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The right question with Meena Kothandaraman

March 1, 2024 0:32:50

This podcast is episode 3 of 5 recorded at UXLx 2023

S02E12 (#322). Asking the right question and wanting to get a good response. How do we handle that as researchers? Meena Kothandaraman joins us to talk about our curiosity as researchers, the different lenses of inquiry we can apply from exploratory to validation. We talk as well about being curious and the skill of getting people to articulate their thoughts and describe something in depth.
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#301 Informed consent with Kim Foulds and Joyce Rafla

November 4, 2022 00:38:24

This podcast is episode 1 of 5 recorded at Ambition Empower Autumn 2022

Informed consent is a critical part of the research process. We talk to Kim Foulds and Joyce Rafla about how they made use of videos featuring Sesame Workshop muppets to make taking a consent decision more inclusive, accessible and informed.

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#279 War Stories with Steve Portigal (UXP Classic)

December 31, 2021 00:33:49

For a number of years Steve Portigal has been collecting user research war stories. The stories describe experiences researchers have had whilst doing fieldwork. Awkward, morally challenging, painful, unsuccessful.

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#237 User research during a pandemic with Mar Murube

May 22, 2020 0:35:03

Mar Murube joins us to talk about the experience of interviewing vulnerable people during the Covid-19 pandemic and what we can do to help ourselves and those being interviewed.
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#205 Evil genius

March 1, 2019 31:36

Episode 205 is a link show. James and Jonas discuss three articles that have grabbed their attention – this time they’re about how lying can make you creative and when (and how) to do user research.

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#194 Research on the fly with Cyd Harrell

September 28, 2018 00:34:34

This podcast is episode 5 of 7 recorded at UXLx 2018

Cyd Harrell has done all kinds of user research. At the beginning of this episode Cyd tells us of the time she live streamed a user interview from a vehicle while the participant was using a mobile device whilst driving. There are times where a user researcher really does need to be fearless.