Beyond the Design Task: Finding UX Bugs in Real User Flows

Join us in Milan to dive into the critical work of hunting down UX bugs in live environments. We’ll explore how to move beyond static design tasks to identify the hidden friction points, broken logic, and cognitive dead-ends that frustrate users in the wild.

Beyond the Design Task: Finding UX Bugs in Real User Flows

3 key points from the lecture:

Manual walkthrough testing: Walking through features as a user reveals UX issues (awkward shortcuts, confusing design). Simple, repeatable.

Validating user reports (as a designer, not a QA): Reproduce bug as normal user with Birdeatsbug, PostHog session replay, AI bot prompt setups.

Beyond design = better product sense: How working at the user-product junction helps you grow, test better, and catch improvements before features go to production.

Speaker

🎤 Victoria Zhivotovskaya , Head of Brand and Communications, Take Profit

Head of Brand & Communications at TakeProfit (trading platform). Bridge between users and product/design team. 8+ years communications + hands-on product experience. Previously: communications agencies, international brands (Netflix, L’Oréal Group, Borjomi).

Agenda

6:30 PM: 🍹 Aperitivo & Networking

7:00 PM: 💡 Talk: Beyond the Design Task by Victoria Zhivotovskaya

7:45 PM: 🛠️ Q&A

8:15 PM: 👋 Wrap-up & Mingling

Why useful for QA and Designers:

Simple daily steps to immerse in product like real users. When employees become users of their own product, we test better, review better, give better feedback, and make improvements before feature goes to production.

Who should attend?

UX/UI Designers, Product Managers, QA Engineers, and Front-End Developers who care about the end-to-end user experience and want to ship smoother products.