UX Research Challenge
Monthly remote workshops for user research professionals
Overview
Tackle bite-sized challenges to gain experience
These "learn by doing" assignments provide hands-on practice that focus on specific topics with 2-4 hours of homework a week.
Get answers and feedback from a UX Research professional
Meet live with your instructor weekly for critiques and small group discussions. All live meetings are recorded.
Share work with cohort of peers in a learning community
Get feedback from other students and gain inspiration and insight based on how other’s approach the same challenges.
Learning materials that get you up to speed
Leverage Curiosity Tank’s favorite templates, frameworks and a curated collection of the best articles, books, and other media to expand your learning.
Meet your Instructor
Curiosity Tank is led by Michele Ronsen, a professional user researcher, designer, coach, and educator with more than 5,000 hours of adult design and user research teaching expertise in academic institutions and 20+ years of corporate training, workshops, design and research for Fortune 500s and start-ups.
Clients include Slack, Zillow, Invisalign, Xero, Microsoft, MileIQ, Autodesk, Square, Facebook, Kaiser Permanente, BNP Paribas, Best Buy, Blue Shield, PayPal, California College of the Arts, UC Berkeley, and many fantastic startups and mom and pop shops.
Students engage in various ways:
Ask & answer questions, provide & receive feedback, share resources, post updates,
practice presenting, grow your network & more!
Each month covers a different theme.
Cover the full spectrum of UX research by taking multiple courses or choose your focus areas
qualitative / quantitative / and mixed methods / research planning / recruiting / choosing methods / research operations / analysis and synthesis / reporting
This month’s topic:
Presenting and reporting research
Activities each week
Utilize previous research to create multiple, clear and compelling "share out" materials to inspire your stakeholders to take action. No research learnings to share? You're welcome to listen in and soak up the knowledge for future applications.
Schedule
Week 1
Author Research snacks pithy snippets shared informally throughout a project, typically 3-5 key takeaways
Compile a Topline report a written report that is typically one to two pages long
Week 2 and Week 3
Write a Case Study outline and write about your research in an industry standard format that is used in UX portfolios
Design a Presentation: translate your case study into a designed document that can be used to present your work verbally
Week 4
Practice presenting rehearse how you will share the results of your research and learn the soft skills to wow stakeholders.
Watch intro videos
pre-recorded lectures explain the basics
Read and watch learning materials
discover what other UX pros have to say
Do the work
assignments can be completed in a week or less, requiring about two to four hours
Use templates and frameworks
work in new ways using resources that have been battle tested with real clients
Ask questions
keep track of questions as you go, and ask them online to get answers
Interact live with the instructor
your instructor will critique assignments and answer your questions in real time at the end of each week
Peer feedback from peers
give and receive constructive feedback from other students to iterate on your work further