The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices
Den Delimarsky
91 episodes
5 months ago
Most career advice out there is generic. It fades as you progress and face invisible barriers to growth. The Work Item breaks through the basics, delivering hard-earned insights from real industry pros to help you navigate tricky paths, unlock new levels, and make bold moves in your tech career.
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Most career advice out there is generic. It fades as you progress and face invisible barriers to growth. The Work Item breaks through the basics, delivering hard-earned insights from real industry pros to help you navigate tricky paths, unlock new levels, and make bold moves in your tech career.
#88 - Best-Kept Secrets on Becoming a Great User Researcher - Marisa Morby (Principal Researcher, Observable)
The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices
54 minutes
8 months ago
#88 - Best-Kept Secrets on Becoming a Great User Researcher - Marisa Morby (Principal Researcher, Observable)
User research is an underappreciated art - we in tech are so used to being immersed in an ocean of quantitative data that we can forget that on the other side of the screen are real humans who want to solve very specific problems. And often times, their problems are extremely hard to put a number on. Why did they abandon their cart right before checkout? What made them start creating a new newsletter but then abandon it but come back a month later? Not everything can be answered with a SQL query against the telemetry database. Marisa Morby, a Principal Researcher at Observable, sat down with me to help me better understand what it means to be great (not just good) at user research, and how that can help produce a whole new range of unexpected product insights. And Marisa definitely knows what the impact of great user research can be on the product - she previously worked at such notable companies like Netlify, Gatsby, and Accenture Song, where she honed her skills and UX instincts.
The Work Item - Real Talk on Tech's Toughest Career Choices
Most career advice out there is generic. It fades as you progress and face invisible barriers to growth. The Work Item breaks through the basics, delivering hard-earned insights from real industry pros to help you navigate tricky paths, unlock new levels, and make bold moves in your tech career.
