Cheat codes for leveling up your research + career

This week from People Nerds: Conducting heuristic evals, growing your UX career, and serving communities with research.

Leveling up in research  The field is changing. So are the skills we need to grow. Here's a concrete checklist of experience you should acquire, strategies you should learn, and methods you should master to "level up"—whether you're a UXR veteran, or new to the space.    LEVEL UP A "fill-in-the-gaps" research tactic When you have a (rare) free moment between a project or sprint, but not quite enough time to run participant-backed research—try a heuristic evaluation. It'll help you find the issues in your UX and get you started at patching them up.    LEARN HOW Researching for community impact Now, more than ever, we need to radically restructure the way we provide for those in need. That's why we're speaking with civic and nonprofit UX leaders on how they best serve their communities. Save your spot in our free webinar on June 24.    JOIN US More we're discussing: In February our team did some exploratory research on what, who, and how we celebrate Black History Month. We're revisiting what we learned as we celebrate Juneteenth.  ICYMI: We did original research on how user behavior and brand perception has changed, months into the COVID-19 crisis. Read here.  We boiled down the "business basics" every UXR should know into these essential frameworks. What we're hearing:  Great piece from developer Olu Niyiawosusi on "Building the Woke Web" (AKA, the intersection of accessibility, inclusion, and social justice online) UX Collective published an anti-racist reading list for designers (it also features a few upcoming events worth looking into). Listen to Invision's Design Better Podcast on designing for diversity with the founders of Project Inkblot. 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