Saturday, March 22 2025 / UXR
You’ve been promoted to a management role, and now your most important task isn’t polishing prototypes or writing research reports—it’s building a high-performing team. The challenge? You were trained as a designer or researcher, not as a hiring expert. In this talk, I’ll show you how I applied my research process to build and scale a successful team. You’ll leave with actionable templates, strategies, and methods for growing your team even without a hiring budget. This session is for you if you are a manager, considering management, or just curious about how hiring managers make decisions.
She/Her
Senior Manager, User Research at Cisco
Barbara Shain is a Senior Manager of User Research at Cisco and leads a team within the cybersecurity division. With a background in both design and research, she’s passionate about collaborating with stakeholders to deliver research that drives successful products and features. Working in the fast-paced world of cybersecurity meant that Barbara had to learn how to hire the right people and scale research fast. She applied her research skills to build a high-performing team and is eager to share the insights she’s gained along the way.
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building UX communities in Alberta
Building on the success of our previous UX Camps in Edmonton, the 2025 conference promises to be an engaging and dynamic gathering of UX professionals, designers, developers, and innovators from across the province.
The partnership between Calgary UX and Edmonton UX represents a shared vision of fostering a thriving user experience community across Alberta. By joining forces, these two groups bring together the unique strengths of their respective regions, creating opportunities for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and innovation.
Calgary UX is a vibrant community fostering connections among UX professionals through workshops, networking, mentorship, and creative collaboration.
Our goal is simple: to connect and grow a community of people across disciplines and industres that share a passion for design and UX.
We acknowledge that the Calgary area where the Bow and Elbow rivers meet is a place of confluence where the sharing of ideas and opportunities naturally occurs. Indigenous peoples have their own names for this area that were in use long before Scottish settlers named it Calgary.
The Métis call the Calgary area Otos-kwunee. In the Blackfoot language, they call this place, Moh-kins-tsis. The Stoney Nakoda Nation refer to the Calgary area as Wîchîspa Oyade and the people of the Tsuut’ina nation call this area Guts-ists-i. We would like to acknowledge that we are located on the traditional territories of the people of the Treaty 7 Region in Southern Alberta.
This includes: the Siksika, Piikani, and Kainai collectively known as the Blackfoot Confederacy; the Îethka Nakoda Wîcastabi First Nations, comprised of the Chiniki, Bearspaw, and Wesley First Nations; and the Tsuut’ina First Nation. The City of Calgary is also homeland to the historic Northwest Métis and to Métis Nation of Alberta, Region 3. We acknowledge all Indigenous urban Calgarians, First Nations, Inuit, and Métis, who have made Calgary their home.
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