

Panel Ideas: (please send any topics you’d like to see on the panel to party@boltpeters.com or enter them below)

• How consultants work with in-house teams on user research projects. Experiences. Do’s, don’ts
• Delivering actionable analysis and recommendations to busy teams
• Other topics TBD

Drink & Snack Menu:

• Hors D’oevres provided by La Mediterranee, including Cinammon-Spiced Chicken Fillo Wraps, Cracked Wheat Hummos with Lemon Salad, Grecian Feta Rolls, Dolma, Fresh fruit, and Baklava.
• Patron Silver Respado Tequila
• Naia 2005 White Verdejo
• Dry Rose Petal Sake
• Red Truck 2004 Cali Red
• Grey Goose Vodka drinks
• Bombay Saphire Gin Drinks
• Santa Ema 2004 Chilean Merlot
• BV 2003 Cab Sav
• Chataeu Trocard 2004 Bourdeaux Superieur
• Veuve Cliquot Champagne
• Piper-Heidsieck Champagne
• Rogue Dead Guy Ale
• Sierra Nevada
• Bohemia
• Bud Light
• Corona

Sponsored by:

Instructions: Please email us at party@boltpeters.com and click edit (the waaay bottom right-corner edit button) to add yourself

1. Rashmi Sinha - Uzanto / MindCanvas
2. Steve August - KDA Research / Revelation
3. Nate Bolt - Bolt | Peters / Ethnio
4. Mike Towber - Bolt | Peters
5. Cyd Harrell - Bolt | Peters
6. Robin Boyar - Electronic Arts
7. Julia Houck-Whitaker - Bolt | Peters
8. Scott Morlan - Mercury
9. Shawn Elson - Elson User Experience
10. Danny McKeever - Mercury
11. Cally Winters - http://www.tns-global.com
12. Bobby Gendron - Mercury
13. Aldo Bermudez - Mercury
14. Wendy Castleman - Intuit
15. Dawn Nidy -
16. Bryan Mason - Adaptive Path
17. Lisa Sterling - Snapfish
18. Audrey Tsang - Yelp
19. Kevin Hutchinson - frog design
20. Christopher Myers - Charles Schwab
21. Jen King - Yahoo!
22. Jon Snydal - frog design
23. Lilia Manguy - Dabble
24. Christo Sims - School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
25. Eric Missun - Genentech
26. Jeannie Yang - Yahoo! Research Berkeley
27. Daniela Rosner - School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
28. Kevin Lim - School of Information, UC Berkeley
29. Kathryn McKinnon - Adobe
30. David Hatch - Adobe
31. Amy Buckner - AnswerLab
32. Mariano Ferrario - School of Information, UC Berkeley
33. Sal Becerra - AnswerLab
34. Celine Pering - frog design
35. Marjie Buckley - WSI Inc.
36. Kathy Chan - Williams-Sonoma
37. Kate Nartker- Bolt Peters
38. Tu Tran - Ion Global
39. Debbie Goldstein - Ion Global
40. Ishak Kang - Vox UI
41. Rainey Straus - Groove 11
42. Jon Welch - Architask
43. Steven Magnuson - Wells Fargo
44. Bryan Tsao - Bolt | Peters, School of Information, UC Berkeley
45. Steve Portigal - Portigal Consulting CultureVenture
46. Amy Huang - Shutterfly
47. Mark Frigon - HP/Snapfish
48. Daniel Clark - Independent Researcher - Available! danielvclark@gmail.com
49. Amanda Willoughby -
50. Rich LeFurgy - Archer Advisors
51. Darlene Lenters - Chevron
52. Laura McCabe - IBM
53. Darren Johnson - Offermatica
54. Lane Halley - Cooper
55. Lynn McLeod - Paycycle
56. Matt Nelson - Genentech
57. Joel Antipuesto - Genentech
58. Sohini Solanki - Shutterfly
59. Lars Jensen - Mindjet
60. Craig Peters
61. Holly Phillips - Agilent Technologies
62. Susan Lynch - Walmart.com
63. Alex Tam - frog design
64. Glen Gillmore - University of California Press
65. Dondrea Thompson -
66. Sacha Pearson - Kodak Gallery
67. Jason Woodley - Elson User Experience
68. Vincent Jurgens - Kodak Gallery
69. Deanna McCusker - VMware
70. Jenny Gove - Google
71. Eliel Johnson
72. Jennifer Ng - Spongecell
73. Natalie Quizon - FranceTelecom/Orange
74. Elizabeth Goodman - UC Berkeley School of Information
75. Stacie Hibino - Kodak
76. Matt Hamlin - Method
77. Matt Barthelemy - Method
78. Hubert Shum - Silverlign
79. Jason Wade - The Phelps Group
80. Jaime Guerrero - Sun Microsystems
81. Nina Naylor - frog design
82. Nalini Kotamraju - Sun Microsystems
83. Kristen Meuter - frog design
84. Stefanie Kraus - snocap
85. Sara Louise Todd
86. Matthias Müller-Prove - Sun/StarOffice and OpenOffice.org
87. Joe Bugental
88. Ariel Rudolph
89. Tanya Livingston - Hot Studios
90. Jennifer Kilian - frog design
91. Lilly Irani - Google
92. Jon Lesser - School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
93. Glenn R. Cochran - VMware
94. Daniela Busse - SAP Labs
95. Laura Kirkwood-Datta - Adaptive Path
96. Sean Savage - cheesebikini and PlaceSite
97. Andrea Moed - School of Information, U.C. Berkeley
98. Tara Diachenko - currently at Hot Studio & generally Freelance
99. Matthew Rothenberg - Yahoo! Inc. / Flickr.com
100. Wendy McKennon - Method
101. Melissa Goldstein - Method
102. Dana Smith - XPLANE
103. Michael Ferguson - Ask.com
104. Yen Lee
105. Gabrielle Fishman - Clifford Chance
106. Trevor Pering - Intel Research
107. Nicole Armbruster - gotomedia
108. Janice Hamer - iSchool, Berkeley, SFSU, and free-lance
109. Irina Lib - VMware
110. Marney Beard
111. Adam Berman - CfMC Research Software
112. John O’Donoghue - Polycom
113. Dennis Lee - Polycom
114. Bernadette Amerasinghe - Blue
115. Ajay Revels - Avenue A Razorfish
116. Gavin McGovern - FindLaw/Thomson
117. Todd Siegel
118. Brian Fowler - CfMC Research Software
119. Jennifer Fleming Buttefield - Ask.com
120. Axel Roselius - Deutsche Telekom
121. Nate Pagel Podaddies
122. Kecia Lum Silverlign
123. Karl Long Nokia & ExperienceCurve.com
124. Ed Cotton Influx Insights
125. Su Quek Shutterfly
126. John Girard Clickability
127. Eduardo Sciammarella Protomobl
128. Owen Adams Intuit
129. Daniel Riveong e-Storm International & Emergence-Media.com
130. Natasha Robinson Web Associates &ThatGirlFromMarketing.com
131. Peter Roessler - SAP Labs
132. Teresa Hernandez - Eyetools, Inc
133. Emily Ulrich - Steelcase
134. jin kim
135. Mark Plakias - France Telecom/Orange
136. Eva Jettmar - Stanford University
137. Scott Parsons - CNET
138. Noah Richardson - Tellme Networks
139. Eric Solomon AnswerLab
140. Ravit Lichtenberg Hewlett Packard

Guest list closed now at 143. Thanks for everyone’s interest! If you’d like to find out about the next user research event, email us at party@boltpeters.com.