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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Three times a month, I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
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This is Dear Nikki’s first-ever user research membership spotlight, where I bring on user researchers from my membership to discuss their particular experiences on a given topic. For this episode, I spoke with Harmony on how to think about and choose user research tools for your team!
Resources:
* Harmony’s LinkedIn
* HUX Innovation
* Tooling Up for Success
* G2 User Research Tools
* Join my Membership!
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Three times a month, I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* Six-month mentorship program
* User Research Membership
* Skills assessment sheet
* Failure journal
* Create a career plan
* Mistakes I’ve made as a UXR - part one & part two
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit userresearchacademy.substack.com/subscribe -
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
Resources:
* Walk the store interviews
* Continuous discovery
* Submit a topic/question
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit userresearchacademy.substack.com/subscribe -
👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Three times a month, I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* Jira Product Discovery
* Six-month mentorship spots available
* Submit a topic
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* Submit a topic/question
* Personal ReadMe example
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* 2023 Salary Report
* Global UX Compensation Transparency Project
* Submit a question/topic
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* Submit a topic/question
* Write a literature review
* Secondary resources list:
* Google Scholar: A great source of academic papers or reports by universities.
* ResearchGate: A handy resource for scientific or academic papers.
* ACM Digital Library: Has many scholarly peer-reviewed journals, particularly on information technology disciplines.
* Springer: Filled with scientific documents and books on many different topics.
* Wiley Online Library: Scientific and academic journals, articles, and books on a wide range of subjects.
* Forrester: Has insights on tending and essential marketing topics.
* Baymard: Filled with UX articles, UX Benchmarks, and research that helps make more informed design decisions.
* Voicebot: Trends and reports specifically on AI and Voice.
* Charity Choice: Free reports of charities in the UK.
* The Guardian's "What I'm Really Thinking" Series: Dives into the social science of what people in certain situations think or feel.
* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library: A repository of resources on computing research and practice.
* Journal of Usability Studies (JUS): A publication dedicated to exploring usability and other research-related topics
* Stanford d.school: Brings sources on a variety of topics when it comes to design and research
* MIT D-Lab: Dives into topics related to humanitarianism and other social causes
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Resources:
* How User Research Impacts the AARRR Metrics
* Submit a topic/question
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
Podcast resources:
* Surveys that work
* 11 Usability Testing Metrics to Enrich Your Reporting
* Measure satisfaction without the NPS
* A Practical Guide to Measuring Usability
* Conduct a benchmarking study
* How to conduct a tree test
* Submit a question
This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit userresearchacademy.substack.com/subscribe -
👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
Podcast resources:
* Treat stakeholders like users
* Submit a question
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
In this episode, I discuss the recent posts I’ve been seeing on LinkedIn about layoffs and thinking about how we can approach some of these challenging situations together with an open, empathetic mindset
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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.
If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!
In this episode, I discuss a slightly different approach to tracking impact at your organization by examining how your research can impact individual colleagues and decision-making.
Formulas I mentioned:
* (time saved) x (employee cost) x (# of employees) = cost savings
* (# of errors) x (avg. repair time) x (employee cost) x (# of employees) = cost savings
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In this episode, I talk through different approaches you can use to practice your user research skills in low-stakes environments to feel more confident using different methodologies
Resources:
Whiteboard challenge prompts
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In this episode, I talk through the question of, when you are working with skilled PMs (or other stakeholders), who is meant to own discovery work?
Article with levels of support
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In part two of this episode, I talk about the other five top mistakes I have made as a user researcher and how I shifted them into learnings
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In part one of this episode, I talk about five (out of the ten) top mistakes I have made as a user researcher and how I shifted them into learnings
Resources:
- Treat stakeholders like users ebook
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In this episode, I talk through how to think about creating research questions and then how that can help you choose an appropriate method!
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In this episode, I answer a question about what to do if you need to conduct a field study in someone's home and also strategies if, for whatever reason, you aren't able to visit them in their home!
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In this episode, I talk about recent UXR lay-offs and my recommendations for staying competitive in a tough market
Resources:
- Prioritizing user research projects
- Workshop facilitation webinar
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In this episode, I answer a question/concern I have been hearing about a lot: will AI take over our job as user researchers? Spoiler: no :) listen to learn why!
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