{"id":1705,"date":"2022-10-23T18:45:22","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2022-10-23T18:45:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T01:45:23","slug":"making-research-more-collaborative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/23\/making-research-more-collaborative\/","title":{"rendered":"making research more collaborative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Recently, I was talking to a new researcher who is struggling because they feel siloed off from the rest of their organization. &#8220;Is this really what research is like?&#8221; they asked me, after describing a research process conducted almost exclusively by themselves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the things that I like the most about research is how collaborative it is. I shared several ideas for making research more collaborative, including the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Make the planning process collaborative by involving others (other researchers, designers, PMs, anyone who is interested!) in the creation of your test plan.\u00a0<\/li><li>Make the research phase collaborative by inviting others to your sessions, or asking others to take notes for you. <\/li><li>In the days of working in-office, I used to bake cookies for my research days to incentive people to come and watch the sessions. While they were watching, I gave them a short questionnaire to fill out while watching the session. It was lightweight enough that it didn&#8217;t feel like the observers were being imposed on. Questions on it were: <ul><li>What stood out to you the most? <\/li><li>What worked well? <\/li><li>What didn\u2019t?<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Make the analysis phase collaborative through brainstorming sessions. Take the insights that you gathered during the session and run a workshop with colleagues where you identify themes and potential recommendations to address the issues identified.<\/li><li>Make the outcomes phase more collaborative by scheduling watch parties, where you show some videos from your sessions. This could be one particular participant who had a lot of insight to share, or it could be a collection of clips that show a theme. <\/li><li>If the designers who you work with have some kind of critique session set up, start attending them and sharing your research materials for critique there.<\/li><li>If you have enough fellow researchers, create a critique session where you give and get feedback on your research plans, performance while interviewing participants, or final reports.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was talking to a new researcher who is struggling because they feel siloed off from the rest of their organization. &#8220;Is this really what research is like?&#8221; they asked me, after describing a research process conducted almost exclusively by themselves. One of the things that I like the most about research is how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/23\/making-research-more-collaborative\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">making research more collaborative<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1706,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}