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This week from People Nerds: Talking about race in research, a recap from our webinar with Google, and conducting research in tough times.

Challenging presumptions—and doing the work Orgs and teams across the world are having a long overdue conversation about race—in and out of the office. There are helpful ways to meet this moment, and there are harmful ways. Autumn Foster Sanders, founder of the design consulting firm Quire, has suggestions for the former.    READ MORE Community and culture in the distributed work moment Margaret Lee and Mike Buzzard, leaders of UX Community and Culture at Google, talked with us about creating co-present teams in an ever-shifting workplace. We've distilled their insights into these nine rules for effective culture cultivation.   LEARN MORE When the going gets tough... Research can be difficult under the best of circumstances. Throw a pandemic in the mix, and things get tougher—both for you, and your participants. To do research compassionately might be to do research differently. Here's how to adjust.    GET GOING More we're discussing: A couple tips for when you want to move the ball forward, but are short on time: try conducting a heuristic evaluation, or any of these 9 time-saving UXR hacks. Most of us are still physically distanced from our co-workers, so keeping research top-of-mind with your stakeholders might be difficult. Here's how to navigate this new challenge. Looking to get folks even more involved? Read former Slack Head of Research Behzod Sirjani's advice on democratizing user research. What we're hearing:  Interesting and well-timed piece from UX Matters on design that reduces uncertainty and lessens anxiety. Smashing Magazine published a timely breakdown of video conferencing tools based on their adherence to accessible design principles. Grateful for this piece on "society-centered" data that introduced to the Data Ethics Canvas. 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