Help!!! Interest in PhD HCI
Hi! I’m currently a UX Designer / Researcher in a corporate e-banking solutions company. The work is getting quite monotonous and there is rarely time to do extended research on new methods or do deeper research for projects. A lot of the times user interviews or a/b testing are not done well, seriously overlooked, or not done at all. So, I don’t feel like I’m making meaningful impact and sometimes can’t tell if my methods work. I am currently interested in pursuing a PhD but am unsure if I will be able to get in due to my lack of published papers (and by lack I mean not any). My work is interesting and I have research to show for it, but a lot of the methods are very specific to my industry and company so I am unsure if that would help. I graduated with a BA in Economics and Statistics and the quantitative side of me is really really screaming to be utilized and to pursue a PhD in the name of research, excavation, and honestly self sanity and protection from corporate. Any advice would be much appreciated, I do not know if I should volunteer to get research experience at a university or keep doing what I’m doing. Also, my fundings are quite limited.