11 ways to make more of an impact with UXR

This week from People Nerds: How to create fans, lessons learned from 15 years of covering tech, and the best ways to keep UXR top-of-mind

Not keeping office hours? You should.  So you want your org to keep baking user research into their projects, but you can't always be there to remind them. Here are 11 solid ways you can remind people of the value of UXR—and why they should keep it top of mind.      BE MINDFUL Tech isn't an industry. It's a layer.  Dan Frommer has seen the world of tech grow from its infancy to the unwieldy giant it is today. Now at the helm of his new publication The New Consumer, he wants to explore the world of modern commerce—even if doing so means going it alone.   DIVE IN How to create (and keep) fans When users have a voice in your process, impact increases. When users are involved in each piece of the process, impact explodes. Here's how Don Hall of Ten Gun Design leveraged strategic customer input to create fans from an existing user base.   BUILD BETTER More we're discussing: For those career searching right now: how to optimize your resume and find your UX niche. It's always worthwhile to remind yourself what cognitive biases might be impacting your work. Here are 10, in particular, that UXRs should be aware of. If there's still a need for research at your company, but your resources are starting to thin, here's how the experts at Google, AirBnB, and LinkedIn tackle the rising demand for insights.  What we're hearing:  A few presenter resources to follow up on from our Business Essentials for UX Researchers and Designers webinar: The Intersection of UX and an MBA, and How Ethnographic Praxis Can Move Beyond Research. Here's a useful (and charmingly illustrated) guide to running remote retrospectives with UXers. dscout is a company composed of People Nerds working to make context-rich human insight an everyday habit across organizations. The dscout platform—Diary, Live, Recruit, and Express—enables remote qualitative research that brings researchers into the moments experienced and shared by real people. Curious about the platform or working with dscout? Talk to an account executive.  dscout, 222 North LaSalle St. Suite 650, Chicago, Illinois 60601, (312) 880-9715 Unsubscribe Manage preferences