#61 - The Role of Research in CX Transformation with Kim Salazar of Nielsen Norman Group
Is your company truly customer-centric? Are your systems actually helping you create better experiences for your customers?Last week, Kim Salazar, Senior User Experience Specialist at Nielsen Norman G...
9 Mar 202148min
#60 - Discovery Research and Interview Skills with Maria Rosala of Nielsen Norman Group
Are your research discoveries really discoveries? Or are you collecting validation for your own assumptions?That’s just one of the big questions Maria Rosala, Director of Research at Nielsen Norman Gr...
18 Feb 202147min
#59 - Ethical Hacking, Information Security, and UX with Ted Harrington of ISE
Building great products is hard. Building great, secure, products is even harder. This week on Awkward Silences, we talked to Ted Harrington about the intersection between security and UX. He outlined...
1 Feb 202128min
#58 - The Lone UXR: Being a UX Research Team of One with Izzy Nichols
Being a research team of one isn’t easy. When you’re the only researcher at a company, you have to do every type of research, recruiting, planning, and analysis by yourself—all without the resources o...
19 Jan 202127min
#57 - Research Amid Sudden Change: Working on Google Classroom During COVID with Amanda Rosenburg
In March 2020, Google Classroom’s user base grew from 30 million to hundreds of millions almost overnight.As schools closed, teachers needed new ways to conduct lessons and manage their work. This mea...
5 Jan 202135min
#56 - 2020, UXR Year In Review
The year is wrapping up and it’s finally time to say bye forever to 2020 👋. The hosts of Awkward Silences, Erin May and JH Forster, took this opportunity to reflect on some of the things that happene...
22 Des 202035min
#55 - So You Want to Be In Research Ops? How Roy Olende of Zapier Made The Switch
There is a growing need for research operations.As more companies embrace the importance of user research and scale their UXR efforts, a dedicated ops function is quickly becoming a necessity.Research...
8 Des 202039min
#54 - End-to-End Experience Teams with Danielle Smith of Express Scripts
Understanding your product from start to finish is easier said than done. The same goes for integrating research into every stage of a project. Danielle Smith found that she would often work on founda...
24 Nov 202026min
