Lesley CraneinBootcampWhy AI Will Never Replace Good User ResearchersIf you’re a User Researcher like me you’ll probably be just as irritated — alarmed, even — by a notion buzzing around the UX world: AI can…May 19May 19
Lesley CraneinBootcampSo what exactly do User Researchers do?Thinking about the waves of job layoffs across the UX industry in the past couple of years, and with user researchers taking the brunt end…Mar 171Mar 171
Lesley CraneinBootcampHow to do User Research AnalysisYou’ve gone out and captured users’ experience data using whatever method you chose and now you’ve got a pile of recordings, transcripts…Jan 12Jan 12
Lesley CraneinBootcampTHE HELL OF JOB APPLICATIONSAfter more than four years continuously working as a freelance senior user researcher, and before that around 10 as a policy researcher in…Jan 7Jan 7
Lesley CraneMAKING THE CASE FOR DISCOVERY RESEARCHDiscovery research is probably the least well understood part of what user researchers do. This can lead to oversights, errors and…Dec 28, 2023Dec 28, 2023
Lesley CraneinBootcampA new measure for user centricityThe ambition and idea of being user-centric is central to the UX movement and the practice of UX disciplines. As a freelance UX researcher…Dec 28, 2023Dec 28, 2023
Lesley CraneinBootcampA tale of becoming… becoming a user researcherA while back I started chatting with people who want to get into User Research (‘mentoring’ being too lofty a description to use). They all…Aug 27, 2023Aug 27, 2023
Lesley CraneinBootcampTo lead or not to lead -why leading questions aren’t always leadingI’m an experienced user experience researcher (UXR). I am also a discourse analyst. In the latter capacity, I’m a published author and hold…Aug 13, 2023Aug 13, 2023
Lesley CraneinBootcampThe new Changemakers — User Experience ResearchersFollowing on from my ramblings on the subject of putting the word ‘Experience’ back into ‘User Research’, a further way of thinking about…Mar 30, 20231Mar 30, 20231
Lesley CraneinBootcampPutting the ‘experience’ back into user researchI was recently thinking about the difference between the Business Analyst’s research work and the User Researcher’s. I argued that this…Mar 12, 2023Mar 12, 2023