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* Jira Product Discovery

* Six-month mentorship spots available

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

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Resources:

* Submit a topic/question

* Personal ReadMe example

👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

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Resources:

* 2023 Salary Report

* Global UX Compensation Transparency Project

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!

Resources:

* Submit a topic/question

* Write a literature review

* Secondary resources list:

* Google Scholar: A great source of academic papers or reports by universities.

* ResearchGate: A handy resource for scientific or academic papers.

* ACM Digital Library: Has many scholarly peer-reviewed journals, particularly on information technology disciplines.

* Springer: Filled with scientific documents and books on many different topics.

* Wiley Online Library: Scientific and academic journals, articles, and books on a wide range of subjects.

* Forrester: Has insights on tending and essential marketing topics.

* Baymard: Filled with UX articles, UX Benchmarks, and research that helps make more informed design decisions.

* Voicebot: Trends and reports specifically on AI and Voice.

* Charity Choice: Free reports of charities in the UK.

* The Guardian's "What I'm Really Thinking" Series: Dives into the social science of what people in certain situations think or feel.

* Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) digital library: A repository of resources on computing research and practice.

* Journal of Usability Studies (JUS): A publication dedicated to exploring usability and other research-related topics

* Stanford d.school: Brings sources on a variety of topics when it comes to design and research

* MIT D-Lab: Dives into topics related to humanitarianism and other social causes

👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!

Resources:

* How User Research Impacts the AARRR Metrics

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

Podcast resources:

* Surveys that work

* 11 Usability Testing Metrics to Enrich Your Reporting

* Measure satisfaction without the NPS

* A Practical Guide to Measuring Usability

* Conduct a benchmarking study

* How to conduct a tree test

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast, and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

If you want to see everything I post, subscribe below!

Podcast resources:

* Treat stakeholders like users

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

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In this episode, I discuss the recent posts I’ve been seeing on LinkedIn about layoffs and thinking about how we can approach some of these challenging situations together with an open, empathetic mindset

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👋 Hey, Nikki here! Welcome to this month’s ✨ free podcast ✨ of User Research Academy. Each week I tackle reader questions about the ins and outs of user research through my podcast and share super concrete tips and examples on user research methods, approaches, careers, or situations.

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In this episode, I discuss a slightly different approach to tracking impact at your organization by examining how your research can impact individual colleagues and decision-making.

Formulas I mentioned:

* (time saved) x (employee cost) x (# of employees) = cost savings

* (# of errors) x (avg. repair time) x (employee cost) x (# of employees) = cost savings

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In this episode, I talk through different approaches you can use to practice your user research skills in low-stakes environments to feel more confident using different methodologies

Resources:

Whiteboard challenge prompts

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