The UX Research Rundown Lookback

In this episode Henrik chats with former researcher and current founder Savina Hawkins.
Savina is a UX Researcher who worked closely with generative AI R&D teams at Meta, evaluating and ideating around experiences that leverage new language models and other generative AI applications.
Today, Savina is building something new at the intersection of AI and UXR, and is one of the leading voices in the space.

While many researchers are only now dipping their toes into the world of AI, Jessa Anderson has been doing UXR on the technology for half a decade.
At ServiceNow she leads up a team focused on how to appropriately integrate AI technologies into the workflow tools that ServiceNow builds for it's many large customers like Lowe's, KraftHeinz, and Siemens.
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The 3rd season of the UX Research Rundown is all about the intersection of AI and UX Research.
With that in mind, there's no better person to kick off the season with than Jess Holbrook, who's the Director of UXR for AI at Meta. Meta is one of the top companies when it comes to AI development and adoption which gives Jess a unique lens into how AI will shape the future of our field.
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In the latest rounds of layoffs and force reductions it feels like research has been disproportionately affected. Why is that the case? Claudia is Director of Research at Highspot, and her ability to mix research and business acumen has led her leadership team to see research as a critical asset, rather than a liability. If you're looking to reposition your team as critical to the organization's success, don't miss this episode!

In this episode, Henrik interviews Josh Williams, one of the research leaders at Indeed. Josh talks about differences in team culture between places like Bose and Indeed, and how that affects your strategy for engaging stakeholders in research. Developing trust between research and other teams is key to success, and Josh breaks down why in this conversation.

How are insights teams created, and is there more than one right way to get a research practice started? In this conversation, Henrik Mattsson is joined by two research leaders from Thinkific: Jeremy Bailey and Nadya Calderon. Together, they talk about the evolution of the research practice at Thinkific and previous roles and their strategies to engage their teammates.