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Is UX research a vanity metric?
Feel like a fraud? Why imposter syndrome is a problem for product people
Do product professionals have a role to play as we explore AI and ethics?
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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
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?
We need research insights more than ever during a recession
Personas make a comeback?
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
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?
Why you need to conduct strategic UX research
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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
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?
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?
We need a new research speciality: the Research Evangelist
Honoring the non-research perspective
It’s Nice That
From lamps to playgrounds, Isamu Noguchi believed sculpture should be omnipresent
UX research is vital to energy transitions
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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
It's Nice That
Design can play, and is already playing, a critical role in rethinking food of the future
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
Is UX research a vanity metric?
Hungry eyes?
Subscribe and get inspiring content delivered straight into your inbox
Subscribe
Career jumping from UXR to PM
We need research insights more than ever during a recession
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?
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
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?
We need a new research speciality: the Research Evangelist
UX research is vital to energy transitions
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
Feel like a fraud? Why imposter syndrome is a problem for product people
Do we need humans for user research?
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
Personas make a comeback?
Here’s the deal with democratization
Why you need to conduct strategic UX research
Is product a UX rival or partner?
Do we need rigor in UX research?
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
Honoring the non-research perspective
Hungry eyes?
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It's Nice That
Design can play, and is already playing, a critical role in rethinking food of the future
Do product professionals have a role to play as we explore AI and ethics?
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
Did bad data drive your last decision?
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 pitfalls of continuous discovery research (and how to avoid them)
Hungry eyes?
Subscribe and get inspiring content delivered straight into your inbox
Subscribe
Build together: why co-design beats focus groups
Get the most out of UX research—invest in your organizational conditions
Why aren’t you doing face-to-face research?
It’s Nice That
From lamps to playgrounds, Isamu Noguchi believed sculpture should be omnipresent
What the Great Resignation means for founders: it’s time for change
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
