The User Researcher’s guide to UX discoveries

Learn how to conduct your own discovery, find users and all the user research techniques you'll need to get going.

Created by: Jon Porton
UX Researcher and Designer

What Will I Learn?

• Understand what the agile delivery discovery phase is
• Learn how your role as the UX researcher fits into discovery
• Sell the benefits of conducting a discovery to your organisation
• Explore a variety of channels to recruit research participants
• Discover the different research methods open to you
• Use the supplied templates to create compelling research findings
• Confidently communicate your research findings back to stakeholders

Requirements

• A very basic understanding of User Experience (UX) to understand some of the concepts outlined
• We'll talk about the discovery phase in agile delivery but you don't need to be an expert on agile
• To access the templates, you'll need a tool capable of opening Microsoft Office documents

Target audience

• User experience (UX) professionals wanting to understand the part UX research plays in the agile delivery model
• User researchers looking to understand the importance of the discovery phase in UX research
• Business Analysts looking to understand the role UX research plays in the discovery phase
• Anyone looking to understand the part user research plays in designing products and services