Professional development
Do your part: driving inclusivity and diversity as UX researchers
What diversity and inclusion challenges do we face as UX researchers and how can we try to solve them? Based on the talk of Farai Madzima, Youp and Bindu hosted a workshop during UXinsight Festival 2020 to discuss this.
Reflections on UXinsight Festival 2020
More than 400 researchers from around 30 countries took part in UXinsight festival, which hosted 19 talks and 22 interactive sessions. Beant Kaur Dhillon shares her experience.
Progressing as a user researcher
Nikki identifies six skills that UX researchers need to grow. There are the typical areas of empathy, patience, and context-switching, but also the ability to delegate, or visualising impact. What else do we need to become an exceptional researcher?
What I will be reading this summer – besides the 7 parts of the Seven Sisters ;-)
What are the UXR books on your reading list? I have a shortlist of 4 books I hope to read this summer.
6 Podcasts & Youtube channels valuable to UX researchers
Combining the input of the UXR community and our own experience, we created an overview of UXR podcasts and other recordings we highly recommend.
As a UX researcher, I sometimes feel unsure of myself –and I thoroughly recommend it!
As a researcher, you’re trained to ask questions: What’s the world really like? What’s going on under the surface?
We can’t all be researchers
You can ask everyone to do some programming but that doesn’t make everyone a programmer. The same applies to research.
Life as a young UX Researcher
What problems do young UX researchers encounter during their daily job? How do they handle these problems? Inge and Anne from Online Department did the research.