Week in the life of a UX Researcher *wfh edition*

Week in the life of a UX Researcher wfh edition

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☺ Timestamps ☺
00:00 Intro
01:41 Monday: Start of the day!
03:01 my weekly calendar walkthrough
07:43 Tuesday: Start of the day check in!
08:40 UXR duties and job requirements
10:57 Wednesday: Start of the day check in
12:26 lunch and kitty content
12:43 attending a candle making class
13:18 Thursday: Airbnb IPO ceremony!!!
13:46 My Airbnb stories
16:12 My side hustles!
17:48 interviewing for a podcast
18:29 building a mood board
19:42 Friday: Start of the day check in
20:51 former Airbnb friends virtual hang
21:29 Writing weekly snippets
22:24 family cuddle time
👇🏻You can now book a private or small group career chat session with me: calendly.com/aonatalks
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☺ UXR Resources ☺
» Best tactics for running UX workshops and more: pipdecks.com/decks Using my promo code "AONA96864 " during checkout for an additional 15% off
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» UXR stakeholder management: It’s Our Research: amzn.to/3fER7H7
» UXR methods handbook: amzn.to/2PzZF7w
» UXR product sense: amzn.to/30IuKwg
» Writing effective surveys: amzn.to/3JXznqS
» Quant UXR: amzn.to/30HSAYX
» About field study and ethnography: amzn.to/31hWGr3
» An easy-to-read intro to stats: The Cartoon Guide to Statistics amzn.to/3nFwstF
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☺ About Me ☺
Hello there! I’m Aona, creator of AonaTalks, also a Senior UX Researcher (UXR) working in Silicon Valley. Topics I enjoy talking include but not limited to UX research, UX career growth, and Silicon Valley fashion and lifestyle. I hope my content can help aspiring and like-minded UXers find their personal and professional footing in this field. Thank you for visiting my channel! I hope you find what you are looking for.
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☺ Channel Playlist ☺
🐣 For UXR beginners 🐥: bit.ly/3zG5WEX
🧪 UXR craft 🧪: bit.ly/3FbLjRZ
🌱 UXR growth 🪴: bit.ly/334rgb5
🖥 UXR & tech career tips 🖥 bit.ly/3Gc9h11
🦄 creator journey 🦄: bit.ly/3HNCbEW
🌼 my passions in life 🌼: bit.ly/3r3foyb
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☺ Connect With Me ☺
Book a private or small group career chat session with me: calendly.com/aonatalks
For business inquiries: aona.ux@gmail.com
» IG: @aonatalks
» Clubhouse: @aonatalks
» Linkedin: / aonayang
» Bilibili：@AonaTalks
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☺ Equipment☺
» Video: Sony ZV1
» Audio: Rode NT USB mini
» Edit: Final Cut Pro
» Channel Art: Procreate (on iPad Pro)
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☺ Disclaimer ☺
My opinions are my own and they do not represent my employer in any way.
Some of the links are affiliated.
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☺ Music ☺
» Bensound.com www.bensound.com/
🎵Music provided by Epidemic Sound
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@AonaTalks 2 жыл бұрын

Hey friends! Just a reminder you can now sign up for my monthly small group UXR coaching session (with max. 20people) here: calendly.com/aonatalks/uxr-group-qa Spots are very limited! It’s a small group setting so you’ll have my undivided attention 💗

@hosamelshazly Жыл бұрын

❤

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

What do you think about the life of a UXR? Looks pretty fun? Candle making, rainbow calendar, kitties and plants and whatnot? Actually it's also full of behind the scene stress. Like this comment if you are interested in seeing the dark side of things ;)

@ABurningCandle 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, please talk about the stress Aona

@BRAZEN_Muse 2 жыл бұрын

This is probably one of the most informative “Day in the life of a UX professional” video I’ve seen on KZfaq. Thank you for the valuable content!

@mariak.8463 3 жыл бұрын

This is amazing! Thank you so much for a sneakpeak into a Researcher’s week at a big tech company! I’ve just started my first job as a solo UX Researcher at a startup, and my week looks so so different!! It really got me thinking what setup would work better for me at this career stage. Thanks so much for sharing again, so interesting and inspiring!!! ❤️❤️❤️

@li1295 6 ай бұрын

You are such a darling... I love your videos, they inspire me and always give me that hope and push I need to not giving up on trying to break into UXR. THANK YOU ❤

@LUBEEEEEEEE 3 жыл бұрын

Love the authenticity of this video Aona! As the sole UXR at a medium sized start up, I am constantly curious how other researchers days look like so thank you so much for taking the time to beautiful edit and share this with us! Would have loved to hear more bits and pieces of the meeting though!

