📚 Books to share
Building User Research Teams: How to create UX research teams that deliver impactful insights.
Successful products require good decisions. Good decisions need good information.
User researchers run robust and repeatable studies to find that information, but they need some tools and support to get started.
Building User Research Teams is a step-by-step guide covering how to start a new UX research team.It's Our Research: Getting Stakeholder Buy-in for User Experience Research Projects
This book consists of six chapters arranged according to the different stages of research projects. Topics discussed include the different roles of business, engineering, and user-experience stakeholders; identification of research opportunities by developing empathy with stakeholders.
Games live and die commercially on the player experience. Games User Research is collectively how we optimize the quality of the user experience (UX) in games, working with all aspects of a game from the mechanics and interface, visuals and art, interaction and progression, making sure every element works in concert supports the game UX.
🌟 Featured articles of the week
🔆 Tools to try
User Hero Organize your research and generate learnings. Fast.
Transcription, note-taking, and automatic rainbow charts to help you build better products.Owlie A chrome extension to help you ask better (scary) questions to users. Based on the user-research book, Mom Test.
PingPong takes care of all your remote UX research needs in one place: from tester recruitment to payouts.
💡 Events to attend
Surveys that work: A practical guide to designing better surveys // UX Book Sep 6th
UX Research Workshop: Design an Outdoor Activities App Sep 7th
Live Panel Discussion: Inside the UX/UI Design Hiring Process Sep 9th
➡️ Portfolio of the week
Curry Du is a San Jose-based junior UX designer. Her portfolio is quite fun visually and processes detailed well.