Judd Antin
Judd Antin is a researcher, consultant, and former head of user research and UX design studio at Airbnb, where he also served as head of design for guest products. Earlier he built the user research practice at Meta. His direct reports have gone on to lead research at Figma, Notion, Slack, Robinhood, and Duolingo. He is the author of ‘The User Research Reckoning Is Here’, a widely read essay arguing that user research layoffs signal a structural failure in how companies integrate research, not evidence of the discipline’s decline. He teaches at UC Berkeley and consults on UX strategy and organisational design.