A new edition of the traning workshop on ‘Designing an conducting user studies” was held in Albena in conjunction with the International Conference on Cartography and GIS on the 15th of June 2016. This edition – attended by about 17 participants with differing levels of experience on user studies – was indeed an interactive one, with much input from the audience itself: discussions on setting up a user experiment using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods, taking part in an eye tracking, thinking aloud or combined study, and sharing experiences.