Hello, I’m Megan St. Andrew 🐻🍓✨
📘 NOW READING:
The User Experience Team of One by Leah Buley
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
🎵 NOW LISTENING:
‘Let You Break My Heart Again’ by Laufey, Philharmonic Orchestra
‘Amnesia’ by WOODZ
Currently…
I’m honing my skills as a UX Researcher @ Sourcegraph. As the first dedicated researcher on the team, I’m doing a lot of cool Research Ops things like building up a research repository using Dovetail, creating guides and templates to help everyone start researching faster, and supporting the product team with all their qualitative research project needs. And, of course, conducting some generative research of my own.
In terms of my professional interests…
I have a variety! Originally I started out working in international relations and wanted to learn (and research!) all I could about globalization, media, and history. After working abroad in the public sector for a couple years, I decided to make a change, expand upon my media studies background with some solid HCI coursework at UMSI, and shift back into a research-focused role in the private sector.
Right now, my Top Five interest list is:
Research—mostly qualitative but studying up on quantitative
International studies
Digital media and humanities—especially related to marginalized communities
Content creation
Basically I love learning new things and using those cool new things to become a better global citizen. Right now that means designing experiences that make people’s lives better.