Questions tagged [user-research]
Comprises multiple methods for gaining insight into user needs and behaviours from real end users.
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Drawing on Mobile with fingers: magnifier or offset from finger location?
We are working on a "remove objects from photos" app, where the users highlight/select a part of an image they want to remove and the app takes care of it.
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What is the most user-friendly way to ask a 'yes' or 'no' question via e-mail?
I'm interested in finding out the most user friendly way to ask a 'yes' or 'no' question via email. I have included an example and a couple of possibilities below.
It's a huge plus if whatever method ...
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How to conduct remote unmoderated user testing on living room devices such as FireTV, Playstation, and Roku?
I'm wondering if there is a better way other than asking users to point a camera at their TV screen and try out some tasks while recording. Maybe mirror the TV screen to a computer and capture the ...
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Best practices for System Usability Scale (SUS) Scoring
My UX team has always utilized SUS Scoring after our usability tests.
We work with Student Information System Software and after testing a new feature, we follow up with a SUS Scoring survey.
The ...
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Does Usability Tests and Product Experience Maps go Under Discovery or Define Stage?
I'm creating education materials for my company on UX to help better educate the team and secure more funding for UX at the company. But as I was reading how we define stages of UX I came across what ...
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Usability testing: what can be the best questions to ask a user to understand if they prefer infinite scroll vs pagination?
For example, unsplash.com has an infinite scroll. Let's say we want to change it to pagination. What can be the best questions to ask a user for a usability test?
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How to analyze Pre/Post Single Ease of use question data?
Hello all UX researchers, In my recent UX study, I used a single ease of use question at the start and end of the each task on the scale of 1 to 7 ( where 1= strongly disagree, 7= strongly agree).
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How much should user research results be filtered for hostile stakeholders?
I've worked in organizations where there is ostensibly an appetite for user feedback, but bad news isn't taken well. Some examples of reactions:
"There's nothing we can do about that problem, ...
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How to balance user-led vs. user-centered design when it comes to navigation labels?
We just completed some research with card sorting and tree testing. Two of the categories were consistently labeled the same by a large percentage of participants.
It seems to make sense to name the ...
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Where is the best place to put notifications?
Our app currently has a Notification Center that can be accessed through an icon on the upper-right hand corner of the page.
I'm in the process of designing a Dashboard, which it and of itself will ...
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UX Benchmarking: How much detail should be collected from a user within an enterprise product?
There's a lot of value collecting benchmark data about a user's experience over time. The problem that we are running into is how much information should we ask from our user to help us make informed ...
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Reports/research about legalese texts
I'm looking for any reports or user researches done related to legalese text in software. Apart from curiosity I'm mostly trying to find efficient methods for showing EULA (minimizing confusion for ...
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Users' attention to minimized video
We do know autoplaying videos is bad.
When users arrive at a webpage, they don’t appreciate being surprised by video or audio content that begins playing without their consent. Video, and the ...
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What is the best way to conduct English word-recall exercises with people who have just been exposed to English via GUI elements?
I'm working on an App for Indian languages and the users in context have heard English very little. Only for things like 'Tables', 'Order', etc. I wanted to understand what's a good way to conduct ...
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Floating action button with two similar functions on different pages
We are designing an app and want to use a floating action button (FAB) in order to add an item to our list. Now this list can be either a "task" or a "reward" depending on what ...
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The user study methods for mobile and web application testing
A mobile version of the website facilitates ubiquitous access to the service, but it seems to me that there are some differences in user needs between the mobile and desktop versions. I conclude the ...
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Is preparing workflow/ userflow also part of information architecture?
When we have too much information, we need to organize it by helping with some IA methods (e.g. Location, Alphabetical, Time, Category, Hierarchy and for some cases Process as well).
So, in the same ...
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Should I ever ask what participants in a usability study what they thought about me as a moderator? (New to usability testing!)
I'm excited and pretty new to the Usability testing part of product design. I was wondering if it was okay to ask participants what they thought of the moderators tone, questions, etc. during a ...
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How to synthesize with my team after field immersion with our users?
For context, we launched an app to a hospital unit. We immersed ourselves in their environment, help answer questions and troubleshoot any technical issues for a whole week.
What would be the best way ...
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How many problem statements should I create?
I'm learning UX design, I've decided to start my first project and right now and in the define stage. But I've got a doubt. How many problem statements should I create?
In the empathize stage I've ...
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how to contact users of an app to do user research
I want to do a case study on a app but I am feeling bit stuck with the user research. Actually I want to do user research but I can't really find the users of that app. I tried to contact the users ...
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How to prioritize user journeys and stories
I just walked into my first big UX project. I have developed personas and am now in the process of starting the development of user journeys and user stories.
I have developed a primary persona and a ...
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Automated Transcription navigation for Videos
To make the User Research a bit leaner i do not fully transcribe interviews but make notes (or a note taker does this). But sometimes i need to jump back to the interview video, just to see that ...
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Available research around the use of delimiters (comma's) in large numbers
Is anyone aware of any cognitive/academic research/performance factors around the use of delimiters in larger numbers? And more specifically, the speed at which humans process them?
Example with ...
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Is it useful to have "add to favorites" button in the the search result?
I am working on an e-commerce website. I am wondering how useful it is to have "add to favorites" in search result?
Here are some example:
Etsy
In the search result, if you hover over the ...
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Email vs messaging paradigm (patient portal)
I am building a secure patient portal through which patients / doctors communicate. The existing web-based platform fits the traditional "email," paradigm (inbox, sent, archived). Each email ...
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What is the easiest way to automatically collect user data in a prototype app?
I would like to test the design for an app. Therefore, I would like to let my test subjects use an app prototype on their smartphones for a few days in a row. I would like the test persons to use the ...
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How to let an existing user buy a subscription without signing in?
How can an existing user continue buying a subscription using the
same email ID without signing in?
I have made the new user to create a password at the end of the
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UX & usability research as task based testing?
is task based testing a good way to gather user's opinions and research UX and usability of app?
By task based testing I mean we have app for certain type of users, so we gather few people that fit in ...
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Aside from going into bootcamps, what’s another way to build case studies? I have a few ideas but I’m not sure how to build it without a main guide?
So as a context: I've already done a bootcamp last year but in that bootcamp, we didn't make a lot of case studies. Just one. I need more but I'm not sure how I'm going to recruit participants into ...
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Can I use semi-structured interviews for collecting insights for a prototype?
I have a low-fidelity prototype and I would like to use semi-structured interviews to ask users questions while having a walkthrough of the prototype.
Do you think it's a good idea to choose semi-...
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What navigation label would you give these list items?
I read on here recently that a navigation label is a promise to the user that what they are about to click on is appropriately represented next. I love this. However, I am struggling to correctly ...
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Best way to organize search form interface?
I have a tab in my application where users can search Accounts. The account table has two different types of accounts, User and Staff type. User type is one that has a username, password, etc. Staff ...
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Running Qualitative user research on Marketing Creatives
as an e-commerce company, it's common for creatives for marketing campaigns success to be measured in terms of numbers. e.g. based on click-through rates and conversion rates. however, just numbers ...
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Making up user audience?
I understand that, for someone who’s just starting to put together a portfolio without any “real” projects under his belt, made up projects and scenarios are acceptable pieces of work to include. ...
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Best practice when doing user research with surveys?
Could you suggest best practice when doing user reasearch with surveys with open questions?
Context a web page has (unexpectedly) a lot of visitors we know nothing about. This page is not listed in ...
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