This week’s newsletter highlights!

Articles: 🧠 Dive into Beverly Vaz’s insights on ensuring accessibility is at the forefront of UX research, promoting inclusion from the start. Roxanne Leitão sheds light on the vital role of UX in AI-driven healthcare, emphasizing the need for transparency and adaptability in designs. Discover how Rory Sutherland explains the counterintuitive effects of impatience on intelligence, urging us to rethink our need for speed in decision-making! Also, Thomas Stokes breaks down the benefits of using task analysis in UX projects to enhance interface design and user satisfaction.

Plus, our curated selection of jobs, podcasts, and events (w/member discount) for the week. Finally, our People of Research Member interview with 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Marley!

📢 Community Announcements

We’re excited to invite our members in 🇵🇹 Lisbon and the surrounding areas to our Lisbon social! Meet like-minded researchers, exchange ideas, and maybe even bag your next role at our October 15th event.

For 🇬🇧 London folk, we’ve got you too - join us on November 6th @ ustwo studios, RSVP here and for those who missed last week’s announcement: Join our virtual 💨 Speed Networking event next week on October 8th!

Meet four new researchers through nine-minute one-on-one Zoom chats. Expand your network, discover opportunities, and potentially find new collaborators. 🎟️ RSVP below.

🔬 People of Research Member Interview

• 🌎️ Past People of Research Interviews

📰 Article Picks

This week’s article picks!

🔗 Accessibility in UX Research: How Do We Ensure That Accessibility Is a Key Consideration From the Very Beginning?: In this article, Beverly Vaz explores the integration of accessibility into UX research from the initial stages of design. Beverly argues that incorporating accessibility early on is essential for creating truly inclusive products. She uses examples like ensuring materials and environments are accessible to people with disabilities and advocating for prototypes that are compatible with assistive technologies to illustrate her point. Beverly advises involving people with diverse abilities throughout the research process and emphasizes viewing accessibility as an integral part of the design rather than an afterthought, highlighting its role in enhancing user experiences for everyone.

🔗 Are We Too Impatient to Be Intelligent?: Rory Sutherland explores the impact of impatience on our ability to make intelligent decisions. Sutherland argues that our focus on speed and efficiency often overshadows more important long-term considerations. He uses the example of different speed perceptions—a speedometer versus a “paceometer”—to illustrate how subjective our appreciation of time can be, suggesting that faster isn’t always better. Sutherland advises taking a more measured approach to decision-making and cautions against the temptation to prioritize quick results over more substantial outcomes, emphasizing the value of slowing down in a world obsessed with speed.

🔗 The Role of UX in AI-driven Healthcare: Roxanne Leitão discusses the critical role of user experience (UX) in the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within healthcare. Leitão argues that for AI to be truly effective and beneficial in healthcare settings, it must be designed with a strong focus on UX from the outset. She illustrates this with examples of AI applications in diagnostics and patient management, where poor UX design has led to usability issues and errors. Leitão advises that designers prioritize transparency, interpretability, and adaptability in AI systems, emphasizing the need for these systems to be transparent about their functions and limitations to ensure they support, rather than replace, human clinicians.

🔗 Using Task Analysis in UX Projects: In this instructive article, Thomas Stokes delves into the use of task analysis in UX projects to enhance design efficiency and effectiveness. Stokes argues that task analysis is essential for understanding user goals and refining interface designs. He highlights examples like the detailed breakdown of tasks involved in using a vending machine and checking a bank account balance via a mobile app. Stokes recommends employing task analysis early in the design process, particularly using the Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) method, to ensure designs support user tasks comprehensively. He emphasizes that this approach not only reveals potential user errors but also identifies opportunities for improving design efficiency and effectiveness.

_{Interested in sharing your article?} 🔗 _{Submit Your Article}

🎟️ Event Picks

A few events to pick from this week:

🚨 Offer: Smashing Magazine is giving all People of Research subscribers and members a 20% discount for their conference!

🫂 Community Events

Join our free 🔥 Fireside Chat & AMA with the ReOps pioneer Kate Towsey on all things research, ReOps and Research That Scales. RSVP via Luma to get your spot!

• Submit a question to Kate Towsey!

🎙 Podcasts Pick

This week’s Podcast Pick: 

^{Want to feature your podcast?} 🔗 ^{Submit Your Podcast} 

💼 Jobs Picks

Explore the latest roles for our community, all posted within the last few days and some just hours ago. If you’re a hiring manager and interested in sharing opportunities in research that reach +1000 researchers across 58 countries? ✉️ Email us!

UK & Europe

• Quantitative User Researcher, DeepL (London)

• Senior Market Researcher, Adaptavist (London, Remote)

• User Researcher, IBM (London, On-site)

• Customer Insights Researcher, AUTODOC (Lisbon, On-site)

• Senior User Experience Researcher, Podimo (Berlin, Hybrid)

North America

• Senior Manager, UX Research, GitLab (US, Remote)

• Senior User Experience Researcher, Google (NYC, Hybrid)

• UX Research PM, GREF, Amazon (Seattle, WA, Hybrid)

• Design Research Analyst, Visa (Austin, TX, Hybrid)

• User Research, Slack (Atlanta, GA, Hybrid)

Asia

• Sr. Manager- User Experience Research (Bengaluru, India, Hybrid)

• Lead UX Researcher, APAC, Airbnb (Singapore, Remote)

• Senior UX Researcher (Global), Bucketplace (Seoul, South Korea, Hybrid)

Oceania

• Senior Quantitative UX Researcher, Google (Sydney, Australia, On-site)

• CX Researcher, Trimble Inc. (Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand, Hybrid)

Latin America

• UX Research Sr., Banco PAN (São Paulo, Brazil, Hybrid)

• UX Researcher, Prex (Argentina, Remote)

Don’t see roles in your location? Let us know in a reply and we’ll have a look!

👀 Your Feedback

🙏 Enjoyed this newsletter?

Please share us with your network on LinkedIn, Company Slack or Microsoft Teams!

👋 About us

We’re People of Research - a global community uniting researchers across the tech industry, from UX Research to Behavioural Science. Our mission is to advance the field of research through connection, collaboration, and growth.

If you’re not yet a member, we’re much more than a newsletter. We’re a community and our primary focus is on building a strong, engaged research community in tech.

✏️ Join +1000 researchers in tech across 58 countries:

People of Research was created by @Faysel