Aawwww you’re so sweet! Thanks so much :) A comment from the queen youtuber of UXR = dreams🥰 Thanks Aona!

@@Tifffster (wow I feel so flattered!! :') )

Thank you so much for your sweet note, Bre!🥰 That’s a wonderful background and I’m certain that your background in anthro + medical research will bring extremely powerful skillsets as a UX Researcher. Getting my foot into the UXR door wasn’t the easiest, but at the end of the day, it’s all sooooo worth the journey. Let me know if you have any specific questions that I can cover for you in my next video! Thank you❤️

@@Tifffster I am sooo excited to get to help people in this way and I hope I can connect with more UXRs who are currently working since covid changed everything for most people. I will for sure think of questions, right now I really wish I could find a mentor so maybe something along the lines of networking? If you want to connect I'd love that too & Happy Holidays Tiff!

@@bree.7963 For sure!! oh yeah, networking is a great topic. I’ll be sure to cover that in one of the upcoming videos! :) thanks and happy holidays to you too, Bre!❤️

Aw thanks so much!! So glad to hear the info is helpful☺️🎈Will try to upload another video soon, stay tuned!

Hi hi Vincent! Thanks for enjoying the video!😊Great to know, I’ll keep that in mind for upcoming videos. Have a great weekend!🌸

Aw so sweet😭Thanks girl💜💜💜

So sweet of you! Thanks so much for your kind words, and I’m glad this was helpful!🥳🎈

Hi Kristine☺️That’s awesome! I have a colleague who transitioned from teaching too, and I’ve noticed there’s so much valuable skillsets that she brings into UX research from teaching! Feel free to let me know if there’s any topics/content that would interest you as you make your career switch into UX :)

Hehe ME TOO❤️ Thanks for enjoying my video!🥰🌺

Love to hear that! :) Thanks so much Natalia!❤️

You don't need to have a design background to be a UX researcher, actually, you will be working mainly with people and documenting your findings in a lot of Google Sheets/Excel files, word documents, .ppts, even doing literary research on academic articles, etc. A lot of youturbers mix UI (User Interface) with UX so don't get discouraged, anyone can be a UXer, no matter their background. For accesibility standards you might already know this, but a great place to start is searching for WCAG22 (Web Content Accesibility Guidelines 2.2). Best wishes on your UX path!

Hiya I've seen us research in the gov space you'd be suited for that accessibility and inclusion is key there and a lot of jobs are in that space. You need to work with designers and not be aesthetic but having clean basic design principles and skills to create good slides and reference design components is useful.

Awesome! You’re so welcome! So happy to hear this video is helpful.🙌

Sorry that I’m so late to your comment! And appreciate your comment. 🙂Hopefully you’ve made some progress towards your career in UXR in the meantime!I think there’s a lot of overlap between Market Research & UX Research! Your background as a MR will be extremely powerful when you make that transition over! let me know if you have any questions as you’re making the transition!🙌

Thanks so much!🥰

You're welcome!

So glad to hear that, Nicole! :) having an academia background is an awesome experience and I hope my videos help with your decision making. Always feel free to comment with any questions!

Thank you Mr Yang~~~~😎

Hi Indre! Nice meeting you and thanks for your kind words! Love hearing that you enjoyed the video🥰 I’ve used both 14in + 16in but oh gosh 16in makes SUCH a difference! Currently on a Macbook Pro 16inch, and while it’s extremely heavy, the monitor makes multi-screen work that we always have so much easier! BTW I also have a second monitor - which, honestly the bigger the better!😆

@@Tifffster Thanks a lot for the info and your quick response! Much appreciated and it is super helpful!! Yeah, I see that the 16 inch would be so much more comfortable in terms of the screen size, however I also see that the current Macbook Pro 16inch 2023 are sooo heavy. I wonder, does it not put you off to carry around a 16inch one? and in terms of the typing experience, since we type a lot as a ux researchers: is 14 inch or 16 inch more comfortable to type? 🌻🌻

Thanks so much!☺️

Hi Paris! Thanks for watching and great question. I personally started my career pivot with the General Assembly course (I have a video specifically on this in my channel) but I recommend starting by looking into free courses online without committing too much $$$ into bootcamp courses. If you want formal education, a master’s program will be helpful. However, if you’re willing to start somewhere humble and learn on the job, one way is to start in a Research Operations role and getting exposure while networking with internal UXR team and getting more resources. A lot of the times, large companies have their own UXR handbook, templates, and resources, which I found super helpful myself!

