Guides, templates, frameworks, and workshops designed to support researchers working inside real-world product environments. Each resource focuses on practical tools and framing techniques to help navigate ambiguity, surface risk, and drive clarity.
A conversation-based onboarding guide to help researchers quickly gain clarity inside complex, evolving projects.
Inspired by an interview with Steve Portigal and Laura Faulkner.
A simple framework for introducing meaningful UX metrics tied to user outcomes and business goals. This can serve as a UX team workshop, act as a guide as you onboard with a team, or be shared with the product team to demonstrate your approach.
Effective UX practice requires more than just technical skills. This resource introduces the Three Spheres Framework — a structured way to think about UX capabilities across three essential domains.
Adapted from David Travis and Philip Hodgson’s Think Like a UX Researcher, expanded with practical tools for personal, peer, and team-wide development. Also addresses Industry Knowledge as a critical contextual factor.
Introductory materials, hands-on financial models, and strategic decision-making guides related to conventional and affordable multifamily real estate finance. Collectively, they move from simple primers to detailed, scalable frameworks that can inform proof-of-concept work, financial analysis prototypes, and operational decision-making tools.
Some artifacts are evolving works-in-progress, intended to demonstrate depth of domain understanding and practical modeling capability.
In 2023, I was invited to participate in the University of North Texas Applied Anthropology Expo as an alumni panelist. The event brings together current undergraduate and graduate students to explore how anthropological training can lead to real-world impact across industries.
I joined a panel discussion and Q&A, sharing insights from my path into UX research, and how anthropological methods — especially ethnography, systems thinking, and meaning-making — remain core to my work. We discussed how problem framing, stakeholder alignment, and operational constraints often mirror the complexity researchers face in the field.
I also contributed a visual poster titled "How Does Anthropology Relate to User Experience Research?", outlining a structured-yet-adaptive approach to research planning, stakeholder management, and organizational alignment.
Background: I earned my BA in Anthropology (2013) and MS in Applied Anthropology (2016) from UNT, with a focus on business anthropology and organizational behavior. Since then, I've worked in logistics, academic operations, and now UX research, applying anthropology to navigate systems, data, and people.