So Claude can’t actually ‘see’ video content so it wants to every single action to be coded up, probably by a human. Why bother doing anything in Claude if someone is doing all that work?

First attempt to get Claude to do some simple usability analysis. It’s like having a stakeholder who is completely ignoring the session and only wants to share their own thoughts.

AI-first business pivot update: my role isn't at risk but we are losing people on the team, and I'm now a UXR team of 1. I shouldn't worry though because I'll be getting a Claude licence to do all the heavy lifting!

Woo! Time to become an AI-first business! First round of redundancies is dropping soon!

It's exhausting when colleagues (who claim to know about design research) send you articles about using AI in research and it's all academic meta-study theme based tasks. You're meant to know enough to know that's not what we do. You're not meant to be adding to my workload by refuting the obvious

I really didn't find The Drama to be a good movie, which seems to contrast with everyone online. I'm resolving this dissonance by assuming everyone positive about it online is just a bot run by a marketing agency

It took me longer than I'd like to admit to realise which prime minister it was referring to

keming. not even once.

You know what, this sunny weather really makes me want to pivot to AI and automate my workflow processes

Second cycle before work! Go me!

That’s an awesome chart!

UXRs and Design Researchers, what tool would you pick between UserTesting, LookBack, and BallPark HQ?

I've really got to stop passively checking LinkedIn. There's some good content but we're talking about a 1:100 ratio with the amount of slop and just generally bad PR-style posts

2 weeks of absolutely no motivation to eat well and do any form of workout. This is me stating publicly that I'm back on it from today

Does anyone subscribe to Lenny's substack? I'm curious what is after the subscription prompt on this post but his content isn't often relevant enough to me to actually pay www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-to-do-...

High-level summary of why LLMs work for code. It'll be useful to contrast with AI Generated insights that aren't quick to verify. If we already know enough to know an LLM is talking bollocks, then why would we be doing the research in the first place? Source: buttondown.com/dorian/archi...

I need to remember the term "Cognitive Surrender". I'm been struggling to express the difference between using Excel to crunch some numbers and just asking AI to crunch everything and produce a final report with a top line, and why that difference is important Source: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/o...

You'd think that by now I'd remember if the job role is Principal or Principle

Why is it so freezing? It looks find outside. A bit grey but fine.

Does anyone have any JTBD jokes or puns? I need one for a workshop and ChatGPT doesn’t understand how to write a joke that’s actually a joke

check it out: a whole new website for psychic damage profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday/

Is there really such a role as Experience Strategist? It makes sense as a role but I can’t imagine a business going out to hire one in this market

The pain of knowing you should go into London for the optics, but having too much work to spend time in the office

Oh no! I just said that I'd try to come into the office more often!

Ah, Figma Make can do 'good' prototypes so that means Miro's AI can do competitor analysis and represent a synthetic user? Seems like an odd parallel but yep, sure, okay

I’m not petty (that’s a lie) but I wish I could go back a few and show the people at the consultancy I used to work at that “meta verse really isn’t the future of work”

With the rise of Claude, should developers learn to code? 🤔 hmm, I am very smart

25 years later, I'm finally going to watch the Lord Of The Rings trilogy for the first time Any fans want to share any important info for LOTR fan but film newbie? I'm exact audience that wants to hear about whatshisface breaking his toe on the helmet

This feels like it’d be a useful case study for some internal meetings

There's a Pokemon event today?

No one’s gay for Skarmory

The willpower to do 'stuff' exponentially increases as my time off draws nearer. Right now, doing stuff in Excel and updating a Miro board feels like it should be a full day of work

I will go to the gym this evening. I will go to the gym this evening. I will go to the gym this evening.

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What if I put the link to my 360 feedback form on here? Could I trust everyone to be cool and say how awesome I am?

One habit I need to break: stop staying up late when I really get into a game. It ruins my flow for the next day, and I just can't handle the gym on 4-5 hours of sleep

Just seen as ex-colleague post a critical piece of work on AI in Research. It feels important because both them and the org were so pro-AI a few years ago that it shifted its whole org strategy and I didn't feel like I could stay.

"UX researchers, stop using ChatGPT and switch to Claude!" "AI in UX Research - where it actually helps" "I've spent the last 2.5 years figuring out how to actually use AI in my research" Why did I open LinkedIn?

Resourcing puzzle: You're a team of 2 that goes down to a team of 1, and then back 2 and then 3 because there's just that much work. In fact, there's work for 4 or 5. How do you carry on delivering when then 3 goes back down to a 2? Tip: Prioritisation isn't the solution because it's all urgent

I really should try and engage with the UXR community but I have no idea where to start

New show idea! A drama set on a dedicated hospital boat that travels the seas healing a new community every week! No more being stuck in Seattle or Chicago!

Homosexuals of Bluesky, what’s the underwear brand people go for these days?

“Wisdom of Crowds” is such an odd concept. Why would crowds be wise? Why is there an opposite to mob logic, herd mentality, or group think that people think actually works? Especially in workplaces?

Skyrim, Fallout 4, Fallout 76, Dead by Daylight, Wrath of the Righteous, Baldur’s Gate

What on earth are those ChatGPT caricatures on Insta? Are people really giving it enough information to understand their jobs AND what they look like?

Mortgage documentation is such fun. Such fun, I say!

No gym today with this rain. Have you seen outside? And my not back to the size where I fit my rain-proof stuff

I’ve been out of the news cycle. We’re waiting for Starmer to be ousted because of Mandelson? And people are worried that Streeting will replace him? Is that about right?

Motherland is a documentary