Creating Empathy Maps is useful for synthesizing research data in order to better understand the users. Empathy Maps are great for creating Personas, identifying users with different mindsets.
The power titles used to come with are slowly fading away in the modern business world. There is also a trend right now where companies and individuals create their own titles to hype their brands in marketing channels.
Leadership, Craft
Competence Mapping Instead of Design Titles
Knowledge
Domain Expert Interview — UX Knowledge Base Sketches
Domain Experts / Subject Matter Experts / Industry Experts have invaluable knowledge that you can (and should) apply during your UX process. Domain expert involvement is not an alternative to UX research, and a domain expert is certainly neither a “user expert” nor a designer.
Interviews
Domain Expert Interview — UX Knowledge Base Sketches