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Did you know that the terms “bureaucracy” and “information worker” were both invented by sociologists, long before either thing existed? Did you know that the 2008 crash was accurately predicted by an anthropologist? Many people don’t realize that social research drives robust foresight. This is the kind of value even a very junior UX researcher can contribute. In this talk, Sam Ladner will describe how researchers can sift and track weak signals, how to create trend reports, and how to predict areas of change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you know that the terms “bureaucracy” and “information worker” were both invented by sociologists, long before either thing existed? Did you know that the 2008 crash was accurately predicted by an anthropologist? Many people don’t realize that social research drives robust foresight. This is the kind of value even a very junior UX researcher … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150241,"featured_media":1261,"template":"","session-theme":[],"session-type":[16],"rm-permissions":[],"event-type":[850],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions\/248160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sessions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/sessions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"session-theme","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session-theme?post=248160"},{"taxonomy":"session-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/session-type?post=248160"},{"taxonomy":"rm-permissions","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rm-permissions?post=248160"},{"taxonomy":"event-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rosenfeldmedia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-type?post=248160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}