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#usability-testing

Usability testing: the complete guide

Moderated usability testing allows for controlled, planned sessions, and participant recruitment is crucial for success.

Gamifying UX Research Findings: A Journey with UX Research Bingo

Engaging stakeholders in UX research dissemination is crucial; traditional methods can lead to disengagement, necessitating creative approaches like UX Research Bingo.

Usability testing: the complete guide

Moderated usability testing allows for controlled, planned sessions, and participant recruitment is crucial for success.

Gamifying UX Research Findings: A Journey with UX Research Bingo

Engaging stakeholders in UX research dissemination is crucial; traditional methods can lead to disengagement, necessitating creative approaches like UX Research Bingo.
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Breaking into UX research: Non-traditional paths to success

Diverse backgrounds can lead to success in UX research by leveraging transferable skills.
#product-design

Top 10 Cognitive Biases in Product Design

Cognitive biases impact judgments and decision-making.
Being aware of biases helps in making more rational decisions.

My favorite UX research books & why I love them

Books about qualitative research can significantly enhance a UX researcher's skills.
Practical insights from related fields are important for effective UX research.
Collaboration with SMEs and startups can provide hands-on research experience.

Avoid These Fatal Gamification Mistakes At All Costs

Gamification should be integrated into the product design from the beginning to ensure a coherent user experience.

Top 10 Cognitive Biases in Product Design

Cognitive biases impact judgments and decision-making.
Being aware of biases helps in making more rational decisions.

My favorite UX research books & why I love them

Books about qualitative research can significantly enhance a UX researcher's skills.
Practical insights from related fields are important for effective UX research.
Collaboration with SMEs and startups can provide hands-on research experience.

Avoid These Fatal Gamification Mistakes At All Costs

Gamification should be integrated into the product design from the beginning to ensure a coherent user experience.
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#user-experience

My Selection of the Best Books on UX Research, UX Design, Mobile, Accessibility & more by Stephanie Walter

Debbie Levitt's book 'Customers Know You Suck' is a manual for improving customer centricity and selling UX research.
Erika Hall's 'Just Enough Research' is an introduction to user research methods.
Leah Buley's 'The User Experience Team of One' is a survival guide for researchers and designers.

Top 7 UX Research Books

UX research is essential for successful design and development.
The importance of asking relevant questions and using statistics in user research.

Strategic UX research doesn't need fancy tools

Investing in UX research is essential for understanding users and improving their product experience.
Startups often procrastinate on UX research, which can lead to poor product development.

Automating the mundane: 4 AI tools to improve UX research - LogRocket Blog

Powerful AI tools automate UX research bottlenecks, aiding in method selection and question drafting for better user experiences.

Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research - Smashing Magazine

UX practitioners benefit from understanding communication theory for better research practices.
Communication principles enhance user experiences and product success.

Cactus births and Klingon crosswords: The power of extreme user feedback

Extreme user quotes in UX research are crucial for uncovering raw, honest feedback that can lead to significant improvements.

My Selection of the Best Books on UX Research, UX Design, Mobile, Accessibility & more by Stephanie Walter

Debbie Levitt's book 'Customers Know You Suck' is a manual for improving customer centricity and selling UX research.
Erika Hall's 'Just Enough Research' is an introduction to user research methods.
Leah Buley's 'The User Experience Team of One' is a survival guide for researchers and designers.

Top 7 UX Research Books

UX research is essential for successful design and development.
The importance of asking relevant questions and using statistics in user research.

Strategic UX research doesn't need fancy tools

Investing in UX research is essential for understanding users and improving their product experience.
Startups often procrastinate on UX research, which can lead to poor product development.

Automating the mundane: 4 AI tools to improve UX research - LogRocket Blog

Powerful AI tools automate UX research bottlenecks, aiding in method selection and question drafting for better user experiences.

Connecting With Users: Applying Principles Of Communication To UX Research - Smashing Magazine

UX practitioners benefit from understanding communication theory for better research practices.
Communication principles enhance user experiences and product success.

Cactus births and Klingon crosswords: The power of extreme user feedback

Extreme user quotes in UX research are crucial for uncovering raw, honest feedback that can lead to significant improvements.
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#blockchain

The TechBeat: Finance from First Principles (9/9/2024)

The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) is reshaping financial markets towards a more open and innovative future.

The TechBeat: Innovation Culture Roadmap: What Works and What Doesn't (9/13/2024) | HackerNoon

The startup journey is challenging yet rewarding, requiring resilience and adaptability.
UX research is essential in banking and retail to enhance product development.