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

It's always tricky to share that because all meetings should be confidential, and I need consent from my coworkers to share as well : P But I will be hosting a Livestream Q&A on KZfaq soon! - hopefully to see you then and I can answer any questions you may have!

@libraryoflilylol199 Жыл бұрын

I'm doing UX research as an intern, and one of my required reports is a "day in the life" and I already right off the bat knew that one day isn't going to reflect the job at all. Instead I'm planning on documenting and making a video about the process of setting up and achieving a single mini-goal. I worked with this org as a client in my web usability class last semester, and we got into a workflow rhythm that we're going to maintain this time too. Which is basically: set a goal, do it, make some visual aids to explain what I did and what the results were, present it to supervisor, propose new goal. Repeat until project end.

@naninebalchin4237 3 жыл бұрын

I love this! Thank you so much for creating this content. I was laid off from my UXR job at a fin-tech in March and have since gone back to school, and work freelance as a UXR. I miss the office and the life :( This vlog just reminded me why its such as great career :) Thank you!

@tianyangchen8873 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video so much Aona!!! Full of useful information and has such a comfortable pace ;)) Looking forward to more career-related vlogs!!

@Ebbster 2 жыл бұрын

All of this info is so insightful! Thank you so much for showing us the real. I love it!🥰

@anqili1644 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing Aona！love the mood board

@ivygao5679 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Aona for your sharing, it's super inspiring and informative!! I like the way you organize your work, your authenticity and your passion on your work!!! Looking forward your new videos!!

@yobi321 3 жыл бұрын

Love this video! Super insightful and fun to watch.

@hirainforest 3 жыл бұрын

Really motivating, enlightening, and heart-warming! Have a nice holiday season, Aona! 谢谢你的分享～！

@cristaliaannisa8334 2 жыл бұрын

Oh my god, I really love this video! Your cats are soo cute hehe and it's very helpful to see some sneakpeak of UXR job. Thanks!

@lockafellafitness6958 9 ай бұрын

This was superb, thank you.

@kkxxd 3 жыл бұрын

I just discovered your channel- your editing is incredible! The drawings and animations and all your effort put into this video is so great to see. I'm a junior UXR at a large gaming company- really love seeing the daily life of others in the field, my week has a very similar structure! Looking forward to more videos :)

@jingjian2819 3 жыл бұрын

Aona! This is amazing, thanks for sharing, was so fun to watch!

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

Dawww 🤗🤗🤗

@nicolepozo3610 2 жыл бұрын

Thank u, next week I will start my first job as a UX researcher. This helped me a lot

@anirudhbbalotiaa 3 жыл бұрын

This was so cool and informative. Thanks for doing it Aona. Really liked how you structure your week and the Friday snapshots...will give it a shot myself.

@anirudhbbalotiaa 3 жыл бұрын

As a follow-up question Aona, curious to know how has life changed for you as a UXR since COVID, I understand you joined Google during the pandemic...in comparison to Research at AIRBNB and here at Google...whats different both in terms of how each perceives Research and also in terms of Research applicability and approach?

@AtiLin 2 жыл бұрын

I'm an anthropology student and I'm really glad I found your videos.

@studycafe0019 3 жыл бұрын

好喜欢Aona 姐姐，非常有启发性，calendar schedule那块，学到了！

@studycafe0019 3 жыл бұрын

干货满满，绝对值得再刷一遍。谢谢 Aona 姐姐用心了！

@suziross 3 жыл бұрын

I'd love to know more about how you organise the weekly snippets doc, it sounds really helpful!

@rakhik6451 3 жыл бұрын

me too!

@iloverette 2 жыл бұрын

me three!

@cyberkumo 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Aona!

@lauralaamanen8172 3 жыл бұрын

So happy I found your channel! I think it is important to talk about these things and they are very helpful as well. I wish some of your old videos had subtitles or there could be english versions. I am especially interested in the presentation tips and storytelling :)

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

I’ll make eng ver videos of those as well so stay tuned! Thanks for commenting :)

@gamma_girl 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Aona, thanks for capturing. Would like to see another week where you do more of research project specific work. And agree that one needs to take time off for self interests. But in a regular WFO scenario can you do all these on a work day?

@platinumdynamite 3 жыл бұрын

Nice to see you have some serious coffee game! Love my Eureka grinder.

