Dave's Research / Resources

Tools, talks, models, and more: best-of in bold.

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Research Skills Framework — with Tomomi Sasaki & the ReOps Community — the core skills of design/user research broken down into a pattern language for quality research projects. It also contains self-assessment tools and a visual way to map your skill progression.

Pattern, Pattern Language, Project Language — visual models of these three concepts and a look at how we might use them.
The Elephant — a unifying service experience model — highlight the ephemeral and mutually co-dependent nature of experience, driven by the "back stage" on both sides. The system-dynamics between each layer are not drawn out here.

The Researcher's Journey — a condensed career progression model
The False Dichotomy [sketch] — quantitative vs. qualitative evidence (*upcoming)

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Medium: "Reading List for Researchers and Designers"
Medium: "The researcher's journey: leveling up as a user researcher" — this one got me started—recognizing that it's not just about the skills you have, but how you use them, and the larger process they're a part of in driving impact.

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A Research Skills Evolution—Advancing Research, March 2021.
The Research Skills We Need to Succeed—UXRConf Anywhere, February 2021.
The Power of Pattern Language—September 2020, EuroIA 2020
Working with the Research Skills Framework, workshop—September 2020, UXinsight Festival (with Tomomi Sasaki)

Tools for the Trek—February 2020, Interaction 20 Milan (with Tomomi Sasaki)
Shaping Effective Research—October 2019, IXDA Berlin
Elevating Design: Create a strategic plan to increase your impact —September 2019, EuroIA 19 (with Alissa Briggs)
Considering Research: function and impact—June 2019, User Research London
Research: Goal, role, having an impact—June 2019, Strive UX Research Toronto
Lean Learning: Applied UX Research—October, 2018, Develop Denver
"Maps & Markers: enacting a strategy to transform your design team"—August 2018, Adaptive Path UX Week (with Alissa Briggs) — a sleeper hit! There's a nice set of moves here you can apply to build strategic leverage for your design or research team.

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