The 2024 State of User Research survey is live! 🎉🎉🎉

We encourage *everyone* who does research to participate.

💵 At the end, you can enter yourself into a sweepstakes for a $150 gift card 🤑.

⏱️ Closes April 14, 2024 @ midnight PDT .

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Our frameworks for showing #UX impact need specifying says Ruby Pryor, founder and CEO of Rex. Listen to the full conversation today (link below).

Awkward Silences is back with a new episode! eBay's Staff UX Research Lead Bryan Dosono joins to unpack his 'chaos theory' of event networking. Listen to learn his approach to small talk and why he's a fan of conference apps.

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✨ New! Qualitative Sample Size Calculator✨

Get a customized, research-backed recommendation based on:
🎯 research goals
⚖️ methods
✅ participant criteria
🤓 expertise

Learn about our formula and see how it works: userintervie.ws/4bwr8Q6

🕵️ This one's for the pro puzzlers out there...

You'll have to apply some deductive reasoning to guess the cryptic clues (marked with a '?') in today's crossword.

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Name that researcher!

Today's crossword puzzle is pretty hard. If you want to make it even more challenging, try timing yourself! ⏱️

Post your time in the comments 👇 and share the puzzle with a competitive colleague to see who can solve it fastest.

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Breezed through our Monday and Tuesday crosswords?

Let's see how you do with the more challenging UXWords #3! You might need an extra cup of coffee for this one... ☕

(Loving this series? 💛 Follow us for links to upcoming puzzles.)

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Can you solve these #crossword clues❓
• Soul singer Redding
• Indonesian capital
• Don't Make Me ____ by Steve Krug

Our second crossword is an easy-ish mix of UX and general Qs. Things get tricker tomorrow—tag a 🤓 friend who's up for the challenge! userintervie.ws/3HB2hNd

Warm up your Monday brain 🧠 with a UX crossword!

Every day this week, we'll be dropping a new UXWord—UX crossword puzzles from User Interviews 🤓

Start by solving puzzle #1 and work your way up to Friday's cryptic crossword. userintervie.ws/3w0DXBS

A #UXcareer coach explains the 6 key components of a successful #portfolio . Get expert advice and see examples of great research portfolios from real UXers. ⭐⭐⭐

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So you're planning a website redesign... Have you done the necessary #uxresearch ? Are you confident the changes you're making are user-friendly and data-informed?

Roxanne Rosewood shares her beginner-friendly, 4-part framework for doing UXR for redesigns:
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Introducing: A brand new UI content experience! 🥬✨

🔍 Improved blog categories, nav, and post layout
🎙️ Updated podcast look & UX
🌟 New original data reports
📣 Dedicated home for product announcements
💌 Zhuzhed up newsletter

Explore now! userintervie.ws/3TwwPak

Should I stay or should I go? 🎶 🤔

The decision to leave #academia can be a difficult one. Joe Stubenrauch should know—he walked away from tenure to become a #UX #Researcher .

Hear Joe's advice for academics transitioning to the private sector: userintervie.ws/3sZt6qN

Everything you wanted to know about #contentdesign with Erica Jorgensen.

📌 Highlights:
02:03: What is content design?
14:00: Using simplified language
26:42: Cloze testing
29:26: The importance of syllables and length
39:46: Tons of resources
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“Design is about helping people make sense of the world'

mgiudice has been researching #change #leadership #design for 10 years. Listen to #awkwardsilences for her insights and practical advice on approaching change with a designer mindset. 💡

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Trying to weave a customer centric mindset into the fabric of your product org? Start from the bottom up, says Prayag Narula, CEO of @heymarvinapp

Building something new? Leaders should place research and customer insights front & center from the beginning.
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The classic story of a rags-to-riches 💰

Start Juicing how User Interviews...

🧃 Pivoted their startup
🧃 Found product-market fit
🧃 Grew a (fully remote) team 👀
🧃 Made happy customers out of some of the world's top companies

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User Research: 'Craft Isn’t the End Goal, Impact Is' buff.ly/3PPyghD Roberta Dombrowski ✨ (via User Interviews)

🛠️ NEW—the 2023 UX Research Software Report 🛠️

Discover the most popular UXR tools (according to a survey of 900+ researchers) for use cases like:
🧲 Recruiting
🤖 Prototyping
📈 Analytics
💻 Unmoderated tests
📊 Quant & qual analytics
🏔️ & more!
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Looking for a smart, thoughtful, an deeply knowledgable take on generative AI tools and their place in modern #research workflows?

Linus Lee, Research Engineer at Notion has got insights to spare in the latest Awkward episode. Click to listen now!🎙

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