Evidence-based fortune-telling

This week from People Nerds: remote collaboration tactics, scaling research responsibly, and a workshop on grounded theory.

How to bring the office in The new distributed reality for UXRs doesn't have to mean sacrificing rigor and output. In fact, it offers new ways to get creative with collaboration. Here are five tactics our team uses to do collaborative work while apart.    LEARN MORE Inviting (more) users to your table UXRs often balk at stakeholders' demands for larger samples. What happens, instead, if we embrace their requests? Nick Cawthon discusses the need for qual synthesis at scale—a delicate act of "soothsaying" we need to attempt responsibly.  READ ON Develop your "codebook" A solid understanding of grounded theory ensures you get as much out of your studies as you put into them. Part 2 of our New Fundamentals Workshop series will leave you with critical tactics for coding, tagging, and pattern-finding. GROUND YOURSELF  More we're discussing: At dscout, we recently published these participant experience standards and these guidelines for inclusive research. Whether you use our platform or not, we hope they'll be a helpful (but not exhaustive) resource.  This guide to upskilling organizes two years of People Nerds resources (webinars, templates, guides, articles) by the problem they help you solve.  Empathy for our users starts with self-reflection and healing, says Antionette Carroll. Hear more wisdom from the Creative Reaction Lab Founder here.  What we're hearing:  Interesting breakdown from UX Planet on what skills are in demand for UX researchers (synthesized from recent job listings). If you work in digital products, here's a great presentation template for talking to your stakeholders about accessibility. Great interview with Pedro Oliveira giving us a beyond-the-buzzword look at "decolonizing design." 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