Research

The PURE method quantifies how difficult a product is to use and provides qualitative insights into how to fix it, both without costing a lot of time or money.

When Topp’s design teams engage users and test prototypes, we’ve got one ultimate goal: to enable our teams or our clients to take action.

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In a personal attempt to create a go-to spreadsheet to organize our team’s user research, I’ve created this Notion template that I’m…

Handrail is the enterprise UX research repository—plan research, manage participants, collect and analyze data, and share insights. Schedule a free demo.

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Task analysis is the systematic study of how users complete tasks to achieve their goals. This knowledge ensures products and services are designed to efficiently and appropriately support those goals.

Benchmark your UX by first determining appropriate metrics and a study methodology. Then track these metrics across different releases of your product by running studies that follow the same established methodology.

An example script for use while moderating a usability testing

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Uncover the story within extensive UX-research data by following a process of revisiting original research objectives and organizing findings into themes.

For most teams, approaching persona creation qualitatively is the right balance of effort vs. value, but very large or very small organizations might benefit from statistical or lightweight approaches, respectively.

I've spent most of the last five years researching user researchers, building research infrastructure and things, and hanging out in user research teams....

User experience recording made simple. See the screen, face, voice and touches of your users. Record in-house or remotely and without equipment.

Discover patterns across a variety of qualitative research methods and unstructured data like interviews, usability testing, and survey responses.

Liverpool FC fans sing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” to their players during matches. UX research is best done when a team is involved. When you run UX research on your own without active observers, you are missing its point. This article describes and gives you a tool I created called the Rainbow Spreadsheet. With it, you will be able to collaboratively observe UX research sessions with team members (or clients). You will be able to conduct research that involves the entire product team, with results that are turned around quickly and that team members will be committed to acting on.

How to Conduct a Diary Study: A Start-to-Finish Guide

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Recollective powers innovative online qualitative research projects and insight communities. Simple to customize and use, you can field research in a day.

To measure learnability, determine your metric, gather your data, and plot the averages on a line curve. Analyze the learning curve by looking at its slope and its plateau.

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Loop11 is a website user testing tool that enables you to identify navigational and usability issues of any website

Pollfish's online survey tools, like our poll website and DIY survey platform, provide consumer insights from real consumers across a massive mobile network.

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Get user insights fast, early, and often so you can make data-informed product and design decisions.

EnjoyHQ is the user research platform UX teams use to learn from users faster. Centralize, organize and share your research data and findings in one place.

This is an excerpt from from Kim Goodwin’s excellent Designing for the Digital Age. It is quite long, so we’ve broken it into several sections. Many thanks to Ms. Goodwin and Wiley for allowing us to share this with our readers. Understanding the Business The General Stakeholder Interview The Marketing Stakeholder Interview The Engineering Stakeholder Interview The … Continue reading The General Stakeholder Interview