Resources for UX Researchers
| Category | Resource | Related Links | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Books | These books (or authors) have been featured in a Guild event. | ||
| Research that Scales, by Kate Towsey | Guild Session with Kate | ||
| Strengthen Your User Research Superpowers, by Kuldeep Kelkar | Guild Session with Kuldeep | ||
| Learn More Faster, by Michael Margolis | Guild Session with Michael | ||
| Invisible Women: Exposing Data Bias in a World Designed for Men, by Caroline Criado-Perez | Guild Book Group Invisible Women Discussion | ||
| Interviewing Users, 2nd Edition, by Steve Portigal | Guild Book Group Interview with Steve | ||
| Accessibility for Everyone, by Laura Kalbag | Guild Book Group Interview with Laura | ||
| A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods, by Sam Ladner | Guild Session with Sam Ladner | ||
| Reading List | These books have been recommended or mentioned by Guild event guests, hosts, panelists, and participants. | ||
| Stop Wasting Research, by Jake Burghardt | |||
| Market and User Research Operations: Operationalize Customer Research for Scale and Impact, by Stephanie Marsh | |||
| Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why it Matters, by Richard Rumelt | |||
| Managing People section of Harvard Business Review | |||
| Redoing Gender: How Nonbinary Gender Contributes to Social Change, by Helana Darwin | |||
| Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley, by Emily Chang | |||
| The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World that Values Sameness, by Todd Rose | |||
| Data Feminism, by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein | |||
| Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech, by Sarah Wachter-Boettcher | |||
| The Color of the Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, by Richard Rothstein | |||
| Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, by Sasha Costanza-Chock | |||
| Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O’Neil | |||
| Viral Justice: How We Grow the World We Want, by Ruha Benjamin | |||
| Burn Book, by Kara Swisher | |||
| Sam Ladner's 2024 Reading Shelf | Guild Session with Sam Ladner | ||
| The Cassandra Complex, by Holly Smale | |||
| Sam Ladner's article about the Cassandra Complex | |||
| Duly Noted, by Jorge Arango | |||
| The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, edited by Denzin & Lincoln | |||
| Qualitative Data Analysis, by Miles, Huberman, and Saldaña | |||
| John Creswell's books about UXR | |||
| Qualitative Inquiry and Research Design: Choosing Among Five Approaches, John Creswell | |||
| A Concise Introduction to Mixed Methods Research, John Creswell | |||
| On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the 20th Century, by Timothy Snyder | |||
| Roar, by Dr. Stacy Sims | |||
| Love's Executioner, by Irvin D. Yalom | |||
| Real Self Care, by Dr. Pooja Lakshmin | |||
| 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni | |||
| What You Are Looking for Is in the Library, by Michiko Aoyama | |||
| Holding it Together: How Women Became America’s Safety Net, Jessica Calarco | |||
| Quant Resources | These tools and resources have been recommended by guests of the Guild or experienced UXRs and are suggested for your consideration. The Guild does not sponsor or endorse any of the following. | ||
| Carl Pearson's UXR Blog | Guild Session with Carl Pearson, PhD | ||
| SQL Order of Commands Resource | |||
| Opinion Article: Why I Won't Hire Qualitative-Only Researchers | |||
| Suggested SQL Courses | |||
| Recommended Viewing | These are movies, shorts, webinars, documentaries that have been mentioned or recommended in our Guild sessions or by our Guild experts. | ||
| Technology, AI and What Makes Us Human, Sherry Turkel (YouTube) | |||
| Go (1999) | |||
| Star Wars: Andor, Disney+ (2022) | |||
| YouTube Channels | These channels or event recordings offer UXR-specific content | ||
| UX Researchers Guild | |||
| Blatz Chatz | |||
| Aona Talks | |||
| UsableNet | |||
| UXRConf 2024 | |||
| UX Research & Strategy | |||
| Learners | |||
| UXR Tools | These tools have been recommended by guests of the Guild or experienced UXRs and are suggested for your consideration. The Guild does not sponsor or endorse any of the following. | ||
| Atlas TI | |||
| MAXQDA | |||
| Reveal | |||
| Great Question | Guild Session with Ned Dwyer, founder of Great Question | ||
| AI Resources | These tools and resources have been recommended by guests of the Guild or experienced UXRs and are suggested for your consideration. The Guild does not sponsor or endorse any of the following. | ||
| Prompt Engineering Guide's Prompting Techniques | |||
| Base44 | |||
| PEW Research: US Workers' Sentiment Toward AI 2025 | |||
| NNG's 2025 Assessment of PEW Research Report: US Workers' Sentiment Toward AI 2025 | |||
| Opinion Article: Synthetic Survey Data? It's Not Data | |||
| User Testing Opportunities | In this section, we've collected sites where you can sign up to be a tester. Some programs offer payment or rewards. The Guild may benefit from referral links at sites marked with an asterisk. | ||
| UserTesting.com | |||
| IntelliZoom | |||
| *UTest.com | |||
| UserCrowd.com | |||
| Userlytics | |||
| *TestingTime | |||
| UserFeel | |||
| UserInterviews | |||
| UserBrain | |||
| Loop11 | |||
| Ferpection | |||
| TryMyUI | |||
| Test.io | |||
| *PingPong | |||
| Checkealos | |||
| Google's User Research Panel | |||
| Respondent.io | |||
| Slack Channels | UX Researchers Guild Slack Group | ||
| Mixed Methods | |||
| UX Research & Strategy | |||
| Research by Learners | |||
| Hexagon UX | |||
| ResearchOps | |||
| UX Mastery | |||
| LinkedIn Groups | UX Research Managers Forum | ||
| UX Research Association | |||
| Freelance UX Researchers | |||
| Practical UX Weekly | |||
| UX Pros | |||
| Ladies that UX | |||
| User Experience Professionals Network |