Research shouldn't be framed as a tactical activity or support service for product teams: "Ideally there’s a collaboration and a chance for research to speak truth to power. But that’s not what a person in a support role does" @steveportigal buff.ly/2vnpfm4

How can Silicon Valley avoid A/B testing our way into the 'gradient descent of mankind'? Listen to 1st episode of our new Center For Humane Technology podcast "Your Undivided Attention"! Aza Raskin and I interview NYU researcher Natasha Schull on Las Vegas slot machine design. undivided.app.link/4hDbU2DTaW

So grateful to Tristan Harris from Center For Humane Technology for making the time to chat about such an important topic for our community 🙏

"#Collaboration is appealing in concept but challenging in practice." Learn about the 5 C's—a roadmap for effective collaboration: ideo.pn/2It9s9N

New episode out now ✨ Listen in to hear Kate Towsey of Atlassian Design ✨ talk about her love of all things ResearchOps and how you can scale your growing research team more effectively bit.ly/2xI4enq

"Your brain is fixed - it’s like running Windows ’95 and never getting an upgrade... tech is ramping up at an exponential rate" - Tristan Harris on our Paleolithic brains + fighting the race to the bottom (of our brainstems) Mixed Methods w Aryel Cianflone bit.ly/2FBt5NV

'The objective of UX research is not to give black or white, but to help teams navigate through uncertainty.' New favourite quote from the Mixed Methods podcast with Matt Gallivan!

New ep out now 🥳 w/ Jane Fulton Suri, fmr chief creative officer & current partner emeritus IDEO! Listen in to hear guest producer nadia surtees talk to Jane abt her path to design research & how she finds inspiration through the natural world. bit.ly/2OheJZI

On a new episode of Mixed Methods podcast, Nadia Surtees interviews Jane Fulton Suri about human-centered design, the circular economy, the origins of the Nature Cards, and more: ideo.to/5LivMm

We've been talking a lot about the future of UXR, but today’s episode is more focused on your future. Listen as Laura Weiss, a design leadership coach, discusses what it means to be a coach and what you can gain by having one 🙌 bit.ly/2KywoqV

Q&A with professional coach Laura Weiss today at 1 PM PT in the #general channel of the Mixed Methods slack group. Come discuss career growth, transitions, etc. 🎉 You can grab an invite to the slack group here —> mixedmethods.herokuapp.com

Systems, biomimicry, circular economy, the interconnectedness of all things, symbiosis and “life-centered design” — I get so excited when one podcast touches on so many things I love. ⁦Mixed Methods⁩ ⁦Jane Fulton Suri⁩ #designresearch podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mix…

A couple new episodes out now 🎉 if you want to know what it’s really like being an info architect check out our episode with Abby Covert otherwise listen in to a convo with @elizejackson & Alex Haagaard (they / them) from the @DisabledListOrg apple.co/2m1IK27

If ever there was a time to think about problems more broadly, it's now 🌎 Out today, a conversation with asif who leads UXR for Google’s Next Billion Users project. Hope you’re all doing well and staying safe ❤️ bit.ly/34q09nh

What’s the deal with personas and how do you do them right? New ep out today with the team behind Spotify Design’s game-changing personas project. Listen in to hear from Madyana Torres De Souza, Olga Hörding & @sohitkarol. bit.ly/3bkPZXS

🚨Major #UXRConfAnywhere Announcement🚨 1️⃣ New $99 Solo Savings Passes for those without PD budgets 2️⃣ All tickets now include access to all track and keynote talks 3️⃣ We’re excited to share that Solo Premium tickets are sold out! NEW website 👉 uxrconference.com 🔥

📣 The wait is over 📣 With over 1000 responses from researchers around the world, we're excited to launch the first Annual Research Salary Report! Thank you for helping us increase #salarytransparency! 🙌 Download the report here 👉 uxrsalary.com 🔥

Wondering how to adapt your research practice to meet the current moment? We were too, so we spoke to Marie Huber of @thirdplateau, a UXR that has helped numerous orgs do research during times of crisis⚡️ bit.ly/2WXWkm1

Aaron Sedley of Google Design has devoted himself to finding a better way to measure #UX through #surveying. After 16 yrs at Google Design, he’s learned A LOT! Check out our latest episode to hear Colette Kolenda dig in to find out more. bit.ly/2z4yTiK

Key phrases, missing from practically every portfolio case study I read: • The challenge we ran into was… • I realized we didn’t understand… • Our first attempt to address this challenge was… • We learned these critical things we never knew about our users…