Servants of insight: embracing ambiguity and failure in UX research

The top 3 key skills you need to deal with the emotional and cultural nuances of failure in UX research

Slava Polonski, PhD
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readFeb 6, 2023

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UX fail by piterskii-punk-wall (Source: Twitter)

TL;DR: Examining the key skills that UXRs need to effectively deal with ambiguity and failure in research.

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