Top products from r/UXResearch
We found 14 product mentions on r/UXResearch. We ranked the 11 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. Understanding Your Users: A Practical Guide to User Research Methods (Interactive Technologies)
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 2
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
2. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests
Sentiment score: 2
Number of reviews: 2
3. Observing the User Experience: A Practitioner's Guide to User Research
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Morgan Kaufmann
4. Quantifying the User Experience: Practical Statistics for User Research
Sentiment score: 0
Number of reviews: 1
5. Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
test
6. Thinking, Fast and Slow
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Thinking Fast and Slow
7. The Elements of User Experience: User-Centered Design for the Web
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
8. A Practical Guide to Usability Testing
Sentiment score: 1
Number of reviews: 1
Used Book in Good Condition
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!
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.
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman is a fantastic and (relatively) easy to read book about how the mind learns and makes decisions.
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 :-)
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
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.
If you want to brush up your quant skills, this book is amazing.