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How Eleanor Applied Continuous Research to Her UX Practice
Learn how a UX designer set up continuous research in their product organization for the first time.
3 P’s of Measuring the User Experience
How to pick the right metrics and sample sizes with 3 common UX measuring goals
How to Write User Research Insights [Full Guide + Template]
An in-depth guide to help you write better user insights with lots of examples and a free template
10 Ways That UX Research Report Could Have Been Shorter
Are research reports user-centered if nobody reads them? Read on to see how they’re evolving to be more…designed.
What is Product Discovery? [Process, Methods, and Benefits]
Learn a system to collaboratively decides what gets built and the process and methods for gathering evidence to build the right thing.
4 Practical Ways to Get Started in Design Ethics
4 practical ways to design experiences that are more ethical [free PDF on “consequence scanning” included]
5 Ways to Make UX Research Agile
5 steps to lead your team to “continuous” user research so your learning can keep up with agile
Qualitative Design Research: Methods for the Why & How
A guide to the different types of qualitative research methods that you may need as a design researcher.
How to Escape the Delivery Trap (and Find Time for Discovery)
How to avoid designing products stuck in the Delivery Trap of deadlines, deliverables, and pixel pushing.
How to Use UX Data to Convince Stakeholders
What is one thing you can say to explain your design decisions better? Hint: it has everything to do with UX data.
What Is UX Theatre and How Do You Avoid It?
How do we know that we’re not pretending to be user-centered? Learn about the helpful term called UX Theatre to bring your team closer to the user.
The 3 Pillars of Continuous UX Research
Learn how to turn any research method into a continuous research method with this simple framework
The Top 5 Methods of Continuous Discovery & UX Research
See which user research methods make to the top 5 for continuous product discovery.
What Is Continuous UX Research?
What is this new way of doing research and how does it compare with traditional UX research?
3 Types of UX Diagrams for Visualizing Qualitative Data
Learn the major kinds of UX diagrams you need to present research, communicate UX concepts, and visualize strategy
Surveys Are the McDonald’s of UX Methods
Why UX surveys are terrible for you and how to design them without losing your dignity.
Making Sense of Research with a Sense-Making Process
How do we tackle complexity and find patterns in data? Sensemaking is an emerging term in design research, and it’s the secret to conducting killer research.
What is the Double Diamond Design Process?
A guide for people that want to understand design and the designer’s ability to work in both the problem and solution.
How to Ensure User Personas Don’t Fail
How to think strategically about personas in a persona-weary world...and never use a template again.