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🤝 Where AI Belongs in Research & 🧪 What Happened When Agents Tried to Code 451 Tweets

May 28, 2026

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🤝 Where AI Belongs in Research & 🧪 What Happened When Agents Tried to Code 451 Tweets

This week: Frontier UX Research Circa May 2026 from Jess Holbrook; AI in Research: Pace and what holds the Checkout.com UXR team; and Exploring Agent-Assisted Qualitative Analysis from Shreya Shankar. Our podcast pick is #188 Why AI Can't Replace Qualitative Research with Sam Ladner of Workday from Awkward Silences, plus fresh research roles from Netflix, Monzo, Booking.com, Lovable, eBay, PayPal, Etsy and more. And finally — join Research Lunch Club, now live in 33+ cities, before we send out our latest round of matches TOMORROW!

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🤝 Where AI Belongs in Research & 🧪 What Happened When Agents Tried to Code 451 Tweets

🛠 The Claude Code Skill for Interviews & 🤖 Codex + Claude Want Your Whole Workbench

🤖 Qual Research, Now at 81,000-Person Scale & ⚡ The Design Process Isn't Dead — It's Compressed

🗣️ Wireframes Are Dead & 🤖 AI Still Needs You to Check Its Work

🤔 Your Research Tools Got Smarter... Did You? + 🧠 AI Analysis You Can Actually Trust

💔 When Research Recommendations Break & 📈 Practical vs. Statistical Significance

⚰️ 7 Deadly AI Sins for UX Professionals & 🤔 Which Decisions Deserve Your Energy

🤔 Rethinking Correlation & ⏳ Deferred User Interviews.

🪄 AI: Magic Wand or Pandora's Box? & ⚠️ The Dangers of Unmoderated Testing

👀 Bias & Temporal Reframing + 📉Organizations Don't Do User Research

❌ You're not a UX Researcher + ⏱️ AI tools to reduce analysis time.

🧬 Mixed-Methods Research & 🤖 What will Research look like in an AI future?

🧠 A Research Agenda for Generative AI in UX + 👀 How User Research Slowly Sucked the Soul Out of Design

1️⃣ First Researcher Starter Pack + 🤖Getting AI Discovery Right

1️⃣ First Researcher Starter Pack + 🤖Getting AI discovery right

💰2025 Research Budgets + 🛠️ The Future of Research Ops

🤖 When AI-Generated Lies Are More Compelling + 😠 Dealing with Difficult Participants in Research

🤖 Six Forces Strangling UX Research+ The Human Touch in the Age of AI

🤖 Synthetic users and 'realistic' research + 🧠 Applying GenAI to UXR

🧠 Complex Behavior Systems & 🤖 AI Generated Lies!

🤖 Appeal of Fake AI Users + 💸 Data vs. Business Strategy

💥 On High Impact Research + 🤖 How AI Is Changing Research Jobs

🧠 Measuring the Unmeasurable + 🦥 Slowing Down to See the System

👀 Ways to f**k up user research & 🤖 When to AI, and When Not to AI.

🧠 Motivation vs. Manipulation + 💬 Interview Users Without It Getting Weird

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