The Learners Podcast
Episodes
UXRConf 2021 - Loi Goulet - Choosing Your Flavor of Research Leadership
06 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's no 'one-size-fits-all' approach to leadership roles, and that holds especially true for research. So, how do you plan for and start practicing...
UXRConf 2020 - Nicky DePaul and Kira Klaas - Rebranding With Research
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We all know that research is an important component of a successful new product or feature, but what else can it do?Over at Brex, Nicky and Kira teame...
UXRConf 2020 - Molly Stevens - Escape Velocity: Finding Our Path in the Next Decade
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Change is afoot in the research world. There's never been more researchers in the field than there are today, but, there's also never been as much res...
UXRConf 2020 - Amber Westerholm-Smyth and Carolina Pizatto - Personas Are Dead. Long Live Personas!
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Are personas bad tools? Or do they just have a bad reputation because they're being built wrong?Amber and Carolina took a new approach to building per...
UXRConf 2020 - Behzod Sirjani - You Are Not Your Research Report
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Too often, employees can be seen as just what we produce. And researchers produce research reports.But we're a lot more than just report makers, and i...
UXRConf 2020 - Atikh Bana - Researching the Command Line Interface
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For those of us who've worked closely with engineers, we know they are of a different breed. Their tooling and workflows look unrecognizable compared ...
UXRConf 2020 - Jennifer Siedjak - TL;DR: Testing Copy
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Prototypes and designs are multi-faceted. As researchers, often we're looking at the experience as a whole, but sometimes we need to get extra focused...
UXRConf 2020 - Monal Chokshi - Structuring Your UXR Team
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Should research teams embed, or be centralized? What skills does a research team need? What level(s) of seniority should it have? Structuring a resear...
UXRConf 2020 - Eran Ben-Ari - Tales From The Other Side: Research and The Exec Table
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As researchers, we often feel like big decisions are constantly being handed down to us. Why aren't we in the decision making process? What's going on...
UXRConf 2020 - Andrea Sutyak and Beth Wendt - Replicating the Workout Experience for Research
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When doing research, it's often the case that we can just sit down or join a video call with our user, and discuss a prototype or product. But sometim...
UXRConf 2020 - Lara Vujovic - Understanding and Measuring User Emotions: The Missing Puzzle Piece
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Researchers see a lot of emotions when we're out in the field. But it's hard to know what to do with these emotions when it comes to translating them ...
UXRConf 2020 - Colette Kolenda - Combating Memory Limitations Through Simultaneous Triangulation
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Remembering everything you did yesterday is tough, let alone what you did last week. But often, these are the questions researchers pose to their part...
UXRConf 2020 - Patti Carlson - Levelling Up the Impact of Research Insights with an Internal Marketing Plan
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's nothing worse than doing incredible research, presenting it to stakeholders, and then having nothing happen. To avoid this, researchers need t...
UXRConf 2020 - Sekai Farai - The Impossibility and Irrelevance of Empathy
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Empathy is a word we hear a lot in research. Maybe even too much?Lucky for us, Sekai is here to question that. Is empathy an obsession that doesn't do...
UXRConf 2020 - Yoanna Dosouto - What Design Ethnography Can Do For You: Connecting Decision Makers to Users
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When we do research, most of the time we use our tried and true methods: usability tests, interviews, and surveys. How about we expand our toolkit?In ...
UXRConf 2020 - Alba Villamil - The Ethical Researcher's Checklist
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you're anything like us, when we get an exciting research project thrown onto our plate, we can't wait to get started. Let's get to recruiting and ...
UXRConf 2020 - Kira Cassels and Kathryn Brookshier - Using Blueprint Fidelity to Focus Teams on Impactful Ideas
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When it comes to doing concept tests and usability studies, sometimes a wireframe just isn't enough, while a fully engineered product is way too much....
UXRConf 2020 - Noam Segal - Banish Your Imposter: Where UX Research Began, Where It's Going, and Why You Belong
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
All of us have been in situations where we've wondered if we belong. It's a natural experience.But, we don't have to feel that way in research. Many o...
UXRConf 2020 - Sarah Wittman - The Replication Crisis: Why Researchers Should Care and What We Can Do About It
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you've been paying attention to the psychological sciences, you've probably heard of the replication crisis. Thousands of studies, including some s...
UXRConf 2020 - Snigdha Diehl - A 30-60-90 Day Plan for Making an Impact with Your New or Existing Research Practice
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When you're jumping into a new job, you want to hit the ground running... especially if you're the only UX researcher on the team.But, what's realisti...
UXRConf 2019 - Christina Janzer and Michael Massimi - Taking a Different Tack: How We Built Up Research at Slack
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How can you turn research into less of a tactical practice, and more of a strategic one? If there's one company that's figured it out, it's Slack.In t...
UXRConf 2019 - Noam Segal - Strive for a Child's Mindset: Lessons I’ve Learned from my 4 Year Old
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes we need to take a step back to take a step forward. Like waaaay back.In this talk, Noam suggests we think back to when we were kids to redis...
UXRConf 2019 - Mithula Naik - How to Serve a Nation
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most researchers work in the private sector, but if you've used government services lately, you know quite well that the public sector is in dire need...
UXRConf 2019 - Vivianne Castillo - The Siren Call of Self-Neglect
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Returning for her second year in a row, Vivianne Castillo puts out the call for UX Researchers everywhere to do some deep self-reflection. Vivianne re...
UXRConf 2019 - Kate Towsey - The State of ResearchOps: More Than Just Theory
24 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As one of the faster growing fields of work, Research Ops is on the rise! But what is ReOps? Who does ReOps? Am I ReOps?Listen as Kate Towsey, founder...