Skip to main content
UX Brighton 2026 starts in
Buy tickets

Continuing Research Heresies

Research Heresies - Will Myddelton at UX Brighton 2018

About this talk

As user research has matured we’ve accumulated slogans and dogma about what it means to be a good researcher. At times these get in the way of helping our teams improve their services. Will shared some awkward truths - learned from bitter experience - that will help you escape the dogma and become a better user researcher.

Related reading

About Will

Will Myddelton is a lead user researcher at the Home Office, where he helps a team of researchers improve the UK’s immigration services. Before that he worked at the UK’s Government Digital Service (GDS) on GOV.UK Notify and GOV.UK Pay.

Will has a background as a user-centred designer and is about to join a small charity called Local Welcome as a product manager. He previously worked at the design agencies cxpartners and Blue Latitude.