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Educational talks and workshops

Karen Donoghue is an expert UX practitioner and entrepreneur who has completed many successful product design projects. Craig Newell is a seasoned entrepreneur, software architect and an expert in ML-powered search. Here are a few of their recent presentations and workshops focused on envisioning products. To learn more please contact [email protected].


PRODUCT PLANNING FOR FOUNDERS

Hosted by MIT Venture Mentoring Service
UX Bootcamp for Founders

Date: January 13, 2022
Location: Remote talk with Q&A, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA
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HumanLogic Principals Karen Donoghue and Craig Newell delivered a 2-hour UX Bootcamp providing concrete recommendations on designing, validating and de-risking new software product concepts for an audience of MIT entrepreneurs, students and faculty.

Hosted by Derby Center for Entrepreneurship at Tufts University
Jumbo Cafe Workshop: Solution & Differentiation

Date: MARCH 30, 2022
Location: Remote talk with Q&A, MEDFORD, MA, USA

For an audience of aspiring entrepreneurs at Tufts University in Boston, Karen Donoghue presented a 60-minute interactive workshop covering how to differentiate an offering from alternatives, validate it with target users and deliver on a value proposition for stakeholders.

Hosted by Exponential Impact
Managing User Experience Complexity

Date: APRIL 4, 2022
Location: Remote talk with Q&A, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, USA

Product-Led Growth is a strategy that involves incrementally adding functionality to an existing product to drive a larger market. HumanLogic Principals Karen Donoghue and Craig Newell led a workshop focused on product-led growth strategies and their effects on product UX for an audience of cohort founders in the Exponential Impact accelerator. Karen and Craig also covered managing UX complexity as products evolve beyond MVP.

Hosted by Exponential Impact
UX Workshop: UX Research and Journey Mapping

Date: OCTOBER 7, 2021
Location: Remote talk with Q&A, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, USA

For an audience of founders in the Amplify cohort, HumanLogic Principal Karen Donoghue presented a workshop on Personas and User Research, covering how to build knowledge about end-users to create the right solution for the right customer.


Envision Product: User Experience for Founders (Available on Apple Books and Amazon Kindle)
Envision Product: User Experience for Founders
Envision Product: User Experience for Founders
by Karen Donoghue and Craig Newell, Principals, HumanLogic

Our presentations and workshops cover many of the topics and case studies from our book Envision Product: User Experience for Founders, a short handbook for founders and product practitioners.
More info.

Reviews for Envision Product: User Experience for Founders:

Years of experience tightly wrapped in a few pages! Like a master class in building successful products that is equally useful to those with and without years of experience.”

“Must read for a startup founder. The authors provide direct and to-the-point instructions on the product design processes that should precede product development. Concrete examples of how to understand your customer.”

“Incredible resource for startups. This book is detailed, practical and user-friendly when it comes to using design the right way to launch your product, service or company. It offers the right user-centered questions to ask and smart design guidelines to follow. The text is well-written and easy to understand – I highly recommend this book as a resource to reference during every startup’s journey.”