Talk Videos from UX Burlington 2019

Nick Dika is a product designer who’s spent his career creating software for audio engineers and musicians. He started out in marketing at Cakewalk in the early aughts, but soon discovered his love for UX and interface design at iZotope. There he worked on industry-standard audio engineering tools including Ozone and RX, which won an Emmy award in 2013. In 2014 he went solo and released Photophore, an innovative synthesizer instrument for the iPad, which reached #1 in the Paid Music Apps category of the App Store.
Nick is currently Senior UI/UX Designer at Soundtoys in Burlington, Vermont where he’s contributed to TEC-Award-winning audio effects Little Plate, EchoBoy Jr. and the Soundtoys 5 collection.
When he’s not designing interfaces he’s probably either trying to talk himself out of buying another old Volvo, or deciding which section of Vermont’s Long Trail to hike with his wife and daughter this weekend.

I am an end-to-end User Experience specialist, and my skills include qualitative user research, requirements gathering, presentations to stakeholders, content strategy, information architecture, wireframing, high-fidelity prototyping, administering user testing, and quality assurance testing. While I have an understanding of javascript and other front end languages, I do not typically write code.

User experience (UX) researcher with a passion for representing the voice of the end user in program and design decisions. Over 10 years of research and evaluation experience in settings ranging from museums and non-profits, state and federal government, and private industry such as banking and telecommunications. I enjoy the process of conducting research from start to finish; from iteratively designing a study with the client, to reporting the findings and how they can be applied to inform decision making. I also enjoy reading and writing about a wide variety of topics.