A realistic day in the life of a UX Researcher (fully remote) - what do I do all day

[@AonaTalks]

👏👏Amazing! I love how clearly you explained your meeting schedules

[@Tifffster]

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

[@AonaTalks]

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

[@bree.7963]

New subbie here! Thanks so much for this, it really helps people like me who are doing a career change and exploring options! I'm switching from Biological Anthropology/Medical Research to UX Research so I am super grateful for people like you who show what their careers are actually like!

[@Tifffster]

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❤️

[@bree.7963]

@@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!

[@Tifffster]

@@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!❤️

[@VTalkTogether]

Thank you so much for sharing that. I am interested in learning more about those common UXR methods in work.

[@Tifffster]

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

[@PolinaSedova-t5e]

Thank you for this sneak peak into the UX rseracher daily life! I've recently discovered this field and now I'm trying to consider the possibility of the transition from the academic research on disability rights and academic writing coaching. I'm interested in accessibility, diversity and inclusion in the UX. The thing is that I'm interested in reseach specifically, whereas the design part doesn't seem interesting for me and I'm ablsolutely horrible at anything that requires a sense of eastetic. Hence, I'm confused whether I have any perspectives in the UX with my background. Thanks again for your wonderful content!

[@anitius101]

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!

[@shalomshal2366]

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.

[@nataliajune5844]

Loved the meme references throughout, they were so great hahaha

[@Tifffster]

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

[@MyMissmusiclover]

This was so insightful! Thank you for this :)

[@Tifffster]

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

[@vandadomingos8852]

Hi Tiffany! Thanks for sharing this video. I am looking to add UX / UI certificate on my skills. I have been working as a Senior Marketing Researcher for a decade and I always think about taking some more tech, seems that this is the one.

[@Tifffster]

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!🙌

[@salvationthroughgrace]

This was an awesome, insightful video!

[@Tifffster]

Thanks so much!🥰

[@salvationthroughgrace]

You're welcome!

[@brochacho.]

im trying to get into UX design and UX research seemed a bit intimidating for me for some reason. thank you for breaking down your daily life as one!

[@Tifffster]

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

[@gracii0828]

Clicked so fast when I saw you posted. Welcome back!❤️

[@Tifffster]

Aw so sweet😭Thanks girl💜💜💜

[@kristinehle25]

Just found you as I am an educator trying to transition into UX design! UX research seems to be what I'm most interested in. :)

[@Tifffster]

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 :)

[@kyoosukyang6758]

Very useful story ~~

[@Tifffster]

Thank you Mr Yang~~~~😎

[@khadijahibrahim1473]

Hi! Thanks for this video, it was very informative. I have a question: do you or other researchers have to recruit their own participants for the study / interview? How does that process go? If it’s too much to answer in the contents, I can DM you thanks!

[@Tifffster]

Hi! You're so welcome. If you're asking about the actual task of recruiting, YES! If you're in a small company, you have the responsibility of doing research operations too. So you do everything from sending out recruitment reachouts, screening them, managing participants, scheduling them, etc. Now, if you work in larger companies like Google, they'll likely have someone doing research operations specifically. In that case, you tell the operations team who you're hoping to recruit and the criteria, and they'll take care of screening/scheduling/etc. If asking about the act of recruiting - you're working in a company, they'll hopefully have a system in place where you use a recruiting panel website/agency to recruit participants. So you may use those external recruiting websites to recruit. OR you can also have your own research panel. You may also just recruit from your users. Does this help?

[@rain9083]

Thank you for this yummy video ! I love UX, pups & snacks 😄

[@Tifffster]

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

[@jab9618]

Very good video, thank you for this

[@Tifffster]

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

[@indrestrazdaite261]

Hi Tiffany! Love your content and enjoyed understanding your everyday life as a UX Researcher! 🤩🤩 I am myself in this field too and been looking to see what you could recommend in terms of the laptop. As a UX Researcher I wonder if you would recommend to have a 14inch or 16inch laptop to work on when doing a daily tasks, such as conducting or analysing the research? 🌻

[@Tifffster]

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!😆

[@indrestrazdaite261]

@@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? 🌻🌻

[@nic_rios]

Thanks for this video! I am seriously considering transitioning to UX Research from academia, and your video was a welcome perspective :)

[@Tifffster]

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!

[@parissummer8691]

Hi I'm interested in becoming am UX Researcher. Do you have any tips on how to get started ?

[@Tifffster]

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!

