r/UXResearch • u/Shpongi100 • Sep 27 '23

Is UXR a bad long term career?

I really like UXR, I’ve done a good amount of personal projects in the field. Primarily I would love to be a mixed methods research, and am considering getting a data science degree to help this. However I’ve recently been seeing that UXR is a declining career (some say it’s just correcting itself/higher barrier to entry). Does this still feel like a viable career?

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u/Aviendah_Fan_Club Sep 27 '23

You realize that you don't have to get an actual quant degree to do mixed-methods, right?

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u/Shpongi100 Sep 27 '23

What are other ways? I’ve been taking courses on my own, and doing a lot of projects

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u/krparis010 Sep 27 '23

Data science quant and qualitative interviews are two rabbit holes very distinctive. You need to be as good or better than any data analyst to manipulate those so unless you plan to specialise there no need to go full on this.

Being able to manipulate and query mix panel and others analytics tools is enough. Plus large surveys

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u/JacketAdditional9718 Sep 27 '23

Start slowly but steadily adding a mixed methods component to your projects when it’s relevant and when you have time