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Research Beyond the UX Bubble 🫧
How often do you collaborate with other insights teams? How much do you work with partners in Sales and Marketing? How about your insights peers in…
 • Roy Opata Olende
Breaking Out of the UXR Monolith
Between the tech sector layoffs and Judd Antin’s UXR Reckoning article, UXRs are — perhaps now more than ever — scrambling to figure out what shifts to…
 • Roy Opata Olende
Getting Started with Research Operations
“How did you get a job in Research Ops?”After I started my past role running Research Ops at Zapier, I got this question in my LinkedIn DM nearly every…
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How to Avoid the Research Repository Death Trap 👻
A research repo is (sometimes) not the solution. If you want to avoid the repo death trap, I have some good news: Stephanie Marsh is about to teach you…
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No Research Ops? Big Problems!
From no ReOps team, to a ReOps team, and back to no ReOps team. How we're adjusting to running a scaled-up Ops practice with no Ops folks.
 • Roy Opata Olende
The Face-to-Face Advantage: An Argument for In-Person Research
A research lab program? In 2023?! Yes, they still exist. In fact, labs might be more valuable than ever.
Our Discomfort with Research Democratization
After nearly a year of (seemingly) constant news about UX research layoffs, it does feel like the research landscape has shifted. It’s leaving some of…
 • Roy Opata Olende
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