How to Create a UX Research Portfolio with No Experience 2023 | Zero to UX

Today I share my advice for how to create a UX Research Portfolio with NO experience or little experience!
It is a common pain point for aspiring researchers, so let's talk about how you find projects to work on.

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What to Include in Your UX Research Portfolio:

Portfolios for UX Researchers (NNGroup):

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[kevinwee]

I am working on the online portfolio for my research projects and I SEE THIS!!! It's like Christmas!!!

[olivia-in-progress]

Newly learning about UX and subscribed since I also have no experience and my current job is an admin assistant but majored in Psych at UCLA so somewhat familiar with research

[glowandgrub]

Your channel is pure YouTube gold. It boggles my mind how helpful and relevant your content is for those pursuing UX Research and the obstacles that come along with it. It’s like you read my diary or something 😂 Thanks for knowing your viewers, I mean users!

[zoegomez]

I’m so excited for this series, this is exactly what I’ve been looking for
Please include lots of example content!!

[TheMusiclover]

Kevin your so awesome! Thanks for being the Youtuber for UX out there! Means a lot that you incorporate everyone’s feedback. And your personality is awesome- I feel like your kind of toned down in this video but your awesome the way you are with jokes and memes!!!

[vasileioskalyvis]

Dear Kevin you are amazing! Really helpful in my trip to a career change from retail banking to UX Research. Thanks mate!

[rejeanborgonia]

Amazing how much I learned in 8 minutes! I got 3 pages worth of notes in my notebook! My focus right now is on building on my UX research skills but I know I would need to setup a portfolio soon to increase my chances of becoming a badass UX leader. Thank you for sharing such amazing content as always! A couple questions I have are 1, how do you know what measures you should use to ensure you work was impactful and 2, how do you determine what are the best methods (quantitative and/or qualitative) to use on your research.

[salvadorochoa]

Man I'm loving your videos. I'm just starting my change into UX after 25 Years in Art Direction and Different Design areas and boy I feel old compared to the classmates I had during my Bootcamp at Ironhack. They are 20 to 35-year old, and I'm 48!!!!
I m sure I will find motivation in your channel cuz it is hard to find jobs here in Mexico City. (at least for now) . Congrats, for your channel Kevin!!

[carolynhong]

Just got interested in UX research and you're the first youtuber I stumbled on! Can't wait to learn more from you!! Thanks a lot!

[VijayakumarTs]

First of all thank you Kevin.. please tell me how to file the things which we researched

[Phoca_Vitulina]

This new series sounds so helpful! Thanks again for bringing this excellent content to us! <3

[AnotherNostalgia]

Thank you so much for this! - much needed for newbies like me and my career switch.
Sending all my support and appreciation from London! 😁

[laurawallace]

Thank you so much!...you give me hope, though.😅😁

[dianalopes]

great video Kevin! The new series will help a lot :)

[ilariagiacometti]

I've been looking for this! Thank you so much, Kevin!!

[jessiechen]

Thank a lot~~~~It would definitly gain my confidance on profolio making!

[jayjaysco]

Haha you’re a star! This influenced from my Facebook post!

[LightsaberPanda]

I really applaud the Shia UX skit of just do it! I'm a UX designer today because I didn't wait for projects to land on my lap and now that I'm in the field. Projects keep getting thrown at me lol. Kind of like a dodgeball game I'm scared to play ironically, I think at this point, I "just need to do it again" in terms of converting my massive projects with our casino/hotel partners into viable and well researched UX portfolio projects. In fact, I may need to segregate and split up my portfolio just to do it. I want to learn how to be more effective as a UX researcher and not just a designer/front-end dev. That's why I'm here. I know I can't know it all and I'll never claim to be at that stage, plus that would be boring as hell lol.

I also aspire to be an awesome full-stack developer, because I believe in coding languages, frameworks and technology will become more and more relevant as time goes on. And I want to be around to play in that particular sandbox. I love the dev environment code and what it can do for us. Imagines how lines of code can solve crazy problems. To me, that's exciting as hell, but heck that's just my bias perspective lol.

[pradeepln]

Hi Kevin, I'm extremly motivated by your videos. I'm working on my skills to take a jump into UX Research, as well! Just a couple of doubts: In general, what co-workers perceive/think of UX Reserachers? Do UX Reserachers get good respect at work? (are UX Researchers considered to be doing an important task in the project or just a tedious n rotinue task-- in one of ur videos, u mentioned: most companies bring in UX Researchers only at the end, after developing the Product ) 2) Looks like there are more female UXReserachers when compared to the male counterparts, is it true...or is it just a silly finding I have done from linkedin :)

[judyzhou]

Smashed the "Like" button for the word "UX Research" and the forever same background music lol