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

One of my fav things in my home! Such good purchase :))

@indasiasummerfield4308 Жыл бұрын

Hey! I’ve worked on EPIC’s site for the last 2 years as a junior developer. Its super interesting that I’ve found your video as I’m now trying to figure out my way into a UX role.

@AonaTalks Жыл бұрын

Amazing!! Thank you for all your contributions’

@GinkgoTree123 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Aona, Thanks for making this video. I came across your channel today, and looking forward to soaking in more of your content. Appreciate what you do, and for sharing your day to day as realistically and authentically as you can. I am a human-centered designer, and Senior Designer at the agency that I work for and working on moving into the UXR space. Not only am I advocating for it more at my current company, but I am relieved/thrilled to understand where I want to take myself career-wise. I can empathise with being laid off in 2020. It happened to me too. It was really scary, and a difficult moment to get through with an incredible amount of uncertainty during the time. I'm so glad for you to see that you could retain the relationships you had at Airbnb, but also create a new world for yourself at Google. Congrats! P.S. Love the cameos by Hedwig and Sprinkles!

@AonaTalks 2 жыл бұрын

This is so kind of you :') Thank you Lauren. And Sprinkles and Hedwig said hi! : )

@boliu446 3 жыл бұрын

非常暖的一个视频，Aona真的用心了❤️ 同为UXR看着好亲切～期待一下EPIC的访谈~

@shubhamsingla7048 3 жыл бұрын

Damn your setup is so gooooood!

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for noticing my setup! I’m really proud of it!!😆

@santoskhalifa8027 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@cathyren6978 3 жыл бұрын

Cried over the last 20s T^T - you will move faster when you take it slow. Thank you Aona~

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

@izziegirl398 3 жыл бұрын

I just found your channel and I am OBSESSED with it and I've been binge watching your old videos as well! I can see you're super busy but (my mandarin sucks) I really hope u can add eng cc into your old videos as well! Love your content it is so up my alley

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

I will :) and I plan to make more eng content as well

@izziegirl398 3 жыл бұрын

@@AonaTalks I love your chinese content too!! Helps me improve my mandarin as well

@gracebear 3 жыл бұрын

好暖. Watching this during a work-break haha! Thanks for sharing. 一如既往地支持Aona姐姐：）Oneday, I will show you my videos too

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

期待看到你的哦！

@vviviadesign3739 3 жыл бұрын

very nice vlog！

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vivia! :)

@Seanxxiao 3 жыл бұрын

What a fun week!! lol. I was expecting to know a bit about how you would arrange your research schedules (e.g., usability tests, interviews)... Or is it that you don't need to moderate the studies by yourself at Google? (e.g., outsource)

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment! What a fun topic! I do need to arrange my own schedule for studies - it just didn’t happen during this particular week. Also planning a research schedule usually varies from project to project based on different methods and complexity :P but it’s a great topic and I will try to cover that in future videos.

@yanhandu8968 3 жыл бұрын

很喜欢，very inspiring

@bananascity 2 жыл бұрын

it’s amazing to see you speaking in chinese!!

@croco.23 2 жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for lovely video. I didn't understand for the documentation end of week, which tools you use?

@kaicheng2018 3 жыл бұрын

棒棒的！特别有调理！不过还是觉得headsdown time有点少了。Aona下次讲讲如何做generative research吧，我觉得开放性的研究问题真的很有挑战性

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

真的！感觉这周也很特殊因为放假前所有meeting都挤在一块 headsdown time真的是可遇不可求

@allygrrrl 2 жыл бұрын

Quick question- what brand or where did you buy the floating(?) black & wood desk behind you in the first few minutes of this video? Thanks for the great vid also!!

@calebhung7141 3 жыл бұрын

your cats are so adorable! i was looking forward to this, thanks for all the info:) i wanted to ask you but totally forgot about it what made you decide to mentor?

@AonaTalks 3 жыл бұрын

Giving back to the community has been one of my top priorities. and after doing it I realized how much I enjoy seeing my mentees succeed and I’m constantly motivated by so many of you ☺️

@Seanxxiao 3 жыл бұрын

Like your English version of the videos more!! As UXD/Rers, we need to get used to this type of environment.

@AarianaVictoriaW 2 жыл бұрын

This is so helpful! I’m looking into different UX programs now. Random question, what breed are your kitties? They are both so sweet and beautiful 🥰

@AonaTalks 2 жыл бұрын

Haha they are Siberians :)

@erwan6797 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, very interesting video, thank you very much 😊. I have a question, is it good at math? Knowing how to read and do statistics is enough or do you need deep math to do UXR? I ask this because I would like to be UXR and I am still in my studies. 📚