The TechBeat: Finance from First Principles (9/9/2024)

The rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) is reshaping financial markets towards a more open and innovative future.

The TechBeat: Innovation Culture Roadmap: What Works and What Doesn't (9/13/2024) | HackerNoon

The startup journey is challenging yet rewarding, requiring resilience and adaptability.
UX research is essential in banking and retail to enhance product development.
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What we can learn from UX Research job descriptions

A data-driven UX research career ladder can help clarify qualifications and responsibilities at different seniority levels.

Using AI for research

UX practitioners' confidence in outsourcing UXR processes to AI-powered chatbots is uncertain.

Breaking bad news: how to present negative UX research findings

Prioritizing bad news in user research presentations can lead to negative team perception and lack of empathy.

Highlights from UXRConf 2024

A successful UX research approach requires a mix of qualitative and quantitative methods, thinking in terms of probabilities and pursuing new research questions.
#customer-insights

How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users

UX research requires user involvement; connecting with colleagues closest to customers can provide indirect insights when direct access to users is not possible.

How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users - Smashing Magazine

Utilize colleagues closest to customers for indirect user insights when direct access is limited.

How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users

UX research requires user involvement; connecting with colleagues closest to customers can provide indirect insights when direct access to users is not possible.

How To Run UX Research Without Access To Users - Smashing Magazine

Utilize colleagues closest to customers for indirect user insights when direct access is limited.
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Why Designers Aren't Understood - Smashing Magazine

Businesses struggle to understand UX due to misaligned languages, requiring designers to present work in terms of business goals for better stakeholder engagement.
#career-development

Why UX Maturity and Culture Matter to Your Research Career

Understanding the impact of company and country culture on UX maturity is crucial when considering a career in UX research.

Effective user research meetings need a template

Having structured templates for meetings can bring clarity, save time, and improve efficiency for UX Researchers.

Why UX Maturity and Culture Matter to Your Research Career

Understanding the impact of company and country culture on UX maturity is crucial when considering a career in UX research.

Effective user research meetings need a template

Having structured templates for meetings can bring clarity, save time, and improve efficiency for UX Researchers.
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Conducting Accessibility Research In An Inaccessible Ecosystem - Smashing Magazine

Ensuring technology is accessible relies on receiving direct feedback from disabled users by creating accessible prototypes for user testing.
#communication

Imagining Future Generative AI Tools for UX

Future Gen AI tools should incorporate UX research and design, prioritize diverse data output, and cover various screen types and industries.

Is the democratization of UX research a threat or an opportunity?

The democratization of UX research involves involving more people in the research process to achieve quicker and more comprehensive results.

Imagining Future Generative AI Tools for UX

Future Gen AI tools should incorporate UX research and design, prioritize diverse data output, and cover various screen types and industries.

Is the democratization of UX research a threat or an opportunity?

The democratization of UX research involves involving more people in the research process to achieve quicker and more comprehensive results.
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9 things I wish I knew before I started building a product as a solo product designer

Don't limit UX research to traditional methods; explore various sources like Quora, Reddit, and YouTube for valuable insights.

Rating scales, the more points the merrier?

Longer rating scales may confuse participants, impacting validity and experience.
Research indicates that 3-point scales are perceived as quicker by participants.

UX, Stop Believing The Gaslighters

UX practitioners often face challenges in being disempowered, circumvented, overruled, excluded, and blocked.
UX research should inform and influence strategies, priorities, and decisions at all levels of the team and company.

How human nature, AI, and interest rates ruined it for everybody

Market experienced significant decrease in UX and design jobs and earnings in 2022-2023.
Tech job market saturated, requiring a reevaluation of UX craft and approach.

Navigating the DesignOps wilderness

Understand current state before introducing change
Cultivate relationships with stakeholders

Bad research doesn't stink

Democratization in UX research empowers non-researcher team members to conduct research.
A key challenge of democratization is the risk of more bad research being done by individuals unfamiliar with proper research practices.
#content-design

The power of patterns and playbooks in content design

Content components and patterns in design systems are crucial for consistency and focus on larger design issues.
Equipping content teams with tools like right questions, artifacts, and collaboration with UX research partners can help address contradictory demands.

The power of patterns and playbooks in content design

Content components and patterns build consistency and allow content designers to focus on larger design issues.
Organizational leaders can equip content designers with arguments, tools, and evidence to respond to contradictory demands.

