The Applied Research Framework: How Everything Fits Together
Research disciplines, methods, and principles form a unified system. Understanding this framework is what separates scattered activities from strategic research practice.
Methods, Guides, and Strategic Insights. Evidence-based resources to elevate your research practice.
Research disciplines, methods, and principles form a unified system. Understanding this framework is what separates scattered activities from strategic research practice.
An interactive sample size calculator for UX research, with the statistical foundations explained — from binomial problem discovery to power analysis.
There are two fundamentally different ways we gather data. Research we design and control, and data users generate without our prompting. Most teams over-rely on one and misunderstand the other.
Stop asking 'How much would you pay?' The 3 methods to get honest answers: MaxDiff, Conjoint, and Van Westendorp.
No matter how complex a method sounds, it can be broken down into three simple activities. Understanding this framework transforms how you plan and execute research.
The structure of your study, who sees what, and in what order, determines what conclusions you can draw. Understanding the trade-offs between study designs is fundamental to research craft.
The most powerful insights rarely come from a single source. They emerge from the strategic partnership between UX research and Data Science, fusing deep contextual understanding with patterns identified at massive scale.
Rather than a sharp divide, qualitative and quantitative research exist on a continuum. The most powerful insights come from combining both, understanding why something happens and measuring how often.
Don't just report averages. How to clean data, visualize distributions, and calculate statistical significance.
The idea that you only need five users is one of the most famous, and most misunderstood, heuristics in UX research. Here is what the numbers actually mean and when they apply.
How to prove your redesign actually worked. A guide to establishing baselines, tracking metrics (SUS), and calculating ROI.
Standardized measurement instruments provide benchmarks and comparability. But using them effectively requires understanding what each one actually measures, and what it does not.
Everything we know about running research that actually changes products — packed into one honest, practical guide.
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