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From gut feel to facts: a user-centered guide for product people
Should we end research projects?
Teardown of modern car design: What happens when usability is no longer a priority
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Research by any other name: How should UXRs feel about discovery?
Treat it like a therapist: How to use AI to create more actionable insights
Are we facing an AI-generated boom in privacy breaches?
The challenges of UX research in the age of AI
Designed to kill: the ethics of AI and warfare
Regrettably, as a researcher, I didn't explore the human experience; instead, I exploited it
Bad data: what designers can learn from the history of the BMI
Is UX research a vanity metric?
Why we need to redesign food
Feel like a fraud? Why imposter syndrome is a problem for product people
Research is part of design—this is how you make time for it
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 90 days
The art of creating insights that connect
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From IQ tests to design thinking: The complex origins and invisible legacy of brainstorming
No researcher is an island: find your research heroes
Do product professionals have a role to play as we explore AI and ethics?
The roadmap to success is paved with insights
Do we need humans for user research?
Five things designers need to know before they do UX research
Improving your product gut biome
Being a UXR doesn’t automatically exclude you from decision-making power; being a PM doesn’t mean you get it. It depends on the organization.
Janelle Ward, Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
Are you getting the most out of the research community?
Career jumping from UXR to PM
User research allows a company to problem solve in a way that increases the likelihood that its product team will not just be shipping fast but that they’ll be shipping purposefully.
Cori Widen, Research Team Lead, Lightricks
Did bad data drive your last decision?
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 60 days
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We need research insights more than ever during a recession
Personas make a comeback?
The situational framework for research democratization
Did bad data drive your last decision? If you’re a researcher, I hope not. But we all slip up sometimes. The good news is that, with our training, we have the tools to look more critically at our own—and our stakeholders’—choices.
Janelle Ward, Founder and Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 30 days
If you involve stakeholders without much research experience, there will be hiccups. It will almost always still be worth your while in the long term.
Cori Widen, Research Team Lead, Lightricks.
Here’s the deal with democratization
The pitfalls of continuous discovery research (and how to avoid them)
What should we do about UX bootcamps?
How AI is changing research
Why you need to conduct strategic UX research
What I learned setting up a research practice at a fast-growing B2B company
Rigor is not something one can turn off and on like a light switch and still have research.
Janelle Ward, Founder and Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
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Is product a UX rival or partner?
Build together: why co-design beats focus groups
I propose the following perspective: Research and product are not rivals. We have the same high level goals, and we bring different skill sets to the table.
Janelle Ward, Founder and Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
Do we need rigor in UX research?
Get the most out of UX research—invest in your organizational conditions
Should UXRs give in when leadership wants to rely on demographics?
Man of tomorrow: Atlassian’s Work Futurist Dominic Price
The hottest thing on the blockchain: Talking peer-to-peer energy trading with Dr. Jemma Green
Continuous Discovery Habits with Teresa Torres
The problem with problems
User research has a lot to lose from this everything can be done virtually mentality if we don’t take time to reflect on what we miss when making cuts to face-to-face research.
Cori Widen, Research Team Lead at Lightricks
Why aren’t you doing face-to-face research?
I think the biggest risk when it comes to creating a product is that you just become a feature factory. You have all of these features but nothing feels like it’s prioritized.
Jess Faccin, Product Design Lead at Canva
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How to make something simple with Jess Faccin from Canva
Introducing Outlier: Quality content for craft lovers
We need a new research speciality: the Research Evangelist
This doesn’t feel like a bank: how top-notch CX wins hearts and minds
From food waste to Fido’s plate with Bardee’s Phoebe Gardner
Honoring the non-research perspective
Getting in front of the customer with Marty Cagan
It’s Nice That
From lamps to playgrounds, Isamu Noguchi believed sculpture should be omnipresent
UX research is vital to energy transitions
As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems, and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.
Jessica Walsh, Founder and Creative Director of &Walsh
How to be a games user researcher with Steve Bromley
What the rise of Gen Z means for user research
Trust issues: the quest to design accountable AI
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Genevieve Bell on advancing user research
What the Great Resignation means for founders: it’s time for change
It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff—as much stuff as possible—with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister, Designer, Storyteller, and Typographer
Tell us what you really think: Jared Spool on democratizing research
Human-centered design with Canva’s Nadia Surtees
It's Nice That
Design can play, and is already playing, a critical role in rethinking food of the future
“Where are all the women?” Genevieve Bell on women in tech
Under the hood of Cruise’s R&D
The past, present, and future of technology with Genevieve Bell
Creating a research culture with Atlassian's Leisa Reichelt
The secret behind Four Pillars’ world-beating title
Building a shared brain for customer knowledge with Atlassian’s Sherif Mansour
I think it's ultimately inhuman to only see things for their functionality. We want things to be more than that. The desire for beauty is something that's in us, and it's not trivial.