The power of patterns and playbooks in content design

Content components and patterns in design systems are crucial for consistency and focus on larger design issues.
Equipping content teams with tools like right questions, artifacts, and collaboration with UX research partners can help address contradictory demands.

The power of patterns and playbooks in content design

Content components and patterns build consistency and allow content designers to focus on larger design issues.
Organizational leaders can equip content designers with arguments, tools, and evidence to respond to contradictory demands.
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Profiling product teams & predicting research needs

Knowing the work of an organization is essential for understanding its value and determining where research can provide value.
Understanding the evolutionary stage of a product team's work helps anticipate their needs and allows for proactive research.

The features investors want are not the ones your users need

UX research should prioritize the needs of users and not solely focus on the interests of the business.
Deprioritizing the needs of users can harm the success of a business.

A proposal for modern UX Researchers

UX Researchers need to find ways to showcase their impact and ROI.
Researchers should strive to immerse themselves in the product domain and broaden the scope of UX Research.

How to Maximize the Impact of UX Research in Tech Teams?

Understand team norms and identify any gaps
Define the UX researcher's role and responsibilities
Discuss research methodologies and their purpose
Introduce UX frameworks to enhance understanding
Create a centralized UX research repository
Establish a user feedback channel

UX Breakfast : Le journal de bord * UserTesting

User diary studies are a method used in UX research to gather insights from users over a longer period of time.
Stéphanie Walter will be sharing her experience and tips on how to successfully implement user diary studies.
#ux-design

Enterprise UX Design: Collaborating and Taking Charge of Uncertainties

Navigating the unknown is a challenge in UX design, especially in enterprises with limited data and customer access.
Keeping the user at the center of the process and conducting thorough research can help overcome uncertainties and find optimal solutions.

UX Research: A Practical Guide to Insights, Budgeting, and Stakeholder Engagement

User research is crucial for understanding user behaviors, needs, and preferences.
UX research is integral in creating user-centric products and informing the design phase.

Enterprise UX Design: Collaborating and Taking Charge of Uncertainties

Navigating the unknown is a challenge in UX design, especially in enterprises with limited data and customer access.
Keeping the user at the center of the process and conducting thorough research can help overcome uncertainties and find optimal solutions.

UX Research: A Practical Guide to Insights, Budgeting, and Stakeholder Engagement

User research is crucial for understanding user behaviors, needs, and preferences.
UX research is integral in creating user-centric products and informing the design phase.
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#product-processes

We're practicing UX Research wrong

UX research is having a tougher time making a comeback after layoffs in the tech industry.
The writer believes that research is more suited for product processes rather than design processes.

We're practicing UX Research wrong

UX research is having a tougher time after tech layoffs.
The author argues that research belongs more in product processes rather than design processes.

We're practicing UX Research wrong

UX research is having a tougher time making a comeback after layoffs in the tech industry.
The writer believes that research is more suited for product processes rather than design processes.

We're practicing UX Research wrong

UX research is having a tougher time after tech layoffs.
The author argues that research belongs more in product processes rather than design processes.
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#UX research

Pixels of the Week November 19, 2023

Tips for crafting effective UX research reports
Importance of taking time to understand new clients
Disabling buttons in UI may not be a good idea

Three Guaranteed Ways To Boost App Retention (Without Gamification)

Gamification needs intense UX research and should be driven by user goals.
Clients often want simple tricks for gamification, but they require more in-depth understanding of users and their psychology.
Increasing friction in onboarding can actually boost retention and engagement.

Pixels of the Week November 19, 2023

Tips for crafting effective UX research reports
Importance of taking time to understand new clients
Disabling buttons in UI may not be a good idea

Three Guaranteed Ways To Boost App Retention (Without Gamification)

Gamification needs intense UX research and should be driven by user goals.
Clients often want simple tricks for gamification, but they require more in-depth understanding of users and their psychology.
Increasing friction in onboarding can actually boost retention and engagement.
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Pixels of the Week November 19, 2023

Tips for crafting effective UX research reports
Importance of taking time to understand new clients
Disabling buttons in UI may not be a good idea

Presenting UX Research And Design To Stakeholders: The Power Of Persuasion - Smashing Magazine

Persuasion and effective communication are crucial for UX practitioners to gain buy-in from key stakeholders and bridge the gap between research and action.

Effective user research meetings need a template

Having predefined meeting templates with clear goals and agendas can enhance efficiency and productivity for UX Researchers.

A self-paced degree in UX research

About 75% of UX Researchers have advanced degrees, but self-study and practical experience are also valuable.
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