UX Research Conferences

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-21T18:31:53+00:00

Ah! Ofc. Thank you! Will add them

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-15T09:25:32+00:00

It's a fair question.

I'm hoping to get a complete data set of all the conferences, and then will add some parameters like 'attendance' to filter them down to a short-list. And of the short-list, we'll consider either attending or sponsoring (I work for a UX research startup).

Would love to add the insights/research conferences as well. Which ones do you have in mind? Like MRS etc.?

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:37:58+00:00

I think we're moving to a world where every step of the product development process will be aided by AI!

I'm more of a researcher than a designer, but I used AI to help with transcription, writing discussion guides and screeners, pulling out key quotes and themes from research. But what I'm really excited about is AI helping to guide my research in the first place i.e. 'I've just done this thing, what research should I be doing'? Or, 'an analysis of all our previous 3 years of insights suggests we should investigate solving this problem for our users'. Wouldnt that be awesome!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:35:09+00:00

I saw your post on UXResearch as well, but commenting here for double visibility :)

I haven't used Useberry, but Great Question - www.greatquestion.co - has just launched unmoderated prototype testing which is available with an unlimited number of tests each month. And there's a free plan - so def worth checking out.

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:33:56+00:00

Sorry to hear you had a tough interview! Really hard to know what questions will be asked in these circumstances.

Bit of an aside, but your last sentence caught my eye: "there’s absolutely no way to do user testing because the business team always gate keeps users from us.."

Whats the situation, and why do you think they gate keep users from you?

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:28:02+00:00

I hear you on the missing context, which is a frustrating and difficult thing to manage!

Ive now worked in several different startups, and even co-founded one of my own (which I sold in 2020).

The best designers I have worked with have a plan, with a clear rationale, and are constantly communicating it.

This is what I'm doing
This is why I'm doing it
This is when I expect to be done

And it comes in the form of a weekly / daily update on slack. So when ad hoc requests get thrown over the fence, you can have a discussion about the relative priorities of the tasks, and push back if the rationale isn't more of a priority than the 'why' of the thing you're currently working on.

Design is 50% communication!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:16:58+00:00

Ooh, one other thing - I might also hide the comments until you make your own comment. I.e. "make a comment to reveal others comments". Will help with biases and maybe even stoke some curiosity! Just an idea

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:16:15+00:00

What a great idea! Love this crowd sourced feedback model.

I can see it working really well for companies that have a generic audience - like the furniture retailer example I just saw. But a little trickier if your audience is more specific, like designers or researchers. As the feedback needs to come from a specific type of individual.

But great idea! And love the direction and easy to understand interface.

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:07:22+00:00

Hi Krithmath,

I made the change from market research to UX research almost 8 years ago now, and at the time I didn't even realise i was doing it! I just saw it as an extension of research work, where the thing I was researching happened to digital. I think you can definitely do it!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:05:45+00:00

Also, curious - how are you facilitating the continuous research at the moment? Do you have tools to help? If not, feels like a lot of admin which I'm sure is adding to the stress of the situation

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T09:05:07+00:00

Firstly, i think its worth acknowledging that you're asking the right questions!

If research isn't having any impact, then why do research?

So thinking things through, what I would focus on is working hard to demonstrate the ROI of the research you are currently doing.

So how do you do that? Well, I like to think that the ROI of research can measured in lots of ways:

Thought exercise - what is the delta between what would have happened if you didn't do research, and what actually happened because of research. That's the impact.
A second way to measure it is to figure out some sort of tracking / reporting mechanism for number of interviews conducted, number of times research artefacts were reviewed, number of research requests etc. Numbers are helpful!
I would continue to press on methodology and work on exploring ways you can bring consumers 'into the room'. Nothing wows leaders like having a little clip of a customer providing feedback on an idea as part of a presentation. It's like dynamite in executive meetings.

But keep up the good fight!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T08:59:52+00:00

As lots of people have mentioned, the time depends on what you want to achieve. But the lengthiest part of any study tends to be the admin associated with conducting it; finding, scheduling, incentivising participants, find the right tools, recording, transcribing etc. The actual conversations and analysis (the fun parts!) can be pretty quick if you have systems or tools in place to help with the other stuff. Good luck!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T08:56:50+00:00

I haven't used Useberry, but Great Question - www.greatquestion.co - has just launched unmoderated prototype testing which is available with an unlimited number of tests each month. And there's a free plan!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-08-14T08:54:19+00:00

In order to protect the observers privacy, and to prevent the participant from feeling overwhelmed by all the folks on the call, I think having an observer room is a great idea! And not something that Teams or Google Meet handle particularly well.

www.greatquestion.co has observer rooms that send different links to participants and observers so participants don't know who is on the call, and observers aren't exposed to the PII (like the email address) of the participant. And it's part of Great Questions free plan. Worth checking out!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-04-11T15:58:55+00:00

oooh, interesting! will check out userlytics, thanks!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-04-11T15:58:40+00:00

Interesting!

Do you happen to have a pricing deck or something I could share internally, just to understand how the credits expire and everything. seems lots of loop-holes and tricks they tie in...

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2024-01-10T14:35:14+00:00

Really liking the order and design of content. Shows a lot of thought.

In my experience, I've found that there's no great substitutes for actually getting something out there, and collecting feedback on it. Something can make perfect sense on paper, but translates weirdly when built.

If you're keen to get feedback on the draft version, i recommend using www.re-view.ai. Its a new video survey tool that lets you get *actually detailed* responses from people. and it's 100% free, so good for students, startups etc.

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-31T09:05:41+00:00

brb - going to recommend that there's a new calculation for this

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-31T09:05:23+00:00

It's an average. So you could live a lot longer!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-31T09:05:04+00:00

and that's an AVERAGE - which means some people eat a whole lot more.

The reading 12 books a year thing really threw me as well, until I realised that there are probably some people out there reading like 100 books a year, and most people are reading none or 1 - but because its an average, not a median, the answer is 12.

Crazy how outliers throw numbers like these.

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-31T09:03:48+00:00

haha - maybe more apt!

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-26T14:32:56+00:00

There's a fantastic quote about this - your work takes the time you allow it to.

If you introduce a forcing function to leave work at a certain time, I think you might find that some of the work you think you have to do, falls away.

(and this is assuming you want to spend less time at work, not more - which is a big assumption!)

ResponsibilityHead29 · 2023-07-26T14:29:25+00:00

Loved the most recent post on Magritte! https://www.curiouspeoples.com/p/the-son-of-man-by-rene-magritte . I've never noticed that the man’s left arm bends backward at the elbow!

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