When you are a researcher, you interact with a lot of people. People who can help or hinder you as a researcher and people that you can potentially help with your research. Imani calls this the researcher’s ecosystem.

What is being a lone researcher like? What are some pros and cons of being a team of one? Imani has been the lone and first UX researcher twice. Listen to what her experiences were like.

In this episode, Imani talks through days in her life as a UX researcher. Days when she is actively working on a UX research project and days when she is not working on an active project. There are a lot of meetings. There is a lot of organizing. There is a lot of mediating. Imani answers the frequently asked question, “what does a UX researcher actually do?”

Zsolt is a UX Researcher from Hungary. Zsolt and Imani are on a UX researcher mailing list and they connected when Imani sent an email to this mailing list and he responded. They then had a great conversation via Zoom about UX researcher career pathing. In this episode, Zsolt talks career pathing, how being a market researcher helped him become a UX researcher, researching terminally ill patients, and much more.

How do you create a UX research portfolio? What is it? Why do you need one? Who’s going to read it? Why is it so important?! Listen to this episode for the answers to these questions and more!

The UX researcher job interview requires some prep ahead of time, but, unless you’ve interviewed for many UX researcher roles, you wouldn’t exactly know how to prepare. Listen to this episode to hear what advice Imani has to help you prepare for the UX researcher job interview.

For reasons unknown, becoming a UX Researcher is difficult. If you want to become a UX Researcher, it’s not clear how you’re supposed to do it. If you want to become a UX Researcher, how do you do it?

The Yzzi Research Podcast is the weekly podcast for aspiring researchers, current researchers, and research enthusiasts. Created, produced, and hosted by Imani "Izzy" Nichols (UX researcher and founder of Yzzi Research), the Yzzi Research Podcast features straightforward and digestible episodes about becoming and being a professional researcher. The focus is on UX research, but there are conversations that market researchers and academic researchers may appreciate. The first episode will be live on January 15, 2021. Visit yzziresearch.com and sign up for the mailing list to be updated about the podcast. Follow Yzzi Research on Instagram and LinkedIn, too.