UX Research quiz (The return)
Background
Functional group conversations (FGCs) used to be called functional group updates (FGUs). During functional group updates, the presenter would create a slide deck and read it out loud. In order to build awareness that UX Research was taking place, I asked for my own FGU. I also came up with my own concept for the FGU: the 'UX Research quiz'.
The UX Research quiz consisted of asking people to answer 3 questions on research that had recently taken place. Each question had three possible answer choices. If you answered two or more questions correctly, you were entered into a quarterly prize draw to win an item of GitLab swag. I ran the quiz every month for around a year. It was a good way for people to really test whether the assumptions they held about users were true.
The quiz was well-liked and well-attended. I stopped running the quiz when I was asked to take over the UX Department FGUs (whilst we were hiring for Christie). Not long after that, UX Research was re-absorbed back into the UX Department updates and the format for FGUs changed.
In the recent UX Department FGC, I was asked where the quiz had gone and whether it was coming back?!
Proposal
Let's make the UX Research quiz bigger and better than before!
We now have the UX Research FGC back
I think it would be best to have the quiz in addition to the regular FGCs.
There is so much more research being produced by the team that I think we could easily fill a 30-45 minute quiz every couple of months. My proposal is 3 times a year (January, May and September).
@evhoffmann has kindly volunteered to collate insights from you all regularly (which she may also tweet about), to save you scrambling for insights before each quiz.
I also like @evhoffmann's idea of getting the wider community more involved too. Let's have a mix of users and GitLab employees on the call. The more people we can engage to participate in, to undertake or simply to use research, the better.
I'm happy to present the first quiz in January, but then I'm going to turn it over to you all - the quiz was probably one of the biggest things that brought me recognition as a researcher at GitLab. It's a good way to let the wider company know that you exist
We can also give away more swag
@uxresearchers Let me know if you have any questions or further ideas.
cc @clenneville for awareness.