r/UXResearch
A community for sharing and discussing UX research
Founded November 2014 · Public — anyone can post
A community for sharing and discussing UX research. The goal is to think about UX research broadly and consider studies from related/overlapping disciplines (e.g., market research, medical anthropology, public health, design research). Open to both academic and applied research. **New to research? Here is a getting started guide: https://medium.com/getting-started-in-user-experience-and-design**
Members
68,999
69K
Online now
—
not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
2.0
from the last 100 posts, spanning 50.7 days
Comments per post
—
no sample yet
Growth · 7d
—
not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+1.0%
+682 members · ≈37d
Published rules
7
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
Oct 20
sampled Oct 20
Distinct posters
90%
of the last 100 posts
Tracking since Sep 13 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/UXResearch
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Question | 61% | 68 |
| Rant | 14% | 63 |
| Discussion | 10% | 51 |
| News / link | 9% | 89 |
| Lessons / story | 7% | 89 |
Based on 59 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 16
- Top 10% score
- 130
- Text posts
- 90%
- Got no replies
- 0%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 17:00 UTC, Wed 18:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Post flair is required.
- No product or service promotional material: Do not use this subreddit to promote products or services that you have even a nominal stake in. Repeated attempts will result in a ban.
- No UX-targeted product research: No posts seeking feedback on products or services. This includes your "AI tool". This rule extends to attempts to do discovery for such products or services. Use the search bar and review past community discussions for this purpose.
- Requests for career advice must have appropriate flair or go in the weekly career thread.: Requests for career advice must have the proper flair or go in the weekly career thread. Provide your working background and context for best results.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific tool recommendations with brief descriptions of their strengths.
- — Provides practical advice on how to use tools or approaches (e.g., Python scripts with LLMs).
- — Shares first-hand experience and challenges with AI tools, including limitations and workarounds.
- — Discloses potential affiliations or motivations when recommending a tool.
- — Detailed explanations of why certain methods or tools are effective or not.
- — Engages directly with the original poster's specific problem.
What r/UXResearch's rules say about promotion
1 of 7 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No product or service promotional material
rule 3 of 7
Do not use this subreddit to promote products or services that you have even a nominal stake in. Repeated attempts will result in a ban.
The other 6
- No user recruitment (surveys, participation requests, etc).
- Requests for career advice must have appropriate flair or go in the weekly career thread.
- Stay on topic (ie: UX Research, not UX Design).
- No hateful language or harassment
- Low effort posts will be removed.
- No UX-targeted product research
Read from r/UXResearch’s published rules on Sep 13. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/UXResearch — frequently asked
How many members does r/UXResearch have?
r/UXResearch has 68,999 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 20. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/UXResearch growing?
Over the last ≈37 days r/UXResearch changed by +1.0% — a gain of 682 members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/UXResearch?
Around 2.0 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 50.7 days. Posting rate matters more than subscriber count when you're deciding where to spend your time — it determines how long your comment stays visible.
When was r/UXResearch created?
r/UXResearch was founded in November 2014 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Who posts in r/UXResearch?
Of the last 100 posts we sampled, 90% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Oct 20. A low share means a feed dominated by a handful of accounts (bots, mods, or one prolific poster) rather than a community.
Can I promote my product in r/UXResearch?
r/UXResearch publishes 7 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No product or service promotional material”, says: Do not use this subreddit to promote products or services that you have even a nominal stake in. Repeated attempts will result in a ban. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/UXResearch for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/UXResearch into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/UXResearch's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/UXResearch's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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