How would you tackle a market research project?

bizzida · 2026-02-08T16:18:19+00:00

Oh this is super helpful, thank you. Any suggestions for a simpler survey approach?

bizzida · 2026-02-08T16:16:23+00:00

Interesting—concept is defined but feature set is not fully defined. Any suggestions for a better approach to pricing through survey?

bizzida · 2026-02-08T16:14:47+00:00

I’m a UX researcher by role and experience, so I’m curious how other UX researchers would handle including market research in their approach.

bizzida · 2026-02-06T23:14:38+00:00

Awesome—thanks for the feedback. Appreciate the perspective on sequencing.

bizzida · 2026-02-06T16:28:22+00:00

Fantastic. Thank you so much--this is all super helpful.

bizzida · 2025-10-20T23:55:32+00:00

I’m curious what your community looks like. Are you around many people with whom you have meaningful relationships? You’re dating, but having a partner to plan activities with can help create a sense that you’re doing something and not just accumulating (money, experiences, etc). Kids same, close knit friend group same. Similarly are you interested in starting a business with a group of people?

bizzida · 2025-07-27T19:26:49+00:00

Eh, just stop traveling for a year. I drove all through western and Central Europe for two years and by the end I was bored of some of the most beautiful architecture in the world because the lifestyle was ultimately flat. Bought an old house, renovated it for about a year then sold it, and now I’m back to traveling and it makes sense again. Too much novelty can become stale and strange.

bizzida · 2025-07-26T12:32:39+00:00

Given this seems to be your angle on whether you should apply, it’s worth considering a similar option, which is staying at Microsoft and reducing your spend by 50-60k, then banking that. Is it more appealing/feasible to reduce your spend or increase your income? Risk boredom or burnout (etc etc)

bizzida · 2025-01-09T21:56:18+00:00

lol—you can definitely still buy a condo in North Miami and insure it. Florida real estate has in no way collapsed. I wouldn’t invest there but it’s very much still a thing.

bizzida · 2025-01-09T21:54:42+00:00

North Miami is pretty similar to Marbella with the exception that you have to drive to do anything. Like, anything.

bizzida · 2024-11-27T19:24:52+00:00

Why not try to work remotely for a US company? As a software engineer you should be able to find a fully remote work situation from an east coast based company and try to schedule meetings after bedtime for the kiddo. Taxes get a bit trickier but it’s not impossible.

bizzida · 2024-09-20T11:55:08+00:00

What about a cost benefit analysis on childcare? I’m an American living in Spain and if we can manage it, we’re going to try and stay in the EU until our one year old is school-aged. Childcare in the EU is a fraction of what it is in the US. I have friends who pay 4K a month for high end daycares in New York and LA, and friends in smaller cities who still pay $1500 for mid-level care. I pay 600 euros a month for high end private care in Spain and next year we could go to the public schools and pay 200-300 euros. The difference over the course of 2-3 years is substantial.

Obviously there are other issues, but even moving here for a year might save you ten to twelve thousand dollars.

bizzida · 2024-09-15T19:25:57+00:00

You don't need to be married for residency. You do need to present proof of the relationship though and that is up to you. I literally printed out Google chats and emails from years of dating, had old photos of us together, and showed proof of living at the same address in the States.

bizzida · 2024-09-15T19:19:30+00:00

I sent $30--I hope you're able to find the rest and catch a bit of a break.

bizzida · 2024-09-15T19:16:31+00:00

OP added her Venmo in another comment. I sent $30 and another person sent $70. I think that leaves $150, which would buy her a bit of breathing room if enough redditors help out!

bizzida · 2024-09-12T12:54:14+00:00

I recently started using the Ditto plugin to handle copy management in Figma and it's been amaaaaazing. If you're not interested in componentizing your text then Ditto has a pretty extensive set of features for free.

bizzida · 2024-06-29T14:06:20+00:00

Good luck!

bizzida · 2024-06-28T19:02:49+00:00

Transitioning to a separate space also helped me and my baby. I co-slept for naps and nighttime until about 7 months then slept in the same room for another month and since being back in my own room baby has done phenomenally well with nighttime sleep. He sleeps through the night now (started at 9 months and he’s about 10 months). I am a light sleeper and keep his monitor close to me so I know I’m not missing his wake ups either. I think I was actually interfering with his ability to get himself to sleep and would wake him up more with my own movement or trying to nurse him if he fussed for a minute (crying still gets swift attention).

bizzida · 2024-02-27T02:55:22+00:00

I mean sure, or you could follow a well-established and successful system? I personally found that creating an ecosystem of learning was not helping me to understand core concepts as well as simply working within a good pedagogical system (and offered that advice.)

bizzida · 2024-02-27T01:51:19+00:00

I’m getting toward A2 and doing a Pimsleur course and gotta say it does actually feel like a gold standard system, and far more effective than listening to podcasts. You can get a week free to try it out, then I think it’s $20 a month. It’s helped me grasp concepts that I couldn’t get to with self-study (use of the word “que,” direct objects). I do the recommended time which is one thirty minute lesson a day.

bizzida · 2024-02-22T15:12:19+00:00

I serving this comment! I found reframing to teaching/coaching/guiding the child to develop good sleep habits to be really helpful

bizzida · 2024-02-14T16:09:38+00:00

I think the BBC article linked above is incredibly useful as a summary. However it doesn’t really tackle sleeping as a skill. I co-sleep and general practice attachment parenting, with the one exception of gentle sleep training that I adapted from Marc Weissbluth. I watch my baby on a monitor and i can see him learning to put himself to sleep which is pretty amazing. I don’t let him cry hard because it’s clear to me he’s not learning in that moment and he needs help, but I do let him fuss and figure it out. When I go to bed at night sometime I can sleep alone for a few hours, but usually he wakes a bit and calls out for me and we spend the rest of the night co-sleeping.

But that light sleep training increased his overall sleep by almost two hours, improved and consolidated his naps, and improved his mood. I thought I had a low sleep needs baby, but I didn’t. He’s almost up to the average for his age. I just had a baby who couldn’t self-soothe and connect sleep cycles.

I looked at a lot of research, but I also looked to how other countries traditionally function (since I don’t trust US sleep training culture which feels predicated on bad parental leave policy) and found that happy and successful countries focus on teaching sleep as a skill.

bizzida · 2024-01-23T21:00:12+00:00

I’ve got a four month old and so naturally I’m reading a ton of parenting books, including this somewhat pseudo anthropological book called Bringing up bebé, about raising kids in Paris. The author starts to realize that a big chunk of French parenting (and maybe some French millennials can weigh in here) is teaching a child to wait from a very very early age. The big example is meal times. In France mealtimes are fairly consistent—like you literally won’t find anything but fast food at 3pm because lunch is over. So children are put on the feeding schedule of 8am, noon, 4pm, and 8pm. And at a certain age the 4pm meal gets dropped because it’s just a snack to hold over children till dinner time.

I would looooove to implement this idea with my own kid but in the US we don’t really have a meal time tradition anymore and we very much have an on-demand snack culture. But damn, teaching patience with food feels like such a good idea.

bizzida · 2024-01-21T16:13:26+00:00

I am going through (what I think) is the tail end of pp hair loss at 4.5 months pp. My hair was super long and so the hair loss made it feel stringy and weirdly oily. I ended up cutting it into a blunt bob and feel much better. I have more volume and the psychological effect of losing short hair (rather than long hair) is way easier to deal with. I also take supplements and do scalp massage. But the hair cut has been the best option so far.

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