Plus, get some hard-earned advice on how to evolve in your career as a UX designer, take a look at how to integrate accessibility into your practices, and check out this week's job listings.
This week, it's all about working with designers in research!
Unfortunately, design and research can splinter into a competitive mentality, preventing teams from genuinely collaborating and doing their best work.
Plus, we've got all kinds of goodies on UX design and accessibility.
- The People Nerds Team
It's long overdue for researchers to fully recognize and support design's contributions to research—and that doesn't have to be synonymous with the idea of "democratization".
Look no further: This deep dive has how-tos, best practices, and prime advice on key approaches to user research. Bookmark this page for later when you need a quick refresher.
Match is looking to hire a UX researcher (hybrid, New York).
Brooks is searching for a UX designer to add to the team (Seattle).
Chime is recruiting a new user researcher for their growth team (San Francisco).
[At Vodafone] user research and design are one package, and that relationship combination works really well for us. They bounce off each other, debate a little bit, and keep each other in check. There's always a need for us to learn and respond to our users' needs and that's our creative fodder.
But of course, the research won't necessarily tell us what the best solution is. The designers need to bring a sensibility of craft and creativity. It's their job to really work with Product to imagine what the solution might be.
Ashton Snook
Head of Product Design and UX Research at Vodafone
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