Hi there, this is Nicole.
Keep learning is absolutely an important successful key for a user experience researcher.
As a UXR, I have to learn to see things from different angles and perspectives, and this process stimulates me to reflect, rethink, and challenge my thoughts. This helps me to analyze data from a bird-eye view and avoid personal bias.
I also need to keep updating the knowledge within my tiny brain. (As you may know, knowledge or concept can be wrong or replaced over time, especially in this fast-paced and information over-loaded world)
SO~ I'm here to share my lovely learning materials with you guys!
I will start with one of my favorite open-source course: the foundation of psychology produced by Yale.
YaleCourses: Introduction to Psychology
User experience is all people. How our brain receives messages and translate it; how we interact with an event and response to it. And one of the best ways to understand people is from the phycology perspective.
There are 20 episodes of this lecture. It covers a comprehensive idea about phycology.
1. Introduction
2. Foundations: This Is Your Brain
3. Foundations: Freud
4. Foundations: Skinner
5. What Is It Like to Be a Baby: The Development of Thought
6. How Do We Communicate?: Language in the Brain, Mouth
7. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past: Language
8. Conscious of the Present; Conscious of the Past:
9. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Love (Guest Lecture by
10. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Evolution and Rationality
11. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part I
12. Evolution, Emotion, and Reason: Emotions, Part II
13. Why Are People Different?: Differences
14. What Motivates Us: Sex
15. A Person in the World of People: Morality
16. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part I
17. A Person in the World of People: Self and Other, Part II;
18. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part I
19. What Happens When Things Go Wrong: Mental Illness, Part II
20. The Good Life: Happiness
Professor Paul Bloom elaborates theories with vivid examples and explained them in a humorous way. So you won't feel bored when listening to his speech. :)
By the way, Notion is a fabulous software make your study more efficient. You can sign up an account and use it to organize your everyday life and of course the study plan.
Check how I use it to take notes -> https://www.notion.so/yingchieh/Foundation-Skinner-6034109449b54c889296f46876e91c34
(Don't worry, I didn't get any commission to promote it. ;P)
More tips: By typing keywords on Youtube, there are many learning materials you can explore from there!
See~?
edX: a massive open online course (MOOC) provider created by Harvard and MIT.
Another cool resource is edX.
edX is a massive open online course (MOOC) provider created by Harvard and MIT. It hosts online university-level courses in a wide range of disciplines to a worldwide student body, including some courses at no charge.
Just type the topic you want to learn into the search bar, here comes the search result:
Isn't it lovely to learn UX from the best school and for free?
What are you waiting for~~~Just go for it~~~~
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