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3. This presentation is being made by a Consumer Financial
Protection Bureau representative on behalf of the Bureau. It
does not constitute legal interpretation, guidance, or advice of
the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Any opinions or
views stated by the presenter are the presenter’s own and may
not represent the Bureau’s views.
Disclaimer
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4. Setup
3 possible Ideas
1. Topical story to set stage, like the Uber CEO who never took an uber,
and then contrasting later with a hands on UX exec like Erie
2. This is a story of change and human resistance to it...
3. This is the story of every UXers dream – an exec who cares - that
turned into a boatload of stress, and what we learned from it
9. We’re from the CFPB
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau implements
and enforces Federal consumer financial law
▪ Aim to make consumer financial markets work for
consumers, responsible providers, and the overall economy.
▪ Protect consumers from unfair, deceptive, or abusive
practices and take action against companies that
break the law.
▪ Arm people with the information, steps, and tools that they
need to make smart financial decisions.
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10. We work on the in-house design & dev team
▪ Design & Development: digital product development,
human-centered design, creative services, software
engineering, software delivery and platforms
▪ Financial products are increasingly technology-based, and
having an in-house team of designers and developers
enables us to keep pace with today’s market and develop new
tools that help consumers succeed in their financial lives.
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12. User experience culture: building steadily
▪ User experience thinking has been in the mix since the
beginning and we’ve steadily built our domain expertise and
relationships within the organization
▪ User research team established in 2015 and started
negotiating a very risk-averse, regulated space
▪ By 2021, good understanding of the benefits of user
research, but actually including user research or usability
testing in most projects was often still aspirational
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14. New mandate: Test everything!
▪ No public launches without usability testing
▪ Test every iteration, and keep doing it
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15. Ack!
▪ Awesome! But….
▪ We couldn’t do it. Not the way we had been working.
▪ This meant a lot of change: for our tools, processes & people
▪ Disruptive to planned work
▪ Culture of “user research is great, but it takes too long”
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17. Change is scary!
▪ New challenge required most logistical action and change
management messaging
▪ Balancing both “this is an actual new requirement for the
initiatives your office is working on” as well as “this will be
helpful and isn’t very complicated!”
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18. 1. Create a compliance gateway
2. Scale research operations
Two major tactical efforts
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19. Task 1: Create a compliance pathway
▪ Address Federal Regulations regarding data collection,
privacy, and security through our established relationships
▪ Defined a “superhighway” pathway: user research studies
operating within specific parameters are pre-approved
▪ Opt-in recruiting
▪ Unstructured method (interviews, conversational discovery,
observation) OR less than 10 participants
▪ Using approved tools and with re-usable privacy statements
▪ Cut planning time down to days instead of weeks or months!
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20. Task 2: Scale research
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Research Operations Democratization
(aka Self-Service)
21. A definition
ResearchOps = the orchestration and optimization of people,
processes, and craft in order to amplify the value and impact
of research at scale
- Nielson Norman
Research Operations = Research Process Improvement (or
research support) offered as a service
- Me
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28. Task 2: Research Democratization
Democratizing research can mean a lot of things…
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Is it simply
exposing people to
research?
e.g., sharing research
findings and highlight
reels
Is it involving
people to research?
e.g., onsite visits,
synthesis workshops
Is it having non-
researchers leading
research?
e.g., allowing non-
researchers to define,
plan, and execute
research projects
Source: Meghan Wenzel, Unqork
29. ▪ Increasing awareness
▪ Bigger bench
▪ Increase user awareness
▪ Better research partners
▪ Becomes a core activity
▪ Researchers as guides, not
gatekeepers
▪ More perspectives
Cons
▪ Ignoring negative feedback
▪ Poor / biased data
▪ Losing control of research
▪ Cheapens practice
▪ Burnout / sad researchers
▪ Taking time away from more
important research
Pros
Is democratization a good idea?
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Source: Meghan Wenzel, Unqork
35. Lesson 1: Prepare and breathe through it
▪ When change happens, prepare but stay flexible as the winds
can shift again
▪ Fight the impulse to over-plan
▪ Communicate, communicate, communicate: articulate value
and impact simply and directly
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37. Lesson 3: ReOps builds capacity for future change
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User Research
Success
Research
Operations
38. Lesson 4: New tools, new issues
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Source: @pilotganso
39. Lesson 5: Exec champion who truly “gets” UX is
secret weapon
▪ Leadership support is always critical, but even more so when
introducing a new way of working
▪ Leadership needs to be able to speak to the value of this
change without you (subject matter expert) around in order
to handle freak outs
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41. Groundwork makes the dream work
▪ Always build relationships (especially during down times)
▪ Discover core needs of:
▪ Your user researchers
▪ Your compliance officers
▪ Your clients
▪ Build ReOps components (especially during down times)
▪ Tools and democratization can help scale UX
▪ Expect change to change
▪ Look to change management (“What’s in it for me”)
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42. Building on our success!
▪ Now that we’re set up to quickly and iteratively test public
facing products, providing space to tackle other challenges:
▪ Exploratory and discovery research
▪ Design sprints
▪ Usability testing internal products
▪ Testing with users of accessibility technology
▪ Testing in more languages
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