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The Future of UX Research Is Tangible

Learn the lingo: UXR/User Experience Researcher

User Experience Researcher / UX Researcher || What is it? An individual whose primary function is to conduct user research in close collaboration with design, product…

How I Found My Way Into UX Research

UX Research Planning: Why Bad Research Starts Upstream

Users own the present. You own the future.

Users know their day. They don’t know your roadmap. Why smart users give convincing wrong answers, and how to do research that opens product space.Generated with AI by authorA few...

Using RAS to Guide UX Research Resource Allocation and Strategy

RAS helps managers allocate resources based on actual impact, shifting focus from outputs to outcomes and enabling data-driven UX strategies.

What 440 researchers signed up for last Wednesday

Over 440 researchers registered for my UX Researchers' Guild talk last Wednesday, The Goal Post Has Moved: How to Build AI-Mockups to Showcase Research Recommendations. The chat wa...

Your Prototype Is Not Being Honest With Your Users (And Here’s How To Fix It)

There’s a moment in almost every usability session where a participant pauses at the login screen, types something, and glances up: checking whether they’re “doing it right.” That...

UserTesting Brings Real Customer Feedback into Figma with AI-Powered Embedded Solution for Design Validation, Now Genera...

Early adopters including AJ Bell and CarMax are using the UserTesting for Figma plugin to move from prototype to insight faster—embedding customer feedback directly into design wor...

The Goal Post Has Moved for UX Research

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Learn the lingo: Contextual Inquiry

Contextual Inquiry || What is it? A research method that involves observing people in their natural context (in person or remotely for some topics), and asking semistructured a...

AI as a Thought Partner in UX Research

People describe it as a thought partner they didn’t know they neededI’ve been reading Company of One, and I can’t shake this idea: What if growth isn’t the goal?What if optimizatio...

Slow UX Research Is Obsolete - 3 AI Research Tool For Product Owners

Most Scrum Product Owners I speak with in 2026 are still using AI in surprisingly limited ways.They’re asking it to summarise Sprint Review notes, refine user stories, or generate...

Designed a prompt end-to-end for the design process and it will make you faster

I designed a detailed prompt for the end-to-end design process which covers research to handoff. This took me almost a month to test and refine it works perfectly. Took my 4 weeks...

Why User Panels Fail

User panels can deteriorate in predictable ways, introducing bias and reducing their effectiveness for ongoing research.

UX Research, AI, and Strategy: What I’ve Been Working On

How to Get Research Recommendations on the Roadmap

To influence the roadmap: join planning early, learn constraints, tie research to PM metrics, and give clear recommendations at the right time.

UX Research Training: How to Think Before You Execute

The second swingI said last week I picked the bat back up.What I forgot is how strange the next part feels.You put something out into the world, and now you have just enough feedba...

How AI Helps Scale Qualitative Customer Research

Companies are now using AI “moderators” to conduct in-depth interviews with real people at a speed and volume that traditional methods can’t achieve.

Discovery is the work AI gives back

Productivity is the floor of AI’s value, not the ceiling. New McKinsey research on where the durable returns actually live, and what that means for teams deciding what to build.Gen...

ATU study to show effects of AI on remote and hybrid workers

A new research study from Atlantic Technological University is looking to explore how remote and hybrid workers experience collaborating with artificial intelligence systems in the...

Product discovery’s quietest, most consequential decision

Validating a problem, an idea, or a solution is where most people begin discovery. The skipped judgment is whether to begin it at all.Generated with AI by Author“Customers keep ask...

How to turn your competitor’s worst reviews into your strongest design argument

Competitive research isn’t for visuals. It’s for bringing evidence.Continue reading on UX Collective »

Selection Criteria: How to Pick Your Participants

Rigorous selection criteria protect study validity. Learn how to define inclusion, exclusion, and diversity criteria to avoid costly misrecruits.