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Methods & Experience

Methods and Experience

 
 

Translating deep user insights into action through proven research methods and strategic skills.


Strategic Focus & Leadership

  • UX Strategy & Research Integration: Defining and embedding research insights into overall product and user experience strategy.

  • Cross-Disciplinary Innovation: Facilitating collaboration across teams to generate novel solutions grounded in user needs.

  • Human-Centered Design & Design Thinking: Championing and implementing user-centered principles throughout the product lifecycle.

  • New Product Strategy: Utilizing research to identify opportunities and inform the strategy for new market entries.

  • Understanding Users Deeply: Expertise in uncovering core user motivations, wants, needs, and digital behaviors to inform design.

  • Consumer Experience Vision: Shaping compelling end-to-end consumer journeys based on research.

  • Mentorship & Education: Guiding teams and stakeholders in research methodologies and best practices.

  • User Advocacy: Ensuring the user's voice is represented and prioritized in decision-making.

  • Customer Insights Ownership and Advocate: Ensuring relevant customer understanding informs product and design decisions in fast-paced environments.


User Research Practice (process and execution)

RESEARCH PLANNING AND DESIGN

  • Defining Research Objectives, Purpose & Goals

  • Method Selection & Identification

  • Experimental Design

  • Success Criteria & Metrics Definition

  • User Profile & Persona Development

  • Participant Recruitment Strategy & Screening

  • Secondary (Desk) Research

  • Competitive & Comparative Analysis (including SWOT)

ANALYSIS, SYNTHESIS AND COMMUNICATIONS

  • Distillation of Research Outcomes

  • Qualitative & Quantitative Data Analysis

  • Customer Feedback Analysis

  • In-Market Analytics Analysis (collaborating with BI/Data Science)

  • Prototype Analysis

  • Customer Journey & Experience Mapping

  • Developing Actionable Recommendations for diverse disciplines

  • Communication Strategy & Insights Storytelling

  • Presentation Design & Infographics

RESEARCH EXECUTION AND FACILITATION

  • Interview Facilitation (Individual interviews, Focus groups)

  • Field Studies (IHUTs, customer visits, direct observation, ethnography, contextual inquiry)

  • Diary Studies

  • Usability Studies (testing, baseline & benchmark)

  • Concept Testing

  • Surveys (mixed method integration and large quant)

  • Card Sorting

  • Participatory Design Workshops

  • Hardware Testing

OPERATIONS AND MANAGEMENT

  • UXR Roadmaps & Quarterly Deliverables

  • People Management

  • Vendor Management & Communications

  • Quarterly Budgeting & Resource Planning

  • Developing Research Templates and Protocols

  • Building & Maintaining Knowledge Archives

  • Lean UX Integration

  • Establishing Self-led Research Programs (e.g., for usability and beta testing)


Technical & Domain Acumen

TECHNOLOGIES

  • Mobile Applications (Android/iOS)

  • Websites & Web Applications

  • Smart Devices (Fire TV & Echo Show)

  • Voice UI / LLM

  • AI / Research Sciences Collaboration

  • IoT / BLE Connected Devices

  • Desktop Applications

  • Product Sensor Feedback Integration & Gestural Interactions

INDUSTRIES

  • Consumer Technology & Experiences

  • Consumer Health Products & Healthcare

  • Domestic Home Products

  • Cyber Security

  • Architecture & Workplace Environments

  • Urban Planning

  • Manufacturing

  • Marketing

  • Education

  • Think Tanks


Process Contributions & Collaboration Styles

  • Agile & Scrum Environments

  • Lean Start-up Methodologies

  • Workshop Facilitation

  • Hack-a-thons

  • Story Mapping

  • Proposal Development

  • Design-Build Project Delivery

  • International Research Projects