Where should UX Research live?

Finding a home for a wandering UXR department.

Photo by Breno Assis on Unsplash

I started out my UX research career in a somewhat ubiquitous role, on an undefined team, in a newly organized department — to say that I was trying to manage responsibilities through ambiguity is putting it lightly. A few years later, I’ve lived through some different organizational changes that placed our UX Research department…