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The User Research Strategist: UXR | Impact | Career

Episode 32: Mistakes I've made as a UXR - Part One

28 min • 5 juni 2023

In part one of this episode, I talk about five (out of the ten) top mistakes I have made as a user researcher and how I shifted them into learnings

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