As user research teams and organizations have become more common, it has become a larger problem to communicate insight from the user research to the whole product team, so that everyone can see what matters.
The Social and Economic Update was created as a way to share recent publications and communicate insights and lessons learned from colleagues across the organization.
William Sieghart, who founded the Forward prizes in 1991, said the writers on the shortlists "bring news that stays news, in fresh and startling language", and that their voices "remind readers that, in an age of shortened attention spans, good poetry can communicate insights and visions with a power other art forms can only envy".
Still, she told me, she was learning to live with criticism that came her way from behind ivied walls, believing that it was more important to let people know about her experiences, and to communicate her insights about the planet's rapidly changing ecological systems, than to worry about raised eyebrows in academe.
I'd like for this telling of the story of Noel Lee to communicate some insights into the man, his engineering abilities and his character.
We aim to communicate the insights gained from this investigation to clinicians treating women of childbearing age, who live with chronic inflammatory conditions, in order to provide advice on how best to support these patients.
They were meant to communicate the insight that interrupting the ceaseless round of striving requires a surprisingly strenuous act of will, one that has to be bolstered by habit as well as by social sanction.
And it's a two way street: leadership needs to show more curiosity and care about understanding their patrons' behavior and those on the front lines need to be more concise in communicating insights about how patrons' behavior is changing.
But given the complexity of the problems under investigation, communicating insights from research to a broader public will always present a challenge.
As research continues in these fields, directing our efforts toward communicating insights, creating interdisciplinary teams that use citizen science to tackle wicked problems, and improving coordination among investments in citizen science are actions likely to have the greatest impact.
