May 24' - What's ahead for UXR?

How is your May ending? What a month, right? It was packed!

A lot was going on in the UX world this month, plenty of conferences, new launches and a mountain of content!

Let's jump into it!

This Week's Episode

The Future of UXR

On our latest episode, Yao Adantor , Senior Researcher and founder of User Experience University , painted an optimistic picture of the field's future. He sees vast potential for growth and a movement towards scaling practices.

Yao emphasizes the need to bridge the gap between business objectives and user needs. While businesses may understand their products, they often lack insights into user behavior and expectations.

Yao envisions a future where UX research, armed with innovative tools and methodologies, seamlessly integrates into business strategies, fostering superior communication and understanding.

Check out the whole episode here:

Or on Spotify:

Articles Corner

Plenty of stuff out there! These are my favourite articles of the month:

Continuous Discovery is becoming popular, but how are teams actually running it? In this amazing article by Caitlin Sullivan , she shares what most teams do wrong when running continuous discovery.

Are you new to Research Operations? In this article, Suviksha H. talks about her first encounter with ReOps and how it impacted her approach to projects:

How should customer insights be shared? Dr. Ari Zelmanow xplains how can you transform a group of researchers into a group of investigative journalists to change how you share your insights:

Spotlight

How do you survive as a UX researcher in a company when you are a lonely "UX Team of One?". I talked with Jennifer Blatz on her show Jen BlatzChatz about how to make it and thrive as that sole researcher.

Check out the interview take:

Meme of the Week

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