Research Practice

Learn about four essential self-care strategies that UX researchers can incorporate into their workflows to help improve both their mental health and their user research outcomes.

This article covers biases influencing project decisions, such as escalation of commitment, endowment effect, false consensus, their impact on stakeholders in project management, and effective strategies for mitigation.

Understanding cognitive biases is crucial in user research. This two-part series explores biases through the lenses of collecting data, its analysis, and project decision-making with stakeholders.

There are many myths around repositories, replicated in alarming LinkedIn posts, misinforming blog articles or during team meetings. This article sets the record straight and deals with those misconceptions.

This article takes you behind the scenes to share the seven most common mistakes in test user recruitment, and provides practical tips to ensure you avoid them.

Recruiting the right participants for research can be challenging. This article explores strategies for finding hard-to-find participants.

Discover the importance of desk research and learn how to leverage its power alongside primary research in your projects. Gain helpful best practices to add value to your user research efforts, expanding your capabilities and maximizing the impact of your findings.

Improve your usability testing skills with 13 expert tips in this comprehensive article. Discover valuable insights and techniques for conducting insightful tests to enhance your practice, whether you're a seasoned user researcher or a beginner.

Delivering a user research presentation comes with some challenges. This article outlines corresponding solutions, explains how to structure the presentation and shows examples of slides to share research findings.

Discover effective strategies to overcome challenges when facing product managers who pre-determine feature priorities and exclude researchers from backlog development and learn how to elevate the impact of UX research at different levels: from tactical to strategic.

Learn about the risks of skipping or rushing the analysis phase of UX research, and how to prioritize and make time for thorough research analysis to uncover deeper insights from the data you collect.

Discover how Affinity Mapping can transform isolated information from UX research into actionable insights. We explain the essence of Affinity Mapping and provide practical tips for implementing it in virtual settings.

User Diary Studies help to understand long-term user behavior and experience. Learn about the basics of user diary studies as a UX research method, when this method works best, and where it has its limitations, and grab a template for your next diary study.

Even though we live in a globalized world, there's still a need for international user research and testing of prototypes and designs in different countries. Learn about the different reasons for international research and what to look out for.

Participant panels can aid in recruiting participants for upcoming user research studies. Explore examples from renowned companies such as Atlassian, Dropbox, and Google, who have successfully built their own internal panels.

What is the problem we are trying to solve? As a UX researcher, you've probably used this phrase before. We've collected typical UX research phrases, things researchers say every day, and statements that define the role of UX researchers.

Explore the often overlooked area of in-house UX research, focusing on designing products and software for internal employees' daily work, and gain valuable insights and perspectives on internal enterprise UX from Stéphanie Walter.

As UX researchers, we are often urged to quantify our qualitative research findings to give them credibility. In this article, we will examine where this urge towards quantification comes from and learn about strategies to cope with this push when doing qualitative research.

How do you ensure that research activities answer critical questions and drive key business decisions? Discover Laura Faulkner's actionable framework for addressing this challenge and understanding the goals behind research questions in a structured way.

Learn more about the importance of effective note-taking in user research and unlock valuable insights on how to maximize your results. Get essential tips for preparation, including selecting the right tool and practical writing techniques.

Explore the importance of research leadership in growing teams and its role in promoting user-centered decision-making. Because UX research provides a deep understanding of users, the question of how research can lead other disciplines becomes critical.

Analyzing user interviews is the most exciting, but also the most messy step when conducting user research. This article will show you how to get started and provides concrete tips on how to analyze user interviews to uncover valuable insights.

Learn about the essential elements of a user research plan that serves as the foundation for a new project. Gain insight into how researchers effectively use research plans in practice, and get expert tips and a ready-to-use template for creating your next user research plan.

Zoom is the most popular tool among user researchers to conduct moderated studies. In this hands-on article, we go into the details of setting up Zoom for your remote UX research and share some practical tips.