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r/UXResearch

A community for sharing and discussing UX research

Founded November 2014 · Public — anyone can post

Updated Sep 13

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

68,317

68K

Online now

not captured in the last snapshot

Posts per day

1.8

from the last 100 posts, spanning 55.3 days

Comments per post

no sample yet

Growth · 7d

not enough history yet

Growth · 30d

not enough history yet

Published rules

7

1 mention promotion — quoted below

Last post

Sep 12

sampled Sep 13

Distinct posters

94%

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

Tracking since Sep 13 — growth charts appear after a week of history.

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.

FormatShare of postsAvg score
Question61%68
Rant14%63
Discussion10%51
News / link9%89
Lessons / story7%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.

  1. 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 68,317 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 13. 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?

We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/UXResearch yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Sep 13; the chart fills in as history accumulates.

How active is r/UXResearch?

Around 1.8 posts per day, measured from the newest 100 posts on Reddit, which span 55.3 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, 94% came from distinct accounts; the newest was published Sep 12. 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?

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