The Research Plan: Your Blueprint for Rigorous Studies
Good research does not happen by accident. The research plan is the single most important tool for avoiding unfocused, low-impact research, and for ensuring your work drives real decisions.
Methods, Guides, and Strategic Insights. Evidence-based resources to elevate your research practice.
Good research does not happen by accident. The research plan is the single most important tool for avoiding unfocused, low-impact research, and for ensuring your work drives real decisions.
Stop paying agencies for every study. How to build, manage, and nurture a proprietary pool of users for faster, cheaper research.
Before you design a single screen, the structure of your content must make sense to users. Card sorting and tree testing are specialized techniques for designing and validating information architecture.
Stop asking 'How much would you pay?' The 3 methods to get honest answers: MaxDiff, Conjoint, and Van Westendorp.
Synthetic data exists on a spectrum, from legitimate system audits to dangerous fabrication. The question is not 'synthetic or real' but 'what is the synthetic data being used for?'
The goal of good research is to define and recruit homogeneous segments. Understanding variables, demographic, behavioral, attitudinal, psychographic, is how you get there.
Our work gives us the privilege of entering other people's lives. With that privilege comes profound ethical responsibility, especially in the age of AI tools and cloud-based analysis.
Don't write a report in a vacuum. How to facilitate a workshop that forces your team to own the insights and commit to action.
Market research, UX research, CX research, product research, are these different things? At their core, they are all related methods for gathering data to reduce uncertainty. The key is understanding what each is best suited for.
How to prove your redesign actually worked. A guide to establishing baselines, tracking metrics (SUS), and calculating ROI.
Great research dies in toxic teams. How to build 'Psychological Safety' and a unified insights function.
Good research is not a series of disconnected activities, it is a cohesive process that transforms business questions into actionable insights. This is the map for that journey.
Everything we know about running research that actually changes products — packed into one honest, practical guide.
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