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
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
The next big thing in User Experience
The tear that changed 1,000 launches
Build Measure Learn is Not Enough
7 UX lessons from teaching fitness classes
User-centered design artifacts