Tag: User Experience Design
The ROI of UX Research with Ruby Pryor
Contextual Surveys, AI and the Human Touch in UX Research with Ryan Glasgow
UX Maturity: Pure UX with Darren Hood
The Essential Guide to User Research Notes
User research notes are the building blocks of customer insights. Without useful and effective note-taking, we can’t hope to uncover true user needs and deliver an experience that solves their problem or meets those needs.
This post is a recap of our webinar with special guest Bethany Stolle, Design Research Lead at Blackboard. Read the post below to view the slides and full recording of our session!
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 14 with Steve Portigal on User Research, Analysis and Learning from Customers
Episode 14 highlights:
- Why you should be doing [more] user research
- How to convince your stakeholders that user research is important
- 3 approaches to building brilliant products and features (and which one is best)
- Convincing your stakeholders and leaders to do (more) user research
- What is a user research process to make sure you’re learning the right things
- The difference between research analysis and research synthesis
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 17 with Erika Hall on User Research, Collaborating with Stakeholders and Design Culture
Episode 17 highlights:
- Using research and design to create products and services that are more balanced in the world
- Where to start helping your company make a bigger impact with user research
- “Startup” culture and how it can be very unhealthy and unproductive
- Why some companies still aren’t doing user research (or enough) and how you can help
- How having shared goals boosts collaboration and creativity
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 10 with Jeff Patton on Product Discovery and User Research
Episode 10 highlights:
- What product discovery is and how to do it
- The wrong way to do user research and how to avoid it
- A process to make sure you’re building products and features that solve real problems
- When product discovery starts and ends
- 4 steps to conducting product discovery
- The importance, and dangers, confidence level in design or product ideas
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 10 with Jeff Patton on Product Discovery and User Research”
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 13 with Andy Budd on Design Thinking, User Research Insights and Synthesis
Episode 13 highlights:
- The beginnings of Clearleft
- How the UX agency to client relationship has changed
- Designing like a detective
- Gathering the right evidence to do great UX design
- The tools and application are of design thinking
- How to go from research, synthesis and insights into actual design
- Dangers of “research theater” and how to avoid them
- Getting past the obvious solutions to create your most brilliant designs
Aurelius Podcast: Episode 11 with Christina Wodtke on OKRs and User Research
Episode 11 highlights:
- Why understanding a business model is critical for designers
- Using design to do more than make a great interface or a sexy advertisement
- Humanizing business and letting design/design thinking drive how business gets done
- What OKRs are, where they’re used and how to do them
- How Christina has used OKRs for both business and her own life
- Embracing business metrics as designers
- How you can be more innovative than Steve Jobs
- Tools and techniques for looking at your customer feedback and research insights to get beyond your assumptions
read more… “Aurelius Podcast: Episode 11 with Christina Wodtke on OKRs and User Research”