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UXR Meetup · Thu, August 27, 2026 at 4:00 PM (UTC)

The Biggest Predictor of Research Quality Is the One AI Ignores

Most AI research tools compete on speed, and for good reason. Data collection, transcription, and synthesis eat the hours. But speeding up the work downstream does nothing if the thinking upstream was wrong.

In this session, Michele Ronsen shows what happens when AI works upstream. That's where judgment matters most, and where research goes wrong first. Using an AI research partner she built on Curiosity Tank's methodology, she pressure-tests real, anonymized research.

Because speed only helps once the thinking upstream is sound. Come see it in action!


Our Speakers

Michele Ronsen

Michele Ronsen is a researcher, educator, and builder, and the founder of Curiosity Tank. With 20+ years of experience, she specializes in UX strategy, user research, service design, and innovation. She has taught more than 7,000 hours of design and research programs, and she advises Fortune 500s, startups, and frontier AI organizations, including Cohere, Stripe, Slack, and Amazon.


What to expect

In this Meetup, you'll learn:
Where a study looks sound but isn't, before fieldwork begins
How AI can show why an objective, method, or screener is weak, not just flag it
What changes when a PM or designer runs the study instead of a trained researcher

Register to join

Get a front-row set to your next UXR ‘aha!’ moment.
Thursday, Aug 27, 2026, 4:00 PM (UTC)
Online, Zoom