Winning at research-led products

The different types of product research methods that suit your needs, and deliver the world-class result you desire.

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🔥Learning of the week:

How to use UX Research Methods to Design Products? ✨

In this week's learning, our partner at Maze- Ash Oliver, a UX Designer & Design Advocate @ Maze will share some of the common UX research methods that will help you to design better products.

1: The Six Types of Research

• Qualitative (Why & How)

• Quantitative (How much /How many)

• Behavioral (What people do)

• Attitudinal (What people say)

• Generative (forming idea)

• Evaluative (refining idea)

2: The Three Examples of Common UX Research Methods

a) Usability Testing:

• How: Participants will perform defined tasks in the system or interface

• Learning outcome: Testing the intuitiveness of the design, detecting usability issues and opportunities to improve

• Type of research: qualitative, quantitative, behavioral & evaluative

b) Interview:

• How: 1:1 interview sessions to understand users’ thinking process

• Learning outcome: sentiment insights and motivations and user scenarios and goals

• Type of research: qualitative, attitudinal & generative

c) Desk Research:

• How: utilize secondary research and review past information

• Learning outcome: patterns and comparative insights

• Type of research: all six types of research above

3: The 5 Best Practices of UX research

• Understand how decisions are made.

• Relay the value of product research.

• Engage the entire team.

• Persuade stakeholders through design.

• Build a company learning muscle.
  

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“Learn soft skills such as people skills and lateral management skills. You’ll be an invaluable member of any team, and there is a lot of room for mobility in your career.”

Soren Hamby on career advice for mentee.
Senior Manager of UX and Digital Design at Benjamin Moore.

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