Hi there!👋😀 Welcome to my channel and great questions! It’s super important to *understand* the entire UX design process, but you’re not expected to actually design as a UX researcher. Before you commit to a specific route (or even committing to expensive courses), I highly recommend that you start somewhere really small to try to determine if this is the right route for you - day in the life vids on KZfaq are great (and you’re doing this already!), there’s also free videos on KZfaq on the overall process of UX and where UX Researcher comes into play. Start learning super fundamental/widely-used research methods such as interviews, contextual inquiry, survey, etc. by simply searching on Google and reading thru real world UX examples of each. And learn how the overall research process, challenges, and real world application work. The important part is to learn how to ask the right questions to users. With each method you’ve learned, try to practice it out with fake projects. Also, highly recommend looking up “UX Researcher” on LinkedIn and see if you have any 1st or 2nd connections, and reach out to see if they’d be willing to share about their experience! With my YT channel, I’m trying to help share my experience with broader audience, but if you know of some personal connections, you might be able to get some personal tips & tricks too :) I want to provide more helpful resources for those who have interest in pivoting into UXR, so stay tuned on my channel! Let me know if you have other questions. Best of luck! 🍀

@@Tifffster Thanks so much for the reply. There is quite a lot I do in customer Insight that overlaps with UX research for instance I routinely do quant and qual surveys, empathy mapping, A/B testing , route cause analysis , persona building and customer journey mapping. Do you think these skills would enable me to apply for UX roles once I understand the process as you've explained to research above ?. Again many thanks for your help it is much appreciated.

@lol - Ahhhh that's awesome! I come from a similar background being in marketing analytics, and let me tell you - those are extremely powerful and highly sought after skillsets in getting into UXR. A couple of things you can do right off the bat - 1) like I mentioned in my previous comment, learn the UX process on your own via online resources, 2) you'll most likely need to put together a couple of case studies to demonstrate your research process, thought process, understanding of methods, etc. as it is asked by most employers. You can even use your past + current experience to demonstrate the research process, thought process, and end results of your past customer insight research. Hope that helps! I'm also going to put together a video on how to create a case study together. Stay tuned! 😊

@@Tifffster did I mention that you are awesome !? are you on socials like Insta would love to thank you personally as seems we have similar backgrounds I am a marketing Insight manager

@@lol-pz1ni aw so glad to hear it helps!! Ohh I’m on LinkedIn! Feel free to connect with me @Tiffany Ha Yang on LinkedIn🥰

Hello! Here’s my journey from non-IT marketing to UX Research: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/l65giL17x6iyXYU.html

고맙어요~~~~ 💗

Hello!👋That’s a great question. Have you started on your portfolio yet? First step is to get started on practicing + applying those learnings in the real world. You can start with case study projects (fake made-up projects) but gradually try projects in the real world. I can share a video about how I came up with mine soon!

@@Tifffster okay I’ll be look for the video soon

Hello!👋☺️That’s awesome! If you completed your masters degree in Sociology and have a pretty good knowledge of research methods, you should only need to learn some basic understanding of UX process and where UXR takes into place before you can jump in. Otherwise, you’d need to put together a portfolio with case study/real world project presenting your research process + thought process. I’m working to put together resources to self learn basics of that. Stay tuned!🤗☺️

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Frontend is great! UXR vs. FE is not an apples to apples comparison though. I love my job as I help designers + front-end understand what users want, need, and feel with the design, and help guide the design directions!