[@브라운쌤]

안녕하세요..! 정말 여러 번 고민하고 고민하다.. 댓글 남기게 되었습니다..! 저는 한국에서 UX researcher로의 길을 준비하고 있는 취업준비생입니다. UX 리서치 포트폴리오를 검색하다 티파니님의 영상들을 모두 봤고, 리서처로서 어떻게 포트폴리오를 준비해야 할 지에 대해 인사이트를 얻었어요! 특히, 한국의 경우에는 UX 디자이너가 리서치까지 진행하는 곳들이 많다 보니 UX 디자이너 포트폴리오와 UX 리서처 포트폴리오가 너무 헷갈리더라구요..ㅠㅠ 그리고 한국에는 UX 리서처 포트폴리오가 없기도 하구요..!! 티파니님의 Wix 사이트를 참고하면서 제 방식대로의 UX 리서처 포트폴리오를 만들었는데요...!..! 호옥시...😥가능하시다면요..! 제 UX 리서치 포트폴리오 원포인트라도.. 피드백이 가능하실까요..!!ㅠㅠㅠ 당연히 티파니님의 시간이 할애되는 작업인 만큼, 비용적인 부분까지 고려하고는 있습니다..!! 답변 주시면 정말 감사하겠습니다..!! 좋은 하루 보내시기 바라요!..

[@Tifffster]

안녕하세요! 제가 댓글을 너무너무 늦게 발견했네요..!!ㅜㅜ너무 늦어버린답변 죄송합니다..!!ㅠㅠ제 영상이 도움이 되었다니 너무 다행이고 감사해요!!🥺 댓글을 너무 늦게 본 현시간에는 이미 포트폴리오를 완성하셔서, 좋은 직장을 구하셨길 간절히 바래봅니다! 🙌한국에는 유엑스 리서치 직종이 아직 자라나고 있는 필드라고 들었어요! 혹시 아직 직장을 구하고 계시고 질문이 있으시거나 혹시 아직 포트폴리오 피드백 필요하시면 리뷰해드릴수 있어요!! 알려주세용!!🥰

[@Tifffster]

그리고 한국분인데 영어로 된 영상까지 봐주시고, 감사합니다!☺️

[@lol-pz1ni]

Hey there, I currently work in customer insight but love the idea of being a UX Researcher. I was considering doing a course on Career foundry because they offer a job guarantee but I am not so much interested in UX design ie doing wireframes etc but I am very interested in doing user research.. do you have any recommendations on where is the best place to study UX research and do you think its best for a UX researcher to know the entire UX design process or does it not really matter ? Thanks in advance.

[@Tifffster]

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 KZbin are great (and you’re doing this already!), there’s also free videos on KZbin 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! 🍀

[@lol-pz1ni]

@@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.

[@Tifffster]

@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! 😊

[@lol-pz1ni]

@@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

[@Tifffster]

@@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🥰

[@cruzjay188]

nice video. the music really set a vibe.

[@Tifffster]

Thanks so much!☺️

[@N9NETY8]

I got certified in ux research and as well as design but I need the experience too so how can I start ? And where exactly

[@Tifffster]

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!

[@N9NETY8]

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

[@ganeshtiwari2550]

How to start career in u x researcher from non it how can i do kindly suggest

[@Tifffster]

Hello! Here’s my journey from non-IT marketing to UX Research: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3mTho2Al6eBY7M

[@안현숙-z9l]

유익해요

[@Tifffster]

고맙어요~~~~ 💗

[@bwealthy7364]

Hi dear .. I also want to become UX researcher .. I already did my masters in sociology, now am in Canada .. could you tell me please which course would be best for me ... please reply

[@Tifffster]

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!🤗☺️

[@ginikadaily]

4:55 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@98gigabyte]

어어.. 한국인이셨구나! 요즘 UX 리서치에 관심있어서 한번 보고 두번째 보면서 영상설명보고 한국인인거 알아챘어요. 왜 갑자기 한국음식을 먹나했네요. ㅋㅋ 한국은 작년부터 슬슬 UX리서처를 뽑고 있는 것 같아요. 영상 정주행 해야겠다아…

[@Tifffster]

ㅋㅋㅋ우왓 안녕하세요!😆 한국분 뵈어 정말 반갑습니다! 한국에도 드디어 슬슬 uxr을 뽑는다니 넘 듣기 좋은 소식인데요?! 한국 가족들 뵐때마다 직업 소개하는게 넘 어려웠거든요ㅠㅠ 영상을 두번이나 보셨다니 넘 감사한걸요?! ㅎㅎㅎ 영상 보시고 궁금한게 있으시면 코맨트 남겨주세요!😁 화이팅입니당!!🙏

[@surrealsoupuniverse]

Seems like a bs job, frontend development is much better, react especially, tech rules

[@Tifffster]

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!