Expertise

Eva Kaniasty currently serves as Chair of the Brandeis Master in UCD program, is a former board member and president of User Experience Professionals Association Boston(2011-2017), and is a frequent speaker at local and national conferences.

She has taught online at skillshare.com, and has lectured at General Assembly Boston and Bentley University.

UXPA Boston

Featured Publications

5 Mistakes Companies Make When Testing With Users

Read on ayantek.com

Coming Soon
Innovation Fishbowl (May 2019)

UXPA Boston 2019 Conference
In this participatory, debate-style panel session, we will cover several controversial topics around UX and innovation.

Sun Tzu and the Art of UX Influence

Ladies that UX, Boston
2019

Featured Presentations
Fast and Unbiased Usability Research
Evaluation / Presentations / User Research
Ignite: Using surveys to get the answers you want
Presentations / Surveys
Usability testing online surveys (and forms).
Presentations / Surveys
Visualizing User Feedback
Presentations / User Research
Don’t Fear the Research!
Presentations / User Research
The Strategic UX Triangle
A model for embedded UX.
Presentations
Zen of Consulting
Presentations
Web Analytics and Usability Testing
Triangulate your way to better design recommendations
Presentations
Mobile App Design for Behavior Change
Presentations
Sun Tzu and the Art of UX Influence
Presentations
Innovative Interfaces:
Transforming Data Into Insight
Presentations
Other Talks & Professional Activities
Usability testing online surveys (and forms).

UXPA International Conference
Puerto Rico, June 2018

Using surveys to get the answers you want

IGNITE: Using Design Psychology for Good and Evil
UXPA International Conference
Puerto Rico, June 2018

Fast and Unbiased Usability Research

User Experience Boston 2017
Boston, MA

Visualizing User Feedback

Big Design 2016
Dallas, TX

How to Create an Engaging Website

BusinessTown Video
Fall 2016

Creating Products that People Love

Cameo: Empathy in User Research (6:30)
WeWork/Tomer Sharon

UX and the Product Manager (30 minute talk)

Product Camp Boston 2016
Cambridge, MA

Speed Networking Facilitator

UXPA Boston User Experience Conference / April 2016

Putting Lipstick on UX Feedback - Visualizing Research Results (10 minute talk)

UXPA Boston User Experience Conference / April 2016

Bathroom Microinteractions (10 minute talk)

UXPA New Hampshire Monthly Meeting / January 2016
UXPA DC / October 2015
UXPA Boston User Experience Conference / May 2015

Don't fear the research! (Lightning Keynote / 30 minute talk)

UX Vermont / June 2015
UXPA Boston User Experience Conference / May 2015

UX Fair

UX Fair Facilitator
10 minute Talk: Information Architecture
November 2014

Lightning Keynote: By Teaching We Learn

UXPA Boston User Experience Conference
May 2014

UX and Tech Communication: Bridging the Gap

Boston CHI Monthly Meeting
April 2014
with Nancy Allison and Chris Laroche

Building a UX Portfolio

(Panelist)
Bentley University
December 2013
with Rob Fitzgibbon, Chris Laroche, Dani Nordin and Chauncey Wilson

Trends in User Experience

(Panelist)
Bentley University
November 2011
with Dan Berlin, Anne Mamaghani, Tomer Sharon and Beth Sherman

Technology and behavior change: are we entering a brave new world?

(Idea Market Facilitator)
User Experience Conference, Atlanta GA, June 2011

Dangerous in the Wrong Hands, or Power to the People? The Usability Testing Controversy.

(Moderator)
User Experience Conference, Atlanta GA, June 2011
Panelists: Rich Buttiglieri, Jen McGinn, Michael Hawley, Steve Krug, Bob Thomas

UX Games - Designing for people who are not like us.

(Presenter)
Barcamp Boston 6
Boston’s geek unconference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees.
April 2011

Expert Corner

(Mentor)
Mass Innovation Nights
March 2011

Delivering Results: How do you report user research findings?

UXPA Boston Conference May 2012 with Bob Thomas, Jen McGinn, Steve Krug, Dharmesh Mistry, Kyle Soucy & Carolyn Snyder

New Hampshire UPA Meeting, January 11, 2012 with Jen McGinn, Dharmesh Mistry, Kyle Soucy & Carolyn Snyder

How to be a Usability Star

You don’t have to be Jared Spool or Jakob Nielsen to get people to listen.
(Workshop Leader)
Public Speaking Workshop
Boston UXPA
March 2010

Tips from Two Tweeps: How User Experience Pros Find Value on Twitter

(Co-Presenter)
Boston User Experience Conference
May 2009
with Joshua Ledwell

UX Consulting Panel

(Moderator)
Boston UPA/IxDA Event, September 2010
with Dan Berlin

Usability Elevator Pitch

Boston User Experience Conference
May 2007
with Debbie Cook & Andrew Wirtanen