The User Research Round-up: CW39

Making research impossible to ignore, AI playbook, state of user research, organizational buy-in, and stop wasting research!

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Now on to this week’s round-up…

Link roundup

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Securing Stakeholder Buy-In to Make Research Impossible to Ignore (Event) by Rally

You can run a solid study and still watch it collect dust. The issue usually isn’t the research, it’s the people. This session is about fixing that before it starts. I will walk through five steps to build buy-in early, when it actually matters. We’ll cover how to identify the real decision-makers, spot what drives them, and get ahead of pushback before it hits. You’ll get practical ways to create micro-commitments, document alignment, and move research out of the “interesting” bucket. These steps have worked across org charts, egos, and last-minute pivots. If your research keeps stalling, getting reshaped, or ignored altogether, you’re not doing anything wrong, you’re missing a system.

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