Caylie is a UX Researcher at Atlassian. She has previously worked at Coles Group, SEEK, and National Australia Bank. She also runs the Design Research Melbourne meetup.
Caylie fell into Design Research by accident during her time at NAB, and never climbed back out.
Her experiences at NAB, SEEK and Coles not only focused on conducting product research to answer questions and uncover opportunities, but also educating these businesses on the value of research and how to do it effectively.
Caylie believes it's important to democratise research to increase customer empathy and understanding, while balancing this with rigour and support to ensure accurate insight.
Past Talks
10 October 2022
User research is the base of all great products and services, but often the research discipline is not fully integrated within product teams and processes.
Integrating user research into the product development cycle is a balancing act between maintaining validity and getting results quickly. But, how do you do this successfully?
In this session, Caylie will take us through her experiences in democratising research in different organisations at speed, while maintaining quality of output.
She will touch on:
- How To Structure Your Teams;
- What Processes & Culture Need To Be Established; and
- How Democratising Your Research Function Leads To Successful Product Roadmaps
Lead Design Researcher
18 August 2022
The need for organisations to make more user-centered decisions, means that research is less mission critical than making sure company-wide insights are gathered. Our panelists will discuss what productive, responsible, and effective research democratization looks like today including how:
- Cross-functional teams can apply research
- Researchers can facilitate insights between users, product and marketing teams to be more effective
- Undemocratising research, is the time vs value delivered worth it to the organization?
22 May 2022
User research is the base of all great products and services, but often the research discipline is not fully integrated within product teams and processes.
Integrating user research into the product development cycle is a balancing act between maintaining validity and getting results quickly. But, how do you do this successfully?
In this session, Caylie will take us through her experiences in democratising research in different organisations at speed, while maintaining quality of output.
She will touch on:
- How To Structure Your Teams;
- What Processes & Culture Need To Be Established; and
- How Democratising Your Research Function Leads To Successful Product Roadmaps
Lead Design Researcher