Kristen Guth (she/her) is a social scientist and researcher.
Kristen Guth (she/her) is a social scientist and researcher.
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Kristen helps organizations understand the value of research, builds and matures user experience programs, and creates lasting business impact from research.
Kristen helps organizations understand the value of research, builds and matures user experience programs, and creates lasting business impact from research.
Selected Talks
Selected Talks
Bootstrapping Trust.
Guth, K. L. (2024).
UXR Conf 2024, San Francisco, CA, United States.
Out of the FOG: A Non-Traditional Research Approach to Alignment.
Guth, K. L. (2023).
Advancing Research 2023, Rosenfeld Media, online.
Designing Future Reddit Experiences Powered by ML.
Guth, K. L. (2022).
UX Strat 2022, Denver, CO, United States.
Selected Publications
Selected Publications
Creating Resilient Research Findings: Using Ethnographic Methods to Combat Research Amnesia.
Guth, K. L. (2022).
In 2022 EPIC Proceedings, 294–316, ISSN 1559-8918.
Beyond Big Bird, Binders, and Bayonets: Humor and Visibility Among Connected Viewers of the 2012 US Presidential Debates.
Driscoll, K., Leavitt, A., Guth, K. L., Bar, F., & Mehta, A. (2018).
In Social Media + Society, 4(1).
Finding the Diamond in the Rough: Exploring Communication and Platform in Crowdsourcing Performance.
Guth, K. L., & Brabham, D. C. (2017).
In Communication Monographs, 84(4), 510–533.
The Deliberative Politics of the Consultative Layer: Participation Hopes and Communication as Design Values of Civic Tech Founders.
Brabham, D. C., & Guth, K. L. (2017).
In Journal of Communication, 67(4), 445–475.
Building a Unicorn: Management of Innovation, Collaboration, and Change in a Silicon Valley Start-up.
Guth, K. L. (2017).
University of Southern California ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (Order No. 10605106). Available from Entrepreneurship Collection; ProQuest Central. (1954045875).
Value Chain Creation through Digital Innovation: The Ebb and Flow of Communality and Connectivity in a Networked Interorganizational System.
Guth, K. L., & Poole, M. S. (2015).
In 2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, Kauai, HI, USA, 4191-4200.
Access more of her research publications on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, and ORCID.
About Kristen
About Kristen
Kristen specializes in mixed methods research, design thinking, and strategic alignment of product and business goals. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals and has driven innovative products from major technology companies. She speaks regularly at industry-leading research conferences.
Kristen is currently a Senior User Experience Researcher at Snowflake. Before that, she was the first Principal Researcher at Reddit, where she was also the first Head of Research, and she led PayPal's global mid-market and large enterprise research portfolio.
Kristen holds a Master's from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a Master's and PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, and served as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Kentucky. She guest lectures at several universities, including the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Michigan.
Kristen Guth is available for speaking engagements, training sessions, and short research consulting contracts.
Kristen Guth is available for speaking engagements, training sessions, and short research consulting contracts.
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