Episode 57 highlights: - UX Research consent - GDPR and UX Research - How to gain proper consent with your participants of user research - What are the rights of potential participants of UX research - The ethics of informed consent

Show highlights: - An overview of Scott’s new book, How Design Makes the World - Remote work for design, UX and product teams - How to create a workplace for UX professionals to get their best work done - How to explain the value of design to executives and stakeholders - What to do when your product managers, executives and engineers “just don’t get” design - Builder culture, what it is and how to work within it to promote higher quality UX - Effects of industrialization on building products and how it translates to software management culture

Highlights from this episode: - The history and evolution of UX - How to present UX and design work - Empathy for stakeholders and customers/users - Using stakeholder expertise to improve your UX design and research - Being an orchestrator and not a hero UX pro

Show highlights: - How Mary got started on Tik Tok and began sharing UX knowledge there - Deceptive UX patterns, what they are and how to avoid them - Consent and interaction design to avoid building in deceptive design patterns - Examples from popular sites that use deceptive UX patterns

Show Highlights: - What it means to be human centered in your professional and personal life - Hmnty Cntrd, their mission and the work Vivianne and her team are doing - How Vivianne went from being a grief counselor and doing trauma studies to becoming a UX researcher - What does it really mean to be empathetic - The role of diversity, equity and inclusion in UX and research work - Tips for self care and improving yourself as a UX professional and person - Doing and beginning the personal work for doing your best professional work

Show highlights: - “Zoom” levels of research and what they mean - Figuring out when to do certain types of research and which methods to use - Ways to avoid wasting resources and repeating research - What’s the difference between UX Research and ResearchOps? - How to you know when you need a dedicated ResearchOps person

Show highlights: - Diversity, equity and inclusion in UX and tech culture - Ways to recognize how tools and systems are directly contributing to inequity in our society and work - Stories and examples of how our society created inequities and how to recognize the connections to the work we do - Tips for doing more equitable UX and design research - Working to identify your own thoughts, actions and behavior to help create a more just and equitable world for all

Show highlights: - Sense-making and user research synthesis - How to find hidden insights in the research data you collect - Avoiding product backlog rot by simply reacting to things you hear about from customers - Steps to take for a better UX research process - Doing UX, research and sense-making better with product management - Should UX researchers be doing design too? - How to get into (or better at) UX, research and design

Show highlights: - Social impact of UX and research work - Remote research tips, tricks and challenges - The future of UX research in a post-pandemic world - Can you prove the ROI of UX research? - Balancing the need for delivering a great story from the research and keeping good rigor in your study - How to deal with people who don’t believe the findings from your research

Episode highlights: - Design leadership and what it means to be a UX manager - Differences between being an individual contributor and manager/leader - Tips and tricks to being an awesome UX design/research leader - Strategies for providing feedback and criticism effectively - Common challenges for folks transitioning from team member to team leader