Awkward Silences
Hosted by Ben and Erin May and Erin and Ben Wiedmaier · User Interviews
4.9from 76 ratings
- 200
- Episodes
- 35
- Transcribed
- 76
- Ratings
- Bi-weekly
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 70K
- YouTube views
About Awkward Silences
Welcome to Awkward Silences by User Interviews, where we interview the people who interview people. Listen as we geek out on all things UX research, qualitative data, and the craft of understanding people to build better products and businesses. Hosted by Erin May and Carol Guest, VPs of growth/marketing and product at User Interviews. Take this survey and let us know what topics you want to hear next! userinterviews.com/awkwardsurvey
- Publisher
- User Interviews
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 26 Nov 2018
- Latest episode
- 27 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
35 of 200 episodes have a transcript.
27 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#193 - Can synthetic research replace real users? That's the wrong question.
20 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
#193 - AI won't make you a better UX researcher unless you do the hard work
1 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
#192 - Slowing Things Down to Speed Up Research with Jared Forney of Okta
Inside a recent episode
#193 - Can synthetic research replace real users? That's the wrong question.
Published 27 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] That synthetic may be a strategy that we use to get there because we might be, you know, and I come from a little bit of a quantitative research background, and so I'm like, you might be using a regression analysis to essentially fill in the blanks where you didn't get, you know, data, right? we've always done some sort of synthetic research, right? Because we've, we've done that when we've done regression analysis, right? So it's really about like, how do we help bring our customers to life and continue to ensure that we're answering real problems and questions using strategies that have actually been around for a while, but are reframed with technology in a new way. […]
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- John Whalen
- Lija Hogan
- Mike Mace
- Sal Criscione
- Jared Forney
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- 69,998
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- 4.9 / 5
- 76 ratings
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- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 85
- Engagement
- 95
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