Alec speaks with Brandi Luedeman, a Head of User Research and Consumer Insights at Opendoor. They chat about the lack of understanding of what growth looks like in research and the tension that it creates for seniors when there’s lack of clarity of the growth path ahead. Brandi is going to share her journey to developing growth plans for researchers at Opendoor at UXRConf, and gives us a preview into what that journey has been like for her.

Colette speaks with Marina Moschitto and Alex Breslav, both Quantitative User Researchers at Spotify. They chat about how mixed methodology isn’t used as often as it should, overlooking the power that it gives to build great insights. They also cover how a more data-science oriented approach is helpful to generate the best insights along with qualitative research, and how to use mixed methodology to find a mutual language to bring the best methods to answer the most pressing questions.

Alec speaks with Zoë Glas, Sr. UX Researcher at Lyft. They chat about why religion should be taken into account as a demographic factor in research to make inclusive products, how it’s a key factor that affects how people relate to the world, and how members’ behaviors from different religions affect their ability or willingness to use a product. Zoë hopes that researchers can overcome the uncomfortableness of talking about religion and can start to think about including it as a key factor to build better-tailored products.

Alec speaks with Katie Groh, Sr. UX Researcher at Rockwell Automation. They chat about how they do a new research method they call 'preview releases' with participants that are not easy to get a hold of and experts in their field, specifically machinists, industrial engineers, and technicians. They also talk about why it's important to bring creativity to the research practice and how working with expert users feels different from other kinds of research.

Alec speaks with Kakau Fonseca, a Design Manager and Carlos Hernandez Tellez, UX Research Manager at Nubank. They chat about how they team up to identify growth opportunities using a unique research method that's become an institution on their team at Nubank. They hope more researchers and designers will get excited about doing growth research and understand the big opportunities that this type of work can open up for them in their careers.

Alec speaks with Georgia Rakusen, an independent researcher, who is one of the most experienced UX researchers working in the web3 and cryptocurrency space. They chat about how difficult it can be to get started in web3, and the role researchers can play in improving the industry. Georgia hopes more researchers join her soon working on this technology, and hopes her talk at UXRConf inspires folks to get their feet wet.

Alec speaks with Jessica Baratta, who is a Mixed Methods Research Lead at Loblaw Digital. They chat about her experience transitioning from design into qualitative and quantitative research, and her most recent initiative taking over the large-scale measurement program for the PC Express online grocery platform within Loblaws. She explains why she thinks these measurement programs are underutilized and undervalued, and why researchers like you might be best positioned to run them

Alec speaks with Claudia Natasia, who leads UX Research at Highspot. In their chat, they cover the importance of being able to quantify the fiancial impact of research, and how that is intimately connected to the concept of 'uncertainty' in finance. Claudia also shares her story of how she ended up in research with an MBA, and what she hopes people take away from her UXRConf talk.

Alec speaks with Chelsea Yip, UX Researcher at Coinbase. They chat about the lack of rituals and traditions in the modern research practice, and how different that is from Chelsea's time working as a software engineer. As a software engineer, Chelsea had daily, weekly, and monthly traditions like standups, retros, and more and she thinks that it's time for research to develop their own institutions.

Alec speaks with Vivianne Castillo and Nate Wilson. Vivianne is the founder of HMNTY CNTRD, and multiple time UXRConf speaker, and Nate is on the team at New Retirement and has a deep passion for personal finance. They chat about the importance of researchers to get people more in control and hopeful about their financial health and how this impacts their decisions in their workplace, getting people to understand that they don't have to compromise their values in exchange for financial security, and the importance of overcoming financial trauma by identifying the real value of things and what is meaningful for each person.