Questions tagged [user-research]
Comprises multiple methods for gaining insight into user needs and behaviours from real end users.
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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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Start time and end time relating to the start of an event and end of an event
I'm trying to figure out what the best design format will be for an event selection tool.
Issue: The start time is strictly related to the start date of the event (Example, July 30th, 2018 at 3:00pm)...
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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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Interview methods for user needs phase
I'm designing a workforce training project and am in the process of collecting the initial user feedback. While I'm an experienced survey designer and data scientist, I'm new to user experience and ...
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How do I know why people prefer our competitor's web site?
First let me explain the context:
We have a web site that helps people to find jobs (e.g. https://www.careerbuilder.com/ https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm )
In our country, there are some web ...
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Where do users most often expect the submit button on a form to be?
Has research been done on where the most "expected" location for the submit or primary action button would be in a form? I'd clearly assume at the bottom of the form, but what about it's alignment? is ...
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Is Displaying Restaurant Menu Prices A UX/Accessibility Matter?
I am working with a high-class hotel that owns a number of restaurant venues. I have been trying to do some research, but am coming up short with results to back the idea that exposed restaurant menu ...
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Design Sprint - Sample SIze
I'm a big fan of Design Sprints, especially of their value to efficiently align a team on the problem and proposed hypothesis/solution. There's one aspect with which I've always struggled: testing.
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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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Saving Video on Mobile - Hide or Show Video while saving it?
Quick and short question.
I'm building iOS Video Editor app. Within the Video Edit Screen I'm placing a "Save button" so the user can press Save quickly.
Do you think:
1) I should place the "...
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Minimum image size for scanning/recognizing faces in a list?
Is there a standard minimum size for pictures of faces to be scannable/recognizable in a list? Scanning a contact list, for example.
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User testing of multi dimensional information architecture
i'm working on a project where I have to test an information architecture. This kind of IA is multidimensional. So you can access to the same content through several path. Each content is tagged with ...
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Search: Same Phrase. Many Alternative meanings [closed]
Is there a way/tool/ search engine that would allow me to search for multiple variations of the same phrase at the same time?
For example, I want to search for "revealing his true belief". But I also ...
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What are the good practices of maintaining feedback from customer support?
In our company we have customer support who deal a lot with users, onboarding, talking, following up and etc. They have a lot of different feedback and insights directly from the users.
What methods ...
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Minimum viable User Testing lab set up
My need is to set up a User Testing facility, which allows observers to watch the session. I do not want people to hover around the user, who then feels like a lab rat.
My constraint is that I cannot ...
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Customer journey map: How to test with customers?
I am currently mapping the customer journey for the company I work for.
We have visualized the journey based on internal knowledge and experience with our customers.
Now I would like to test what we'...
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Designing for users without meeting them
So recently I started my internship and the first thing I was told is that I probably won't meet with users (HR managers) nor do I get their feedback at least in the early stages of the design. I am ...
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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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Best way to ask a question about how users got to the webpage?
This would be in the form on a short online survey where users will see it pop up some time after they land on the page.
I want to know the exact traffic source from which a user lands on a specific ...
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Quantitative testing on other peoples websites
I want to test other peoples sites, but I want to collect quantitative data, as opposed to qualitative data. For example, I'd like to test the time it takes a user to navigate to a product page once ...
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Researchers: How do you deal with Research Insights as you scale?
I am lucky enough to have enough research coming in at my company that I am beginning to have a hard time organizing my research insights. I am evaluating some options that allow me to organize ...
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How to clearly distinguish a login page from a register page?
I recently conducted a series of user experience evaluation sessions for a prototype application that had been developed with the goal of capturing user experience bottlenecks and other issues.
Each ...
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Reaching out to customers who don't want your product
This may seem like an obvious question, but how can you reach out to customers who don't want to use your product so you can speak with them and learn more about why.
They may have been on the site ...
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User Test with Task Scenarios That Have Unachievable Goals?
I intend to do quantitative user tests of an existing tool and compare its usability performance to a new design that I'd propose.
Let's say after doing user research I come up with task scenarios (...
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User stories and goals — do we categories them?
I've created a set of user stories. I have been asked to categorise them for the sprint e.g. header, footer, shop page etc.
However, it feels a little forced rather I have created user stories based ...
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How to do brand perception research?
