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Events

Amanda has been involved in more than 40 UX events across the world, speaking regularly and lending a hand in organization. If you're looking for an experienced speaker or event facilitator, please reach out! 

Past Events

Duke University | March 17 2026 | Reimagine Careers in Startups

Loft Design | March 11 2026 | The Intersection of Design and Entrepreneurship

University of North Carolina Entrepreneurship Club | February 18, 2026 | Startup Career Workshop

Triangle UXPA | September 9, 2025 | Designing Through Change: How Design Jobs are Evolving

Triangle UXPA | March 3, 2025 | Connecting Students and Startups

LinkedIn Live | January 2025 | 2024 UX Recap and 2025 Predictions

American Marketing Association | July 10, 2024 | UX Best Practices for Email Marketing

LinkedIn Live | January 25, 2024 | 2024 UX Freelancing Discussion

Triangle UXPA | March 3, 2025 | Connecting Students and Startups

LinkedIn Live | January 2025 | 2024 UX Recap and 2025 Predictions

American Marketing Association | July 10, 2024 | UX Best Practices for Email Marketing

LinkedIn Live | January 25, 2024 | 2024 UX Freelancing Discussion

LinkedIn Live | January 2024 | UX, AI, BA, oh my!

LinkedIn Live | December 2023 | 2023 UX Trends Recap

Making the Shift | October 2023 | From Good to Great: Level up your Research

American Marketing Association | September 2023 | UX Principles for Email Marketing

UX Research and Strategy Group | September 2021 | UX Research in an Agile World

UX Salon | May 2021 | Practical UX Research Workshop

UX Salon | April 2021 | Garbage Participants, Garbage Results

Product Management Today | February 2021 | All Method, No Madness

NH UXPA | September 2020 | Fitting UX research into an Agile World

Agile TO | 29 July 2020 | Tips to incorporate UX Research into an Agile Environment

PopInsight | 13 January 2020 | Adjusting UX Research for an Agile Environment

Deliver | 16 October 2019 | Research is not just for the UX team

IleX 2019 | 23-25 April 2019 | Improving Research by Doing Research

The Quirk’s Event | April 2019 | Improving Research By Doing Research: Learning from Market Research Participants

The Quirk’s Event | March 2019 | Improving Research By Doing Research: Learning from Market Research Participants

UX Y'all | 9 November 2018 | Build Measure Learn is Broken

All Things Open | 21-23 October 2018 | Adjusting UX Research to fit Agile practices

Agile RTP | 7 August 2018 | Adjusting UX Research to an Agile World

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publications

Amanda frequently shares her knowledge of UX research best practices, integrating UX research into Lean and Agile environments, leadership, and more. 

Courses

Identifying Product Opportunities, LinkedIn Learning

Agile UX Research, LinkedIn Learning

Remote Brainstorming, LinkedIn Learning

UX Deep Dive: Remote Research, LinkedIn Learning

UX Deep Dive: Analyzing Research, LinkedIn Learning

UX Deep Dive: Mapping, LinkedIn Learning

UX Deep Dive: Usability Testing, LinkedIn Learning

UX Research: Going Guerrilla, LinkedIn Learning

Lean Experimentation, Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning

UX Research for Agile Teams, Lynda.com/LinkedIn Learning

Recruiting and Screening UX Research Participants, Skillshare (use this link for 2 months free!)

UX Research Fundamentals, Lynda.com/LinkedInLearning

UX Research Methods: Interviews, Lynda.com/LinkedInLearning

UX Research Methods: Card Sorts, Lynda.com/LinkedInLearning

Articles

Working with Design Thinking, Lean, and Agile

Choosing the Right Research Method

When to go guerrilla with recruiting

Getting started with popular guerrilla UX research methods

Going guerrilla: How to fit UX into any timeframe

Is freelancing your next UX career move? 

The single best way to get freelance UX work

To pivot or persevere? Find out using Lean experiments

Incorporating Agile UX Research Part 3: Maintenance

Incorporating Agile UX Research Part 2: Logistics

Incorporating Agile UX Research Part 1: The Set Up

How to write screeners for better UX research

How to recruit users for UX research in an Agile Sprint

Adapting UX research for an Agile environment

Effective UX Leadership

The next big thing in User Experience

The tear that changed 1,000 launches

Build Measure Learn is Not Enough

'Til retirement do us part

Never Trust a Skinny Chef

7 UX lessons from teaching fitness classes

Confessions of an Ex Unicorn

User-centered design artifacts

Distinguishing yourself as a UX professional

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