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Want to whip heads with your reports and presentations? Want to be more confident when convincing explaining the value of user research? Want to add fun, engagement, and FOMO to your research process and write insights that turn the heads of executives and maybe even the CEO? Every two weeks, we'll ditch the generic approaches that get us stuck in a rut so you can gain confidence in your research craft and processâeven if you don't consider yourself an "expert."
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I curate the worldâs most creative, helpful, new, and informative user research-based articles, podcasts, events, books, and academic resources and send that straight to your inbox. Plus, you get to submit all your questions I personally answerâbecause you canât salsa dance until you see how itâs done, right? Itâs a quick, 10-minute hit of creative inspiration that you donât have to lift a finger finding (besides clicking into the email, of course) to help you get in the right mindset to approach your research projects confidently in new and creative ways.
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Whether you are a senior UXR, beginning your journey, dipping a toe in the user research world, or just want to see what this whole user research thing is about, have fun with user research instead of viewing it as a chore. By signing up for my content, youâll start to view UXR through a more creative lens. With review of my actual work, youâll have examples of what works at your fingertips whenever you need to jump-start your creativity, so youâll never feel like an unoriginal impostor again.
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Sometimes it's hard to want to invite (yet another) thing into your inbox. That's why itâs easy to get you out of jail free, in case the content isnât your jam. And, donât worry, I wonât be offended if you like peanut butter more than jam and unsubscribe. Itâs important to me that you get what you need as a UXR and that your inbox isnât clogged like a nose with a bad cold!
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And who am I? That's one secret I'll never tell...
Kidding (but desperately hoping you got the reference) đ
Iâm Nikki.
I once entered a bar as a normal graduate student and emerged as an aspiring user researcher.
I first heard about user research at an NYC bar party way back in 2015, the year we had the seemingly never-ended debate on whether that dress was #blackandblue or #whiteandgold and also the year Google changed its logo for the first time since 1999.
Iâd love to say, since becoming a user researcher, I havenât looked back, but there were quite a few times when I seriously considered quitting to be an interior decorator or open my own bookstore (which my husband still has to tell me is a financially irresponsible idea).
What gave me self-crippling doubt about user research?
I was so lonely as a UXR team of one that I practiced my presentations in front of the bathroom mirror at work rather than with colleagues.
My fingers nearly broke from the hours I spent googling âhow to build a persona,â âwhat is an executive summary,â or âhow to write insights that stakeholders will actually listen to and care about that will also get me promoted because all I do is work?â (The last one didnât yield great results.)
Luckily something told me to keep on keeping on, and now people call me an âexpert in the fieldâ - someone once even called me a âlegend.â I have written over 250 articles - I am attempting to wrangle them into a book, stay tuned - on user research, spoken at dozens of conferences, and upwards of fifty podcasts and events with super cool people and organizations such as UXPA, dscout, UXInsight, and Dovetail. I also spoke one-on-one with my idol, Indi Young, during a conference tech check, so Iâm pretty thrilled.
The point is, I donât want you to experience the crippling self-doubt and impostor syndrome I did. Iâve rallied hundreds of user researchers together, cheering them on and supernova-ing their careers so they are fulfilled in their careers and turning heads with their amazing research
If my newsletter isnât the only thing you needâŚ
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