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Our role as researchers is to support our stakeholders
This morning a stakeholder asked to add the following to a discussion guide for 1:1 interviews. The ask, verbatim, is: “This might be a leading question, but I'd like to know if either segment thought…
Pros and cons to common UX research questions
These are some of the discussions our current Ask Like A Pro cohort is having as they finalize their recruiting screeners and begin their recruiting efforts. Q: What are the pros and cons of asking research…
Do you use the terms "survey" and "questionnaire" interchangeably?
Do you use the terms "survey" and "questionnaire" interchangeably? Is there a difference between the two? If so, what do you think that difference is? If you typically use one term or the other, which one…
Heuristics for the WIN!
In today's Q&A-style Fuel Your Curiosity blog article, we delve into the realm of heuristic reviews, exploring what they are, their significance, how they are conducted, and why they matter in the…
Transitioning from academia to user research
Transitioning from academia to user research requires a fundamental shift in mindset and approach as well as flexibility and compromise. In the corporate world, research serves a different…
How more and less mature UX teams differ
Typically more UX mature organizations have smaller, less detailed user research plans and less UX mature organizations have more comprehensive UXR plans. Many people find this counterintuitive…
Create space for participants to add to the conversation
I'm going to stay it again for the people in the back. In user research, we never ask participants "What do you want?” for several reasons. And while this may be obvious to some, the reasons behind it may not. It’s also not their job to think in this way and most people do not have the ability to think in this way. Instead, create space for participants to add to the conversation.
Learn the lingo: User-Centered Design
UCD/User-centered Design || What is it? User-centered design places the intended user at the center of the design/development process. The practice includes them as…
Increase your UX and user research skillsets
YOU’RE INVITED!!! Joe Formica, founder of Bitesize UX, and I are teaming up to do another event together! Here's the skinny: We met on LinkedIn in March 2020 (have never met IRL actually). We co…
Transferable skills of UX Research
Teaching and UX Research offer transferable skills for a beneficial transition. At last night's Ladies That UX DC event I discussed several key transferable skills: 1. Teaching's communication…
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