Pascal Raabe

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UX Research Expert & AI Skills Educator

Ustwo

ABC Australia

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13+ yrs leading corporate UX research. Now teaching AI-era skills.

The critical skill that keep UX researchers irreplaceable in the age of AI

AI can transcribe, summarise, and generate insights from your research sessions. So what happens to the researcher who just clicks "summarise"?They become a transcript reader.If you've noticed yourself skimming AI outputs instead of genuinely thinking, you're not alone. Researchers everywhere are asking: How do I stay sharp when the machine does the grunt work?The uncomfortable truth: the risk isn't that AI misses things. It's that you stop thinking critically because AI makes it easy not to.Strategic note-taking is how you stay cognitively engaged capturing your expert reactions, hunches, and the contradictions between what users say and do. The things AI smooths over. When you bring those notes to AI afterwards, you don't get a summary. You get a calibrated partnership.In this 90-minute workshop, you'll learn a notation system from 10+ years of hands-on UX research, recently delivered to 45 designers at a major Australian bank. You'll practise live, build your post-session ritual, and leave with a toolkit for your very next session.No theory dumps. No AI hype. Just the skill that makes you irreplaceable.

Master a practical notation system that keeps you thinking critically in every research session and turns AI into your sharpest collaborator

Capture expert-level observations using six strategic notation methods

Build a 5-minute post-session ritual that protects your thinking

Direct AI with precision using hypothesis-driven prompts

Calibrate your perspective against AI

Walk away with a complete, ready-to-use researcher toolkit

UX researchers using AI transcription and summary tools who want to stay cognitively sharp instead of becoming passive transcript readers.

Product designers and PMs who run their own research sessions and need a fast, practical framework for capturing better insights.

Research and design leads building AI-augmented workflows for their teams while preserving critical thinking and research quality.

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AI-Proof Your Insights with Strategic Note-Taking for UX Researchers