Questions tagged [user-research]
Comprises multiple methods for gaining insight into user needs and behaviours from real end users.
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How does the user recruitment process typically look like for user research & usability tests?
When you are working with an actual client to enhance the ux of their product, at the research stage of the project how do you recruit the users?
In other words, let's say you start using a tool ...
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Is there any research about input mask corrections?
I've found some researches about input masks in general but they all say just how to let user type text correctly. But I find it very frustrating when I need to correct an input (press backspace) and ...
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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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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 do I treat an 'Incomplete' in a Usability study?
I conducted a usability test where a user is given a set of tasks and we score them based on task completion (completed with ease, completed with minor difficulty, completed with major difficulty, and ...
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Research: Learning about the audience and identifying user needs
I am starting work on a new website project that is a website for a design agency and I want to understand how can I get to users? How to understand the target audience, so I can use research methods?
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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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Inferences you can make about users leveraging footer navigation vs main nav?
I am using FullStory to study some user behavior on some client sites and have noticed a trend in a few client sites where users will opt to use the links in the footer navigation over the main menu.
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Where can a ux designer find data for a user persona or an empathy map when working on a fictional project for their portfolio?
When working on a fictional personal project that will only serve as a portfolio piece (i.e. briefbox projects), how can I find the appropriate data to create user personas? I want to emphasize my ...
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Are there studies on scanning patterns for dual/multiple screens?
There are well known scanning patterns (such as F and Z scanning for websites that have been around for some time), but my assumption is that these have been built up over the years from research on ...
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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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How to test USSD flows?
I'm working on some USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) flows that basically helps health workers in remote communities without internet access to collect basic data (height, age, weight) ...
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Including UX designers in user research / testing processes - considerations
I have been asked previously to participate as user testing processes (formal and informal) and in the screening process the fact that I am also a UX designer doesn't seem to have been an exclusion ...
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Best UX when you have several bots?
My question is about the UX for chatbots when there are multiple bots within a website or digital ecosystem. This must be an increasing problem these days in very large companies for example, when you ...
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How long do user research studies tend to take when the participant needs a translator?
My team is running several user research studies on a mostly internal product with both English-speaking and non-English-speaking users. The studies are written in English.
One is a quantitative ...
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How to distribute values evenly when having several independent variables?
I am doing a research study with teens. Previously, I have already recruited and studied, let's say, 11 teens (with various ages, gender, and ethnicity). Additionally, I am planning to recruit 10 ...
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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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Is it recommended to have tab index navigation for complex web application?
I am doing requirement gathering for a complex in house web application. My customer is adamant to have keyboard tab index interaction for the application along with regular mouse interaction. My ...
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Where/How do I gather data for this portfolio project…?
I'm sure I'll be called, as a UX designer, to give a total-usability-makeover to a website or two. Wanting to include in my portfolio a demonstration of my preparedness for this, I simply Googled "...
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How to test which CTAs prompt users to take specific actions
I'm experimenting with different messages/Calls-to-Action in our product to see which specific CTAs are most successful at prompting our users to take specific actions we want them to take.
Besides ...
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Cost-benefits of remote research
I think it can be pretty safely agreed that in-person research is better than remote research.
It should also be fairly clear however that remote research is usually cheaper than in-person research.
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Ethnography done solo and with stakeholders
How might I best conduct ethnographic research done solo or with stakeholders (without the support from another trained professional) so I capture the highest quantity and quality of information ...
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What are the best ways on a sub-500 budget to test for mobile accessibility?
I am familiar with website accessibility at least in terms of WCAG 2.0, Section 508, etc. But I am currently designing a mobile app (cross-platform using React Native tools) and there does not seem to ...
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What questions to ask in user interview to create better empathy map?
After an exhausted research in the topic of Empathy Map, I understand the critical parts of the most famous maps like 4 quadrants, and Xplaner(gamestorming book) v 1.0 and 2.0 types.
They are met on ...
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Asking for demographic and screening question at the end of the survey - benefits outweigh risks?
I recently completed a survey in which the demographic questions were asked at the end instead of the beginning. I assume that this is because there are no specific screening questions for the purpose ...
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Best way to organize search form interface?
I have tab in my application where users can search Accounts. Account table has two different type of accounts, User and Staff type. User type is one that have username, password, etc. Staff only ...
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Participant Criteria - User Testing Lab
We recently ran a user testing lab for our eCommerce mobile app.
Part of the recruitment process for the participants is to make sure they don't work in any type of web based job role (digital ...
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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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Research Project Planning - Time estimates for various research methods and phases
Are there any suggested rough estimates for how long user research methods and phases of research planing, execution, and analysis take?
I'm trying to get better at project management and planning ...
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Building UX Personas - Identifying User Behaviour
I am working on building some User Personas for my company.
Using a mixture of Analytics and internal data, I am trying to identify behavioral trends.
From the data I've noticed only 1 minor trend.
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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 ...
