When I was studying HCI major at school, I highly valued foundational theories and applied them to almost every school project. In fact, that’s often what we were guided to do: go through the stages of design thinking, arrange the sequence of different methods and conduct them one at a time, create wireframes before low-fis, create low-fis before mid/high-fis… Let alone many projects last only for a semester, so the phase of “evaluation” is implemented by collecting short-term qualitative feedback. Until I became a UX researcher in the industry, I realized that it requires sophisticated and multi-dimensional thinking mindsets to solve each contextual problem. Simply enriching a linear flow with rigor may prevent me from seeing the big picture. That’s why I choose not to present my work in the traditional project-based framework. Instead of describing a project from start to end, I want to present my skillsets and research philosophies, which I’ve been polishing and migrating across projects. They represent my competency as a UX researcher.