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Amy Alberts

Amy manages the user research team in Tableau Development. She and her team do research about Tableau customers, to better understand customer needs and how best to help them do their jobs. Amy is a cognitive psychologist with expertise in human memory, human-computer interaction, qualitative and quantitative research methodologies, and eye tracking.

  • Engineering

    Managing in a Storm

    Amy Alberts January 8, 2021
    Amy Alberts discuses the considerations of managing people who have lived through crisis.
  • Visualizations

    How design thinking will affect today’s analysts

    Amy Alberts August 31, 2018
    User research manager, Amy Alberts, explains the import of an eye-tracking survey, focused on understanding how humans consume dashboards.
  • Visualizations

    Eye-tracking study: 5 key learnings for data designers everywhere

    Amy Alberts June 29, 2017
    The Tableau Research and Design team is always eager to learn from our amazing customers. Last year, our team hosted the first Tableau Labs at Tableau Conference 2016 with the intention of conducting real-time research with conference attendees. One activity garnered an incredible amount of attention: the Dashboards Eye-Tracking Station.