Stefan Sagmeister, Designer, Storyteller, and Typographer
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Interview with Pascal Wicht, Founder of Whispers & Giants
Interview with Alastair Simpson, Head of Design at Atlassian
Interview with Mary Mikhail, UX Researcher at Kira Systems
Interview with Erik Goyette, User Researcher at Shopify
It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Charles Darwin
From gut feel to facts: a user-centered guide for product people
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Are we facing an AI-generated boom in privacy breaches?
Regrettably, as a researcher, I didn't explore the human experience; instead, I exploited it
Why we need to redesign food
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 90 days
From IQ tests to design thinking: The complex origins and invisible legacy of brainstorming
The roadmap to success is paved with insights
Improving your product gut biome
Career jumping from UXR to PM
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 60 days
Personas make a comeback?
The transformation of a legacy automaker: first 30 days
The pitfalls of continuous discovery research (and how to avoid them)
Why you need to conduct strategic UX research
Hungry eyes?
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I propose the following perspective: Research and product are not rivals. We have the same high level goals, and we bring different skill sets to the table.
Janelle Ward, Founder and Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
Should UXRs give in when leadership wants to rely on demographics?
Continuous Discovery Habits with Teresa Torres
Why aren’t you doing face-to-face research?
How to make something simple with Jess Faccin from Canva
This doesn’t feel like a bank: how top-notch CX wins hearts and minds
Getting in front of the customer with Marty Cagan
As we get older, a lot of societies, education systems, and workplaces make us feel that playing is a waste of time. We end up suppressing stupidly brilliant questions for what we think are more serious responsibilities.
Jessica Walsh, Founder and Creative Director of &Walsh
Trust issues: the quest to design accountable AI
What the Great Resignation means for founders: it’s time for change
Human-centered design with Canva’s Nadia Surtees
Under the hood of Cruise’s R&D
The secret behind Four Pillars’ world-beating title
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Interview with Mary Mikhail, UX Researcher at Kira Systems
Should we end research projects?
Research by any other name: How should UXRs feel about discovery?
The challenges of UX research in the age of AI
Bad data: what designers can learn from the history of the BMI
Feel like a fraud? Why imposter syndrome is a problem for product people
The art of creating insights that connect
No researcher is an island: find your research heroes
Do we need humans for user research?
Being a UXR doesn’t automatically exclude you from decision-making power; being a PM doesn’t mean you get it. It depends on the organization.
Janelle Ward, Principal Consultant, Janelle Ward Insights
User research allows a company to problem solve in a way that increases the likelihood that its product team will not just be shipping fast but that they’ll be shipping purposefully.
Cori Widen, Research Team Lead, Lightricks
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The situational framework for research democratization
If you involve stakeholders without much research experience, there will be hiccups. It will almost always still be worth your while in the long term.
Cori Widen, Research Team Lead, Lightricks.
What should we do about UX bootcamps?
What I learned setting up a research practice at a fast-growing B2B company
Is product a UX rival or partner?
Do we need rigor in UX research?
Man of tomorrow: Atlassian’s Work Futurist Dominic Price
The problem with problems
I think the biggest risk when it comes to creating a product is that you just become a feature factory. You have all of these features but nothing feels like it’s prioritized.
Jess Faccin, Product Design Lead at Canva
Introducing Outlier: Quality content for craft lovers
From food waste to Fido’s plate with Bardee’s Phoebe Gardner
It’s Nice That
From lamps to playgrounds, Isamu Noguchi believed sculpture should be omnipresent
How to be a games user researcher with Steve Bromley
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It is very important to embrace failure and to do a lot of stuff—as much stuff as possible—with as little fear as possible. It’s much, much better to wind up with a lot of crap having tried it than to overthink in the beginning and not do it.
Stefan Sagmeister, Designer, Storyteller, and Typographer
It's Nice That
Design can play, and is already playing, a critical role in rethinking food of the future
