A visual field journal
The work behind the work.
It's a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.
A visual field journal
It's a beautiful thing when a career and a passion come together.
Where the real data lives. The most valuable insights are found outside the conference room.
Gear up. Go where the people are.
Field research means meeting people where life actually happens.
In-home, in-context
Seoul, South Korea · Jan 2025
The home is the lab you didn't design.
Behind the mirror
In-lab user sessions · Oct 2025 · Where hypotheses meet reality.
"Research is a team sport. The best insights emerge when everyone's in the room — even when the room is a van in Seoul."
Field work ends with good food and better debrief sessions
South Korea Avatars Field Trip · Jan 2025
Finger hearts, mandatory
South Korea Avatars Field Trip · Jan 2025
More from the road
South Korea Avatars Field Trip · Jan 2025
The unsung heroes of field work
South Korea Avatars Field Trip · Jan 2025 · The drivers who got us everywhere.
The rooms where it happens. Where UXR builds community, vocabulary, and the occasional very good argument.
UX360 Virtual Conference
Speaker · Prompt Engineering for UX · Roundtable
Berkeley
Teaching what you practice.
IxD SF Chapter
Where designers and researchers remember they're on the same team.
UXPA
The community that keeps UXR honest.
DDX Conference
Think. Innovate. Repeat.
A keynote from Don Norman
Live from the room, DDX Conference.
AI Panel
Where enterprise AI meets human-centered design.
The best products emerge from shared understanding
UXPA · UXR community building, year after year.
UXDX NYC · May 2025
Where UX meets delivery. Good coffee, better conversations.
Building at scale, one insight at a time. Portals, Instagram, Avatars — the products that billions use, researched by a small team that cares deeply.
Meta Research Camp · Menlo Park, Oct 2025
One auditorium. Hundreds of researchers.
The Compounding Like Effect
Instagram UXR team · every tap matters at 2 billion users.
Design Sprint · Jan 2026
Five days of controlled chaos.
Sticky notes: still undefeated.
"Insights become impact when teams act on them."
Packed and delivered
The researcher's job isn't done at the readout. It ends when the decision changes.
The Silicon Valley way
Bike meetings > deck reviews.
Portal Team
The people who made video calling feel human.
Meta London
Same mission. Better accents.
Backchannelling
Doing the real work.
NYC Gelato Hang
Research rapport, one scoop at a time.
1 Million & counting
This is why we do it.
Instagram Offsite
April 2026
The researcher who never really clocks out. Observation is a lifestyle — even at the pinball machine.
UXR ready to forge
Blacksmithing: where iteration and heat go together.
Different medium, same process.
Cannot play enough games IRL or in the Metaverse
Research War Stories
Resilience isn't just a workshop topic.
Field edition.
Credits Launch
From user research to shipped product. The best kind of meeting.
Team Dinner
The best research teams eat well together.
Before AI did the sticky notes. The analog era shaped how we think about structure, synthesis, and caffeine dependency.
The wall before the dashboard
Whiteboards, markers, and the belief that if you write it big enough, the insight will appear.
It usually did.
The sticky note era
Honestly? Kind of miss it.
Hands-on
The best synthesis happens when everyone's touching the same board.
Workshop era
Facilitation before it was a LinkedIn skill.
Game Design Workshop
Turns out designing games teaches you more about user motivation than most UXR courses.
Unexpected. Absolutely true.