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Jan Ahrend

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🗞️ Curating the best User Research Events in 2024 🎉

Launch of usercalendar.com | The end of UX research as we know it (?) | Embracing collaboration | Continous discovery | Research prioritization | UX research for AI and ML | Events

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🗞️ CHI’24 Preprints are here!

CHI’24 Preprints | Trends shaping the future of User Research from 1,200+ professionals | What GenAI in UXR needs to get right | Quantifying

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🗞️ Time estimation for Quant UXR projects

Interview with Mingi (Amazon) | Best AI tools for design and research | Hypothesis-Based approaches | Research mindshare | How to preserve your findings

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🗞️ What’s going on with the UXR job market?

Bad research doesn’t stink | Can longer task times for users be a good thing? | Caring for mental health in UX Research | Culture of organization

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🗞 UXR's "Wet Blanket" Reputation?

Interview with Steve Portigal | UX Research benchmarks | Studying users who switch products | The best UXR courses | Becoming a UXR consultant

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🗞 Unlearning my way to a Head of Research role

Time for UX Research to go strategic or go home | The UX Research reckoning is here | The bright future of UXR | How to think about Research failures | Competitive usability evaluations

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🗞 Research roadmapping at Stack Overflow

What Spotify's latest layoffs mean for a career in UXR | The truth about research insights | The best UX Research books | Don't get stuck in "Discovery"

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🗞 Building a User Research Practice from Scratch

Scaling User Research with the 8 Ps Framework | Re-framing Kano to prioritize AI-powered features | Running surveys at every design cycle stage

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🗞 UX Research on a 0–1 product at Microsoft

Approach research like a financial portfolio | Rolling UX research | GenAI adds tension to UXR | Rethinking personas | What UX research “maturity” looks like and how we get there

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🗞 UXR for Generative AI products

UXR for generational diversity | AI for UX: getting started | Setting up a user research operations function | UXR in Startups | Guaranteeing research impact