Fuel your curiosity
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What do you think of "robotics for good"?
This robot serves food at a casual Japanese restaurant a few blocks from our home. My daughter is in love with KETTY the robot server! She has a sincere emotional connection to KETTY…
Learn more about freelance and independent UX and UXR consulting
Selling and negotiating are two skills people don’t think about enough when wanting to become (or excel at) freelance UX, user research, and or consulting. These two skills are critical to…
Is Ask Like a Pro right for you?
As a global educator in UXR I can tell you the biggest complaints I hear from from aspiring and current research practitioners who want to up-skill include: 1) NNG and most other programs do not…
Raining cats and dogs
It’s raining so hard right now in San Francisco I walked around my home to make sure it wasn’t actually raining inside! There’s also thunder and lighting which is very unusual in this area and…
What is the most challenging aspect of being a user researcher?
Chat GPT! This is the UXR question I typed in and the response follows. What do you think? What is the most challenging aspect of being a user researcher? One of the most challenging aspects…
Independent UX/UXR consulting interactive Q&A session
“At some point or another, life punches everyone in the face. The punch may be hard, or it may be soft, but it’s definitely coming, and your success or failure is largely determined by the answer…
Five tips to get more experience in, or break into, User Research
1. Ask yourself if your day-to-day behaviors line up with your goals. Does what you say you want correlate to the goal you seek? E.g. Are you actively trying to grow your UXR skills? 2. Develop and articulate…
Congratulations to our 10th cohort!
PLEASE JOIN ME in congratulating our Fall 2022 Ask Like A Pro All-In students who presented their final research to our project sponsors just before Thanksgiving. Every single one of them knocked it out of…
Intimidated to engage on LinkedIn? Register now.
I know a lot of people who are intimidated to engage on LinkedIn and or do not know where or how to start. I was terrified when I first began posting on LinkedIn too. Amy Santee, Career…
Bringing the research to life
Let’s talk about using visuals when reporting on research learnings. Really bringing the research to life is one of my favorite parts about being a researcher! By visuals, I mean icons…
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