OUGD602: PPP3 - Media City

Whilst at my placement at Numiko I was introduced to a lady named Lowri, she was the UX researcher and told me about many different User Experience events and we both went along to NUX (Northern User Experience) at her old place of work, Simple Usability in Leeds. After this event we kept in touch every now and again until I e-mailed her about some primary research for my dissertation. Lowri had left Numiko and gotten a job as the Senior UX Researcher at RentalCars.com, she told me about some user testing she was doing at Media City in Salford and asked me if I would be able to help her out in taking notes. I was very pleased with the offer and managed to sort out the time off uni to go along.

The experience has been amazing and will really help me within my disseration. I was note-taker for the majority of the time and also got to try out a test due to a user not turning up. I did 2.5 days on Desktop site and another 2.5 days on mobile, this in itself was eye-opening as I assumed that user testing would be the same across all devices. I would be happy to return to Space Labs at Media City and take notes again as it was very beneficial to my studies and also a great experience to add to my CV.


Unfortunately due to Rental Cars policy I am unable to share any of the results or imagery from the user testings.