Resources for UX Researchers
| Category | Resource | Related Links | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | These books (or authors) have been featured in a Guild event. | ||
| Strengthen Your User Research Superpowers, by Kuldeep Kelkar | Guild Session with Kuldeep | ||
| Learn More Faster, by Michael Margolis | Guild Session with Michael | ||
| Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado-Perez | Guild Book Group Invisible Women Discussion | ||
| Interviewing Users, 2nd Edition, by Steve Portigal | Guild Book Group Interview with Steve | ||
| Accessibility for Everyone, by Laura Kalbag | Guild Book Group Interview with Laura | ||
| A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods, by Sam Ladner | |||
| Reading List | These books have been recommended or mentioned by Guild event guests, hosts, panelists, and participants. | ||
| Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes to Social Change, by Helana Darwin | |||
| Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang | |||
| The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness, by Todd Rose | |||
| Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein | |||
| Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, by Sarah Wachter-Boettcher | |||
| The Color of the Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein | |||
| Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, by Sasha Costanza-Chock | |||
| Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil | |||
| Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin | |||
| Burn Book, by Kara Swisher | |||
| Sam Ladner's 2024 Reading Shelf | Guild Session with Sam Ladner | ||
| The Cassandra Complex, by Holly Smale | |||
| Sam Ladner's article about the Cassandra Complex | |||
| Duly Noted, by Jorge Arango | |||
| The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by Denzin & Lincoln | |||
| Qualitative Data Analysis, by Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña | |||
| John Creswell's books about UXR | |||
| Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, John Creswell | |||
| A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research, John Creswell | |||
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century, by Timothy Snyder | |||
| Roar, by Dr. Stacy Sims | |||
| Love's Executioner, by Irvin D. Yalom | |||
| Real Self Care, by Dr. Pooja Lakshmin | |||
| 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni | |||
| What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama | |||
| Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, Jessica Calarco | |||
| Recommended Viewing | These are movies, shorts, webinars, documentaries that have been mentioned or recommended in our Guild sessions or by our Guild experts. | ||
| Technology, AI and What Makes Us Human, Sherry Turkel (YouTube) | |||
| Go (1999) | |||
| Star Wars: Andor, Disney+ (2022) | |||
| YouTube Channels | These channels or event recordings offer UXR-specific content | ||
| UX Researchers Guild | |||
| Aona Talks | |||
| UsableNet | |||
| UXRConf 2024 | |||
| UX Research & Strategy | |||
| Learners | |||
| UXR Tools | These tools have been recommended by guests of the Guild or experienced UXRs and are suggested for your consideration. The Guild does not sponsor or endorse any of the following. | ||
| Atlas TI | |||
| MAXQDA | |||
| Reveal | |||
| User Testing Opportunities | In this section, we've collected sites where you can sign up to be a tester. Some programs offer payment or rewards. The Guild may benefit from referral links at sites marked with an asterisk. | ||
| UserTesting.com | |||
| IntelliZoom | |||
| *UTest.com | |||
| UserCrowd.com | |||
| Userlytics | |||
| *TestingTime | |||
| UserFeel | |||
| UserInterviews | |||
| UserBrain | |||
| Loop11 | |||
| Ferpection | |||
| TryMyUI | |||
| Test.io | |||
| *PingPong | |||
| Checkealos | |||
| Google's User Research Panel | |||
| Respondent.io | |||
| Slack Channels | UX Researchers Guild Slack Group | ||
| Mixed Methods | |||
| UX Research & Strategy | |||
| Research by Learners | |||
| Hexagon UX | |||
| ResearchOps | |||
| UX Mastery | |||
| LinkedIn Groups | UX Research Managers Forum | ||
| UX Research Association | |||
| Freelance UX Researchers | |||
| Practical UX Weekly | |||
| UX Pros | |||
| Ladies that UX | |||
| User Experience Professionals Network |