Moderating UX research with Zoom
Practical tips on how to use a videoconfering tool to run remote moderated user research (usability test or interview).
Skip User Research Unless You’re Doing It Right — Seriously
Do research right, or don’t do it at all. Joe makes the point that we better focus on research that has value behind a certain release.
How To Deliver A Successful UX Project In The Healthcare Sector
Improve your research by considering the three research challenges: Biases, Barriers and Background.
User experience research vs. market research for product design and development – a blurring line?
Traditionally market research has a wider perspective. User research focuses more on behavioral data. However both disciplines are shifting more towards each other.
Affinity Diagramming for Collaboratively Sorting UX Findings and Design Ideas
Affinity Diagramming is useful technique to sort and synthesise data from UX research.
Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction
Use the ladder of abstraction to understand if you are on the right level with a question or answer. A useful technique during an interview or scope session.
The Five Whys
Ever talked to a kid who did not stop asking Why? A simple but very effective way to get to the bottom of things. Use the 5 whys to understand the deeper motivations of people.
The Research Funnel
The Research Funnel describes four levels of research: 1) exploratory 2) strategical 3) tactical and 4) operational.
The Hypothesis Prioritization Canvas
The canvas helps your team define hypotheses and select the most critical ones for research.
Photojournal
Instead of asking people about their lives you start by asking them to create a photo journal. Participants create their own story and tell more about it during an interview.
Updated Empathy Map Canvas
The Empathy Map, created by Dave Gray, is used to visualise the attitudes and behaviours of users, in order to empathise with and understand the user.
UX Research Cheat Sheet
The UX Research Cheat Sheet describes UX methods and activities available in various project stages.
Designing Credible Studies: A Research Framework
An introduction of the NCredible research framework intended to minimize bad research behaviors.
When to Use Which User-Experience Research Methods
To better understand when to use which user research method, Christian introduced a framework along 3 dimensions: 1) Attitudinal vs. Behavioral, 2) Qualitative vs.
How Many Participants are Really Enough for Usability Studies?
[Sciencific read] There is a lot of discussion going on if 5 respondents is enough for a usability test or not. This scientific study discusses all arguments and sets up an experiments to find the optimal number of respondents.