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u/Oaklandia · 4 pointsr/UXResearch
  • I suggest you also get acquainted with the basics of design and design thinking. "The Design of Everyday Things" is a seminal text for this. There are some Coursera and similar courses you could check out too.

  • This is a great introduction for thinking about methods and process: https://www.amazon.com/Understanding-Your-Users-Second-Technologies/dp/0128002328

  • I suggest you look for Steve Portigal's videos on Youtube and check out his podcast Dollars to Donuts. He interviews research leaders and so you can pick up a lot of important perspective. This is a great way to pick up the jargon and shibboleth of industry.

  • UX research is wonderfully interdisciplinary (in a way academia isn't), but that means you need to get beyond the cord anthropologist methods and get a foundation in cog psych, stats, HCI, etc.

    Phd in anthropology is a fantastic basis for this work, but you are definitely going to have to demonstrate that you can adapt to a VERY different research context and build a bunch of skills that you might not have developed in grad school. It can be a very great move, but very humbling (especially initially).

    I made a similar transition from a Phd in ethnography to ux research a few years ago, feel free to message me if you have questions (if you do let me know what city you are in as that will change any advice I would give you).

    Good luck!
u/fazool · 3 pointsr/UXResearch

I started in market research as well before transitioning to a UX Researcher. These are the standouts from the reading list I started with:

The Elements of User Experience - A great intro to the whole field of UX. In-depth and covers the user centered design process.

Don't Make Me Think Short but comprehensive book on usability.

Handbook of Usability Testing Everything you need to know about usability testing.

Interviewing Users This book is great and is one I go back to regularly. The author Steve Portigal, also has a podcast on user research, "Dollars to Donuts" which is worth checking out.

Another comment mentioned the Jeff Sauro book which is very good, and also the Userfocus blog and newsletter. I've done David Travis' courses as well and would recommend them to people new to the field.

https://www.usability.gov/ is a great resource for templates, methods, definitions etc.

NN/g and UIE are my two most read blogs/newsletters.




u/Ethnographic · 2 pointsr/UXResearch
  1. A lot of this is piecing together bits from here and there. One cool example is the book Orchestrating Experiences, which has some cool case studies (e.g., how does CVS pharmacy work seamlessly when inside a Target). Can't find it now, but I recall the Intercom blog having some cool stuff on this too.

  2. Just do some searches on the Mckinsey site and you will find tons of articles and services related to this topic. If you do Google News searches for "consultancy acquires UX" or something similar you can see a pretty clear trend (McKinsey bought Lunar in 2015, IBM which is really more of a consultancy made a few over the years, Accenture acquired Fjord in 2013, Ernst and Young bought Seren, Wipro bought Designit, Deloitte has bought Ubermind and a few others, PwC bought Pond, etc. etc.).
u/nimble_moose · 6 pointsr/UXResearch

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a fantastic and (relatively) easy to read book about how the mind learns and makes decisions.

u/shysneaker · 4 pointsr/UXResearch

UX researcher in the making here. I am currently reading:

https://www.amazon.com/Observing-User-Experience-Practitioners-Research/dp/0123848695

So far, it’s been a great resource in learning the basics :-)

u/ryryryryryry_ · 1 pointr/UXResearch

Pretty much anything from https://rosenfeldmedia.com/ will get you started. TBH the methodologies for formative research are going to be very similar to what your used to in anthropology. What will come in handy is reading up on usability testing.

A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Guide-Usability-Testing/dp/1841500208

Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
https://www.amazon.com/Handbook-Usability-Testing-Conduct-Effective/dp/0470185481/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=MHNVG7XHCDRDF3859YRW

u/Dypa4ek · 4 pointsr/UXResearch

Not a course, though I heard this is a good one https://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/0374533555 (the book is about cognitive biases). The author is an economist and psychologist at the same time, even got Nobel Prize in economics.

Don't really know if this is type of thing you are looking for.

u/CJP_UX · 1 pointr/UXResearch

If you want to brush up your quant skills, this book is amazing.