Equity-Centered Leadership focuses on ensuring that all employees can succeed in a workplace, regardless of their...
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From Insights to Intuition: Transforming the Role of Research
What if we shift our goal as researchers from delivering data and insights to building and reforming intuition?...
Foundational AI: Navigating a Shifting Terrain
New deployments of foundational AI models in digital products have expanded public engagement with synthetic...
Re-evaluating Usability and Strategic Research: Delivering Value via Research Practice
Usability studies are sometimes devalued as mechanical work, as opposed to ethnography and other kinds of research considered to be a more strategic and engaging. This contributes to a perception of usability evaluation as lower status, or appropriate for early career researchers—work that one...
Talking to Stakeholders
Presenting research is more than delivering analyzed data. The value of our work as ethnographers in industry is limited by whether or not clients and stakeholders act on our learnings and recommendations. In...
Revamp and Reinvent your Career with the Power of Creativity
A creative workshop to help you think differently about your career and give yourself the chance to consider new possibilities! Whether you're feeling lost, unsure, or just in need of some inspiration about your...
From Complex Histories to Possible Futures: Ethical Practice across Time
Thanks to changemakers and activists, many organizations are beginning to expand their ethical lens beyond technical risk assessments of processes or ‘products-as-shipped’. Attention is expanding across time...
Removing Barriers for Research Participants with Disabilities
Overview Over a billion people worldwide (and around 25% of the populations of the USA and Europe) live with some kind of disability—a reality no organization can afford to ignore. That means all of us must...
Hysterical Health: Building Ethnographic Expertise for More Equitable Innovation
A centuries-long legacy of myth and misinformation about women’s bodies continues to shape society and permeate the innovation of products, services and policies. Embedded into our thinking are the ideas that women’s bodies are inferior and weaker, that women are difficult to understand, and that...
Designing Research across Language and Culture
Connecting with global research participants requires more than just pure language knowledge. How do we ask questions in a way that reflects an understanding of their culture? In ways that resonate...