Research is the backbone of good design. A thorough understanding of people’s needs is required to make things easier, faster, and more enjoyable. Our collection of Research blogs covers a range of research methods and the necessary insights to integrate them into your practice.
A common ask from clients and students is for me to help them explain the reasons for conducting user research within their organization. While...
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Akendi's President Tedde van Gelderen talked with Danielle Heifa from Strive, UXR Conference, to share how his team is training product people...
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The UX research is finished but now what? How do you effectively communicate the data? You could give a presentation, write a lengthy report, make...
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Have a particular goal and want to know what UX training courses will help the most?While we recommend taking every course we offer through...
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The first post in this series talked about the fundamentals of asking questions in UX research.This article describes how we ask questions...
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In the past year, I've been to a fair share of talks, panels, and conferences. Without a doubt, the question the audience always asks is, “How do...
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Does your company have an experience researcher? The answer is probably no but if you had one then she or he would be worth their weight in gold...
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Interaction design is the phase almost all UX professionals enjoy the most, as this is where they finally get to create that experience that will...
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There was a great post in my Linkedin feed recently by Luke Wroblewski of Google, with some simple and powerful stats.It's a great post with...
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When we think of tech-savvy users, we probably imagine a younger person. This misconception is due to the incorrect belief that older users do not...
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Ok, we're all humans. It is a label that encompasses us all. But in experience research and design we rarely, if ever, create for or try to...
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Surveys, interviews, usability tests and other UX research methods are meant to elicit information to help us clearly understand a user/customer...
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In my last blog post, I talked about creating an interior space through the lens of User Experience Design (UXD). This perspective introduced the...
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I'm going to talk about our clients; the clients who pay for our work, for whom we love to go out of our way to make happy. I'd like to talk...
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I'm no cartophile, but I love maps.Part of my graduate studies was spent exploring the history of maps, how they are created and how they are...
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