Fresh Views: January 2025 ?? Edition

Inside this issue:

• Subscribers only ??: Inside Part 2 of our Product x Research Collaboration Report
• A first look at our new UXR Findings Summary Template
• Now On Demand: Business 101 for Researchers
• Catch up on the latest episodes of Awkward Silences ???
• ICYMI: An updated Jobs Board, calculating the ROI of UX, and AI prompts to speed up research prep

Happy New Year (am I still allowed to say that?) and welcome ?? to our monthly edition of Fresh Views! This is the place to catch up on all things UX. Even better, as a subscriber you get to unlock ?? access to new data and content before anyone else. (Want to receive our weekly updates? Subscribe to Fresh Views)

Happy Reading!

Nick Lioudis

Content & Community @ User Interviews

SUBSCRIBER ?? EXCLUSIVE

Inside the Product x Research Collaboration Report: A case study with Netflix

How can Product and Research teams align on a strategy that helps them achieve the best outcomes?

In part two of our report, we dive in with HEARD by Elis to understand the drivers of effective collaboration between UXRs and PMs and the ways Research teams can use their "Product Sense" to better plug into a complex product strategy.

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TEMPLATES ??

How a Findings Summary Helps You Translate UXR Results Faster

Leadership and career coach Roberta D. created the findings summary explicitly to help stakeholders more actively consume research output.

The research team at UI values being able to apply insights quickly to inform business decisions. This template was made to help UXRs highlight the most important information for the rest of the organization.?

Cheers to that Roberta! Here's how that can look IRL:

You can get the full scoop on this template in the Fresh Views blog.

VIRTUAL ?? COURSE

Now on demand: Business 101 ?? for Researchers

Business 101 for Researchers is now available on demand! Catch up with our sessions and see all of the insightful gems ?? from instructor Eniola Abioye such as this one here on storytelling tactics.

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PODCAST ???

Catch up on the latest episodes of Awkward Silences ???

The podcast for all things UX, research, and design launched its newest season with episodes from:

• Judy Xu of Salesforce
• Emily Wurgler of McDonald's (shown below)
• Will Notini of IDEO
• Brad Orego of Webflow
• Graham Gardner of U.S. Bank

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FROM THE INTERWEBS ??

And the social media post of the month goes to...

We might be biased, but...compliments will get you EVERYWHERE!

Shoutout to Mike Blight, Ph.D. for sharing the love (and possibly baked goods) with the UXR community this month.

ON THE BLOG ??

New in Fresh ?? Views This Month

1. We updated our free UX research and design jobs board this month!
2. We asked an expert to help us calculate the ROI of UX
3. Another expert helped you save hours of research prep with these simple AI prompts

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