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How I Found My Way to Design Research

There’s no fixed path; That’s the beauty of this field. — I have talked to 40+ design/UX researchers from around the world since the beginning of this year. I found out they came from all walks of life—I’ve met teachers, marketers, journalists, just to name a few. …

Design Research

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How I Found My Way to Design Research
How I Found My Way to Design Research
Design Research

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EchoUser Stories

·Aug 24

User Research: Meeting Users Where They Are, Starting From Recruiting

Recruiting participants for a research study can sometimes be time-consuming and energy-draining, especially for products and organizations that do not have a pre-screened customer base or community to reach out to. In this article, I’ll share a recent experience in which we were looking for a very niche user group…

UX Research

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User Research: Meeting Users Where They Are, Starting From Recruiting
User Research: Meeting Users Where They Are, Starting From Recruiting
UX Research

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EchoUser Stories

·Feb 7

Year 1 as a Full-time UX Research Consultant

How did I get so lucky to have a day job like this? — I graduated from school in December 2021 and started working full-time in January 2022 as a UX researcher at EchoUser, a San Francisco-based UX consultancy. In the last year, I worked primarily with a client that makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, and design industries…

UX Research

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Year 1 as a Full-time UX Researcher
Year 1 as a Full-time UX Researcher
UX Research

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Aug 30, 2021

Design Thinking at Live Well Collaborative

A multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving — My journey of getting into design research was quite a zig-zag path, but I was fortunate to have found a place where I got to validate my career aspiration. I mentioned that the two semesters I spent at Live Well Collaborative, a design and innovation consultancy confirmed my interest in…

Design Research

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Design Thinking at Live Well Collaborative
Design Thinking at Live Well Collaborative
Design Research

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Coding it Forward

·Aug 4, 2021

Ten weeks in civic tech as a design researcher

How I changed my perspective on government work this summer — Prior to this summer, I had very little understanding of how the U.S. government operates. Politics scared me away and I certainly didn’t have any positive experience dealing with the U.S. government. My social security card got lost in the mail after I applied for it. I tried to find…

Civictech

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Ten Weeks in Civic Tech as a Design Researcher
Ten Weeks in Civic Tech as a Design Researcher
Civictech

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Jun 16, 2021

Key Takeaways from Lookback Jr. Researcher Fellowship

In April 2021, Lookback, a UX research platform collaborated with UXRCollective (now Learners) and put together a 6-week fellowship to uplift junior researchers who already have research skills and knowledge but are having a hard time breaking into the competitive industry. I was extremely lucky to be selected as part…

UX Research

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Key Takeaways from Lookback Jr. Researcher Fellowship
Key Takeaways from Lookback Jr. Researcher Fellowship
UX Research

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Jun 13, 2021

Overdressed—How I Found My Way To Slow Fashion

I finished reading Elizabeth L. Cline’s first book on the impact of fast fashion a while ago. It debunks the myth of “doing good” through donating your clothes to Goodwill or the Salvation Army as most of those clothes will go straight to the landfills after a short shelf time…

Overdressed

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Overdressed—How I Found My Way To Slow Fashion
Overdressed—How I Found My Way To Slow Fashion
Overdressed

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Jan 2, 2021

Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference

17-year-old Greta Thunberg has Asperger’s syndrome and sees almost everything as black or white. “If the emissions have to stop, then we must stop the emissions. To me, that is black and white. There are no grey areas when it comes to survival. Either we go on as a civilization…

Greta Thunberg

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Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg’s No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
Greta Thunberg

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Jan 2, 2021

Afterthoughts on To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope

I lost count of how many times I teared up reading Jeanne Marie Laskas’ To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope, especially during such time when the entire world is on fire. During his 8-year presidency, Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from ordinary American citizens. His…

Book Review

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Afterthoughts on To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
Afterthoughts on To Obama: With Love, Joy, Anger, and Hope
Book Review

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Janet Chu

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