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Sign up for “Fuel Your Curiosity.” Monthly-ish musings for user researchers and other curiosities.
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Common Pitfalls and Misunderstandings of Product Teams & Researchers
YOU'RE INVITED!! Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) is a useful UXR framework for understanding customer needs, but it’s often misunderstood and misapplied. Join us for a…
Learn the lingo: Mental Model
IDI / Mental Model || What is it? Each person has their own mental model that represents the way they think, feel and/or behave in regards to everything. They are based on beliefs, not…
Learn the lingo: UXR/User Experience Researcher
User Experience Researcher / UX Researcher || What is it? An individual whose primary function is to conduct user research in close collaboration with design, product…
How to Make a Journey Map Both Accurate and Actionable
YOU'RE INVITED! Creating a good journey map is WAY harder than it looks. This is the first journey map I ever made—next to the LEGO version it was inspired by. This…
Learn the lingo: UXR/User Experience Research
UXR/User Experience Research || What is it? User experience research studies the specific experiences someone expects, desires, or has with a product, website, application, or service design. Uncovering user behaviors, needs, and motivations informs product and service design decisions to overcome pain points and provide optimized solutions.
Principle & Practices for Journey Maps
Journey maps are rich with insights and potential—but too often, they land with a thud. Initial excitement fades, follow-up actions stall, and the map ends up gathering dust while…
Learn the lingo: Quantitative Research
Quantitative Research || What is it? Quantitative Research is always concerned with numerical data. The purpose of quantitative research is to generate research study responses…
Learn the lingo: MVP / Minimum Viable Product
MVP / Minimum Viable Product || What is it? The simplest core feature set of any product or service. It’s used in the product development process to represent the initial version of what is…
5 Questions I Wish More Product Teams Asked About AI
Join Josh LaMar, Joe Natoli, and me to discuss these topics, and more. Details below. 1. Who owns this content?
That beautifully crafted AI-generated summary, who can…
Learn the lingo: Moderator (for Research)
Moderator (for Research) || What is it? A moderator is the person who conducts or facilitates 1:1 interviews, or other type of research sessions (e.g. group discussion). They build rapport…
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