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Here at User Interviews we’re all about helping teams make better business decisions by making user research easier, faster, and more joyful. And we hope our content does that too. To make sure we’re making quality stuff that represents our community, we need your help! If you like to write, talk, or ramble about user research, we would love to collaborate with you.
Our blog, newsletter, Field Guide, and podcast are designed to be useful and inspiring resources for researchers of all types and experience levels.
We feature ideas, stories, articles, and contributions of all kinds from user research practitioners. We would love to hear from you!
1) We love qualitative research, and user interviews in particular (eh hem), and so we love using interviews as a key format in our content. And we hear our audience of researchers, product managers, designers, marketers, and entrepreneurs likes it too!
2) We want to highlight people with a point-of-view. Fundamentals have their place, but what do you believe that not everyone does? What have you learned from the field? How do you bring these insights together in new and interesting ways that will inspire your peers? What do you like to read? That’s the kind of stuff we want to publish.
Email carrie@userinterviews.com to submit your ideas for the below or something else you have in mind that fits with our overall vision.
This is a light lift for most researchers. Just copy and paste the template into a new document, then fill in your responses. Feel free to modify the questions or add additional ones. We love featuring videos, sketches, and photographs from your experiences!
Here are a few recent interviews from this series:
Caveat: I can’t promise we’ll publish every submission if you don’t have something interesting to say, and we always go through some light editing.
If you have something to say and are looking for an outlet for that, we’d love to feature you and help promote it.
Good to know: We love straight talk. We describe our audience of PMs, UXers, researchers as:
seriously curious, playfully deliberate, humbly confident, collaboratively independent, pragmatically empathetic. We’re looking for honest content that reflects these complexities.
If you’re more into talking about user research, we’d love to have you as a guest on our podcast, Awkward Silences. The podcast is hosted by Erin, our VP of Marketing and JH, our VP of Product. They love to talk about research, product design, UX, and anything else that comes up (looking at you, politics)!
Our podcast is a place for conversation and, occasionally, some awkward silences. It’s casual, playful, and full of great insight. If your friends are sick of hearing you talk about user research, the podcast is the place for you. We’ll never get tired of talking about research.
Here's a few of our most listened to episodes to give you a taste of what it's all about:
Since this is a podcast and sound is pretty important, we do have a few requirements for contributors:
Want to contribute to the podcast? Email carrie@userinterviews.com to get started!
We love creating content that helps people learn more about user research, and that means video too! If you have a presentation/talk you want to share, we’d love to see it.
Here are a few webinars we've hosted recently:
We want our webinars to be an opportunity for people to learn more about user research and the community. Therefore, we’re looking for contributors who have an idea they are passionate about and can present on for ~20 minutes. We’d love to be able to conduct webinars live so people have the opportunity to ask questions, but we’re flexible and down to chat about logistics with you. We've also experimented with hosting episodes of our podcast live so our audience can ask questions in real-time.
Want to create a webinar with us? Email carrie@userinterviews.com.
If you’d like to write an issue of our newsletter, and, optionally, link that back to an article you’ve also written for Views, great! Let us know your ideas. Here are a few recent issues, but you could write something a bit longer and stand alone too:
If you are already in the habit of publishing on Medium, we’d love to continue building out our publication with original content that helps extol the virtues of, question the assumptions of, and generally make us think critically about, user research.
To do that, email carrie@userinterviews.com, who will add you as a contributor to our publication, then follow these steps, pictured below:
We launched the UX Research Field Guide with the goal of creating a rich resource of fundamental UX research content. We wrote all about it here. In short, we want it to have a little something for everyone, have customizable delivery (email, bookmark, web push, etc), be approachable and engaging, be living/breathing/feedback driven.
On the living/breathing bit, we would love to continuously add more stories like below. If you have a story to tell from the field, and better yet with photos, sound, video, or sketches, please share those for inclusion. These can be quick anecdotes (serious or humorous or both), lessons learned, a way to think about a particular principal, tricks that work, etc. They can be just a couple sentences of a short essay.
You can see all published topics here, and also, generally, what’s coming in the next few months.
If you want to toss some ideas around before committing to a draft, email carrie@userinterviews.com anytime with those ideas. Include a sentence or two describing the point of the thing and then how you’ll tell that story.
Once you have a draft, share as a Google Doc and grant access to carrie@userinterviews.com. Make sure to include:
Please allow at least two weeks for editing and another two for publication. It’s possible we can move quicker at times, but we can’t promise it will.
Do you have another idea for a content collaboration? I’d love to hear it! Just email me at carrie@userinterviews.com and we can chat about all things content and user research.
Carrie Boyd is a UXR content wiz, formerly at User Interviews. She loves writing, traveling, and learning new things. You can typically find her hunched over her computer with a cup of coffee the size of her face.
