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🛠 The Claude Code Skill for Interviews & 🤖 Codex + Claude Want Your Whole Workbench
This week: How to Use Claude Code for Customer Research; From Ad Hoc Prompting to Repeatable AI Workflows with Claude Code Skills; Are Codex and Claude Becoming Everything Platforms for Work? Our podcast pick is #148 Understand Claude in 20 Minutes from Future of UX, our video pick is the Claude Design Tutorial for Designers, plus a featured Local Researcher role from Studio intO and fresh research roles from Netflix, Strava, Booking.com, Monzo, Etsy and more. And finally — join Research Lunch Club, now live in 33+ cities, before we send out our latest round of matches!
People of Research
May 19, 2026
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📰 Article Picks
This Week's Reads
🛠 How to Use Claude Code for Customer Research in 2026 : Shulem makes a structural argument: product and UX researchers spend 60–70% of their time aggregating customer data and only 30–40% actually analysing it. Pairing Claude Code with BuildBetter's MCP server flips that ratio by letting you query unstructured conversations — Gong, Chorus, Zoom, Intercom, Zendesk, Slack, Linear, Notion — from a terminal prompt, with timestamped quotes and source attribution attached. The worked examples cover competitive-intel sweeps, feature-validation pulls, and weekly "what changed" digests. Most concrete write-up of Claude-Code-in-research workflows we've come across this year, and a useful counterweight to the trend pieces that stay at altitude.
🧪 From Ad Hoc Prompting to Repeatable AI Workflows with Claude Code Skills: The most "do this on Monday" piece we read this month. Takeda walks through building a Claude Code Skill for synthetic persona interviews: personas stored as structured JSON, diversity validation upfront so panels don't all sound the same, and isolated interview contexts so personas don't drift between questions. The result is two commands — /persona generate ("10 Gen Z skincare shoppers in the US") and /persona ask — with reusable JSON outputs you can re-query for follow-up tests. Sits in the productive middle between vibe-prompting ChatGPT and writing a Python library, and the code is small enough to fork before you finish your coffee.
🎙️ Podcast Pick
💼 Job Picks
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🔥 Featured this week: Studio intO is expanding their global Local Researcher network
Job title: Design Researcher
Company: intO
Location: London
Salary range: £30k-35k / year
Job description: We’re hiring a Design Researcher with solid experience delivering both qualitative and quantitative research end-to-end across complex products, services, or strategic challenges. We’re looking for someone who combines strong research craft with excellent communication, comfort working internationally and remotely, and genuine curiosity about people, systems, data, and emerging technology. You’ll work closely with senior researchers and clients across ambitious global projects, with space to grow, contribute ideas, and take ownership.
Application link: If interested, please send your CV to [email protected]
Plus this week's fresh research roles:
Europe & UK
North & South America
Remote / Other
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