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User Research
Improve Product and Service Design and Enhance Your UX Research
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Many businesses are rooted in creating desirable products and services for users, but fail to consider the consumer. How can they create products and services that work for users? This book has the answers.
User experience research, (UX research) focuses on understanding user behaviours, needs and motivations through a range of observational techniques, task analysis and other methodologies. User Research is a practical guide that shows mid-career professionals and academic readers how to use the vast array of user research methods available. Written by Stephanie Marsh, one of the UK's leading UX research professionals, readers can benefit from in-depth knowledge that explores the fundamentals of user research.
Covering all the key research methods including face-to-face user testing, card sorting, surveys and many more, the book gives expert insight into the nuances, advantages and disadvantages of each. While also providing guidance on how to interpret, analyze and share the data once it has been obtained. Now in its third edition, User Research provides new insight into how to incorporate cross-functional collaboration when approaching user research, how to navigate the ever-changing world of GDPR as AI enters the research space and a pathway to founding their products and services with the understanding of consumer behaviour.
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Table of contents
- Chapter - 01: Introduction: why is user research so important?
- Section - ONE: The fundamentals: what good research looks likes
- Chapter - 02: Planning your research
- Chapter - 03: Best practice in user research: who, what, why and how
- Chapter - 04: Managing user research
- Chapter - 05: Getting the legal and ethical stuff right
- Chapter - 06: Cross functional collaboration for impactful research
- Section - TWO: Selecting and using user research methods
- Chapter - 07: Usability testing: observing people doing specific things
- Chapter - 08: User interviews: understanding people’s experience through talking to them
- Chapter - 09: Getting the best out of stakeholder workshops
- Chapter - 10: Content testing: what do people think your content means?
- Chapter - 11: Card sorting: understand how people group and relate things
- Chapter - 12: Information architecture validation through tree testing: does the structure of your information work for your users?
- Chapter - 13: Surveys: how to gauge a widespread user response
- Chapter - 14: Diary studies: how to capture user research data over time
- Chapter - 15: Contextual inquiry: interviewing people in their own environment
- Chapter - 16: Ethnography: observing how people behave in the real world
- Chapter - 17: Pop-up research: running fast-paced research in the real world
- Chapter - 18: How to combine user research methodologies
- Section - THREE: Analysing user research data
- Chapter - 19: Content analysis: understanding your qualitative data
- Chapter - 20: Identifying themes through affinity diagramming
- Chapter - 21: Thematic analysis: going beyond initial analysis
- Chapter - 22: Agile analysis
- Chapter - 23: Analysing usability data and cataloguing issues and needs
- Chapter - 24: Analysing data to create personas to communicate user characteristics and behaviour
- Chapter - 25: Analysing data to create mental models: visualising how user think and identify opportunities
- Chapter - 26: Turning findings into insights
- Section - FOUR: Storytelling: communicating your findings and insights
- Chapter - 27: Making recommendation: how to make your research findings actionable
- Chapter - 28: Creating executive summaries and detailed reports to present results
- Chapter - 29: Using video playback to present your research results
- Chapter - 30: Using journey and experience maps to visualize user research data
- Chapter - 31: Using scenarios and storyboards to represent the user journey
- Chapter - 32: Using infographics to translate numerical and statistical data
- Chapter - 33: Conclusion
Reviews
- A complete and exhaustive guide for both new and experienced User Researchers. Stephanie Marsh manages to cover the breadth of researchers' jobs, from selecting appropriate methods to effectively communicating the impact. The chapter about research ethics is particularly useful; it grapples with the unintended consequences of our decision-making which is particularly timely in the age of AI.
- Katie Alden-John, Research and Transformation Leader, Caution Your Blast Ltd
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