Welcome to Week 4!

This week, we will be learning about different roles across the multidisciplinary team and how user researchers can work effectively with each one.

In our introductory course, we briefly discussed a number of these roles. In this course, we will think about cross-team collaboration and how to build trust and understanding.

By ensuring that the team understands each other and their varied roles and responsibilities, we can make user-research part of everyday decision making and make it easier to handle common problems such as unclear or clashing priorities and last minute changes.

We will also discuss how user researchers can develop leadership and management skills.

This week, there will not be any ‘tasks’ or conversation prompts, but feel free to discuss your thoughts and experiences in the comments section of each step.