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How To Measure UX and Design Impact

Vitaly Friedman
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Workshop includes:

  • 🍵 Tea, coffee, snacks, and drinks available all day
  • 🥪 Delicious lunch included

Full-day workshop • Tuesday, June 24, 2025.
How do we measure the quality of UX? What metrics to use? How to bridge business objectives and UX goals? How to remove bias and guesswork from our design decisions? And how to measure and make a case for the impact of your UX work? Well, let’s figure it out, in the upcoming brand-new workshop with Vitaly Friedman.


Here’s What You Should Be Expecting:

  • Inspiring & Inclusive

    A full day of teaching in a friendly, inclusive group

  • Interactive & Practical

    Plenty of time for practice & feedback

  • Hands-on exercises

    With 1:1 reviews by Vitaly

  • Cooperate

    Learn from your teacher and other attendees

  • Dedicated Q&A time

    To ask all your questions

  • Digital Smashing Certificate

    A well-deserved reward for your work


599.00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to define design success, establish team-specific design KPIs, how to track them effectively, and integrate accountability and ownership for these metrics into your design process.

You’ll discover how to translate ambiguous objectives into practical goals, and how to make sense of KPRs, SUS, UMUX-Lite, TPI, KPI trees, feedback scoring, gap analysis, Kano model — and how to choose the right UX research method to get better results. Let’s dive in!

In this workshop you’ll learn

  • How to make and track the impact of your design effort,
  • How to define the notion of design success for your team,
  • How to measure design work against business goals and needs,
  • How to choose the right mix of qualitative and quantitative research,
  • How to define KPIs that focus on user needs but also respect business needs,
  • How to use the Top Tasks methodology to understand and prioritize user’s tasks
  • OKRs vs. KPIs vs. metrics, how to translate them into clear goals for each team/department, and how to apply them to design work
  • How to make sense of SUS, UMUX, UMUX-Lite, SPRQ, North Star Metric, NPS, CLV, CSAT, CES, MAU, MRR/ARR and business KPIs,
  • How to navigate the unpredictability of technical limitations and business constraints to still move confidently towards better design,
  • How to build a design KPI tree for each team and for each department
  • How to establish ownership, accountability and buy-in for design KPIs
  • How other companies and organizations define and track design KPIs, and what we can learn from them
  • How you can define, apply and track design KPIs for your projects and for your teams
  • How to improve team culture with better meetings, time estimates, expectations management and collaboration, in-house and remote

We’ll be breaking into groups to work on custom-tailored design KPIs for various projects. You’ll leave the workshop with a toolbox of practical techniques and strategies on how to define, establish, sell and measure design KPIs from start to finish — and how to make sure that your design work is on the right trajectory.

599.00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.

Who is this workshop for?

This workshop is tailored for advanced UX practitioners, design leaders, product designers, product managers, project managers, and UX researchers eager to master the art of design KPIs and tackle intricate challenges in aligning design goals with business objectives.

You’ll walk away with a powerful toolbox of techniques and real-world examples to apply to your projects, products, or apps.

About Vitaly Friedman

Vitaly Friedman loves beautiful content and doesn’t like to give in easily. When he is not writing or speaking at a conference, he’s most probably running front-end/UX workshops and webinars. He loves solving complex UX, front-end and performance problems.

Location

Microsoft Conference Center is right in the heart of Times Square. Close to transportation and endless food and entertainment options, this technology hub is located at 11 Times Square (with the entrance on 8th Ave).

Time & Location

The workshop will be running from 8:30 AM to 4:45 PM on Tuesday, June 24.

Schedule for Tuesday, June 24

8:30 AM – Doors open, Registration
9:00 AM – Introduction & Kick-off
10:30 AM – Coffee Break
12:00 PM – Lunch
1:00 PM – Afternoon Session
2:45 PM – Coffee Break
4:45 PM – The End

Save 200 USD when signing up for two workshops!

599.00 Register for this workshop → Get a single workshop, or bundle with a conference.

🎪  Save up to 25% on this workshop with a Smashing Membership.