Fuel your curiosity
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Evaluating your current and future learning instructors
After 20+ years as a practitioner and educator in the design and user research industry, I’ve learned a lot about how to evaluate whether a program, coach or mentor is a good fit or not. What makes a good fit…
4 tips for making a perfect professional development match
How’s March roaring in for you? These first sunny days of spring always seem to bring the energy of new adventure, opportunity and growth. For me, that means considering classes, workshops…
10 tips for acing your UX research job interview
Our last Ask Like A Pro cohort and alums had a great conversation about interviewing for UX research jobs. The biggest takeaway? Show your research chops by doing your research: Know the…
ResearchOps, You Complete Me!
Ah, February. A month for celebrating perfect partnerships. Finding “the one” that makes you a better version of yourself. If you’re Research, that one-and-only you may be looking for is ResearchOps.
6 Reasons To Hold Off On That Tool (and Hammer)!
Have you ever heard of Maslow’s Hammer? Or Kaplan’s Law of the Instrument? It’s an idea that goes something like this: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs…
We raised $8100 for our three non-profits!
Thanks to YOU and to Fable, our co-sponsor, we raised $8100 for our three non-profits!!! Thank you to all of our registrants, sincerely!! This three-part series was designed to create more awareness about…
Learn the lingo: Finding
Today’s UX LEX Term is: Finding || What is it? Findings are raw learnings/discoveries drawn from what was created, seen and heard from participants during a research study (e.g. artifacts…
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…
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…
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