Everyone has a beautiful mind

"Everyone has a beautiful mind.” This is one of my credos. I truly believe this in my core and it’s an important concept to grasp if you want to be successful in UX, live the diversity and inclusion values you aspire to achieve, and or want to be successful in any collaboration or environment that requires teamwork.

We are shaped by our personal and professional experiences. Our mental models, belief systems, perspectives, and preferences vary. For the most part, no one is "right or wrong" - but we are definitely stronger when we can harness our collective knowledge, openly share our points of view, and truly "hear" each other.

I am constantly reminded about our differences, preferences, and the “beautiful minds” that surround me in my user research consulting work and in the Curiosity Tank UXR Ask Like A Pro series.

Our students are now analyzing and synthesizing data from their 69 interviews! They get hands-on with a variety of analysis and synthesis approaches and they are constantly coming up with their own solutions. It’s thrilling to watch their "beautiful minds" digest, process, and iterate in these meaningful ways

Miaoxin Wang created this tutorial about how she is using Dovetail and Miro to accomplish this task and why it works for her. Another student created a tutorial about how he uses Trello, and another about Airtable, to analyze and synthesize their UX research data.

The cohort aspect of Ask Like A Pro allows us to see, and celebrate, these “beautiful minds.” It inspires us all. We learn together. And we have stronger and more powerful experiences as a result. I hope you enjoy her tutorial and it inspires you to appreciate someone else's "beautiful mind."