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.
How to make your UX lab Corona-proof
Now that the measures in most countries are being relaxed, it is time to reopen your UX lab and meet your target audience in person again. But how do you facilitate safe research for everyone?
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.
Motivations, desires and needs – is it possible to observe them online?
Is it possible to obtain enough useful insights with remote research? How can you be sure you’re not missing out on depth and nuance? What are the pros and cons of online generative research?
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.
A practical tool for prioritising research questions – and ensuring that they don’t all end up in a usability test
As a UX researcher, you often have to answer questions like: ‘how much are participants willing to pay for our product?’ Or, ‘can you ask them to tell us more about what they want from us?’
Choosing the right approach
How to start a research project? Every project and of course, every research question is different. How do you choose the right approach. Maike Klip has listed her steps in the form of questions she asks herself at the start of every project. Let’s have a look!
Collaborative interview analysis
We often ask team members to observe and take notes during an interview. But why not include them in our analysis as well?
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.
Obtaining deeper insights from research participants with images
Sometimes, simply asking questions isn’t enough. You need to introduce other tools to help participants better express themselves.
Dogfooding: A Powerful Addition to the User Research Toolkit
Dogfooding: a practice of using the product or service that you’re working on. Colette Kolenda has found that it can powerfully augment our work as researchers when done in conjunction with rigorous research.
Making user research work in a large corporation
How is UX research organised at KPN, a large Dutch corporate organization? And what are their challenges and learnings?
Tag your user research effectively and discover patterns
How do you capture valuable insights for all your research? And how do you manage these in order to discover patterns across study findings?