Ken Perry

User Experience Designer, Musician, Composer

[Ken Perry @kennethgperry]

@Fundly our son can’t access his Eagle Scout project is the site down?

[Jack Beyer @thejackbeyer]

Starship SN15 has landed. @NASASpaceflight

[Ken Perry @kennethgperry]

@lukew @abookapart Thank you!

[Indi Young (she/her) @indiyoung]

The problem space focuses on people, seeking an understanding of how they move toward a purpose, not a task or a goal.

[Ken Perry @kennethgperry]

Rereading this and loving it. "Designing with humans for humans means qualitative understanding is critical - On the Internet, nobody knows that your Fitbit is attached to a dog." The Six Principles of Conversational Transformation https://t.co/bWkKAV6Z7P

[Colin Day @Colin_iCIMS]

It's no surprise that there’s an IT skills gap. The surprising part is that a lack of applicants is not the issue - it's that companies are having trouble finding qualified candidates. @eileenb of @ZDNet dives into this challenge, leveraging @iCIMS data: https://t.co/d9LwplZvjz

[Leisa Reichelt @leisa]

"Always design a thing by considering it in its next larger context – a chair in a room, a room in a house, a house in an environment, an environment in a city plan" - Eliel Saarinen

Which means you need to research the next larger context and not just 'your' thing.

[Indi Young (she/her) @indiyoung]

Assumptions are pernicious. They are particularly dangerous when they become ingrained in your product or service design decisions. To combat assumptions, ask lots of questions. Don't be afraid to ask "the obvious question." https://t.co/SRYgigyEHK

[Ken Perry @kennethgperry]

#31DaysofTechtober.

[ICIMS @iCIMS]

Last week, we celebrated the official launch of our very own employee-led diversity and inclusion committee –iBELONG.

Festivities included a themed lunch, diversity jeopardy, and plenty of prizes. Check out some of the fun!

[Indi Young (she/her) @indiyoung]

Instead of "quick & easy" research, confident & reliable" qualitative data patterns are more valuable. Use listening skills to collect the deep inner thinking, reactions, and guiding principles. Then carefully parse the concepts from each transcript, then look for patterns.

[Indi Young (she/her) @indiyoung]

A person is human, and humans don’t remain exactly the same all the time, unswayed by mood or circumstances. Don't design with the assumption that a person will reason the same way each time they approach a task.

[Indi Young (she/her) @indiyoung]

Your brain only forges new ideas from things that exist within your mind already…hence the problem with creating products & services. Teams only think of solutions couched in concepts already familiar to them. Let in unfamiliar perspectives to feed your mind & expand your ideas.

[Kim Goodwin @kimgoodwin]

If you want to predict future user behavior, focus on deeply understanding current behavior & motivations instead of asking users to predict what they’ll do with a product they’ve never seen.

[TeamReOps @TeamReOps]

This just in from the #ResearcherSkills workshops done by the #ResearchOps Community: A first look — Researcher Skills Framework data by @stonecrops_ https://t.co/Wkdr3zcCWR

[Tariq Rauf @tariqrauf]

I want to be in the meeting where this idea was proposed

[Leisa Reichelt @leisa]

A data point is not an insight.

A list of data points from product analytics does not constitute 'great insights'.

A list of data points from your current product design tells you what people do now with your current design, not what they'd rather be doing.

[Leisa Reichelt @leisa]

I've started writing up a handful of 'dysfunctions' I've observed in organisations who are looking to scale research in product teams. https://t.co/kXFZiNW8RX

[Ken Perry @kennethgperry]

@leisa All of THIS - yes! Thank you

[Holly Burroughs Cole @hollyface1975]

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[TeamReOps @TeamReOps]

The #ResearchOps #ResearchRepos project is picking up steam and doing some interesting work. We're delivering iteratively on this project, so expect updates all along the way. @heypaulkotz talking open-source taxonomy for UX Research Repositories: https://t.co/tQpfhBhYQH