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The best-kept secret in research value: project sponsorship!
We’re excited to announce our first Project Sponsor, Reduct.video, is returning to sponsor two projects for our upcoming Ask Like A Pro® workshop series. Reduct is a transcription, analysis & synthesis and…

Quiz time! Test your UXR knowledge today
Time for a fun (I hope) wrap-up and recap of some of the UXR knowledge dropped in Fuel Your Curiosity newsletters and UX Lex Term Tuesdays emails in 2021. Can you ace my quick 10-question…

Choose Your One-of-a-kind UXR Adventure
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the wildly different personalities and backgrounds of my UXR colleagues, and the not-so-linear paths they (and I) took to get to our place in the research world. It seems in…

Boost yourself — and someone else — into 2022!
2021 is almost done — how are you celebrating your year? You might remember my end-of-2020 “pinky promise” with a colleague to celebrate our own wins each and every year. This year, we’re…

3 ways to analyze and synthesize — vive la difference!
Isn’t the human mind grand? One of the most fascinating parts of user experience research is witnessing the ways different people approach the same problem. Sometimes people interact with…

Learnings from the Fall cohort
Have I told you I LOVE learning AND teaching? Both allow me to share and build on my passions and give back. And both fuel my own curiosity, too! Fortunately, a great community of professional…

Giving Tuesday: 30% “bump” in donations!
Happy holiday whirlwind! I can’t believe Thanksgiving just passed in the US and we’re well into the season’s traditions! While many focus on Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday…

5,188 UXR Internships available!!
LinkedIn is showing a whopping 5,188 job results for the term “user research intern” in the United States. I am blown away by the amount of user research internships available all over right now. 5,188 results people!

Fraud alert: Imposters among us!
Oh, how I wish this post were about a popular internet game. But if you follow me on LinkedIn, you know some of my Ask Like A Pro students have been on a wild ride this past week — targeted by a…

Six Tips for Scheduling Participant Interviews!
You’ve screened a great group of participants, and now it’s time to get to the meat of your study: your data-gathering sessions. A careful scheduling strategy is key to creating a smooth experience…

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