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User Experience newsletter — July 2020

It's good to see you made it through another month on planet Bizarro. Here are some articles that I think are worth your attention:

  • 6 Design Leadership videos from the DesignX Community. Watch one a day.
  • 50 Short Product Lessons. Read one a day.
  • It's important to read research results critically. This is a good introduction to confounded experimental designs..
  • "I decided to run an informal experiment where I had [my wife] play a sampling of games to see how, after a lifetime of not playing games, she would do. These are the results."
  • Remote User Research: The Time Is Now.
  • The world’s most simple 'sorting by size' system.

5-minute videos on UX

  • User research when social distancing. How can I do user research when I’m social distancing? Here are 30 ideas.
  • How to create bulletproof survey questions. I answer the question, "My boss has asked me to do a survey with our customers. Any tips on writing good survey questions?"
  • Can you re-use usability test participants? I answer the question, "I'm iterating my design for the 'Gift Giver' app as part of the course. Do I have to test this iteration with completely different users to those that I tested for the initial design?"
  • Why you don't need user representatives. I answer the question, "What would you call someone who is made a user representative in a project, e.g. user lead/advocate/champion?"

Want to see other questions I've answered? Try the video finder.

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Virtual courses in UX

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  • BCS Foundation Certificate in User Experience (6 x 2hr sessions)
  • User Research Fundamentals (9 x 2hr sessions)

These are online, streamed events so you can attend from anywhere in the world.

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David Travis.