CRITICAL ASPECTS of User Research in design! Amanda Stockwell | Dangerously Good with Jay Sikand #32

Amanda Stockwell has been doing user experience research and strategy since 2008. She has worked with Fortune 100's, start-ups, and everywhere in-between, providing everything from interaction design to market research. She provides training and consultation services in user research, user experience strategy, lean experimentation, UX hiring, and UX career progression.

In today’s episode, some of the things we talked about were: user research, user experience strategy, lean experimentation with Agile teams, advice for UX hiring, and much more!

Dangerously Good with Jay Sikand is a long-form podcast where Jay explores dangerously good topics and ideas! This show is about learning new things and sharing that journey with the world! Expanding the minds and imaginations of those who want to partake.

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Chapters:

0:00 - Intro

1:00 - How Amanda got into UX design

4:14 - What is a UX unicorn 🦄?

7:23 - How to conduct effective user research

27:53 - Recruiting for user research

40:37 - What is Lean Experimentation?

46:24 - Guerilla research

49:44 - Product Strategy intersecting with User Experience

53:42 - What does the future of User Research look like?

57:37 - Metrics of success in user research

1:00:20 - Skill & Natural talents of GREAT User Researchers

1:13:11 - What is Amanda most grateful for?

About Jay Sikand: He is a podcaster, actor, tech nerd, and lover of life that explores ideas from entertainment, technology, philosophy, politics, health, fitness to whatever else is intriguing. He has conversations with friends and people of strong morals, ambitions, and intelligence within their fields. Anyone who wants to journey through enlightening conversions that contain dangerously good information should tune in!

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