United States

UX Research

Carl Pearson

Senior Quantitative UX Researcher

Usability Testing

Statical Analysis

Quantitative research

Qualitative research

Communication

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

User research

Strategies for maximizing your design internship or co-op program.

Getting the most out of my internship

Identify and define potential product problems and generating possible solutions.

Identifying problems vs solutions

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Explore different generative and evaluative research techniques. User research synthesis and presentation.

Conducting good user research

How to set up product analytics and metrics to track success?

Leveraging Product Analytics

Learn the best ways to answer technical interview questions with frameworks

Acing technical interview questions

Building out the quantitative UX research program across the consumer experience at Reddit.

Led largest team project to date (N > 1500 participants, mobile/desktop, 6 companies) competitive UX benchmarking project to assess relative ranking across digital experiences and provide tangible product improvement recommendations
Delegated tasks to project team in order to achieve high quality deliverables within tight client deadlines 
Developed a new research product (conjoint analysis) and delivered to client on time and with positive feedback in the first iteration of the research product 
Identified and implemented the first approach to statistically measure results that rely on UserZoom’s proprietary benchmarking score (qxScore)
Collaborated with qualitative-only researchers by bringing my own qualitative expertise and executing quantitative aspects of mixed-methods generative projects

Formed research roadmaps after identifying knowledge gaps and collaborating with stakeholders
Chose appropriate methods based on research question, development phase, and resources
Combined quantitative and qualitative research questions into  test plans to maximize insights
Conducted in-depth interviews and qualitative analysis through mental models and jobs-to-be-done frameworks
Analyzed quantitative data in R with advanced statistics to ensure appropriate statistical conclusions
Educated and enabled UX team interaction designers to perform their own tactical usability research
Recruited hard-to-find users in B2B space
Supported integration and alignment of efforts across User Experience Design and Quality Engineering groups
Defined research operations to scale research practice
Planned and conducted design thinking workshops at external conferences to increase engagement with user community

Developed a usability benchmarking procedure to use across flagship products and empirically measured UX improvements across major product versions
Built reactive R Shiny applications to display interactive data
Planned, moderated, and analyzed remote and in-person usability tests
Designed survey studies and analyzed data (advanced branching, up to 1000+ respondents at a time)

Identified and corrected technical issues with HTML  /CSS
Managed content updates from staff and faculty
Guided website redesign on the Departmental Website Redesign Committee

Summarized past focus group data to communicate outcomes to management
Identified key organizations to co-develop focus groups for joint programming
Contacted and scheduled executive level community members for a focus group
Developed materials and procedures for focus group sessions
Researched user feedback system

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