Books to Help You Grow

​As the year draws to a close, join the UX Researchers' Guild and our guest, Sam Ladner, as she shares some of her favorite books. This 'must have' reading list includes numerous titles that may not sound familiar, but they will certainly help you grow as a researcher and strategist.

​Sam Ladner will share selections from her own reading list, describe how the books are useful, and discuss a few of her own takeaways. She will also discuss how exactly she found these books, how she managed to read and fit them into her life, and how to get practical, professional value out of books that may seem out of the mainstream for UXRs. She will also share tips on how to make past reading useful for many years.

​Join us for this fireside book discussion, hosted by Lija Hogan, and please feel free to share your own personal reading favorites. We'd love to hear them!

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​Sam Ladner (she/her) is a sociologist who helps teams innovate, design, and learn. She is the author of Practical Ethnography: A Guide to Doing Ethnography in The Private Sector and Mixed Methods: A Short Guide to Applied Mixed Methods Research. She has worked on dozens of advanced software projects at Microsoft, Amazon and many other client companies. She recently retired from Workday, an enterprise software company, as a Senior Principal Researcher studying the future of work. She received her PhD in sociology from York University and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.