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This week from People Nerds: Giving and receiving feedback through user research reviews and lessons learned from mentoring junior UXRs

Create a research feedback loop It's hard to grow in a vacuum. Insight gathered from peers and collaborators are crucial for improving your work. Take fuller advantage of their experience by starting a practice of user research reviews.   POINT OF (RE)VIEW Theory isn't practice (and vice versa) One of the best ways to learn something is to teach it. When it comes to user research, it's no different. Here are seven lessons one researcher gleaned over years of mentoring junior colleagues.  LESSONS LEARNED More we're discussing: Shift from a transactional to cooperative research practice with this advice from experts on ethical participant management. For 30+ years, AbbVie's Ed Halpern has applied a philosophy of human-systems interaction to a make products better. Read how here. Extend your UX impact by building a connection between stakeholders and users with these three engagement tactics. What we're hearing:  Looking to add UX writing to your skillset? JustInMind has a complete guide to get you up and running. Use this lightweight JTBD framework to align your product development with real customer problems, from First Round Review. Designing with—and for—emotion requires a fuller sense of the emotional landscape. Get inspired with Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions. 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