As a user researcher I know how to conduct studies around usability, design, feelings, needs, pains and other topics regarding a specific product.
What I am struggling with is transferring this ...
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User research for vast database product releated to IOT
I was asked to work on UI and UX part of an existing IOT web-based application which is related to the database.
It is a very vast product and I can't try and test this product due to some ...
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Age restriction on teams?
My platform is a free online tool for sports clubs to administrate their organizations. I am currently struggling with some age restriction basics for teams and I would appreciate your input and help!
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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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How do you work with stakeholders to prioritize ongoing enhancements? [closed]
I have several clients with sites and platforms that have fallen into disrepair over the months and years due to a lack of ongoing enhancements, improvements, and iteration generally.
I'm looking for ...
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What does a federated or federation sign on mean for the UI?
A product manager recently explained that we want to start looking into a federated sign in to work more nicely with our partners. He suggested a two-step sign in approach (like google accounts) where ...
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Creative Ways to Deliver Usability Findings
I'm working on a series of usability test sessions to gain both qualitative and quantitative data. Normally, we would produce reports to outline the findings and recommendations, but since it's a big ...
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Developing Personas
General question about developing personas. I work for an organization that provides 6 core services to customers/users. I want to introduce UX research practices to my organization, and want to ...
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How does choice blindness affect UX research? [closed]
Recently came across this Ted talk about a phenomenon called choice blindness.
from the link:
Experimental psychologist Petter Johansson researches choice blindness -- a phenomenon where we convince ...
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They like it! Now prove they wouldn't have liked this other thing
I have done extensive research (1:1 interviews, concept testing, and validation) that shows employees like to be paid based on X, Y and Z variables. Now leadership wants to know for certain that ...
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How can I get to know my Users? [closed]
More often than not, the person using an application is represented by an icon that’s profoundly vague – monotone and devoid of any expression. This icon could not be further from the truth. The User ...
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How many notifications should be saved?
In the design for an app with a basic user/post/subscribe system how many notifications should be kept before deleting old ones? Or should they all be kept?
(Note I'm referring to an in-app ...
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Is UX research, in a very specialist B2B space with no existing users, possible?
My colleague is working on a project with a client who wants to build a B2B digital product for a very specialist function/sector.
The subject matter is exceptionally specialist/revolutionary so ...
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What is the minimum number of users i should do AB testing with to be effective?
Is testing with only 1000 user in AB testing, can give us a real data? or it will just be a waste of time?
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personal UX project.. edits, changes, mock ups.. is that it?
Total newbie to UX design here.. like TOTAL noob (as you’ll see from the upcoming question) I’m currently wrapping up a class on UX core and fundamentals and, naturally, am wanting to start up my ...
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In which sections do User Personas and User Journeys go within User Research Reports
I'm currently writing up a User Research Report for an online web app. The report is roughly divided as follows:
Introduction (Executive Summary)
Methodology (User Interviews, User Surveys, User ...
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Is there a way to get a sample of non-login users of your product?
I have an issue that my users have problems with the sign-up page and many of my users spend much time using the product without login.
I plan to interview some of them, but I don't know how to get ...
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The website is addressing 2 categories (employers and candidates), Which one should we be addressing more?
I am working on a website that addresses both employers and candidates, and the user should choose whether he is an employer or a candidate from the homepage.
But i am lost here, If i want to add the ...
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Acceptable delay for speech recognition processing?
In web or desktop application, what is an acceptable delay for speech recognition processing?
That is, how long will it be before users get annoyed or dissatisfied with having to wait for speech ...
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Research - What is the best way to name a study?
I am planning my first usability study and I want to hear some thoughts on what is the best practice for naming a usability study - for external purposes.
For screening for recruitment, I will need ...
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product re-design
Which methods aside from user testing are suitable when designing for product re-design? Participatory design is an option but wanted to explore some other methods.
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Research - What's a good way to uncover why users 'need' your product?
What would be a good way to uncover why users need your product? On a different context from a user or a persona's goals and needs. I am working on a product already in the market with many users. I ...
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How to approach online surveys when you have no clear hypothesis to test?
Let's say you want to redesign a website that is being used by thousands of people for the last few years. To do so, you need to collect data about how people use this particular website and you ...
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When to ask for payment information?
I am looking to improve the onboarding & initial experience for users of a mobile app. It already includes a basic signup form (email, password, first/last name), phone # verification, and an ...
