How to do "the basics" better.

This week from People Nerds: how to assess your interview skills and our workshop on the new fundamentals of research tackles surveys.

Become a better interviewer Good interviews are the core to qualitative research. Whether you've conducted thousands of them throughout your career, or are just getting started, these 10 principles are key to self-improvement.    MASTER INTERVIEWING Build a more effective survey Some qual researchers look at the survey as a "shortcut"—an ineffective way to gleam only cursory user data. But good surveys, strategic surveys, can unearth surprising depth, at a hard-to-beat scale. Learn how to write those kinds of surveys at our next workshop, a part of our three-course series on UXR's New Fundamentals. SURV-YAY Downloads from dscout:  We converted our Complete Guide to Mixed Methods research into a comprehensive, handy-to-have-around ebook. Give it a read (or a save) before your next study. If you've been working to "prove the value" of your qualitative research, you might like this guide to the Business Impact of dscout. It covers the ROI of our tool specifically, but gives you a framework for evaluating whatever's in your remote research tool stack. More we're discussing: Run a better retrospective, and you'll start running better projects. Here's a step-by-step look at effective retros for researchers.  Meg Ferrill, pro-storyteller at The Moth, broke down the storytelling basics UX practitioners should know. Read 'em here, and become a better user advocate.  ICYMI our democratization panel, read this inside look at how Thumbtack scaled research from three to 200+ stakeholders. What we're hearing:  Facebook Research published a helpful deep dive on setting up an optimal (or at least functional) home research station. Great read from the folks on EPIC on retooling the ethnographic skill set for "resilience" (ie. risk analysis and quality assurance). If you're new to the world of research ops, NN/g just published a solid (but succinct) guide. 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